Friday, 1 June 2012
Herts show
Join radio verulam at the Herts Show tomorrow and throughout the Jubilee holiday. Verulam Breakfast will be back on Wednesday
Thursday, 10 May 2012
2nd power cut
Apologies to listeners this morning who once again missed out on verulam breakfast due to a power cut in our building, perhaps we are plugged into a street light that thinks its night time!
Who put the lights out?
Sorry! There has been a power failure again this morning at our studios, so we were unable to bring you our usual programme. We're hoping you enjoyed (but didn't prefer) the continuous music we've been playing.
Sunday, 6 May 2012
Enjoy the bank holiday
Verulam Breakfast has the bank holiday off but will be back with the usual faire on Tuesday
Friday, 4 May 2012
Election Special: No Overall Control
Today we are in the studio with an election special, broadcasting the election results to St Albans. 40% of the residents in the St Albans district turned out to have their voices heard and their votes counted. This is above the national average, with the expected turnout to be a mere 30%
Nationally Labour is expected to gain over 700 seats and has taken control of more than 20 local councils. St Albans however bucks this trend. Last year we saw the Lib Dem controlled council changed with no party having overall control, and this has remained the case with this years election results.
The Conservatives remain with a majority of the seats in St Albans, with 29 in total. The Liberal Democrats lost 4 seats, bringing their total number of seats down to 19. Labour on the other hand gained 4 seats, bringing their total number of seats up to 8.
So, the overall picture for St Albans is that the majority of us still vote for the Conservatives, who maintain 50% of the council seats. It would be expected that with such a high proportion of our votes going towards the Conservative party, we will soon have a Conservative controlled government, which has not been seen since 1991.
And though Labour has gained 4 seats, we have never had a Labour controlled council before and it is unlikely that we will do in the near future - unless our voting preferances change drastically over the next few years. However, the share of the vote going to the Conservatives has fallen across the district down to 38% from 43%.
The turnout within the St Albans district was varied to say the least. London Colney ward 1 residents turned out in the masses to vote, with 67% of residents voting. In this ward the voting was particularly close between the victorious Conservatives, who recieved 912 votes in comparison to Labour who lost by 99 votes, recieving 813 votes.
In contrary to the high turn out in London Colney, the lowest turn out across the district was in Harpenden East where the turn out was just 32%. Conservative Rosemary Farmer was victorious in this area with a 31% share of the vote. All of the Harpenden seats remain in Torie hands.
Independent candidate Tony Swedell will remain in his Redbourn seat for a fourth term after winnning 1174 votes, a 60% share of the votes.
Further afield Welwyn & Hatfield council remains under Conservative control with a majority of 26. Stevenage however, remains under Labour control with a majority of 15 votes.Stevenage has been under Labour control since 1973 and this does not look like its changing any time soon.
Nationally Labour is expected to gain over 700 seats and has taken control of more than 20 local councils. St Albans however bucks this trend. Last year we saw the Lib Dem controlled council changed with no party having overall control, and this has remained the case with this years election results.
The Conservatives remain with a majority of the seats in St Albans, with 29 in total. The Liberal Democrats lost 4 seats, bringing their total number of seats down to 19. Labour on the other hand gained 4 seats, bringing their total number of seats up to 8.
So, the overall picture for St Albans is that the majority of us still vote for the Conservatives, who maintain 50% of the council seats. It would be expected that with such a high proportion of our votes going towards the Conservative party, we will soon have a Conservative controlled government, which has not been seen since 1991.
And though Labour has gained 4 seats, we have never had a Labour controlled council before and it is unlikely that we will do in the near future - unless our voting preferances change drastically over the next few years. However, the share of the vote going to the Conservatives has fallen across the district down to 38% from 43%.
The turnout within the St Albans district was varied to say the least. London Colney ward 1 residents turned out in the masses to vote, with 67% of residents voting. In this ward the voting was particularly close between the victorious Conservatives, who recieved 912 votes in comparison to Labour who lost by 99 votes, recieving 813 votes.
In contrary to the high turn out in London Colney, the lowest turn out across the district was in Harpenden East where the turn out was just 32%. Conservative Rosemary Farmer was victorious in this area with a 31% share of the vote. All of the Harpenden seats remain in Torie hands.
Independent candidate Tony Swedell will remain in his Redbourn seat for a fourth term after winnning 1174 votes, a 60% share of the votes.
Further afield Welwyn & Hatfield council remains under Conservative control with a majority of 26. Stevenage however, remains under Labour control with a majority of 15 votes.Stevenage has been under Labour control since 1973 and this does not look like its changing any time soon.
Monday, 30 April 2012
No Verulam Breakfast this morning
We are very sorry if you are late for work or like us desperately upset that something is missing from your morning. Due to some power difficulties at our studios we are unable to bring you Verulam Breakfast so far today, we will make sure we are back tomorrow.
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
Local elections
A special edition of Verulam Breakfast on Friday 4 May covering all our local section results and reaction. Join the team from 6am for full coverage
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