It contains eight wards, each with three elected borough councillors.

Each ward returns three borough councillors to the thirty-eight member council.

Later, borough councillors decided to drop this planned enforcement action in December 2002.

As a result, the local residents vented anger at the borough councillors for supporting the plan.

The firm had, however, written to every borough councillor, asking for a chance to defend itself.

Phil Piratin had been a local activist and borough councillor.

On 8 November 1901, the borough councillors elected a new mayor.

First elected in the 2009 municipal election, she previously served as the ward's borough councillor.

A new mayor is elected by the borough councillors and serves a term of one year.

He entered politics in 1894, when he became a borough councillor.