A BOROUGH'S Tory group has complained that daytime online council meetings are making it difficult for their members to take part.

Pendle Conservative leader Cllr Nadeem Ahmed said the shift by the Labour/LibDem administration from traditional evening sessions to afternoon ones was unfair to their 21 councillors.

He said: “We have complained about this continued daytime scheduling and, with the scheduling of Full Council on a Friday afternoon for the first time, we are especially frustrated. Our councillors tend to be younger than the other parties and most of us have full-time jobs. I am a solicitor, but we have care workers, construction industry professionals and business people among our numbers. We cannot just drop everything. When we became councillors, we signed up for evening meetings."

Cllr Mohammed Iqbal, Pendle Council's Labour leader, said: "I think this is cheap politics as Cllr Ahmed has never formally complained. There are problems staffing evening meetings currently."