Nursery campaigner stands for councillor

By Melanie Defries, Nursery World, 3 May 2007

A parent fighting the closure of three nurseries by a Yorkshire council is standing as an independent candidate in local elections on 3 May. Mel Mills (pictured), one of the organisers of the campaign to save Tiddlywinks, Sankofa and Cambridge Road nurseries in Huddersfield, decided in March to stand as a candidate for the Ashbrow ward of Huddersfield, following meetings with Kirklees Metropolitan Council about the threatened closures (News, 8 March).

A parent fighting the closure of three nurseries by a Yorkshire council is standing as an independent candidate in local elections on 3 May. Mel Mills (pictured), one of...

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