AT A meeting of over 100 members in Wadebridge Town Hall, Cllr Scott Mann was selected as the Conservative Pros­pective Par­l­iamentary Candidate for North Cornwall.

Cllr Mann, the local Councillor for the Wadebridge Division, thanked the members for their support.

In a statement he said: "I am delighted to have been selected as the Conservative Candidate for North Cornwall. I have been representing Wadebridge for five years and will continue to do so.

"I look forward to the possibility of representing the whole of North Cornwall in the future. As a local Wadebridge boy and proud Cornishman I feel I have the necessary skills to represent North Cornwall in parliament."

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