I WOULD like to thank everyone who voted for me and all the people that walked the streets doing leaflets and papers – everyone worked very hard.

I would have loved to do another term but the electorate thought different, that is democracy.

All I hope that there will be more democracy at the council than there was last term.

When you have five Tory councillors making all the decisions and you also have Tory, Independents and UKIP voting together, anyone else had a job to get anything done

I hope this time it will be different, but I do know that myself and my Labour colleague did as good as job as we could do.

I wish Bill (Osborne), James (Bevan) and Carol (Harris) all the best, I know that they will do the best for the Forest and for Lydney.

- Val Hobman, Lydney.