Talk:Shepway

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The facts in this article are incorrect. As is generally the case with all such local government districts, there are lower tiers of government - the town and the civil parish. Within Shepway there are 30 of the latter which are listed here; and each of those has its own elected members. Among them is, for example, Folkestone, which has its own council to run the town. The parish council has certain duties and responsibilities which are not the same as those dealt with by the higher local government body - the district Council. The latter also has elected members (there are 46 of them), and these are elected within the wards quoted in the article. So a voter in Hythe votes for a parish councillor and a district councillor (and a Member of Parliament of course). A voter in Folkestone votes for a town and a district councillor. This should be made clearer in the article which tends simply to talk about the wards (ie divisions) of the district as a whole. Peter Shearan 13:49, 23 August 2006 (UTC)