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What’s the Latest: Lumby to hold mayoral byelection after two back-to-back elections
Kevin Acton won the mayoral election in Lumby on October 17 and shortly after secured a seat in the legislature as the Conservative MLA for Vernon-Lumby on October 24. His departure will lead to a mayoral byelection in Lumby, with voting expected in early 2024.
The byelection to replace Kevin Acton as Lumby’s mayor is projected for late January to early February of next year, with an estimated cost of between £5,000 and £10,000. Until a new mayor is elected, Lumby will operate under an acting mayor system with existing councillors rotating in the role.
Kevin Acton has announced he will personally cover the expected cost of the upcoming mayoral byelection in Lumby, estimated at between £5,000 and £10,000, stating, “I don’t want to put that responsibility on the taxpayer of Lumby.” The byelection is anticipated to take place in late January or early February, resulting in several months without an elected mayor.
What remains unclear — It is not specified when exactly the byelection for Lumby’s mayor will be held beyond the indication of late January to early February.
Lumby to hold mayoral byelection following recent elections
Lumby residents will face another election as Kevin Acton, recently re-elected as mayor, is set to take on a new role as the Conservative MLA for Vernon-Lumby. Acton won the mayoral race on October 17 and secured his provincial seat just a week later, on October 24. He indicated that he had planned to run in provincial politics but did not anticipate such a quick transition. “All along, the plan was to run provincially… We just expected it to be two years from now, not a week after the election,” he said.
With Acton’s move to the provincial legislature, Lumby will hold a byelection to fill the mayoral position. Chief financial officer Bobbe Koenig stated that the byelection is expected to occur “at the end of January, early February.” In the interim, an acting mayor system will be implemented, with current councillors rotating responsibilities similar to arrangements made during the mayor’s absences.
The byelection is projected to cost between £5,000 and £10,000. Acton has committed to covering these expenses personally, stating, “I don’t want to put that responsibility on the taxpayer of Lumby.” He explained that the situation was not anticipated: “It was the situation I was put in.”
Local residents have reacted to the news of yet another election with mixed feelings. Ann Verhage acknowledged a sense of fatigue, answering, “Sort of, but you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do.” However, Paul Gilfillan expressed a lack of concern about returning to the polls. Irene Yaremcio joked about her weariness with the voting process, hoping it would be the last time in the near future.
Acton is expected to be sworn in as an MLA in mid-November, marking his transition from local to provincial politics. He expressed enthusiasm about his new role, saying, “I feel really excited… I’m really excited to get to work.”
October 12, 2024
6:18 am
‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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November 23, 2024
8:25 am
Defense alliance NATO chief Mark Rutte has met US President-elect Donald Trump to discuss global security issues, according to a NATO spokesperson.
The meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
During his first term as US president, 2017-2020, Trump pushed for European NATO countries to spend more on defense and described the alliance’s cost-sharing as unfair to the US.
Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
Before taking office in January, Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth for the post of defense secretary, which has raised eyebrows among many allies.
Hegseth, 44, has served as an infantry captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no senior military or government officer experience.
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Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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