Roger Stone (born 28 July 1943) is a former leader of

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Early life

He was born in the Rother Valley.

Career

He was a trade unionist, being a member of the

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, of which he was President in 1990/91. He had been a trade unionist since the early 1980s.

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council

He was elected to the council in May 1988. He unsuccessfully attempted to be selected as the Labour candidate for Wentworth in 1996. He became leader of the council in 2003, resigning on Tuesday 26 August 2014 after local revelations were announced at

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, home of

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The council's chief executive at the time was Martin Kimber. He was suspended from the Labour Party on 2 September 2014 in the wake of the

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. He quit as a councillor on 27 November 2014. He had represented the Silverwood ward, near the former

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. His seat was to be held vacant until an election on 7 May 2015, when Labour won back the seat. All three seats in the ward were up for election again in the all out elections in Rotherham in 2016.

Personal life

He lives in

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, north-east of Rotherham, off the B609, near the railway ( Dearne Valley Line). In the

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he was made on OBE for services to local government in Rotherham. He married Dorothy Edwards in 1962 in the Rother Valley. They had a daughter in 1965.

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