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Two newly elected Fenland councillors paid tribute to their challengers saying it was good to have opposition.

Cllr Simon King who held onto his Roman Bank seat - Credit: Harry Rutter Early Friday at the Hudson leisure centre in Wisbech and the celebrations are about to begin as every available seat – for county, district and town – goes to the Conservatives.  County council leader Steve Count wins a handsome victory in March North & Waldersey, along with his colleague Cllr Jan French.   Andy Maul (left) who lost out to Steve Tierney - Credit: Harry Rutter And the pattern is repeated as the results are declared, Labour, Lib Dem, Green and other opposition parties or individual candidates swept ...

Cllr Samantha Hoy who has retained her seat on Cambridgeshire County Council. - Credit: Harry Rutter Tories held both Wisbech West and Wisbech East as the results were announced for Cambridgeshire County Council.  Steve Tierney retained his west division, polling 1,049 votes to the independent Andy Maul who secured 451 votes.   Labour's Daniel Kerry came third with 202 votes, Ted Hurlock fourth for UKIP with 97 votes.  A fifth candidate, independent Lynn Monk, managed 27 votes.  In Wisbech East, Samantha Hoy, the sitting councillor, topped the poll for the Conservatives with 1,358 votes....

No one knows for sure, however, what affect the Hickford inquiry – that has come to be known as farmgate – will have on the minds of voters when they make their choices.  Fenland is critical to continued success for the party – it returned nine councillors, all Conservatives, for the eight divisions in 2017.  It includes the division of March North, the seat of council leader Steve Count, and that of Roman Bank where Simon King, eased out of Fenland Council by the Tory group over an expenses scandal, is clinging onto his political ambitions.  Wisbech itself may also offer an insight ...