About ten years ago I did a programme for one of the national BBC radio programmes about the problems of being a young councillor. Clearly, I was not at the time a young councillor. Although I like to think of myself as young at heart chronologically I am knocking on a bit!
However the BBC had sussed out that at one time I was the youngest councillor in the UK. In 1975 I got elected at the age of 22 and four months. This was, of course, at a time when you could not stand for election until you were 21.
