Diary understands the life of a councillor can be a difficult one, but quitting less than a day after the polls closed must be some kind of record.
It was not the stress and burden of office that caused Peter Groucott to resign from his seat on Silloth-on-Solway Town Council, but the discovery he had been declared as among the winning candidates in error.
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