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...Allison Riddell, the clerk of the parish council in Brampton, a small market town in North Cumbria, said she was aware of elderly residents already eating sandwiches and other cold food because they were...
...“Right, you crack on with the parklets,” Helen Ball, the council’s clerk or chief executive, concludes breezily, “and I’ll sort the trees out.”...
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...Erik Nielsen, chief economist of UniCredit, employed a Danish proverb to describe the stimulus’s effect on the rest of the world: “When it rains on the priest, it drips on the parish clerk.”...
...This infuriated officials at St Nicholas parish church in Harpenden, a prosperous commuter town north of London....
...The area is located north-west of the City of London and takes its name from a medieval well, which was the scene of mystery plays, performed by the parish clerks of London....
...Yet it rates only a parish council, its judgments merely advisory on the most piffling details....
...The poll numbers recorded by the clerk can be married up with the ballot papers; the vote is only secret because people like Hagg say it is....
...“Over the last four or five years, it’s increased quite dramatically, with foreign lorries predominantly coming through,” says Simon Emary, clerk to the parish council....
...In late 1907, a correspondent of the Christian World stated that ”with a view of providing the funds required to secure a heating apparatus of a parish church in Devonshire, competitors paying an entrance...
...Someone in the village gave me a booklet written by his grandfather, who was clerk to the mayor. It contained the details of local births, deaths and marriages.”...
...The parish clerks are one of two City “companies without livery”, in the same boat as the Watermen and Lightermen....
...Gloria Barclay, parish clerk for Little Marlow, will today receive the coveted plaque and the Gurney Cup for winning Best Kept Village in Buckinghamshire (in the category of “population less than 500 people...
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