Not just making headlines in Preston
The ceremonial role passes from one long-serving councillor to the next with a fanfare that is usually largely confined to the town hall chamber. This year, however, Yakub Patel’s elevation to the post has caused ripples halfway around the world – becoming headline news in papers and on television in the Gujarat region from which he hails in India.
Cllr Patel’s journey to the prestigious role of city mayor began when he arrived in the then town of Preston in 1976 and started work for Preston’s corporation-run bus company. His work briefly saw him transferred to Leicester six years later – but within just six months, he was back, pining for a Preston he had come to regard as home in the relatively short time he had lived there.
Cllr Patel was first elected to serve the Avenham ward on the then borough council for four years from 1995 – when he was Preston’s first Muslim councillor – and returned to the authority in 2011, now representing Fishwick and Frenchwood. In the interim period, he spent eight years as Lancashire county councillor.
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