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URLs responding — Steve Lodge's recorded URLs returned successful HTTP responses at the 2026-09-07 audit. This does not establish that campaign content survived.
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Before and after
April site-wide text vs the 2026-09-21 homepage fetch of https://stevelodge.co.uk: 9 sentences still present, 266 no longer found, 48 new. These are candidates for review, not proof a sentence was withdrawn.The April text covers the whole scraped site; the later text is one homepage fetch. A sentence can be missing from that homepage and still exist on another page. A missing sentence is not matched to a replacement.
The snapshot lists 5 of 266 sentences that were not found. The rest are counted, not quoted here.
Before · April 2025
With a background in finance, Steve is looking to cut the waste and year-on-year losses in Devon County Council and balance the books whilst investing in more efficient and better delivered services - Protecting our treasured local services Devon is strapped for cash and the Conservative-led Council
Gap: no replacement sentence is matched. The April text covers the whole scraped site; the later text is one homepage fetch. A sentence can be missing from that homepage and still exist on another page.
Before · April 2025
“After years of chaotic Conservative control, it is time for change and across the county, Liberal Democrats are working hard to be that change locally, as we have been in Westminster.” Ministers want to abolish the two-tier system of local government, whereby different services in the same area are
Gap: no replacement sentence is matched. The April text covers the whole scraped site; the later text is one homepage fetch. A sentence can be missing from that homepage and still exist on another page.
Before · April 2025
Former Conservative Home Secretary Suella Braverman welcomed the claim at the time, saying she was delighted that police had “fulfilled their commitment to attend all domestic burglaries.” The Liberal Democrats are calling for a legal Burglary Response Guarantee under which all domestic burglaries w
Gap: no replacement sentence is matched. The April text covers the whole scraped site; the later text is one homepage fetch. A sentence can be missing from that homepage and still exist on another page.
Before · April 2025
Their responses, which can be accessed here, provided the following data: How many incidents of domestic burglary have been reported to your force in the past three calendar years: 2021, 2022 and 2023 A breakdown of how many of these reports led to a police officer visiting the scene of the incident
Gap: no replacement sentence is matched. The April text covers the whole scraped site; the later text is one homepage fetch. A sentence can be missing from that homepage and still exist on another page.
Before · April 2025
To implement this guarantee, we are calling on the Government to: Return to proper community policing, where officers have the time and resources they need to focus on preventing and solving crime; Urgently draw up a strategy to tackle the shortage of detectives; and Set up a new national Online Cri
Gap: no replacement sentence is matched. The April text covers the whole scraped site; the later text is one homepage fetch. A sentence can be missing from that homepage and still exist on another page.
New on the later homepage, not matched to a removed sentence
Read More Investing Devon pensions in affordable homes by steve | 15 May 2026 | News | 0 Comments Seeing our investments in action As Chair of the Investment and Pensions Committee at Devon County Council, I was delighted to visit Northam recently to see first-hand how the Devon Pension Fund is makihousingwelfare This sentence is only on the later homepage. No April sentence is matched to it. 21 September 2026 · https://stevelodge.co.uk
Read More Holding South West Water to account over the ‘Tivvy whiff’ by steve | 18 April 2026 | News | 0 Comments Why I called for a public meeting For too long, residents across Tiverton West and beyond have been plagued by a foul smell believed to come from South West Water's sludge treatment faci This sentence is only on the later homepage. No April sentence is matched to it. 21 September 2026 · https://stevelodge.co.uk
Read More Rowing to space for Tiverton’s young people by steve | 17 April 2026 | News | 0 Comments Supporting SPACE Youth Services On 16th April, I was proud to take part in a Row-a-thon at Lowman Green to raise funds for Tiverton Youth Centre, run by SPACE – a fantastic organisation providing vital This sentence is only on the later homepage. No April sentence is matched to it. 21 September 2026 · https://stevelodge.co.uk
Read More Giving Young People a Voice: Reflections from the Devon Youth Council Annual Event by steve | 30 November 2025 | News | 0 Comments I recently had the privilege of attending the Devon Youth Council's flagship event of the year here in Tiverton, and I left feeling genuinely inspired about wh This sentence is only on the later homepage. No April sentence is matched to it. 21 September 2026 · https://stevelodge.co.uk
With a background in finance, Steve is looking to cut the waste and year-on-year losses in Devon County Council and balance the books whilst investing in more efficient and better delivered services Protecting our treasured local services Devon is strapped for cash and still suffering from the failu This sentence is only on the later homepage. No April sentence is matched to it. 21 September 2026 · https://stevelodge.co.uk
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HTTP result: Responding (HTTP 200) at the 2026-09-07 audit
Candidate-name signal: surname matched in the response body (heuristic only)
Source evidence and excerpts
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Scrape excerpts — April 2025 · 8 shown
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Steve Lodge
Steve Lodge is the Liberal Democrat for Tiverton West in the Devon County Council elections on May 1, 2025.
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29% of burglaries in Devon & Cornwall went unattended by Devon & Cornwall Police last year, despite a government promise…
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In the House of Commons today, the Deputy Prime Minister confirmed that the Devon County Council Elections will go ahead…
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With the approach of the 2024 elections, the Liberal Democrats have sharpened their focus on law enforcement and crimina…
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The Liberal Democrat candidate for Police & Crime Commissioner in Devon & Cornwall has accused the Conservative governme…
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Steve Lodge pledges proper community policing as Police & Crime Commissioner candidate for the Liberal Democrats
Steve L…
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Cornwall has ranked as one of the worst regions for ‘Deaths of Despair’, a study has found. Deaths of Despair (DoD) are …
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The UK Government’s English Devolution White Paper proposes replacing the existing two-tier council system with unitary …
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