Councillor Martin Shaw

I stood on a platform of keeping hospital beds in our local community hospitals and the voters have given me a mandate to pursue this aim.

I also criticised the weakening of local democratic control as Devon is squeezed between disappearing Government funding and the growing need for effective services, whether it be adult care, children’s provision or road safety and repairs.

I shall work closely with the Communities of the Division on the issues that matter to them.

My priorities are to maintain and develop universal health, education and other services, with the maximum possible democratic oversight, for the benefit of the people of the Seaton and Colyton division and Devon as a whole.