CHANCE TO PUT YOUR QUESTIONS TO CANDIDATES FOR EAST MIDLANDS MAYOR
PEOPLE across and Derbyshire are being given the chance to grill those hoping to become the first east Midlands Mayor.
The Derby Telegraph and the Nottingham Post have teamed up with Notts TV and Nottingham Trent University to host a live hustings event set to feature all five of the confirmed mayoral candidates.
Taking place around a fortnight before the election itself, readers are now being given the opportunity to submit their own questions for the mayoral candidates and to attend the event.
Hosted by Frances Finn, the event will be broadcast on Notts TV and live on our Facebook pages.
All five of those hoping to become the east Midlands Mayor have been invited to take part in the hustings.
The candidates are:
■■Frank Adlington-Stringer for the Green Party - currently an elected member of North east Derbyshire District Council
■■Ben Bradley for the Conservative Party - currently Mansfield MP and Nottinghamshire County Council’s leader
■■Alan Graves for the Reform Party currently the Mayor of Derby
■■Matt Relf - an independent candidate who is currently an elected member of Ashfield District Council
■■Claire Ward for the labour Party chair of the Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
The devolution deal hands significant powers and funding to the region that are currently held by the central Government, meaning a new east Midlands Combined Authority will be able to take decisions on areas ranging from housing to transport.
Heading up that authority will be the first east Midlands Mayor, chosen by voters at an election on May 2.
The hustings event will be taking place on Friday, April 19 at Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies, Convent Street, in Nottingham city centre. Beginning at 2pm, the candidates will face a live audience and Frances Finn will be posing questions to them, including those submitted by readers.
■■To submit a question for the candidates, and have a chance to be in the audience, click on the link in the website version of this story at derbytelegraph.co.uk