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Bloxwich West: A spanner in the works
The Edditer Bloxidge Tallygraph 19 Jul 10
Last Thursday something happened which might conceivably mark a watershed in Bloxwich, indeed Walsall, politics. The Conservative Party were soundly beaten, and the Liberal Democrats decimated, in a local authority by-election for the Walsall Council ward of Bloxwich West, for many years seen as pretty much a ‘safe seat’ for the Tories.
The election had been triggered by the untimely death of respected long-standing Tory Councillor and former mayor Melvin Pitt on the eve of the General Election earlier this year…