The Gainsborough Constituency Conservative Association are pleased to have selected a first-class, local candidate, for the forthcoming by-election on Thursday, 24th October, for the Torksey ward vacancy on West Lindsey District Council.

Stuart Kinch, who has served as a Conservative District Councillor for the Torksey Ward for over sixteen years, since May 2003, has written to Ian Knowles, West Lindsey District Council’s Head of Paid Service to inform him of his decision to resign his public office. Stuart said:

Significant numbers of overweight people and those fighting Type Two diabetes in West Lindsey were two of the major health factors behind multi-million-pound plans to transform leisure and fitness facilities in the district.

Conservatives in the Gainsborough Constituency have welcomed a surge in support which has seen incumbent councillors returned with increased majorities and new faces joining the Conservative Group on Lincolnshire County Council from our area.

Conservatives have tightened their grip on power at West Lindsey District Council following the local elections of Thursday, 7th May 2015.

Gainsborough Constituency Conservative Association have welcomed Her Majesty's Principle Secretary of State for Justice, Rt. Hon. Chris Grayling, Lord Chancellor, to a campaign event held at Bishop Norton with over sixty local members and supporters.

Conservatives in the Gainsborough Constituency have been pleased by the local result of elections to Lincolnshire County Council. The Association secured the re-election of all eight incumbent Conservative councillors, in ten contests, across the West Lindsey district which makes up the majority of the Gainsborough Constituency.

An iconic red telephone box has been transformed into an information point.Volunteers from Torksey Action Group have renovated the inside of a village phone box to use as an information centre and communication point.