FORMER Dudley Council leader Anne Millward is delighted to have won the Gornal seat for the Tories.

She saw off Labour opponent and deputy leader Stuart Turner by clinching 2,443 votes to his 2,292.

Cllr Millward said: "This is what we've been working for.

"There are a few issues I need to address in my ward, particularly cuts to the budget for potholes and the regeneration of the village and associated issues with parking and the toilets."

She praised her predecessor, saying he had "done a great job for Gornal" but said the "people of Gornal had spoken" and believed the nine years she had previously spent on Dudley Council had gone in her favour.

Mr Turner, who beat Cllr Millward by two votes in 2011, said he was disappointed with the result.

He told the News: "It was always going to be close, it is a marginal seat but I'll be back.

"I'm proud of what I have have done in Gornal and I leave it a better place than I found it in. I live there so I can keep an eye on things."

With the exception of Mr Turner, the rest of Dudley North's Labour candidates comfortably held their seats and Sedgley remained a secure seat for the Conservatives, with Tina Westwood taking the reigns from her father David Caunt.

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