Background
He was born in the Rother Valley.
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Roger Stone
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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 New York Stadium, home of Rotherham United F.C. 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 Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal.
He quit as a councillor on 27 November 2014. He had represented the Silverwood ward, near the former Silverwood Colliery. All three seats in the ward are up for election again in the all out elections in Rotherham in 2016.
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Membership
He was a trade unionist, being a member of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation, of which he was President in 1990/91.
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Labour Party