Mr Hopkins, who won a total of 1,920 votes, said: "This is reward for the work in this community of my ward colleague, Councillor Bablin Molik, and our muchmissed friend Wendy
Congreve. "The three issues on which we campaigned resonated clearly with residents who have become fed up with the state of Roath Park lake, our crumbling pavements and reduced bus services, the loss of which isolates some of the most vulnerable people in our community." Conservative candidate Peter Hudson took 24% of the vote with 838 ballots, but the Tories saw their vote share drop by 11.9%.
Cllr
Congreve, a Liberal Democrat councillor for the Cyncoed ward of Cardiff, died on Tuesday May 14 after an illness.
The following day Billy
Congreve's body was taken to the nearby town of Corbie, where he is buried in the south-west corner of the cemetery, overlooking the valley of the Somme.
The owner, the late Ambrose
Congreve, was inspired by Lionel de Rothschild's garden at Exbury in Hampshire.
Michael White is the expert garden curator at Mount
Congreve and while touring the gardens, he nonchalantly plucked a flower and munched on it, telling me it's a delicacy in some parts of the world.
"We hope that the availability of our Barclays branch on Market Place, Nuneaton, as well as access to services at the local Post Office at 5-7
Congreve Walk, Bedworth, and 90 Coleshill Road, Atherstone, along with our range of digital channels, will help to ease the transition for our customers."
1732: The original Covent Garden Opera House opened with Way Of The World, by William
Congreve. 1783: William Pitt the Younger (below) became the youngest of Britain's prime ministers - he was 24.
He is credited with developing an early, indigenous rocket known as the Mysorean rocket, a prototype of British
Congreve rockets used in the Napoleonic wars.
The final began disastrously for Nant when Brynmawr wing Josh
Congreve burst down the left and took advantage of some weak tackling to notch the opening try in only the second minute of the match.
Her study concerns Behn, Manley,
Congreve, and Fielding, but her insight is pertinent to Sterne, Mackenzie, Burney, and Scott (at the bare minimum) as well.
Commodore Squib: The Life, Times and Secretive Wars of England's First Rocket Man, Sir William
Congreve, 1772-1828.
TODAY PEARL HARBORREMEMBRANCEDAY 1732: The original Covent Garden Opera House opened with Way Of The World, by William
Congreve. 1783: William Pitt the Younger became the youngest of Britain's Prime Ministers -he was 24.
Written in the mannered Restoration style of the period (think
Congreve and Sheridan), the pastiche gets carried away by its own cleverness, a self-indulgence happily swept aside by the sheer wit of Sam Gold's stylish production.
(26) One of the most spectacular fireworks took place in 1814, when Sir William
Congreve prepared a Jubilee Fete in the London parks to commemorate Britain's triumph in the Napoleonic wars.
