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Councillor quits for wife to enter garden contest
Western Morning News
|August 01, 2025
A LOCAL councillor has stepped down so his wife can enter their town’s garden competition, saying he would do anything for her happiness.
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Tony Hewitt was a Reform UK councillor on Ferryhill Town Council, in County Durham, for a month, but he resigned when his wife's entry into the Ferryhill in Bloom contest was raised as a possible conflict of interest.
The town council should have 17 members but currently only has seven, and Mr Hewitt was appointed unopposed when he stood for election earlier this year.
This story is from the August 01, 2025 edition of Western Morning News.
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