ELECTORS will get the chance to decide who to vote for in the district council elections at a Question Time event.

Former BBC news reporter and Independent MP Martin Bell will chair the evening at Richard Huish College, Taunton, at 6.30pm on Thursday, April 30.

Party leaders at Taunton Deane Council will be on the panel of the event, which has been organised by TauntonForward, a taskforce of businesses and proactive individuals working to drive the economic regeneration of the county town.

The group’s chairman, Douglas Cordeaux, said: “TauntonForward has arranged this event so that the people and businesses of Taunton have a good opportunity to understand what each party is promising to deliver for Taunton for the next four years.

“While we are definitely not a political organisation, we cannot ignore the fact that politics plays a great part in how Taunton will prosper in the future.

“We wanted to offer prospective councillors the opportunity to share their ideas and plans for Taunton Deane and their vision of the future.”

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Kit Chapman, of TauntonForward, said: "This will give the electorate an opportunity to listen to what the leaders of the various parties locally have to say and also hold them to account for what they do.

"Martin Bell will be a real asset to keep everything in line and to ask his own questions to keep the leaders up to the mark."

If you are interetsed in joining TauntonForward, e-mail info@tauntonforward.com