DENBIGHSHIRE

DENBIGHSHIRE County Council will be full of new faces when the council reconvenes. 38.6 percent of the eligible population turned out to vote, this comparing to 35 percent in the previous 2017 election.

Amongst the surprises was Conservative cabinet member Brian Jones, who lost his seat in Rhyl’s Ty Newydd ward where Brian Blakely and Cheryl Lynne Williams were voted in. Others not returning included Tory party group leader Julian Thompson-Hill, who lost his seat in Prestatyn East, and Prestatyn North Plaid Cymru councillor Paul Penlington.

But Denbighshire will see two new faces elected for the Green Party in the shape of Martyn Hogg in St Asaph East and Jon Harland in Prestatyn Central.