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Lydia Emelda Simmons OBE is a Labour Party local politician in Slough, Berkshire, England who was active between 1979 and 2007. She has the distinction of being the first black person, as well as specifically the first Afro-Caribbean woman, to become a mayor in England. By the end of her tenure as Councillor on Slough Borough Council (1979 - 1994 and 1999 - 2007), she was the longest-serving member of the council. She was born in Montserrat, a small volcanic island in the Caribbean.

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Lydia Simmons

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Lydia Emelda Simmons OBE is a Labour Party local politician in Slough, Berkshire, England who was active between 1979 and 2007. She has the distinction...

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Robyn Lively

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Gibbon's Life on Normal Street Claire Gibbon Main cast 2015 Chasing Ghosts Lydia Simmons Direct-to-video 2017 Small Town Crime Deborah Nevile Feature film 2018...

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Billie Whitelaw

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as Peggy Spencer Breakout (1959) as Rose Munro Bobbikins (1959) as Lydia Simmons The Flesh and the Fiends (1960) as Mary Patterson Hell Is a City (1960)...

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Jean Simmons

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miniseries The Thorn Birds (1983). Simmons was born on 31 January 1929, in Islington, London, to Charles Simmons, a bronze medalist in gymnastics at...

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Shannon Tweed

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singer of the band Kiss; Tweed and Simmons have two children, Nicholas Adam Tweed-Simmons and Sophie Alexandra Tweed-Simmons. Tweed was born on March 10, 1957...

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2007 Slough Borough Council election

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Party unseated the longest serving Labour Councillor and former Mayor, Lydia Simmons. Labour finished the count with a net gain of one, which leaves Slough...

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Slough Town Hall

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the enlarged Slough District Council was formed in 1974. Councillor Lydia Simmons became the UK's first black mayor at the town hall in May 1984. However...

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Bobbikins

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Ben Barnaby Steven Stocker as Bobbikins Barnaby Billie Whitelaw as Lydia Simmons Barbara Shelley as Valerie Colin Gordon as Dr. Phillips Charles 'Bud'...

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Gyges of Lydia

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Dascylus. Available historical evidence suggests that Gyges became the king of Lydia by overthrowing his predecessor, the king Candaules of the Heraclid dynasty...

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David Aldus

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1984, he was commissioned to paint Britain's first black female mayor Lydia Simmons in Slough. Aldus has also done work for Freddie Starr, the Duchess of...

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The Doobie Brothers

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teamed up with singer, guitarist, and songwriter Patrick Simmons and bassist Dave Shogren. Simmons had belonged to several area groups (among them "Scratch"...

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Peter Criss

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relationship with his bandmates Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley was not good at the time.[citation needed] Gene Simmons has said Criss was fired; Paul Stanley...

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Salem witch trials

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Lydia Dustin and Sarah Dustin, Mary Taylor and Mary Toothaker. All were found not guilty but were not released until they paid their jail fees. Lydia...

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Caleb Lawrence McGillvary

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McGillvary recounted he had been hitchhiking and was picked up by Jett Simmons McBride, whom McGillvary describes as weighing 300 pounds (140 kg), and...

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Lydia Bieri

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Lydia Rosina Bieri (born 1972) is a Swiss-American applied mathematician, geometric analyst, mathematical physicist, cosmologist, and historian of science...

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5 Weddings

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Gill Saru Maini as Bhavna Mariana Vicente as Alexa DuPont Dawn Richard as Lydia Duniyer Diljott as Harleen Robert Palmer Watkins as Mark Cottell The film...

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2002 Slough Borough Council election

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2002, Sean Wright joined the Independent Britwellian Residents party. Lydia Simmons had formerly served as a councillor 1979–1994. Dave Mansell had formerly...

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2008 Slough Borough Council election

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defeated the then longest serving Labour Councillor and former Mayor, Lydia Simmons. This return was subsequently found, by an Election Commissioner, to...

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