page_title: Tony Egginton
section_title: Personal background
hierarchical_section_title: Tony Egginton / Personal background
caption_attribution_description: English: Former shop premises of Egginton News, on Westfield Lane, Mansfield. A narrow shop with a small frontal area stretching along the side facing Sainsbury's, with additional depth created by knocking-through to the adjacent former dwelling house providing extra sales and storage space. The newsagency and shop closed in 2004, after the Jacksons convenience stores group was sold to Sainsbury's, which started selling newspapers and magazines. Later the shop was used by a company providing waste management solutions and internet sales of industrial tools, equipment and protective clothing.
context_page_description: Tony Egginton was the first directly-elected Mayor of Mansfield in Nottinghamshire, England. He was elected to the position on 17 October 2002, beating Labour's Lorna Carter by 588 votes, ending 30 years of Labour control.
  Egginton was re-elected in 2007 and again 2011, holding the position until his retirement at the end of his third-term of office in May, 2015. He had previously been a newsagent.
context_section_description: Little is publicly known of Tony Egginton's professional CV. Born in 1951, after attending Mansfield's Sherwood Hall Technical Grammar School he was employed circa 1970 at Blackwell Rural District Council (offices located in Mansfield).  He also worked as an apprentice at Metal Box Limited in Mansfield.
  In a 2012 BBC Radio Nottingham interview with presenter John Holmes, Egginton stated he was employed at the old Mansfield Borough Council during the building of the Four Seasons shopping centre (land clearance started circa 1973).
  Mansfield Borough became a District Council 1 April 1974, merging with the two nearby smaller Urban District authorities of Mansfield Woodhouse and Warsop.
  
  During the 1990s Egginton ran a small retail newsagent and corner sweet shop, becoming National President of NFRN (National Federation of Retail Newsagents) for 1998/9, also being a director of NFRN Commercial Ltd 1997 to 2000 and a director of Newsagents Federation Services Ltd 1996 to 2006. 
  In 2002 Jacksons Stores established a new convenience store opposite the newsagents. A planning application submitted by Egginton for change of use (newsagents shop to offices) was approved in January 2004.
  The two businesses co-existed until the 2004 takeover of Jacksons by Sainsbury's (rebranded as Sainsbury's at Jacksons). Sainsbury's stock lines included newspapers and magazines, and Egginton News closed, transferring some staff to Jacksons and the delivery service account to another newsagency over a mile away.
  The former shop premises were thereafter used by a company providing waste management solutions and internet sales of industrial tools, equipment and protective clothing.
  On 31 March 2008 Egginton briefly became the non-executive chairman of Mansfield Town F.C. following James Derry's departure.
caption: Egginton News former corner-shop premises
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