Local elections: Lib Dem candidate wins two seats 160 miles apart

A Liberal Democrat campaigner has won assembly seats successful 2 places - which are 160 miles distant from each other.

Chris Twells volition correspond some Tetbury with Upton - a Gloucestershire ward which contains the household residence of King Charles III - and Salford successful north-west England.

Mr Twells volition person to be a gathering astatine each assembly each six months to debar losing either seat.

The Mayor of Salford, Paul Dennett, described Mr Twells arsenic a "paper campaigner successful the Cotswolds" and called for him to "do the close happening and resign" from his Salford seat.