A local authority’s youngest town councillor has been elected as mayor at just 25. Alexander Walker, who is autistic, has been a town councillor in Rhyl, Denbighshire, since 2022 and described it as “surreal” to be elected, as it is something which he never thought he would end up doing. Mr Walker took on the...
Miles Davis BBC Devon political reporter Devon County Council Frank Letch, chairman of Mid Devon District Council, died on Tuesday Tributes are being paid to the chairman of a district council who died on Tuesday. Frank Letch was chairman of Mid Devon District Council, the Devon County Council member for Crediton, and was appointed an...
Miles Davis BBC Devon political reporter Torridge District Council Len Ford stopped being a councillor after he was jailed for abuse against officials A former councillor who was jailed for a “tirade of abuse” against a senior official has been removed from his role with a by-election now being held. Len Ford represented Appledore on...
Labour councillor Danny Barnes has left the residents of the Heavitree & Whipton Barton division without representation in County Hall decision-making for more than a year after missing twelve of fourteen public meetings at which he was expected. Neither of the two meetings of Devon County Council’s public rights of way committee that he did...