Labour also ousted the MIP in two wards, taking East and North Middleton from the independents, and also taking Littleborough Lakeside from the Conservatives. READ MORE: Join the FREE Manchester Evening News WhatsApp community Town hall leader Coun Emmott, who only just saw off his MIP rival by 150 votes at last year's all-out elections, cruised to victory this time around in West Middleton, polling 1,120 votes, more than all his rivals put together. The Lib Dems held onto the one seat they were fighting, leaving them with three councillors, as before. It means Labour has 46 seats, taking two from MIP, which now has just two councillors and one from the Tories, who are left with nine. Victory for the party was rubber-stamped when leader Neil Emmott easily saw off a push from the Middleton Independents Party (MIP). But through their unfailing bond, forged through their weekly gathering, they'll draw strength-and the courage to transform their immigrant stories into the American lives of their dreams.Labour maintained its iron grip on Rochdale council at this year's local elections. The friends face family clashes and romantic entanglements, career struggles and cultural prejudice. And shy Thea is torn between asserting herself and embracing an antiquated Jewish tradition. Stunning Maria could marry anyone yet guards her heart to avoid the fate of her Italian Catholic mother, broken down by an alcoholic husband. Brilliant Ada secretly takes college classes despite the disapproval of her Russian Jewish father.
But at least they have one another and the Saturday Evening Girls Club, a social pottery-making group offering respite from their hectic home lives-and hope for a better future.Īmbitious Caprice dreams of opening her own hat shop, which clashes with the expectations of her Sicilian-born parents. For four young immigrant women living in Boston's North End in the early 1900s, escaping tradition doesn't come easy.
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