MINEHEAD Town Council hit a storm of controversy this week, fully reported in tomorrow’s (June 29) Free Press.
Members of the Minehead Community Group held a silent protest – calling on people to vote Independent at next year’s local elections – outside the Quaker Meeting House on Tuesday night.
Then the council’s third successive meeting came to an abrupt end after councillors accepted an opposition motion that the authority could no longer operate legally until it had replaced its town clerk.
Nearly 40 residents at the Quaker Meeting Rooms in Bancks Street cheered as, in an unprecedented move, the mayor Cllr Norman Hercock was instructed to seek help from other councils in an attempt to rectify the situation.
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A previous meeting, on June 13, was also abandoned after councillors were told the lack of a “proper officer” meant that, under the council’s standing orders, the meeting could not go ahead.
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