You might not have thought a local English council meeting would be your essential viewing this week, but here we are. On Thursday, footage of a chaotic Zoom call from Handforth Parish Council's ...

More than 3,000 people tuned in to the first Handforth Parish Council meeting since the local authority went viral – and viewers were gripped by more chaos. A planning meeting held on Zoom on December ...

A chaotic parish council meeting has become a new spectating sensation - following in the footsteps of Jackie Weaver and Handforth Council. The ferocious bile and simmering aggression of North ...

Councillors who featured in the infamous Handforth council Zoom meeting say their lives became "hell" after the video went viral. Aled Brewerton claims he received death threats in the aftermath of ...

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Aled Brewerton said his life has been 'hell' since he featured on a chaotic famous Zoom call with Jackie Weaver. (SWNS) A councillor and his father who featured in the famous unruly Zoom meeting in ...

When members of an English town’s local government committee met to discuss planning matters before Christmas, they had little idea that their Zoom call would become the cinematic event of the decade.

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LONDON — A local government meeting in England has become an Internet sensation after it descended into chaos, with footage showing members insulting each other, swearing and, as one put it, laughing ...