I wish to correct the post given below. It now appears that the inquoracy of councillors at Tuesday’s meeting was not due to the lateness of the county council budget-setting meeting

Apologies were sent by seven out of twelve councillors for NEAC so it was cancelled. No apologies were sent by Liberal Democrat councillors, and I was standing by to chair as required.

I shall be asking a question in full Council on Monday to find out why so many apologies were sent by councillors from neighbouring wards

Ironically one of the topics up for discussion was the paper on changes to democratic processes proposed by the Labour administration