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Tomorrow, (May 6), residents will take to the ballot boxes to decide four elections. Residents will decide on the seven Epping Forest representatives in Essex County Council seats while also voting in three elections postponed from May of last year: Epping Forest District Council; parish and town councils; and the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for Essex. In what has been dubbed “super Thursday”, taking place against the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic, local elections will be held across England. With 48 million people registered to vote, it is set to be a big day. There are nine parties fighting for your votes for 21 of the 58 Epping Forest District Council seats. ....
But the strategy still includes plans for some libraries to be run by volunteers. SOLE is now calling for Essex County Council to recommit support for these facilities and has asked all candidates for next week’s election to set out their position on libraries ahead of the Zoom debate. Conservative candidate Carlo Guglielmi, defending his Tendring Rural West seat, said: “Just to clarify there are no plans to close any libraries. Following the consultation in 2019, the council gave great and due regard to the huge number of comments received and decided not to pursue any of the proposals which had been put forward for public comments.” ....