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Oldham managed to win today, so they'll be staying in League 1 for another season. The season didn't start well, then suddenly wins were appearing, they started to look good. But it's Oldham, so the losses began again and the manager went. New manager, but still no real results and relegation was on the cards. One game left, if they won they wouldn't need to worry about any other result, they

Nick Barlow has done us all a service by analysing the general election results and drawing up lists of our new target seats. Below I list our top 12 targets against both Labour and the Tories. There are some hardy perennials here and it is hard to escape the impression that we are still desperately short of winnable seats, but here are the lists. The percentage given is the size of the Labour or Tory majority over the Liberal Democrats. Labour held seats 1. Edinburgh South - 0.95%2. Islington South and Finsbury - 1.56%3. Aberdeen South - 2.24%4. Oxford ...

The dust is settling over the results. The counting is over and the psephologists will pick over the bones and make their pronouncements. If a week is long time in politics, then it is an eon until the next general election. In the meantime, we are where we are - what does all this mean? Blair has been returned to his post, but with a very poor mandate. Only 36% of the electorate who turned out still supported him. Questions of trust have not been adequately answered, and in areas where Labour have lost seats both to ourselves, to the ...

This morning I took the speakers on tour around the Consituency to thank mt constituents. I spent a short time at the Yew Tree using the Radio Mike to talk to my supporters. At 11am was the first advice bureau.

The Western Mail this morning reports that leading figures in Plaid Cymru are privately blaming each other for a disastrous election performance that saw the party reduced to just three MPs.One party insider told the Western Mail, "The frightening thing is that those running the campaign didn't seem to see the loss of Ceredigion coming. You would think that a swing against Plaid in the seat would have been identified, with action taken to counter that."At the end of the day, Ceredigion was only lost by a couple of hundred votes. We're talking about people who obviously don't have their ...

as predicted here on 23rd April, Lawrie Quinn lost Scarborough and Whitby. The Lib Dem vote rose by 87% over a rather dismal 2001 showing. The count finished at 4.15 after a very bizzare half hour with everyone staring silently at stacked plastic boxes of votes while silent, harassed officials tried to find a few stray votes. The Labour and Tory piles were equal in size, and you could see the