| Despite complaints from Independents about the difficulty in securing assentors, the field has the largest number of Independents for decades. |
| With just 75 minutes to go before the deadline for handing in completed nominations, the returning officer told us we needed to get the signatures of 30 assentors. |
| I now have to go through the process of getting thirty assentors in the Westport area, fifteen for the town council and fifteen different people for the county council. |
