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Article: Lord Mayor beats 'the labour curse' ; Brian vincent successfully defeated the 'curse of the Labour Lord Mayor' when he was sworn in yesterday.
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- Plymouth Evening Herald, The
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- May 17, 2008
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Brian vincent successfully defeated the 'curse of the Labour Lord
Mayor' when he was sworn in yesterday.
Cllr Vincent was designated as the new Lord Mayor in March this
year - but faced re-election to his Efford and Lipson ward in the
May 1 council elections.
At a Guildhall ceremony yesterday, Labour group leader Cllr Tudor
Evans said: "Brian was determined to shake off the curse of the
Labour Lord Mayor."
In May 2007, Michael Fletcher lost his Stoke ward near the end of
his term as Lord Mayor.
Lord Mayor-elect Mike Fox lost his Moor View seat to the