Local elections

So it's all over. The dust is settling on a Tory minority administration for Bath and North East Somerset. Overall the Tories went from 26 to 31 seats and are now the largest party in B&NES. However here in Bath honours were even with Tories and Lib Dems exchanging three seats - two Bathwick and one Combe Down gains by LD from Con and one Lambridge, Weston and Widcombe seats gained by Con from LD.

In Combe Down Cherry Beath was elected with a majority of more than 300 over the nearest Conservative candidate and I was elected with a similar majority. We have called on almost all households in Combe Down during the past year, so you can imagine the wear and tear on our shoe leather.

We would like to thank all those who had enough confidence in us to cast a vote our way and we will try to live up to that confidence by representing all the residents of Combe Down to the very best of our ability.