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Matt Chorley: Local elections might lack glamour, but they matter

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Lincolnshire is right at the heart of some of the big battles on 1 May .

It's true that local elections don't have the glamour of a general election.

But they matter: who runs local services, how they're run and how they are paid for.

The state of local authority finances is also a big national issue too.

Since coming into office Labour have dropped by double digits in the polls.

Labour 's Joan Dixon told me she goes out campaigning in Derbyshire with a fish slice.

In Thatcher 's first set of local elections as leader, - held on 1 May 1975 - gained almost 200 seats from Labour .

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