Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s 16-year rule came to a crushing end despite being propped up by Donald Trump’s administration who sent US Vice President JD Vance to support Orban

Hungarian Prime Ministr Viktor Orban suffered a crushing defeat and sent shockwaves across the world as Donald Trump humiliatingly loses his top ally in Europe.

Hungarians signalled they wanted an end to Orban’s 16-year rule and instead voted to give Tisza party leader Peter Magyar a thumping majority. Orban’s rule was characterised by pivoting away from the European Union in favour of Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin.

But when it appeared clear a crushing defeat was at hand, Orban conceded, commenting: “The election results are not final yet but the situation is understandable and clear. The election result is painful for us, but clear. The responsibility and possibility of governing was not given to us. I have congratulated the winner.

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It was clear the defeat struck a bitter nerve in Moscow, wth Kirill Dmitriev sharing his view in a reply to Tommy Robinson’s claim the election loss meant Hungary had “fallen.” Dmitriev said: “This will just accelerate the collapse of the EU. Check if I am right in 4 months.”

Orban’s loss will prove to be a humiliation for the Trump administration, who sent Vice President JD Vance to prop up the Hungarian’s flagging campaign. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer commented on the news with a warning, saying: “Pay attention, Donald Trump. Wannabe dictators wear out their welcome.”

House of Representatives Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said: “Far-right authoritarian Viktor Orban has lost the election. Trump sycophants and MAGA extremists in Congress are up next in November.”

Other world leaders celebrated Magyar’s win as an opportunity to reset Hungary’s relationship with the rest of Europe. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who had been a target of Orban’s ire, said on X/Twitter: “Congratulations to @magyarpeterMP and the TISZA party on their landslide victory. It is important when a constructive approach prevails. Ukraine has always strived for good-neighbourly relations with every European country, and we are ready to advance our cooperation with Hungary.”

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said: “Congratulations @MagyarPeterMP on your election victory. This is an historic moment, not only for Hungary, but for European democracy. I look forward to working with you for the security and prosperity of both our countries.”

The feud between US president and the Pope has deepened after Donald Trump revealed he’s ‘not a fan’.

Trump took aim at Pope Leo XIV on his Truth Social platform saying the first American pope should ‘stop catering to the Radical Left’.

The war of words between the two figures erupted after the head of the Catholic church branded the Iran war ‘unjust’.

In a post on Sunday, Trump wrote: ‘Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible on foreign policy’.

He added: ‘I don’t want a pope who thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a nuclear weapon. 

‘I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s terrible that America attacked Venezuela, a country that was sending massive amounts of drugs into the United States and, even worse, emptying their prisons, including murderers, drug dealers, and killers into our country.’

He also praised Leo’s brother Louis, adding: ‘I like his brother Louis much better than I like him, because Louis is all MAGA.  He gets it, and Leo doesn’t!’

Trump later told reporters at Joint Base Andrews, where he landed with Air Force One: ‘I don’t think he’s doing a very good job.

‘I’m not a fan of Pope Leo.’

Over the weekend, Pope Leo said a ‘delusion of omnipotence’ was fuelling the US-Iran war, and demanded political leaders to stop and negotiate peace.

Trump later said the US will blockade Iranian ports from 3pm UK time on Monday – a move the UK, which has minesweepers in the area, is not taking part in.

Who is Pope Leo XIV’s brother Louis?

Louis Prevost is the elder brother of the Pope and told ABC in October 2024 that he was a supporter of the MAGA movement.

In an interview with Piers Morgan Uncensored, Prevost said he was viewed as ‘the black sheep of the family’, adding he toned down his tweets and Facebook posts because they always ‘end up on the news’.

In the same chat, he revealed he speaks to Leo ‘maybe once a week’.

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Forum Theatre Billingham will stage Sleeping Beauty from December 2, 2026, to January 3, 2027, featuring RuPaul’s Drag Race UK star Michael Marouli and Britain’s Got Talent 2025 Golden Buzzer winner Max Fox.

Michael Marouli will take on the role of Carabosse in what promises to be a lively and glamorous festive production.

Michael Marouli (Image: Supplied)

Mr Marouli said: “I am beyond excited to be performing in the North East and bringing some Drag Race glamour to Billingham.

“Panto is all about larger than life characters, fabulous costumes and having fun with the audience and this role lets me do all of that and more.”

Max Fox (Image: Supplied)

Max Fox will star as Prince Max of Middlesbrough, bringing what the theatre team describes as “charm, energy, and show-stopping vocals” to the pantomime stage.

Mr Fox said: “I’m delighted to be performing this Christmas in Billingham as Prince Max.

“It is such a fun role, and I can’t wait to bring the vocals and energy.

“I loved performing in Billingham recently on a touring show, the audience were fantastic, so I’m thrilled to be returning.”

The cast also includes several familiar faces.

Warren Donnelly (Image: Supplied)

Warren Donnelly, known for roles in Shameless and Coronation Street and award-winning for his performance in Beauty and the Beast in 2022, will return as The King.

Jessie Williams, who previously played Angela Darling and is known for The Dumping Ground and The Return of Tracey Beaker, returns as Fairy Sparkle.

Charlotte Flower (Image: Supplied)

Charlotte Flower, last year’s Tiger Lily, will play Princess Aurora, and Lewis Pallett moves from the ensemble to play Wormtail.

Audience favourites will also return.

Liam Mellor will return as Chester the Jester, and resident dame Robert Squire will reprise his role as Queen Betty of Billingham.

Lewis Pallett (Image: Supplied)

The production promises something for everyone.

Organisers have revealed that this year’s pantomime will include a 3D scene, colourful comedy, musical numbers, and a cast full of personality.

Theatre bosses say demand is already high.

Jessie Williams (Image: Supplied)

Tickets are selling quickly, with Forum Theatre describing it as “the pantomime of your dreams.”

Details on booking

Tickets can be booked at the theatre’s box office or online at the Billingham Forum’s website.

By comprehensively disassembling a dismal Chelsea, Manchester City have set the stage for next Sunday.

They know that if they beat Arsenal at home they will have definitively swung the title race, and that a win over Burnley can put them back on top. Mikel Arteta’s side are equally aware that even a draw still keeps the trophy in their hands.

You could say it’s the best possible setting, except this is not a meeting of two challengers both going in on their best form. It’s only one.

While Arsenal endure a long week of the soul at the worst possible time, City are coming together in a confidently exuberant manner. You could feel it among the fans, one of them captured drinking from an Arsenal bottle. You could feel it all around the stadium, amidst the anger of Chelsea fans, and – eventually – the many empty seats.

City supporters were singing like they were champions in waiting, for the first time in some time, and it was entirely justified.

They even made up some of the goal difference, winning 3-0. Arsenal can lament that Bournemouth were a much sterner challenge than Chelsea at this stage of the season, but that’s their own problem.

City meanwhile just added to Liam Rosenior’s problems, too.

Having initially come up with quite an effective gameplan, the young Chelsea coach had no response to Pep Guardiola’s half-time adjustments. It is yet another big game that the Catalan has swung through his own tactical insight, and an admittedly burgeoning squad.

They don’t really look “in transition” now.

Guardiola, for his part, pointedly said “it is the mindset, not the tactics”.

Nico O’Reilly has quickly matured into one of the best performing players in the league, and one of the most decisive.

His goals against Arsenal ensured he has already secured one trophy for City, and the crucial opener here – another towering header – may well have sent them on the way to the most important they can yet win.

It also caps a spell that is comprehensively impressive in another way.

While Arsenal have struggled against Southampton and Bournemouth, having looking so tepid in that Carabao Cup final, City have in the same sequence beaten: the current league leaders; the reigning English champions and the reigning world champions.

All of Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal have been dispatched in three different competitions with a record of nine goals scored and none conceded, to put Guardiola’s team in the best possible mindset for next Sunday and maybe the most important win of all.

Within that, though, there might also be a genuine football lesson.

Wider debates can be made about the advantages that come with the nature of the City project, and there will of course be references to the ongoing Premier League case – the club insist on their innocence. Taking the current situation as it is with Arsenal still six points clear after a game more played, though, only one side looks to actually be looking to maximise what they can do.

City are pushing out the margins of their play, expressing themselves, while Arteta’s team are playing within the margins, constraining themselves.

That may well be crucial, especially if this does come down to goal difference, as is highly possible.

Just look at the contrast from the closing stages of both of this weekend’s key title games.

Outside a frustrated and harried Eberechi Eze, Arsenal couldn’t really get on the ball. They couldn’t even sustain a wave of pressure, their attackers so frustrated, while the whole team struggled to just… play.

Against that, Rayan Cherki was in full flow. He was again loving it, just using another pitch as a canvas.

There was the artful ball to O’Reilly for the opener and then the incisive run and through ball to set up Marc Guehi.

It is remarkable to think that this was actually City’s first league win since 28 February, even if it is just two games.

That is how much has transformed over the recent cup interlude.

Jeremy Doku finally thundered in the third to just reflect a team playing without any doubt or hesitation.

They’d hit three in 17 minutes. It barely mattered that Erling Haaland again didn’t score.

The difference with Arsenal on Saturday couldn’t be more apparent, as the City fans asked whether they were watching over in north London.

“You have to play to win,” Guardiola said, while making a pointed comment about how going out of the Champions League has actually helped keep his side fresh.

Arsenal have now seen City ramp up in April a lot. When asked about a near-perfect record in this month during his time at the club, Guardiola laughed “it’s the sun”.

He was so relaxed afterwards he was imparting life lessons about “doing your best”.

By City’s third goal, a lot of Chelsea fans weren’t watching. Stamford Bridge had started to empty long before the end.

A malaise has engulfed the place. By that point, Enzo Fernandez’s punishment barely seemed relevant. Rosenior said the midfielder is now “in the clear” and he’s now “looking forward” to having him back. Are Chelsea’s fans really looking forward to anything, though?

The only teams they have beaten since 4 March are Wrexham and Port Vale.

Some allowances can be made for Rosenior in a situation that was complicated even before he came in – and he here pointed to Marc Cucurella’s disallowed goal – but was he ever ready for this?

It was abject. Even his substitutions seemed too late.

City are meanwhile coming to form at exactly the right time.

Far from a first Arsenal title since 2004, this is currently looking like it’s set up for a repeat of 2023.

As the manager himself said, it’s the mindset.

I AM not surprised that Councillor Ravilious has an almost impossible problem to solve with a deficit of over £100m in the road repairs budget.

I held the same position until the Conservatives were ejected in 2019 but the roads were in a much better state then and the subsequent LibDem/Green administration did little to keep up with maintenance.

However, the deterioration in the roads has been dramatic since then; I doubt if anyone took account of the fact that the new electric buses are much heavier that the diesels they replaced and this hasn’t helped.

Our house now shakes when a bus passes over (or into) the potholes; I made a report seven weeks ago and some patching was done but the other holes have continued to grow.

Quite simply, many roads require complete resurfacing, not patching but that £100m has to come from somewhere.

Peter Dew,

Rivelin Way,

York

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Counting every pound

Just choked with laughter on my cornflakes. I have just read the list of proposed carriageway (road?) repairs where every one is detailed to the nearest £.

Do they include provision for every KitKat to be consumed?

Surely to the nearest £1,000 should be good enough unless the figures quoted are fixed prices.

R Shenton,

Connaught Way,

York

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Get shops to reopen

THANKS to Trump’s actions, the price of fuel is skyrocketing.

Maybe now is the time to curb online shopping and keep delivery vans off the road for a bit.

Maybe even get a few shops to re open?

Joanne Ellis,

Charlton Street,

York

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What are today’s health hazards?

RE: the article about how after many years off ill health brought on by the addiction to heavy smoking, Gillian Cunningham had successfully quit.

Growing up in the 1950s you were surrounded by smokers, most of the men having done their war service had returned home with the smoking habit.

Unfortunately most children/ young adults thought it the thing to do to appear more mature than their actual age.

I quickly realised that my father’s shortness of breath was down to his smoking habits and shied away from cigs.

Lots of people now of my age suffer after years of puffing away from (COPD ), emphysema and chronic shortness of breath .

I wonder in 50 years’ time and looking back what people will think of the hallucinogenic drugs and the social implications of the internet and mobile phone use?

People have become more singular and many lack face to face communication skills.

I wonder what the future will make of the gigantic mistakes we are presently now making – only time will tell the harm and damage we are inflicting on our bodies.

D M Deamer,

Penleys Grove Street,

Monkgate,

York

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Why not sack him?

IS Starmer, like Miliband, an eco maniac?

If not, why does he not dismiss his colleague from government? This refusal should suggest he is either weak or incompetent and totally agrees that we should all be paying higher bills when cheaper supplies are on tap.

Peter Rickaby,

Moat Way,

Brayton

CAIRO (AP) — The U.S. military announced it will begin a blockade of all Iranian ports and coastal areas on Monday, tempering President Donald Trump ‘s earlier vow to entirely block the strategic Strait of Hormuz as early reports indicated that ships had stopped crossing the waterway.

The move came after marathon U.S.-Iran ceasefire talks in Pakistan ended without an agreement, and it set the stage for a showdown. Iranian leaders vowed to counter the blockade.

U.S. Central Command announced the blockade would begin on Monday at 10 a.m. EDT, or 5:30 p.m. in Iran, and would be “enforced impartially against vessels of all nations entering or departing Iranian ports and coastal areas, including all Iranian ports on the Arabian Gulf and Gulf of Oman.” CENTCOM said it would still allow ships traveling between non-Iranian ports to transit the strait, a step down from the president’s earlier threat to blockade the entire strait.

Trump later confirmed the timing in a post on his Truth Social website.

The announcement of the blockade halted the limited ship traffic that resumed in the strait since the ceasefire, said an early report from Lloyd’s List intelligence. Marine trackers say over 40 commercial ships have crossed since the start of the ceasefire, down from roughly 100 to 135 vessel passages per day before the war.

Later Sunday, Trump extended his feud over the war with Pope Leo XIV, lashing out in a Truth Social post that called the Catholic leader “terrible on foreign policy.” The extraordinary broadside came after Leo denounced the war and demanded that political leaders stop and negotiate peace.

The blockade could have far-reaching effects

The blockage is likely intended to add pressure on Iran, which has exported millions of barrels of oil since the war began, much of it likely carried by so-called “dark” transits that evade Western government sanctions and oversight.

Trump also hopes to undercut Iran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz after demanding that it reopen the waterway where 20% of global oil transited before fighting began. A U.S. blockade could further rattle global energy markets.

Oil prices rose in early market trading after the blockade announcement. The price of U.S. crude rose 8% to $104.24 a barrel, and Brent crude oil, the international standard, rose 7% to $102.29. Brent crude cost roughly $70 per barrel before the war in late February.

Iran says ‘if you fight, we will fight’

A chorus of top-ranking Iranian officials threatened retaliation. Mohsen Rezaei, a military adviser and a former Revolutionary Guard Commander, wrote on X that the country’s armed forces had “major untouched levers” to counter a Hormuz blockade. He said Iran would not be coerced by “tweets and imaginary plans.”

Iranian parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, who led Iran’s side in the talks, addressed Trump in a statement on his return to Iran: “If you fight, we will fight.”

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard later said the strait remained under Iran’s “full control” and was open for non-military vessels, but military ones would get a “forceful response,” two semi-official Iranian news agencies reported.

During the 21-hour talks this weekend in Pakistan, the U.S. military said two destroyers had transited the strait ahead of mine-clearing work, a first since the war began. Iran denied it.

No word on what happens after ceasefire expires

The face-to-face talks that ended early Sunday were the highest-level negotiations between the longtime rivals since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Trump said Tehran’s nuclear ambitions were the core reason for the talks’ failure. In comments to Fox News, he again threatened to strike civilian infrastructure if it didn’t give up its nuclear program.

“In one half of a day they wouldn’t have one bridge standing, they wouldn’t have one electric generating plant standing, and they’re back in the stone ages,” Trump said.

Tehran has long denied seeking nuclear weapons but insists on its right to a civilian nuclear program. The landmark 2015 nuclear deal, which Trump later pulled the U.S. out of, took well over a year of negotiations. Experts say Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium, though not weapons-grade, is only a short technical step away.

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Metz reported from Ramallah, West Bank, Boak from Miami and Magdy from Cairo. Associated Press writers E. Eduardo Castillo in Beijing; Collin Binkley and Ben Finley in Washington; Kareem Chehayeb in Beirut; Brian Melley in London; Ghaya Ben MBarek in Tunis; Hannah Schoenbaum in Salt Lake City and Julia Frankel and Mae Anderson in New York contributed to this report.

The fault has temporarily taken Platform 1 out of use, limiting operational capacity and causing knock-on delays across several routes. Services running to and from Charing Cross, including those to Hayes (Kent), Dartford, Gravesend, Orpington, Sevenoaks, Strood, Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells, Maidstone East, Hastings, Ore, Ashford International, Ramsgate and Dover Priory, may be revised or delayed by up to 10 minutes.

“Every child deserves to have delicious, nutritious food at school that gives them the energy to concentrate, learn and thrive – meals that children will actually recognise and enjoy, backed by robust compliance so that good standards on paper become good food on the plate,” she said.

Producer Eliza Lumley acknowledged Bond’s daughter Karen Jankel in her speech, saying: “Karen, your father wrote a character who not only reminds us to be kind, but also reminds us to have empathy for stories that are other than our own – which, after all, is the superpower of theatre itself.”

Voters will once again vote in local elections when the polls open on Thursday, May 7. Several Cambridgeshire councils have now announced lists of candidates standing in the May 2026 elections.

This year, elections are taking place in Huntingdonshire, South Cambridgeshire, Cambridge City, and Peterborough. However, they will not be taking place in East Cambridgeshire and Fenland, as these will take place in 2027.

This year’s elections will take place on Thursday, May 7. People have until midnight on Monday, April 20, to register to vote. For postal vote, the deadline is by 5pm on April 21. The deadline for a proxy vote is by 5pm on April 28.

Here is all you need to know about this year’s elections and who is elected in different wards.

South Cambridgeshire District Council

Elections will be held for all seats across South Cambridgeshire, including the district council, as well as town and parish councils. For the district council, the following candidates are nominated:

Balsham

• John Richard Biggs – Conservative
• David Burrell – Reform UK
• Bob Ensch – Green
• Geoff Harvey – Liberal Democrats
• Martin Parker Dixon – Labour

Bar Hill

• Graeme Hodgson – Labour
• Paul Pallan – Reform UK
• William George Scantlebury – Liberal Democrats
• Rebecca Seabrook-Tedd – Green
• Bunty Elizabeth Waters – Conservative

Barrington

• Colin Graham French – Conservative
• Jim Huntington – Reform UK
• Clare Rogers – Green
• Clare Sinclair – Labour
• Aidan Thomas Van De Weyer – Liberal Democrats

Bassingbourn

• Adam Bostanci – Liberal Democrats
• Karen Fiona Livingstone – Labour
• Christopher Rolf Meakin – Conservative
• Joseph Price – Green
• Stephanie Wright – Reform UK

Caldecote

• Terence John Cross – Reform UK
• John Robert Jefferies – Liberal Democrats
• Guy Lachlan – Independent
• Tom Postlethwaite – Green
• Chiranjeevi Sandi – Conservative
• Judith Louise Tustian – Labour

Cambourne

• Donavan Michael Bangs – Reform UK
• Shrobona Bhattacharya – Conservative
• Michael Allan Booth – Liberal Democrats
• Gavin Clayton – Green
• Rob Denison – Green
• Timothy Frances Lagé Hayes – Labour
• Dalia Heggo – Independent
• Trevor Jarman – Reform UK
• Paul Alexander Jobling – Reform UK
• Helene Elizabeth Leeming – Liberal Democrats
• Nick Rana-Beadle – Conservative
• Amber Thomas – Liberal Democrats
• Daniel John White – Conservative
• David Allan Williams – Labour

Caxton and Papworth

• Charles Barclay – Reform UK
• Leslie Charles Edwards – Conservative
• Andy Perkins – Labour
• James Earl Pickford – Reform UK
• Chris Poulton – Liberal Democrats
• Peter David Sandford – Liberal Democrats
• Mandy Smith – Conservative
• Tagl – Green
• Jane Turner – Green

Cottenham

• Nigel Charles Francis Bolitho – Conservative
• Laura Cain – Green
• James Ronald Cochrane – Reform UK
• Colin Coe – Green
• Yasmin Dexter – Liberal Democrats
• Frederick Thomas Hargreaves – Reform UK
• Thomas Mark Hingston – Labour
• Linda Mary Morris – Conservative
• Gethin James Sanger – Labour
• Eileen Wilson – Liberal Democrats

Duxford

• Samuel Alexander Betz – Conservative
• David Horace Dobson – Labour
• Peter John McDonald – Liberal Democrats
• Tim Pavelin – Green
• Peter Young – Reform UK

Fen Ditton and Fulbourn

• Tim Andrews – Labour
• Chris Bailey – Labour
• Colin Barker – Reform UK
• Steve Bradshaw – Green
• Ian Paul Crowson – Conservative
• Vince Farrar – Liberal Democrats
• Karen Elizabeth French – Conservative
• Jacob Gray – Green
• Carla Hofman – Liberal Democrats
• Lukaz Lakomy – Reform UK
• Lee Andrew Martin – Conservative
• Angela Belinda Platt – Labour
• Ciprian Sandu – Reform UK
• Elisabeth Whitbread – Green
• Chloe Wills-Eve – Liberal Democrats

Foxton

• Donald Fisher Douglas – Conservative
• Luca Raffaello Ercole – Green
• James Hobro – Liberal Democrats
• Liz Miller – Reform UK
• Lavinia Anne Marie Pugh – Labour

Gamlingay

• Derek Graham Hill – Reform UK
• Rosanna Mahmood Bishop – Green
• Diane Audrey Myers – Conservative
• Giordy Salvi – Labour
• Dorrington Bridget Zoe Smith – Liberal Democrats

Girton

• Paula Brown – Reform UK
• Corinne Garvie – Liberal Democrats
• Stephen William George – Conservative
• Matthew Henden Gilbey – Green
• Clare Rachel Gray – Green
• Sarah Antonia Johnson – Labour
• Timothy Scott – Reform UK
• Richard Keith Stobart – Liberal Democrats
• Jennifer Margaret Stuart – Conservative

Hardwick

• Joe Beastall – Labour
• Hugh Clough – Green
• Catherine Stella Ffolliot Hubbard – Liberal Democrats
• Helen Manson – Reform UK
• Lina Maria Nieto – Conservative

Harston and Comberton

• Duncan Bullivant – Reform UK
• Henry Bullivant – Reform UK
• Ariel Martin Cahn – Liberal Democrats
• Laurence Peter Damary-Homan – Liberal Democrats
• Helen Haugh – Labour
• Aled Wynne Jones – Green
• Pauline Barbara Joslin – Conservative
• Lorraine Wendy Mooney – Conservative
• Emily Morris-Lower – Reform UK
• Lisa Sarah Redrup – Liberal Democrats
• Joseph Shortmoor – Labour
• Peter Andrew Slavny – Labour
• Michelle Taylor – Green
• Joshua Charles Vanneck – Conservative
• Lucy Young – Green

Histon and Impington

• John Brian Abbott – Reform UK
• Jayasimha Reddy Berumgudem – Conservative
• Chris Boulton – Reform UK
• Martin Gabriel Chahn – Liberal Democrats
• Mandy Kawalko – Reform UK
• Adam Morgan – Green
• Simon Charles Patenall – Labour
• Isaac Harry Rawlings – Labour
• James Rixton – Liberal Democrats
• Geo Sebastian – Liberal Democrats
• Edd Stonham – Green
• Mark Spencer Stuart – Conservative
• Paul Tarita – Green
• Joshua Michael Willis – Conservative

Linton

• Nathan Banks – Green
• Henry Batchelor – Liberal Democrats
• John Batchelor – Liberal Democrats
• Katy Ensch – Green
• Sarah Jane Hucum – Reform UK
• Merrie Mannassi – Reform UK
• Mike Murray – Labour
• Yorsh Naidoo – Conservative
• Ernie Turkington – Labour
• Sean Williams – Conservative

Longstanton

• Dominic George Brigstocke – Labour
• Tom Bygott – Conservative
• Alison Paula Elcox – Reform UK
• Sunita Hansraj – Liberal Democrats
• Lucy Ann Mance – Green
• Tristan Luke Pithers – Conservative
• Silke Scott-Mance – Green
• Liam Donovan Varnam – Reform UK
• Natalie Warren-Green – Liberal Democrats
• Clare Rosemary Wilson – Labour

Melbourn

• Mark Edward Arnold – Conservative
• Lee John Bovington – Reform UK
• James Phillip Bull – Labour
• Simon James Copley – Green
• Bobby Ford – Labour
• Jose Hales – Liberal Democrats
• Sally Ann Hart – Liberal Democrats
• Thomas Julian Charles Leigh – Conservative
• Max Henry Schwiening – Green
• Phyllis Smith – Reform UK

Milton and Waterbeach

• Gail Denise Arnold – Conservative
• Paul Joseph Bearpark – Liberal Democrats
• Anna Elizabeth Bradnam – Liberal Democrats
• Ellie Crane – Green
• Oli Fisher – Green
• Natania Goldrich – Reform UK
• Ann Hodson – Reform UK
• Ge Huang – Conservative
• Laura Macleod – Liberal Democrats
• Elizabeth Anne McWilliams – Labour
• Frank Morris – Conservative
• Mary Judith Perkins – Labour
• Ron Sharp – Reform UK
• Joe Welford – Green
• Gareth Mark Wright – Labour

Over and Willingham

• Jason Denison – Green
• Robert Fairbrother – Reform UK
• Ian Hunter – Labour
• James Hutchcraft – Liberal Democrats
• Mark Macdonald – Conservative
• Aisha Rashid – Liberal Democrats
• Colin Reynolds – Green
• Michael Paul Smith – Reform UK
• Graham William Waters – Conservative

Sawston

• Chloe Balhatchet – Green
• Mark Chater – Reform UK
• Daniel Clark – Green
• Gifford Frances Pamela Douglas – Conservative
• Graham Harrison – Reform UK
• Brian Milnes – Liberal Democrats
• Anand Pillai – Labour
• Ed Sanders – Liberal Democrats
• Ben Shelton – Conservative

Shelford

• Lee Denison – Green
• Miranda Fyfe – Green
• Nick Gay – Labour
• Farhan Hussain – Liberal Democrats
• John William Lamble – Reform UK
• Mark Andrew Lunn – Liberal Democrats
• Brigitta Naunton – Reform UK
• Angela Dorothy Niblett – Conservative
• Yvonne Nobis – Labour
• Rebecca Louis Shiret – Conservative

Swavesey

• Vivien Caroline Biggs – Liberal Democrats
• Phil Cohen – Green
• Sue Mary Ellington – Conservative
• Karl Lattion – Reform UK
• Barbara Joanna Mills – Labour

The Mordens

• Frankie Brook – Green
• Daniel James Greef – Labour
• Josh Johnson – Reform UK
• James Leopold Stuart – Liberal Democrats
• Heather Rose Williams – Conservative

Whittlesford

• Sophi Berridge – Green
• Clare Elizabeth Downie – Labour
• Claire Hill – Reform UK
• Sarah Louise Vowler – Liberal Democrats
• Richard Lynn Williams – Conservative

Cambridge City Council

In Cambridge, there will be one councillor elected to 13 wards. There will then be two councillors elected in Trumpington following the resignation of Nadya Lokhmotova.

Abbey

• Anne Roe Rosemary Ansell – Liberal Democrats
• Tommy Brace – ReforM UK
• Simon Brignell – Communist Party of Britain
• Margaret Maria Cleminson – Green
• Ruaidhri O’Donnell – Labour
• David Philip Smith – Conservative

Arbury

• Robert Boorman – Conservative
• Will Burrows – Reform UK
• Carmen Sefira Davison – Green
• Jocelynne Scutt – Labour and Co-operative Party
• Fionna Tod – Liberal Democrats

Castle

• Khalid Abu-Tayyem – Independent
• Carol Bedson – Reform UK
• Luke Patterson – Liberal Democrats
• Dace Ruklisa – Conservative
• Alex Sage – Green
• Simon Smith – Labour

Cherry Hinton

• Eric William Barrett-Payton – Conservative
• Anusha Iyer – Green
• Russ McPherson – Labour
• Mike Nicolson – Reform UK
• Ahmad Rushdhi – Liberal Democrats

Coleridge

• Tim Brunton – Liberal Democrats
• Steve Burdett – Reform UK
• Louise Sarah Nicmanis – Green
• Anna Smith – Labour and Co-operative Party
• Mitchell Sam Worthington – Conservative

East Chesterton

• Jean-Ann Bartlett – Conservative
• Ania Bobrowska – Liberal Democrats
• William James Dry – Communist Party of Britain
• Isaac Groves – Green
• Sarah Haithcock – Labour
• Godfrey Orr – Reform UK
• Mark Wells – Reform UK

King’s Hedges

• Mahfuj Ahmed – Conservative
• Zarina Anwar – Independent
• Eleanor Cooke – Independent
• David Michael Creek – Liberal Democrats
• John McKay – Reform UK
• Daniel Quinn – Green
• Martin Andrew Smart – Labour

Market

• Edwin Kwaku Addo – Labour
• Katie Porrer – Liberal Democrats
• Alex Sefton-Tromans – Green
• Mark Wells – Reform UK
• Panda Xiong – Conservative

Newnham

• Katie Barron – Liberal Democrats
• David Carmona – Independent
• Sabina Harris-Hercules – Labour
• Lui Murton – Reform UK
• Poppy Simister-Thomas – Conservative
• Frances Eleanor Toye Scott – Green

Petersfield

• Luke Burrows – Reform UK
• Kathryn Fisher – Green
• Myfyr Cameron Holloway – Labour
• Sam Oliver – Liberal Democrats
• Paul Roper – Conservative

Queen Edith’s

• Maruf Ahmed – Labour
• Colin Bedson – Reform UK
• Alexander Magnus Burt – Conservative
• Mary Shayne Mitchell – Green
• Amanda Joan Taylor – Liberal Democrats

Romsey

• Rosy Greenless – Labour
• Rob Nelson – Conservative
• Charles John Walmsley – Liberal Democrats
• Andrew Watson – Reform UK
• Jacqui Whitmore – Green

Trumpington

• Michael Steven George – Conservative
• Edward Ekin Gokmen – Green
• Guy Greenway – Reform UK
• William John Grimwood – Liberal Democrats
• Olaf Hauk – Liberal Democrats
• John Michael Ionides – Conservative
• Samuel Lloyd – Reform UK
• Chloe Eva Mosonyi – Green
• Henry Shailer – Labour
• Carlos Toranzos – Labour and Co-operative Party

West Chesterton

• Charlotte Hannah Copley – Green
• Mike Harford – Conservative
• Geoff Leach – Reform UK
• Guy Mills – Liberal Democrats
• Nick Picton – Independent
• Richard Swift – Labour

Huntingdonshire District Council

Elections will take place in all wards across Huntingdonshire.

Alconbury

• Sarah Caine – Liberal Democrats
• Chip Colquhoun – Green
• Ian Derek Gardener – Conservative
• Joy Isaacs – Labour
• Roger Lane – Reform UK

Brampton

• Damilola Ademiniyi – Labour
• Hannah Charlotte Copley – Green
• Liam Paul Dewey-Beckett – Liberal Democrats
• Philip Makwana – Conservative
• Leslie Alex John Parren – Reform UK
• Malcolm Philip Ryman – Reform UK
• Fardous Siddique – Labour
• Bill Sinclair – Conservative
• Warren Smith – Liberal Democrats

Buckden

• Christopher John Bulow – Green
• Sean Calvin – Liberal Democrats
• Catherine Frances Grigg – Conservative
• Martin Andrew Hassall – Independent
• James McGregor Kerr – Labour
• Ian Richard Simmonds – Reform UK

Fenstanton

• Martin Paul Hewitt – Conservative
• Hayley Elizabeth Howatt – Reform UK
• Nick Sarkies – Liberal Democrats
• Danny Raymond Scott – Green

Godmanchester and Hemingford Abbots

• Rosemary Ann Armstrong – Conservative
• Kevin Anthony Barr – Conservative
• Sarah Joanne Conboy – Liberal Democrats
• Kieron Marriner – Reform UK
• Daniel Mayhew – Labour
• Brett Alistair Mickelburgh – Liberal Democrats
• Debbie Mickelburgh – Liberal Democrats
• Ambrose Ntuk – Labour
• Francis William Reid – Green
• Paula Jane Sparling – Conservative
• Stephen Ronald Spencer – Reform UK
• Mark Joseph Turley – Reform UK

Great Paxton

• Stephen Claffey – Liberal Democrats
• Malcolm John Gaylor – Reform UK
• Amanda Laurene Lower – Conservative
• Hollie-Ann Topliffe – Green

Great Staughton

• Stephen Cawley – Conservative
• Ann Christine Fryer – Reform UK
• Tony Hulme – Liberal Democrats
• Yavin Michael Owens – Labour
• Paul James Westerman – Green

Hemingford Grey and Houghton

• Kevin Ronald Bryant – Labour
• Graham Paul Bundy – Reform UK
• Jacqui Cook – Animal Welfare Party – People, Animals, Environment
• Adrian Hyde – Reform UK
• David Norman Keane – Conservative
• Anne Mary Meredith – Liberal Democrats
• Tamara Jasmine Page – green
• David John Priestman – Liberal Democrats
• Raymond Paul Andrew Simpson – Conservative

Holywell-cum-Needingworth

• John Colin Bleazard – Reform UK
• Laura Blows – Liberal Democrats
• Robin Carter – Liberal Democrats
• Paul James Hodgson-Jones – Conservative
• Bob Marsh – Reform UK
• Jon Neish – Conservative
• Phoebe Elizabeth Watts – Green
• Matthew Wetherfield – Labour

Huntingdon east

• Sergiu Ardelean – Reform UK
• Zara Louise Bobby Dolan-Ansary – Labour
• Tomin Geo – Conservative
• Seona Gunn-Kelly – Green
• Jo Harvey – Liberal Democrats
• David George Howard – Reform UK
• Nathan Hunt – Liberal Democrats
• George Frederick Michael Joyce – Conservative
• Rashid Mahmood – Labour

Huntingdon north

• Sophie Rose Feary – Conservative
• Leedo George – Conservative
• Ryan Grange – Green
• Michael Stuart Grice – Liberal Democrats
• David Henly – Reform UK
• Mike Humphrey – Liberal Democrats
• Georgie Hunt – Green
• Phillip Jones – Liberal Democrats
• Marion Kadewere – Labour and Co-operative Party
• Patrick Kadewere – Labour and Co-operative Party
• Steven Lancaster – Reform UK
• Keith Ivan Prentice – Conservative
• Lianne SImpson – Independent
• Mike Simpson – Reform UK
• Sam Wakeford – Labour

Kimbolton

• David Jonathan Blake – Reform UK
• James Roger Catmur – Liberal Democrats
• Jonathan Alexander Gray – Conservative
• Kelly Sophia Ramsbottom – Labour
• Julie Stark – Green

Ramsey

• Ash Austin – Independent
• Janet Boston – Labour
• Jeff Clarke – Conservative
• Ryan Coogan – Reform UK
• Steve Corney – Independent
• Adela Eva Costello – Conservative
• Gerard Augustin Crean – Liberal Democrats
• Clare Delderfield – Liberal Democrats
• Val Fendley – Independent
• Karan Maheshwari – Reform UK
• Zak Alex Martin – Conservative
• Anna Lisa Clenachan Pritchard – Green
• Howard Julian Tobias – Reform UK
• Graham Martin Wilson – Liberal Democrats

Sawtry

• Simon Bywater – Conservative
• Ross Ben Martin – Conservative
• Rick Rambridge – Reform UK
• Ian David Scales – Green
• Robin Neil Simpson – Labour
• Haydn Stevens – Reform UK
• Sarah Rose Wilson – Liberal Democrats
• Kerry York – Liberal Democrats

Somersham

• Edwards Charles Binns – Reform UK
• Keith James Brown – Liberal Democrats
• Kevin Hawkins – Labour
• Sarah Louise Hodgson-Jones – Conservative
• Jamie Troup – Green

St Neots east

• Lara Charlene Davenport-Ray – Green
• Stephen William Ferguson – Green
• Sally Patricia Guinee – Liberal Democrats
• Keith Harrison – Liberal Democrats
• Alan Ronald Hilton – Reform UK
• Gary Hyams – Conservative
• Rob Moores – Reform UK
• Angela Joyce Robertson – Conservative

St Neots Eatons

• Barry Sidney Banks – Independent
• Val Dajchin – Green
• Nigel Philip Eaton – Conservative
• Michael Peter Gilks – Labour
• Alan James Hunt – Liberal Democrats
• Jacquieline Priscilla Hunt – Liberal Democrats
• Andrew Rayner Jennings – Conservative
• Colin John Maslen – Reform UK
• Geoff Seeff – Liberal Democrats
• Nicholas Sharp – Green
• David John Smith – Reform UK
• Stewart Thornton – Reform UK
• Harry Phillip Vallance – Conservative
• Ellisa Westerman – Green
• Bev White – Party of Women

St Neots Priory park and Little Paxton

• Robert Edward Bralee – Green
• Barry Stephen Chapman – Independent
• Harriet Dolby – Conservative
• Pascal Christopher Darren Ferguson – Green
• John Keith Holmes – Green
• Carole Ann Innes – Liberal Democrats
• Randall Neil McDonald – Reform UK
• Steve O’Hara – Reform UK
• Tony Osborne – Reform UK
• Ganesh Sittampalam – Liberal Democrats
• Richard Lewis Tomlonson – Conservative
• Alfie Yorke – Conservative
• Mark David Young – Liberal Democrats

St Ives east

• Paul Bullen – Conservative
• Michael John Burke – Liberal Democrats
• Martin James Gill – Conservative
• Mandy Harrington – Reform UK
• Simon John Jordan – Liberal Democrats
• Shariqa Mokbul – Independent
• Louise Maria Newberry – Green
• Noah Sanderson – Reform UK
• Luke Viner – Labour and Co-operative Party

St Ives south

• Peter Andrew Brasher – Green
• Alex Bulat – Labour and Co-operative Party
• William Deacon – Labour and Co-operative Party
• Paul Kenneth Dickinson – Reform UK
• Natasha Fatio – Reform UK
• Cath Gleadow – Liberal Democrats
• Andrew William Riddell – Conservative
• Craig Thomas Smith – Conservative
• Nic Wells – Liberal Democrats

St Ives west

• Cheryl May Cannon – Conservative
• Patricia Ann Jordan – Liberal Democrats
• Julie Elizabeth Kerr – Independent
• Max Mulcrone – Reform UK
• Rose Sarah Williams – Green

St Neots Eynesbury

• Kenneth Billington – Conservative
• Camille Violet Etchart – Liberal Democrats
• Catherine James Goodman – Green
• Ricky James Ioannides – Reform UK
• Pavlos Kasdovasilis – Reform UK
• Julie Martin – Conservative
• Antonie McGowan – Liberal Democrats
• Tony Nelson – Reform UK
• Alexander Pushkarev – Conservative
• Deanna Seeff – Liberal Democrats
• Sam Smith – Independent
• Been Streeter-Strong – Independent
• Ian Pele Taylor – Independent
• Doug Terry – Independent

Stilton, Folksworth and Washingley

• Tim Alban – Conservative
• Marge Beuttell – Conservative
• Robert Bowden – Labour
• Sharon Elizabeth Brennan – Reform UK
• Eric Mark Darling – Reform UK
• Padrica Valerie Kennington – Liberal Democrats
• Amanda Charmaine Norton – Liberal Democrats
• Stasi Revel – Green

The Stukeleys

• Louise Ascroft – Liberal Democrats
• Ann Blackwell – Liberal Democrats
• Alan John Brugnoli – Conservative
• Val Cody – Reform UK
• Freya Cushman – Labour
• Judy Samantha Moore – Green
• Sikho Ndebele – Labour
• Phil Pearce – Conservative
• Tom Sanderson – Liberal Democrats
• Many Simmonds – Reform UK
• Sally Smith – Conservative
• Suzanna Williams – Reform UK

Warboys

• Anthony Thomas Bailly – Green
• Sharon Anne Docherty – Liberal Democrats
• Alan Garford – Reform UK
• Helen Mary Victoria Kewley – Liberal Democrats
• Charlotte Ann Lowe – Conservative
• Douglas Haig McIlwain – Conservative
• Iain Ramsbottom – Labour
• Sarah Smith – Reform UK
• John Nigel Wills – Green

Yaxley

• Justin Andrews – Conservative
• Michelle Britton – Labour
• Eric Richard Butler – Conservative
• Kieran James Edwards – Liberal Democrats
• James Thomas Francis – Reform UK
• Peter John Gammons – Reform UK
• Kev Gulson – Conservative
• Sally Howell – Liberal Democrats
• Max Jephtha – Green
• Christopher George Reeve – Reform UK
• Andrew Wood – Liberal Democrats

Peterborough City Council

Elections will take place for 18 wards in the Peterborough area. Here are the candidates running in each ward:

Bretton

• John Robert Bolton – Reform UK
• Susan Jane Glasgow – Labour
• David Kerry Narrainen – Green
• Scott Warren – Conservative
• Rohan Wilson – Liberal Democrats

Central

• Steve Cawley – Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
• Shaz Choudhary – Green
• Khurram Iqbal – Labour
• Jason Kerridge – Liberal Democrats
• Shahzadi Khan – Conservative
• Jeff Pitt – Reform UK

Dogsthorpe

• Pip Gardner – Green
• Mohammad Haseeb – Labour
• Ishfaq Hussain – Conservative
• Sandra Ringler – Liberal Democrats
• Petr Torak – Independent
• Bryan Andrew Tyler – Reform UK

East

• Ian Hardman – Liberal Democrats
• Sam Hemraj – Labour and Co-operative Party
• Aleem Miran – Conservative
• Nassim Rhaiem – Green
• Dave West – Reform UK

Eye, Thorney and Newborough

• Anthony Church – Liberal Democrats
• Sue Farr – Labour and Co-operative Party
• Layton Mark Mills – Reform UK
• John Peach – Conservative
• Adam Warr – Green

Fletton and Stanground

• Christian Hogg – Liberal Democrats
• Andrew Johnson – Labour
• Jon Lloyd – Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
• Maria Pinotes – Reform UK
• Neil Seekings – Conservative

Fletton and Woodston

• Andy Coles – Conservative
• Steve Harknett – Independent
• Ed Murphy – Green
• Yvonne Claire Scarrott – Reform UK
• Harvey Woodhouse – Labour

Gunthorpe

• Muhammad Ahmed – Labour
• Andrew Bond – Liberal Democrats
• Andrew Macfarlaine – Conservative
• Tom Rogers – Reform UK

Hampton Vale

• Marco Cereste – Conservative
• Steve Newson – Reform UK
• Toqeer Ahmed Sethi – Green
• Simon Turp – Labour
• Paul Wiggin – Liberal Democrats

Hargate and Hempsted

• Hamza Jarral – Labour
• Simon Christopher Jones – Reform UK
• Katherine Sharp – Green
• Vishal Vichare – Conservative
• Neil Walton – Liberal Democrats

North

• Javed Akhtar – Conservative
• Noreen Bi – Labour and Co-operative Party
• Mohammed Munir – Green
• Keith Sharp – Reform UK

Orton Longueville

• Olu Akinyele – Labour
• Ruwan Madugalla – Conservative
• Jonathan Orchard – Green
• Nick Penniall – Independent
• Philip Anthony Whitworth – Reform UK

Orton Waterville

• Stephen James Arnott – Reform UK
• Steve Bailey – Labour
• Alex Bowerbanks – Green
• Sanjaya Dodamgoda – Conservative
• Ray Knight – Independent

Park

• Murtaza Ahmed-Munir – Conservative
• Reza Behravan – Reform UK
• Tassadaq Hussain – Green
• Fiona Radic – Independent
• Beki Sellick – Liberal Democrats
• Saif Ali Yasin – Labour

Paston and Walton

• Iva Banyalieva – Conservative
• Ryan Gallagher – Reform UK
• Rob Fetch – Your Party
• Adif Shaheed – Liberal Democrats
• Mohammed Yasin – Labour

Ravensthorpe

• Shokat Ali – Green
• Matthew Clements – Labour
• Gul Nawaz – Conservative
• Ashli Philip – Reform UK
• Nick Sandford – Liberal Democrats

Stanground South

• Julian Bray – Independent
• Janet Elizabeth Brown – Conservative
• June Mary Bull – Peterborough First Independent
• Charles Rhys Coster – Green
• Andrew Deacon – Labour
• Peter David Reeve – Reform UK
• Miriam Sellick – Liberal Democrats

Werrington

• Ruta Dalton – Conservative
• Bradley Dilloway – Labour
• Sarah Areatha – Peterborough First Werrington Independent
• Chris Watson – Reform UK

Wittering parish

• John William Bradshaw
• Susie Ellen Briers
• Brian Day
• Jo Gault
• Dave Hughes
• Kate Jackson
• Liz Putterhill
• Russell John Archer Pye
• Iain Wilkinson
• Emma Lindsey Wilson-Jones