Several councillors have resigned in Thornton-le-Dale after an ill-tempered meeting over the authority's future. Handforth Town Council, which made Jackie Weaver a viral hit, survives a local ...

Parish councils, the once-famous Jackie Weaver said, are dull 99% of the time. But when things go wrong, they really do go wrong. Weaver shot to fame after her Shropshire council Zoom meeting ...

But of course, things don’t always go to plan. Who can forget the Handforth Parish Council video that went viral, creating an unlikely celebrity out of an obscure local government with the dramatic ...