LABOUR held on comfortably to their seat in Daubhill yesterday, polling more votes than their three opponents put together in the local council by-election.
The by-election was caused by the disqualification of former Labour councillor Martin Donaghy. The turnout was just 24 per cent.
Dennis Barlow won the seat with 1,402 votes, ahead of the Tory candidate Jean Mavis Walsh with 332. The Liberal Democrat candidate, Margaret Patricia Rothwell, was third with 182 votes and Doris Kelly, standing for the Socialist Labour Party, polled 120 votes.
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