Since then, Mr Sharp has focused on local politics and continues to serve on Castle Point Borough Council.

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The Conservatives have gained seats from Labour in Romford, Upminster and Castle Point.

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Castle Point Capital is mainly invested in financial service companies and real estate investment trusts, similar to the private equity orientation of a related company, Stone Point Capital, also headquartered in Greenwich, Conn, home to many large private hedge fund operations.

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We play a lot of it from Castle's point of view, trying to get her back.

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But, you know, at one point Castle was winning reelection with the greatest margins of all of our statewide federal politicians, of which, of course, we have one U.S. senator, or two U.S. senators and one member of the U.S. House.

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Yet obituary writers in British newspapers, most of them kind to Mrs Castle's memory, have been hard put to point to accomplishments of hers that have endured.

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On the high point of the first, Edburton Hill, are the earthworks of a motte-and-bailey castle, which in spring and early summer are a knee-high wildflower meadow: agrimony, wild mignonette, red clover, yellow rattle, marjoram, scabious, knapweed and the odd tall bolt of fireweed, through all of which wander string-like stems of bindweed.

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