Mayorvellous!

Well, we said we could always hope that something approaching decency might emerge when the time came to select the borough's Mayor for the year ahead.
Which is why we are so pleased to see that Councillor Maureen Dennis, who was elected to the Council to represent Old Leake & Wrangle in 2003, and was one of the few candidates to survive the BBI landslip of May 2007 has been honoured with the job.
Councillor Dennis defeated the current Deputy Mayor, Councillor Gerry Clare by 15 votes to 13 ... a winning margin of just two .... after a secret ballot.
Interestingly, we understand that two is precisely the same number of BBI members who are believed to have fallen out with the leadership in recent times. Is a further reduction in the BBI majority on the cards?
Equally interestingly Councillor Dennis would have been automatically entitled to the position under the previous system, so it seems that enough councillors at the meeting (a handful were absent) remained satisfied with the "if it's not broken, don't mend it" way of doing things after all.
Councillor Dennis was generous in her acceptance of the job according to local paper reports.
She referred to the job as "the hand of friendship to the people.
"When we have a bad press they are down, and I want to lift them out of that."
Prepare for some heavy lifting in the year ahead then, Madam Mayor!
As with all things, there is good news and there is bad news.
The good news is this year's election result.
The bad news is that it most probably paves the way for a BBI ouncillor* to don the ermine next year, as there is little by way of excuse to avoid it.

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*ouncillor
Not a typographical error, as readers might imagine. A political lightweight, used in reference to the Boston Bypass Independents.