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Jackie Jones 2007
Occupation: Councillor

After being elected to local council, Steph Hoyland went to her first meeting on her motorbike, in her leathers, only to be informed by councillor Jackie Jones that the couriers had to park at the back of the building. After realising her mistake, she apologised, and later, as Steph became frustrated that nobody was listening to her at the meeting, Jackie took her for a drink to explain a few things. She told Steph that if she wanted to get anything done, she would simply have to go through the proper avenues; firstly making sure that it was on the agenda for the next council meeting, then making sure that she had all the right people on side to vote for her motion to be passed. Though Steph felt like this was all time that could be spent better, Jackie assured her that she'd have to play by the rules before she could think about breaking them.

Eager to impress her new colleagues, Steph invited Bill Chalmers, Jackie and some other councillors to her bar, Charlie's, where a book launch for celebrity chef Tony Aristedes was being held. Steph convinced Tony to cook up a storm and the plan worked, with Bill softening towards Steph. But at a meeting the next day, Jackie warned Steph that, although she had won some leverage with the other councillors, it wasn't enough for her to go ahead with both of her plans; a new childcare centre and a memorial graffiti wall for Stingray Timmins who had died earlier that year. When she found out that the council were only giving her an additional eight childcare places, she decided to press ahead with getting more and realised that she would have to tell Stingray's family that she had failed to get permission for the wall.

Stingray's sister, Janae took the news badly, and was soon organising petitions to stop the wall from being painted over. Before long, numerous Ramsay Street residents were standing in front of the wall, preventing the council from getting any closer, and Jackie joined Steph there to find out what she planned to do about it. Torn between her friends and her duty as a councillor, Steph finally made up her mind when Jackie jokingly suggested that Steph go home and get her baby, Charlie for a photo op. At that, Steph walked over to join the protestors, and a few hours later, they heard that the council had reversed their decision - largely due to Steph - and the wall could stay.

Biography by Steve

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