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2004 Derby City Council Election
The 2004 Derby City Council election took place on 10 June 2004 to elect members of Derby City Council in England. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control. The results saw the Labour Party gain a seat from the Conservatives but lose one to the Liberal Democrats. They also saw Frank Leeming from the United Kingdom Independence Party win the party's first council seat in Derby, gaining a seat that had formerly been held by independent, Ron Allen, who had died in March. Leeming was expected to hold the balance of power on the council between Labour and a Liberal Democrat/Conservative alliance depending on the outcome of a by-election in July. After the election, the composition of the council was: *Labour 24 * Liberal Democrat 14 * Conservative 11 * United Kingdom Independence Party 1 *Vacant 1 Election result Ward results Abbey Allestree Alvaston Arboretum Blagrea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derby
Derby ( ) is a city and unitary authority area in Derbyshire, England. It lies on the banks of the River Derwent in the south of Derbyshire, which is in the East Midlands Region. It was traditionally the county town of Derbyshire. Derby gained city status in 1977, the population size has increased by 5.1%, from around 248,800 in 2011 to 261,400 in 2021. Derby was settled by Romans, who established the town of Derventio, later captured by the Anglo-Saxons, and later still by the Vikings, who made their town of one of the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw. Initially a market town, Derby grew rapidly in the industrial era. Home to Lombe's Mill, an early British factory, Derby has a claim to be one of the birthplaces of the Industrial Revolution. It contains the southern part of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site. With the arrival of the railways in the 19th century, Derby became a centre of the British rail industry. Derby is a centre for advanced transport manufactur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boulton Ward In Derby 2002
Boulton may refer to: * Boulton (surname) * Boulton, Derby, England See also * Boulton Paul Aircraft Ltd, aircraft manufacturer * Boulton and Watt Boulton & Watt was an early British engineering and manufacturing firm in the business of designing and making marine and stationary steam engines. Founded in the English West Midlands around Birmingham in 1775 as a partnership between the Engli ..., partnership between Matthew Boulton and James Watt * Bolton (other) * * {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 English Local Elections
4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures. In mathematics Four is the smallest composite number, its proper divisors being and . Four is the sum and product of two with itself: 2 + 2 = 4 = 2 x 2, the only number b such that a + a = b = a x a, which also makes four the smallest squared prime number p^. In Knuth's up-arrow notation, , and so forth, for any number of up arrows. By consequence, four is the only square one more than a prime number, specifically three. The sum of the first four prime numbers two + three + five + seven is the only sum of four consecutive prime numbers that yields an odd prime number, seventeen, which is the fourth super-prime. Four lies between the first proper pair of twin primes, three and five, which are the first two Fermat primes, like seventeen, which is the third. On the other hand, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spondon Ward In Derby 2002
Spondon is a ward of the city of Derby. Originally a small village, Spondon dates back to the Domesday Book and it became heavily industrialised in the 19th and early 20th centuries, with companies such as British Celanese. History The name Spondon is Old English language, Anglo-Saxon and describes a gravelly hill. The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086.''Domesday Book: A Complete Translation''. London: Penguin, 2003. p.748 In about 1333,Roger de Bankwell at Dictionary of National Biography now in the public domain a great fire, starting at Malt Shovel, Spondon, The Malt Shovel, a local pub, and aided by an easterly wind, swept through the village destroying the church and all but a few houses, with just one casualty, the mayor. The damage was so great that a judge, Roger de Bankwell, was sent to hear pleas for relief from taxes. The Great Fire of Spondon is still commemorated and taught as part of the curriculum in local schools. A village fair was held on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinfin Ward In Derby 2002
Sinfin is a suburb of Derby, England, southwest of the city centre on its southern outskirts. The ward, which includes Osmaston as well as Sinfin itself, had a population of 15,128 in 2011. Historically, Sinfin and Osmaston were separate villages before being swallowed up by the expansion of Derby. Osmaston is characterised by inter-war housing developments while much of the housing in Sinfin is post-war. Between the two suburbs lies a more industrialised area dominated by the Rolls-Royce works. History Sinfin is recorded in the Domesday Book produced in 1086''Domesday Book: A Complete Transliteration''. London: Penguin, 2003. p.748 as Sedenfeld as a manor that belonged to baron Henry de Ferrers. Mention is made of two carucates of land assessed to the geld; land for one plough and two villeins having another and of of meadow. The land was valued at ten shillings. Its undertenant was named William, later William de Rolleston, a vassal to Henry de Ferrers, who displace ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oakwood Ward In Derby 2002
Oakwood may refer to: Places ;in Australia *Oakwood, Queensland, a locality in the Bundaberg Region ;in Canada *Oakwood, Ontario *Oakwood-Vaughan, Toronto, Ontario, a neighbourhood **Oakwood Collegiate Institute, a public high school in the southern end of the Oakwood-Vaughan neighbourhood ;in the United Kingdom *Oakwood, Derbyshire, a housing estate in Derby, England *Oakwood, Leeds, area of the city *Oakwood, London, part of Enfield **Oakwood tube station *Oakwood, Warrington, a neighbourhood in Birchwood, Warrington, Cheshire * Oakwood Park, Essex * Oakwood Theme Park in Pembrokeshire, Wales *Oakwood (HM Prison), a prison near Wolverhampton ;in the United States (by state) *Oakwood University, located in Huntsville, Alabama * Oakwood, a neighborhood in Venice, Los Angeles * Oakwood, Georgia *Oakwood, Illinois * Oakwood, LaPorte County, Indiana *Oakwood, Steuben County, Indiana *Oakwood Estate, a historic house in Winchester, Kentucky also known as ''Oakwood'', listed on the Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hardyal Dhindsa
Hardyal Dhindsa (born February 1956) is a British politician, and the former Police and Crime Commissioner for Derbyshire, representing the Labour Party. He was elected to the post on 5 May 2016, succeeding the previous incumbent, Alan Charles. He was defeated by the Conservative Party candidate Angelique Foster Angelique Foster is a British politician who was elected Derbyshire Police and Crime Commissioner in 2021. Political career Foster was a member of Derbyshire County Council for the Dronfield West and Walton ward prior to her election as PCC ... in the 2021 election. Election history External links Derbyshire PCC References {{DEFAULTSORT:Dhindsa, Hardyal 1956 births Living people Alumni of Bangor University Police and crime commissioners in England Labour Party police and crime commissioners Politicians from Derby British people of Indian descent British politicians of Punjabi descent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Normanton Ward In Derby 2002
Normanton is the name of: England *Normanton, Derby *South Normanton, Derbyshire * Temple Normanton, Derbyshire * Normanton, Leicestershire *Normanton, Lincolnshire *Normanton, Rutland * Normanton, West Yorkshire **Normanton (UK Parliament constituency) (old) **Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford (UK Parliament constituency) (new) **Normanton (rugby league), a former semi-professional club * Normanton, Wiltshire *Normanton le Heath, Leicestershire *Normanton on Soar, Nottinghamshire *Normanton-on-the-Wolds, Nottinghamshire *Normanton on Trent, Nottinghamshire Australia * Normanton, Queensland Other * Normanton incident The was a set of reactions and events surrounding the sinking of a British merchant vessel named ''Normanton'' off the coast of what is now Japan's Wakayama Prefecture on October 24, 1886. When the Normanton ran aground, the ship's officers app ... – a maritime incident off the coast of Japan in 1886 * Earl of Normanton See also * Normantown (disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mickleover Ward In Derby 2002
Mickleover is a large suburban village of Derby, in Derbyshire, England. It is west of Derby city centre, northeast of Burton-upon-Trent, west of Nottingham city centre, southeast of Ashbourne and northeast of Uttoxeter. History The earliest recorded mention of Mickleover (and its close neighbour, Littleover) comes in 1011, when an early charter has King Aethelred granting Morcar, a high-ranking Mercian Thegn, land along the Trent and in Eastern Derbyshire, including land in the Mickleover and Littleover areas, consolidating estates he had inherited in North-East Derbyshire from his kinsman through marriage, Wulfric Spot, who founded Burton Abbey on the Staffs-Derbys border. The village appears in Domesday Book when it was still owned by the abbey. At the time of the Domesday Survey, 1086, Mickleover was known as Magna (the Old English version of this is Micel) Oufra. Magna, in early Latin means Great; oufra coming from Anglo Saxon ofer, flat-topped ridge. The oldest p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mackworth Ward In Derby 2002
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Mackworth may refer to: *Mackworth, Amber Valley, a village and civil parish in Derbyshire, England **Mackworth Castle *Mackworth, Derby, a housing estate and ward in the city of Derby, Derbyshire, England *Humphrey Mackworth (1657-1727) *Humphrey Mackworth (born 1631) Humphrey Mackworth was an English politician and soldier of Shropshire landed gentry origins. He was military governor of Shrewsbury, in succession to his father and namesake, for almost five years under the Protectorate, from 1655 until late in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Littleover Ward In Derby 2002
Littleover is a village and suburb in the city of Derby, in Derbyshire, England, between Rose Hill, Normanton, Sunny Hill and Mickleover, about southwest of Derby city centre. History The history of Littleover's name is simple. It is derived from "Little Ufre" (Domesday book) and in Old English ''ofer'' meant a slope or little hill, whilst neighbouring Mickleover is known to be from "Mickle Ufre" meaning large hill. Littleover was also formerly known as Parver Over. 2007. Retrieved 11 July 2014 The village, like many settlements in England, is partially of and partially of |
Derwent Ward In Derby 2002
Derwent derives from the Brythonic term ''Derventio'', meaning "valley thick with oaks". It may refer to: Places Australia * Derwent River (Tasmania) * Derwent Valley Council, a local government area of Tasmania, Australia, covering the upper part of the Derwent River, from the major town of New Norfolk (just north-west of Hobart) to the remote south-west Hydro town of Strathgordon * Electoral division of Derwent, Tasmania * Derwent Barracks, an Australian Army barracks in the Hobart suburb of Glenorchy, near the Elwick Racecourse and Hobart Showgrounds United Kingdom * Derwent College, a college of the University of York * Derwent, Derbyshire, a now-submerged village. * Derwentwater, Lake District * River Derwent, North East England * River Derwent, Cumbria, a river in the Lake District of the county of Cumbria in the north of England ** Above Derwent, a civil parish in the Borough of Allerdale in Cumbria, England, bounded to the east by Derwent Water, the River Der ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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