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DOBBO AND GLENDA ARE BACK

Holborn and St Pancras					Frank Dobson
		Votes	Share of votes	+/-
Frank Dobson	Labour	14,857	43.2 per cent	-10.7 per cent
Jill Fraser	Liberal Democrat	10,070	29.3 per cent	+11.3 per cent
Margot James	Conservative	6,482	18.9 per cent	+2 per cent
Adrian Oliver	Green	2,798	8.1 per cent	+2.1 per cent
George Weiss	VFY	152	0.4 per cent	+0.4 per cent	Glenda Jackson
Turnout 50.4 per cent. Swing 11 per cent from Labour to Lib Dems

Hampstead and Highgate
		Votes	Share of votes	+/-
Glenda Jackson	Labour	14,615	38.3 per cent	-8.6 per cent
Piers Wauchope	Conservative	10,886	28.5 per cent	+3.9 per cent	Jill Fraser
Ed Fordham	Liberal Democrat	10,293	27.0 per cent	+6.5 per cent
Sian Berry	Green	2,013	5.3 per cent	+0.6 per cent
Magnus Neilsen	UKIP	275	0.7 per cent	-0.2 per cent
George Weiss	VFY	91	0.2 per cent	+0.2 per cent
Turnout 55.5 per cent. Swing 6.3 per cent from Labour to Conservative

LABOUR rebels Frank Dobson and Glenda Jackson both won their seats – and their success was due to the fact they had run on anti-Blair tickets. Mr Dobson, who has held Holborn and St Pancras since 1979, said: "Standing up to the Prime Minister has proved to be an advantage. Goodness knows what the result would have been otherwise.
"This election would have been a far easier win if Gordon Brown was Prime minister. Labour voters were syaing they could not vote for Tony Blair."
And Glenda Jackson, winning the Hampstead and Highgate seat for the fourth time said her electorate had been 'caught on the horns of a moral and ethical dilemma'.
She said: "I do not know where the votes have gone – but I feel people were seeking to send a message to the Labour leadership either by not voting, or casting a vote in protest for one of the smaller parties."
The enormous increase in the Lib Dem share of the vote in Holborn and St Pancras means that this is becoming a marginal seat. If veteran Frank Dobson, as is likely, were to stand down at the next election the seat could easily fall to the Lib Dems. In Hampstead, Labour is in a safer position.

HEAD FURY AT SPY CAM

THE headteacher at one of Camden’s most popular secondary schools has hit out at a supply teacher for secretly filming pupils misbehaving in class.
Michael Shew, head of Acland Burghley in Tufnell Park, yesterday (Wednesday) confirmed that the school had featured on Channel 5’s hidden camera documentary Classroom Chaos after he was contacted by the New Journal.
The documentary, which has received widespread media coverage, showed pupils eating chocolate and crisps in lessons, swearing, telling a teacher to “take a nap” and appearing to search the internet for pornography during a media studies class. Mr Shew is furious with production company Films Of Record, warning that the programme’s makers used underhand tactics to film children without their permission and had opened up the possibility of legal action.