Green Party wins by-election on Rochford District Council

Congratulations to Diane Hoy on last night's great result!:

>> Green - 757 - 50%
>> Tory -555 - 36%
>> Lab - 182 - 12%
>> UKIP - 26 - 2%

More news on Cllr Michael Hoy's blog
http://mikehullbridge.wordpress.com/

Nice comments from the local Labour Party
http://labourinrochford.com/2011/06/16/one-less-tory-%e2%80%93-one-more-green/

This takes us to 4 principle authority councillors in Essex and means we
have a group on Rochford (2) to join the group on Braintree (2).

Eastern Region now has 42 Green PA councillors on 14 authorities, compared
to 2 on 1 in 1999.