Belgrave is an area,suburb,electoral ward and administrative division of the city of Leicester,in the ceremonial county of Leicestershire,England. Belgrave is the location of and known for the National Space Centre,Space Park Leicester,the Golden Mile and Belgrave Hall.
Rosemary Elizabeth Cooper is a British health official and former politician. Cooper was a Liberal and later Liberal Democrat member of the Liverpool City Council from 1973 until 1999,when she joined the Labour Party. After leaving the council the following year,she was the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for West Lancashire from 2005 until her resignation in 2022,when she was named chair of the Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust. In 2018,she was the victim of attempted murder by Jack Renshaw.
Leicester City Council is the local authority for the city of Leicester,in the ceremonial county of Leicestershire,England. Leicester has had a council from medieval times,which has been reformed on numerous occasions. Since 1997 the council has been a unitary authority,being a district council which also performs the functions of a county council;it is independent from Leicestershire County Council.
Dame Glenis Willmott,is a retired British Labour Party politician who served as leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party (EPLP) and Member of the European Parliament for the East Midlands.
Claudia Naomi Webbe is a British former politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester East from 2019 to 2024. Elected to Parliament as a Labour MP in 2019,she sat as an Independent from 2021 until she lost her seat at the 2024 General Election.
Meral Hussein Ece,Baroness Hussein-Ece,is a British Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords. She is the first woman of Turkish Cypriot origin to be a member of either house of Parliament after she was appointed a Liberal Democrat working peer on 28 May 2010. She was the Liberal Democrat Spokeswoman for Equalities from 2015 until 2016,under leader Tim Farron.
Susan Waddington is a British education official and Labour Party politician who was Member of the European Parliament for Leicester.
Syeda Amina Khatun,MBE is a British Labour Party politician,councillor for Tipton Green in the Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council and Cabinet Advisor for Education. In 1999,she was the first Bangladeshi woman to be elected in the Midlands region.
Theresa Stewart was a British Labour Party politician and the first female leader of Birmingham City Council,a position which she attained in October 1993,succeeding Dick Knowles,and in competition for which she was beaten by Sir Albert Bore in May 1999. She was also Lord Mayor of Birmingham from May 2000 to May 2001,being only the sixth woman to hold that position.
Simon Antony Henig is a British politician,former leader of Durham County Council,and since 15 April 2014,chair of the North East Combined Authority (NECA).
Sood or Sud is an Indian surname.
Rory Palmer is a British politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament for the East Midlands from 2017 to 2020. A member of the Labour Party,he was also the Labour candidate in the 2024 Leicestershire Police and Crime Commissioner election.
A statue of suffragette Alice Hawkins is located in Green Dragon Square,Leicester,United Kingdom.
Nigel Carl Porter is a Liberal Democrat politician in the City of Leicester. He served as the Leader of the Opposition on the Leicester City Council from 2019 to 2023,and has been a ward councillor for Aylestone since 2004.
Dame Grace Tebbutt was a British local politician and a key figure in Sheffield politics in the mid-20th century. She was affiliated to the Labour Party,serving as the first female leader of Sheffield City Council,Sheffield's first female Alderman and the first female Labour Lord Mayor in 1949.
Kathleen Chambers CBE was a pioneer female politician who was the first woman to be Lord Mayor of Bradford holding that position in 1945–1946.
The 2023 Leicester City Council election took place on 4 May 2023 to elect all 54 members of Leicester City Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections,and the election for the directly elected Mayor of Leicester.
Abigail Wok Marshall Katung is a Nigerian-British politician and wife of the senator representing the Kaduna South senatorial district,Kaduna State,Nigeria,Sunday Marshall Katung. She was born and raised in Nigeria,but moved to the UK to study in the University of Leeds and as of January 2024 is a governor at the Leeds City College. In May 2024 she took up the position of Lord Mayor of Leeds,becoming the first elected councillor from Africa to hold the council position,the second black person after Eileen Taylor and the 130th of all.
