A young woman from Launceston has travelled over 500 miles to vote — after she failed to receive her postal vote form at university in Essex.

Cathy Parkin, who attends acting school in Southend-on-Sea, applied online for the postal vote, but when she hadn’t received it by the weekend, alarm bells started ringing.

After calling Cornwall Council, she learned that they hadn’t received her application.

Cathy decided there was only one thing to do — make the 540-mile trip back to her home town to cast her vote.

She said: "A lot of people, especially my age, have said one vote is not going to make the difference, but I have been saying we can’t think like that. Collectively we do. If I didn’t travel down, I would have been going against everything I have said up to that point."

See next week’s Post for a full report, and election round-up.