"Their stories have largely been forgotten, so the aim is to bring them to life, to learn more about these women and the impact they had, not only on the morale of the Americans based here, but also on the local British people who came in contact with them," she added.
He was chosen from among Reform UK councillors at a group meeting on Monday.It follows the party
Barton has been a councillor on Mansfield District Council since 2003 but was elected to the county council for the first time earlier this month.He said it was a "massive privilege and a pleasure" to be elected leader and added that his party won control of the authority by "hard work campaigning and the message we got out there"."I think people had had enough of the two main parties promising stuff and not delivering it.
"We're the new boys on the block, so we've got to deliver now, that's our toughest job."We've been given a mandate by the majority of people of Nottinghamshire... we've got to make sure we deliver," Barton added.
He comfortably won a seat in the Mansfield East division, taking it from the Conservatives.
He was previously part of the Mansfield Independents on the district council, butand faces a sentence of more than 30 years in prison.
Speaking two years after the attack in 2024, Sir Salman said his eye was left hanging down his face "like a soft-boiled egg", and that losing it upsets him "every day"."I remember thinking I was dying," he said.
"Fortunately, I was wrong."Sir Salman said he used his new book, Knife, as a way of fighting back against what happened.