(a)        To receive announcements from the Lord Mayor or the Chief Executive;

(b)        To receive announcements from the Leader, Cabinet Members or Committee Chairs.

The Lord Mayor reported that he had two sad announcements to make. 

He advised councillors of the recent death of Corporal Mark Anthony Palin of the 1^st Battalion, the Rifles, during his deployment to Afghanistan.  He was killed by an improvised explosive device while guiding a patrol in Helmand province.  Corporal Palin was born in Plymouth and was married with one son, with a baby on the way. The Lord Mayor expressed that the Council’s thoughts were with his family and that he had already sent a card of condolence.

The Council stood in silence, for one minute, as a mark of respect.