The Election of the Mayor of Ock Street will be on June 21st this year. Ballot Papers were being taken round this evening. It is earlier than usual to give people more warning, and also to avoid delivering ballot papers during the England v Uruguay game.

Only people living along Ock Street and side streets get to vote in this election.

It will be a two way contest this year between Roger Cox, the current Mayor, and Harry Knight.

The number of Ock Street occupants entitled to vote has been reduced by the demolition of the Mayott House Old People’s Home.

But by 2015 the new independent living quarters, built instead, will provide new electors.

On Ock Street today the Firemen were on strike over government changes to their pensions. As I gather it the government wants firemen to continue front line fire fighting until the age of 60.

Large clouds of smoke were rising this evening. Not a strike breaker – just a large bonfire at St Amand Drive as viewed from Meadowside off Ock Street