Sodbury win is crumb of comfort for Tories

IN an election when the balance of power shifted away from them, Conservatives on South Gloucestershire Council were given a one result to cheer in the Yate and Sodbury area.

Going against the flow of results elsewhere in the district, an extraordinarily close race saw the party pick up one of the two seats in the Chipping Sodbury & Cotswold Edge ward.

Chipping Sodbury & Cotswold Edge

The Conservatives lost ten seats across the district, and more than 1,000 across the country, but had no seats in the Yate and Sodbury area going into the elections on May 4.