THE former leader and current chairman of North Norfolk District Council, Simon Partridge, has been elected to stand as the Liberal Democrat prospective parliamentary candidate for Yarmouth.

THE former leader and current chairman of North Norfolk District Council, Simon Partridge, has been elected to stand as the Liberal Democrat prospective parliamentary candidate for Yarmouth.

Mr Partridge, a magistrate in Yarmouth for the past 10 years, was born in nearby Caister and went to school locally. For the last eight years he and his wife have run a bed-and-breakfast business in Catfield.