RESIDENTS will be going to the polls on Thursday (April 23) to decide who represents them in the Newquay Porth and Tretherras Cornwall Council division.

The six candidates vying for election include Liberal Democrat Sandy Carter, Independent Topher Chard, Suzanne Featherstone from the Labour and Co-operative Party, Lyndon Harrison from Reform UK, Abigail Jane Hubbucks from the Green Party and Oli Kimber from the Conservative Party.

Polling stations, which include Newquay Youth Centre and the main hall at Nansledan School, will open at 7am and will close at 10pm.

The by-election is being held following the death of Cllr Kevin Towill in February aged 46.

He died suddenly after fighting back from a debilitating brain tumour.