Candidates for Wear Valley District in the May 3 local government elections are:

BISHOP AUCKLAND TOWN (2 seats): Frederick Anderson (Lab); Colin Firby (Con); Hazel Lodge (Con); Sharon Ord (Lib Dem); Bill Wade (Lab); Samuel Zair (Lib Dem).

COCKTON HILL (3): Alan Anderson (Lib Dem); John Gasston (Con); Neil Harrison (Lib Dem); Barbara Laurie (Lab); Colin Raine (Con); Graham Snaith (Lib Dem); Keith Stokeld (Lab); Jim Tague (Con).

COUNDON (3): Diane Hardaker (Lib dem); Neil Stonehouse (Lab); Norman Strongman (Lab); Tommy Taylor (Lib Dem); Lucy Thompson (Lab).

CROOK NORTH (1): Patricia Jopling (Lib Dem); Graeme McKellar (Lab).

CROOK SOUTH (3): Ann Carrick (Lib Dem); David English (Lib Dem); Gavin Jopling (Lib Dem); Geoff Mowbray (Lab); Robert Muir (BNP); Eddie Murphy (Lab); Peter Sung (Lab).

DENE VALLEY (2): Dorothy Burn (Lib Dem): Gary Henry (Lib Dem); Margaret Ingledew (Lab); Sandra Lethbridge (Lab).

ESCOMB (2): John Fenwick (Lib Dem); Olwyn Gunn (Lab); Peter Laws (Con); Alisha Lynas (Con); Vince Perkins (Lib Dem); Robert Yorke (Lab).

HENKNOWLE (2): Reg Davison (Lab); John Huntington (Lib Dem); John Lethbridge (Lab); Betty Todd (Lib Dem).

HOWDEN-LE-WEAR (1): John Bailey (Lib Dem); Steven Cason (Lab).

HUNWICK (1): Kenneth Bowser (Lib Dem); David Nevins (Lab).

ST JOHN'S CHAPEL (1): Christopher Houghton (Con); John Shuttleworth (Ind).

STANHOPE: (2): Angela Bolam (Ind); William Hobson (Lab); Richard Mews (Ind); Christopher Rowell (Con); Anthony Simpson (Lib Dem).

TOW LAW AND STANLEY (3): Jeff Gale (Lab); Ron Grogan (Ind); David Halliday (Lib Dem); Colin Hayton (Lab); Harvey Morgan (Con); Jack Walker (Lab).

WEST AUCKLAND (3): Margaret Douthwaite (Lab); Pauline Fenwick (Lib Dem); John Ferguson (Lib Dem); Colin Mairs (Lib Dem); Andrew Turner (Lab); Christine Wilson (Lab).

WHEATBOTTOM AND HELMINGTON ROW (2): Eileen Gooch (Lib Dem); James Gooch (Lib Dem); Rose Seabury (Lab); Roger Ward (Lab).

WILLINGTON CENTRAL (3): Joe Buckham (Lab); David Horn (Lib Dem); David Kingston (Lab); Alan Sinclair (Lab).

WILLINGTON WEST END (1): Becky Brunskill (Con): Anne Glynn (Lib Dem); Margaret Pinkney (Lab).

WOLSINGHAM AND WITTON-LE-WEAR (2): Kirsty Robeson (Con); Simon Robeson (Con); Vere Shuttleworth; Desmond Wilson.

WOODHOUSE CLOSE (3): Pauline Ferguson (Lib Dem); Charlie Kay (Lab); June Lee (Lab); David Wilson (Lab); Lesley Zair (Lib Dem).