TomNorton published Ashfield District Council election 2015: visitors pack out hall...

THE count has begun at Ashfield to determine whether Labour still has the power to hold onto the district council. Dozens of candidates and their supporters flooded Kirkby-in-Ashfield's Festival Hall in Hodgkinson Road this afternoon in the north Nottinghamshire ward. By 2.30pm most of the large festival hall had been packed out with visitors eagerly anticipating the resultsLast night, parliamentary candidate Gloria De Piero swept to victory with more than 19,000 votes with an overall majority..