IT is not completely fanciful to use the experience of last week's Sheffield council election to forecast what may happen at a general election. Our calculations suggest that if the trend was repeated, Labour would be in for an even worse drubbing than the one suffered on Thursday.
There is much merit to suggest that electors will vote in a vastly different manner when national rather than local issues are at stake. But a strong signals from the results, which saw a change of leadership at the town hall, is that voters do not always distinguish between the two.
Whatever political pundits' views may be about this scenario, they would be ill-advised to ignore the message from the voters: they won't be taken for granted and their views should be listened to when formulating policy, and their reactions should be taken into consideration when those policies are reviewed.
Become one of Kevin's heroesWELCOME to the team, Blades manager manager Kevin Blackwell who is throwing his support behind our Gift of Life campaign, which aims to recruit 25,000 to the organ transplant register in time for the Westfield Health British Transplant Games in Sheffield this summer.
He is urging fans to sign up to the register and wants people from both sides of the footballing divide to show just how much they care.
All that remains for us is to echo Kevin's words and call on people to be 'a hero by giving the gift of life'.
Free as a BBC birdHAVING already had trouble with words like quality and honesty the BBC now seems to be encountering a problem with the meaning of the word free. Along with ITV, they've launched a 'free' HD television service...free, that is, so long as you pay around £200 for a box and satellite dish and then continue to pay £139.50 for your television licence. And you thought that free meant there would be no cost involved?
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