VOTERS will be selecting both District and Parish councillors when they go to the polls on May 1 in 11 parishes in Eden, reports Karen Morley.

The majority of parish councils have been elected unopposed since the number of candidates nominated matched available places, so no election is necessary. But in the Culgaith ward, Dufton, Great Strickland, Kirkoswald ward, Milburn, Mungrisdale, Murton, Orton, Ousby ward, Melmerby and Tebay, electors will be going to the polls.

In Culgaith ward there are six seeking election: John Findlay, Jill Elizabeth Hay, John Simpson Hindson, William John Lancaster, gerard Gill Soulsby and Marylynne Winder.

In Dufton there are eight candidates: Gillian Mary Bryan, Cecil Coxon, Margaret Hannah Davis, Stephen Colin Hill, Michael Parkin, Alsion Dorne Richardson, John Henry Rudd and Raymond Walker.

In Milburn there are seven nominations: Roger John Armstrong, Audrey Elizabeth Clarke, Christopher Thomson Dargue, Raymond David Healey, Guy Edawrd Thompson Heelis, Dennis Richardson and Alan Keith Wood.

There are nine candidates contesting seats at Murton. They are: Jean Allinson, Terence Lionel Armitage, Robert Chappelhow, Richard William Jackson, Patrick Rowland Laverty, Eileen Margaret Ormrod, Adrian Neal Palmer, Michael John Schug and John Norman Stafford Sibson.

At Orton, candidates are: Kyle Kiloran Campbell Blue, Malcomb Coates, Stephen James Crook, Paul Reginald Dunford, Stephen Willis Dunning, Keith Liddiard Golding, Menna Ifor Lewis, Ernest Christopher Potter and Mark Alan Saunders.

In Tebay there are ten candidates: Catherine Frances Allen, Sarah Jane Blundell, Norman Dixon Lowis, Edward Lund, David John Morland, Gary Murphy, Michael William Parsley, Stephen Robert Pittock, John Bernard Thornborrow and John Adrian Todd.

In all the remaining Eden parishes there will be no voting as the number of nominations is either equal to or less than the number of council seats available. Candidates therefore automatically become councillors.

Those standing for Eden District Council in the Westmorland Messenger area are:

Appleby (one seat): Alan Keith Morgan (existing councillor) - an Independent; Henry Lancerlot Thwaytes, Independent.

Appleby Bongate (one seat): Ella Langan (existing councillor), Independent.

Brough (one seat): John Malcolm Smith, (existing councillor), Independent.

Crosby Ravensworth (one seat): Paul Timothy Evans (existing councillor), Independent.

Dacre (one seat): Brian Huddleston, Independent

Kirkby Stephen (two seats): Trevor Charles Ladhams (existing councillor), Independent.

Kirkby Thore (one seat) John Henry Crackanthorpe Sawrey-Cookson (existing councillor), Independent.

Long Marton (one seat): Mary Jane Herbert (existing councillor), Independent.

Morland (one seat): David Ian Addison Mattrass (existing councillor), Independent.

Orton with Tebay (one seat): Mark Alan Saunders, Liberal Democrat; John Bernard Thornborrow (existing councillor), Independent.

Ravenstonedale (one seat): John James Moffat, Independent.

Shap (one seat): David Treharne Leonard, Liberal Democrat; Gordon Richard Savage (existing councillor), Independent.

Warcop (one seat): William Patterson (existing councillor), Independent.

April 24, 2003 09:30