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Fight to succeed James Purnell turns nasty

By Mark Pack | Sun 14th March 2010 - 9:10 pm

Tameside Eye has the story about the fight to win the Labour selection in Stalybridge & Hyde, where James Purnell is standing down. It has both its serious and its farcical elements.

The serious: a series of anonymous emails have been sent out making a wide number of personal attacks on Cllr Jonny Reynolds, one of those in the running to be Labour candidate. The emails have come from two IP address: one which has also been used by another Labour Councillor, Sean Perry-Parker, to send out emails and a second one which is a local council IP address (and therefore …

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Posted in News | Also tagged james purnell, jonny reynolds, sean perry-parker, staylbridge & hyde and tameside eye | 2 Comments

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