CAMBRIDGESHIRE
The website of a Reform candidate for mayor of a combined authority boasts of a business career and impressive achievements that are, er, exaggerated.

NORTH TYNESIDE
One Reform mayoral candidate has come as a surprise to some locals, who remember him as part of the Trotskyist Militant tendency in a previous life.

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE
A number of historical sexist and racist tweets from a Reform UK candidate for West Northamptonshire council have emerged.

GLOUCESTERSHIRE
The Green candidate for Dursley is a GP who has twice fallen foul of the General Medical Council over inappropriate behaviour around women.

COUNCIL TAX
Some councils are still refusing to name councillors who fail to pay their council tax, nearly a decade after a court ruled they have no right to privacy.

CASTLE POINT
More on how officers feathered their own nests at the Essex council, including accepting huge redundancy packages.


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