BROADWAY Parish Council will be back on track now eight candidates have come forward to become parish councillors in the May 1 election.

The Code of Conduct which forced the disqualification of 11 councillors and left the parish council with only two members has not deterred candidates.

The two existing councillors, David Folkes and Fred Penny, will continue to serve, and Rod Bryant, who refused to sign the Code of Conduct last year and was disqualified from the council, is back.

Morris Andrews, although currently chairman of Willersey Parish Council, will become a Broadway councillor because he lives within the area boundary.

Councillor Andrews was first elected to Broadway parish council in 1951 and served for 14 years before becoming a district councillor for Evesham Rural District Council.

He will now return to the council and could also stay on at Willersey Parish Council if he is re-elected.

Other Broadway residents who will become councillors are Linda Ordan, Red Haslam and Joyce Measures, as well as Robert Banks, of Buckland.

All of the parish council seats are uncontested so the eight volunteers will automatically become councillors after the May election.