In one of the most tumultuous Greater Manchester boroughs when it comes to local elections, every single seat is on the table for Stockport's ‘all-out’ election.
17.03.2023 - 18:53 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A top councillor broke her authority’s code of conduct by tweeting a snap of an opponents’ election leaflet on a toilet roll holder. But Coun Janet Emsley, deputy leader of Rochdale council, will not face a formal investigation into the matter after bosses decided it would be ‘wholly disproportionate to the allegations’.
Acting assistant director Sue Hedges ruled it was ‘not serious enough to merit any action’ and there was ‘no overriding public benefit in carrying out an investigation’, in a letter to complainant Ian Jackson. Mr Jackson - who is chair of Littleborough Civic Trust but complained in a personal capacity - says he has gone to the ombudsman over the decision, claiming it suggests elected members can act with ‘impunity’.It comes after Coun Emsley shared the snap on social media following former Labour councillor John Hartley’s announcement he would be standing for the Conservatives in May’s local elections. He will be the Tory candidate for the Littleborough Lakeside ward he represented as a Labour councillor between 2012 and 2022.READ MORE: Plans to name street after council leader who LIED to child sex abuse inquiry ditched after outcry
Mr Hartley’s decision infuriated Labour and Coun Emsley tweeted the toilet roll snap shortly afterwards, clearly implying an alternative use for the election flyer. It remains visible on her Twitter feed, which has more than 2,800 followers.
Mr Hartley made no formal complaint himself, instead branding it a ‘childish stunt’ and calling for parties to run ‘good clean campaigns sticking to local issues’ ahead of the elections. Coun Emsley, whose current term as councillor has three more years to run, says she is glad a decision has now been made.
“I am sorry Mr Jackson felt he
In one of the most tumultuous Greater Manchester boroughs when it comes to local elections, every single seat is on the table for Stockport's ‘all-out’ election.
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“John Wick: Chapter 4” is here. And it is blowing everybody away, as is evidenced by its bone-crunching, franchise-best $70 million+ opening weekend.There’s a reason for its oversized success; in the fourth entry of the franchise that follows disaffected assassin John Wick (Keanu Reeves) as he traverses a vast network of underworld weirdos with mythological overtones, the movie takes on a grander, more elegant expanse.
“John Wick: Chapter 4” debuted last weekend to the franchise’s biggest opening and currently sits at about $100 million at the global box office. Not bad for a series whose creator, ex-stuntman Chad Stahelski, never dreamed he’d helm an action film as lauded as this one.
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Chad Stahelski and then partner David Leitch came from the area of martial arts and stunts, and made their mark choreographing huge stunt sequences and directed second unit for many films before getting the shot at steering a franchise with John Wick. Leitch went his own way and Stahelski remained welded to Keanu Reeves in one of most fascinating director-star relationships that concludes with John Wick 4, the final installment of a sleeper action-heavy hit that grew into blockbuster status as each film grew in ambition and box office grosses. The most fantastical gun violence Hollywood has brought since The Matrix films has only been part of it, as are the close combat brawls, knife, sword fights and car crashes that left Wick bloodied but undaunted. For their fourth and likely final time out, Stahelski and Reeves added iconic Asian action heroes Donnie Yen and Hiroyuki Sanada to ramp things up even further. Here, Stahelski breaks down why the franchise’s mythological underpinnings was its secret weapon, how they pulled off an endless string of eye-popping action sequences — 14 in the finale — for much less than a pricey romcom and why stunt professionals deserve Oscar recognition as much as any other category. Getting that recognition for his bruised and battered brethren might be his next production.
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John Wick: Chapter 4” on Monday evening was a celebratory, yet somber occasion, as star Keanu Reeves and director Chad Stahelski paid tribute to the late Lance Reddick, who starred as Charon in all four “John Wick” films before dying suddenly on Friday. He was 60. “Lance is a people person, a special artist, a gentleman of grace and dignity,” Reeves said on the carpet. “It’s just really something special, every time he stepped on set, to watch the passion he had for his work. It’s really easy to work with him.” “It’s not just one memory. It’s not just one day. It’s a collective. I had Lance in my life almost 10 years,” Stahelski told Variety. “Although that was done over the course of four films, we’ve worked together on other things. I just got to be happy and be proud of the fact that I got to spend so much time with him. We’re going to miss him.”
Hollywood is mourning the loss of the late Lance Reddick.
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described how Murray stepped in to protect her after the assault on location shooting the show’s fourth season in Honey Grove, Texas in 2007.The actress said that she and Schwahn — who she refers to as “the boss” rather than by name on the podcast — had to travel together to a Texas high school to inform them they’d be filming at their school.“The flight back from that is when he assaulted me. He assaulted me again in the car on the drive from Raleigh to Wilmington, He went straight to set and he told Danneel [Ackles] that he and I made out the whole time, and it was fun, and he was trying to make her jealous.
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Hilarie Burton is opening up about allegedly being assaulted by One Tree Hill creator Mark Schwahn and how her co-star Chad Michael Murray stepped in after he saw it happen.
Emily Longeretta Hilarie Burton is detailing her traumatizing experience on “One Tree Hill.” During the latest episode of the “Drama Queens” podcast, Burton, Bethany Joy Lenz and Sophia Bush recap “It Gets Worse at Night,” the Season 4 episode in which the Tree Hill gang goes to Honey Grove to rescue Mouth (Lee Norris) from jail. Burton, who was one of 18 women of the show who accused creator Mark Schwahn of sexual harrassment, detailed the trauma she endured while filming this episode of the show. She and Schwahn, who she never refers to by name, only by the “boss,” had to travel to Honey Grove, Texas, before filming started to surprise the local high school with news that they’d won a contest to have the CW drama film there.