CANDIDATES for the local government elections in Ryedale on May 3 are:

AMOTHERBY (1 seat): Pamela Anderson (Con); Jane Wilford (Lib Dem)

AMPLEFORTH (1): Jim Bailey (Con)

CROPTON (1): John Samuel Clark (Liberal Party); Linda Margaret Clarke (Lib Dem); Ena Dent (Con)

DALES (1): Janet Frank (Con); Abigail Stokell Beckett (Lib Dem); Nelly Trevelyan (Liberal Party)

DERWENT (2): Brian Geoffrey Cottam (Con); Marian Hodgson (Lib Dem); Nigel Mark Wilson (Ind)

HELMSLEY (2): Steve Arnold (Con); George Ernest Hawkins (Con); Tot Wardle (Retired)

HOVINGHAM (1): Robert Wainwright (Ind)

KIRKBYMOORSIDE (2): Val Arnold (Con); David Cussons (Con); Peter Lerew (Lib Dem)

MALTON (3): Paul John Andrews (Ind); Lindsay Burr (Lib Dem); Tony Hemesley (Ind); Stephen Preston (Lib Dem); Pauline Reeve (Con); Stephen Shaw (Con); Carl Wain (Lib Dem); John David Wright (Ind)

NORTON EAST (2): Patricia Dumbill (Con); Howard Leslie Keal (Lib Dem); Elizabeth Lois Shields (Lib Dem)

NORTON WEST (2): David Jackson (no party listed); Dinah Elizabeth Keal (Lib Dem); Patricia Frances Moore (Con); Mags Normington (Lib Dem)

PICKERING EAST (2): Arthur Alwyn Aslett (Lib Dem)

PICKERING WEST (2): Linda Cowling (Con); Natalie Warriner (Ind) RILLINGTON (1): Brian Maud (Ind) RYEDALE SOUTH WEST (1): Allison Kerrison (Lib Dem); Keith Anthony Knaggs (Con)

SHERBURN (1): Anne Pilgrim (Lib Dem); John Robert Raper (Con)

SHERIFF HUTTON (1): Gillian Elizabeth Stilwell (Ind); Robert Ernest Wood (Con)

SINNINGTON (1): Martin Philip Baxter (Lib Dem); Snowy Windress (Con)

THORNTON DALE (1): Geoffrey Acomb (Con); Jane De Wend Fenton (Lib Dem); Claire Hundsal (Con); David Porter (Ind)

WOLDS (1): Michael Beckett (Lib Dem); Edward Thomas Legard (Con)