Breckland

There are also 6 more gains in Breckland, which is the last council to declare.

Conservative Gains Top 900 2007

Councillor Ann Steward, executive member for planning, said: "In a rural area such as Breckland, which covers more than 1,000 square kilometres, the benefits will be all the more apparent.

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Gove has now given the go-ahead for a free school, IES Breckland, to be run for profit by Swedish firm IES under a 10-year contract.

Crony capitalism feeds the corporate plan for schools | Seumas Milne 2012

Yet IES UK, a Swedish company, recently won a £21m contract to manage Breckland Free School in Suffolk.

Education reform: We need transparency not ideological zeal | Observer editorial 2011

Looking for nightjar nests to help a research project in the sandy heaths and pinewoods of Breckland in Norfolk, I went out with thirty other people and we tramped for six hours backward and forward beating the ground with canes like a blind army, through heath land, bracken, and foxgloves, stumpy leftovers of cropped pine woods and prickly new plantations.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

But the same night in Norfolk, we caught a Breckland nightjar in a mist net as it hunted for moths.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

The most curious error in e-counting occurred in a ward in Breckland, England, where voters were given two ballots: one each for district council and parish elections.

Archive 2007-06-01 Jim Horning 2007

The most curious error in e-counting occurred in a ward in Breckland, England, where voters were given two ballots: one each for district council and parish elections.

Report slams U.K. e-voting trials Jim Horning 2007

I notice that now the Breckland result is in Labour have managed to reach the magic -500 figure for councillors lost and the Tories have reached +904 for councillors gained.

Congratulations to UKIP on their 5 Councillors 2007

With missing votes and massively delayed results, the electronic count during the Breckland elections this year was hardly an unbridled success.

Archive 2007-11-04 2007