COLCHESTER One third of council up for election.No overall control. Liberal Democrats provide leader Political make-up in May 2002: Lib Dem 26, Con 24, Lab 6, Tiptree and Wivenhoe Ind 4.

COLCHESTER

One third of council up for election.

No overall control. Liberal Democrats provide leader

Political make-up in May 2002: Lib Dem 26, Con 24, Lab 6, Tiptree and Wivenhoe Ind 4. Now: Lib Dem 23, Con 24, Lab 4, Tiptree and Wivenhoe Ind 4, Highwoods Group 3, Independent Labour 1, Vacancy

Berechurch (1): *Susan Brooks (LD), Sarah McLean (Con), Julia Thomas (L).

Birch and Winstree (1): Audrey Spencer (L), Barry Woodward (LD), *Peter Crowe (Con).

Castle (1): Malcolm Cannon (L), *Kenneth Jones (LD), Walter Schwarz (Green Party), Pauline Lucas (Con).

Christchurch (1): Dave Canning (L), Martin Hunt (LD), *Roger Buston (Con).

Copford and West Stanway (1): Anna Trudgian (L), Anothony Scott-Boutell (LD), *Elizabeth Blundell (Con), Patrick Mead (Ind).

Fordham and Stour Ward (1): Wilma Sutton (LD), *Nigel Chapman (Con), Gary Griffiths (L).

Great Tey (1): Alan Trudgian (L), *Peter Chillingworth (Con), Carolyn Catney (LD).

Highwoods (1): *Ian Ringer (Ind), Edmund Chinnery (L), Alan Hayman (LD), Maris Fuller (Con).

Mile End (1): Jane Chinnery (Ind), *Anne Turrell (LD), Jane Rosehart Smith (L), Mary Hilda Bryan (Green Party), Shahid Naim Husain (Con).

New Town (1): Jane Green (L), *Margaret Fisher (LD), Glenn Bath (Con).

Prettygate (1): Luke Dopson (L), Sandra Gray (LD), *Ron Levy (Con).

St Andrew's (1): *Tim Young (L), Jim Jepps (SA), Jennifer Berriman (LD), Anne Allan (Con).

St Anne's (1): Peter Brine (L), *Barrie Cook (LD), Angus Allan (Con), David Isaacson (Social Alliance).

Shrub End (1): Richard Bourne (L), John Coombes (Social Alliance), Barbara Williamson (LD), *Alan Scattergood (Con).

Stanway (1): John Spademan (L), *Lesley Scott-Boutell (LD), John Reeves (Con).

Tiptree (1): Alan Mogridge (L), *Anne Burgess (Ind), Stella Barnes (Green), Margaret Crowe (Con).

West Bergholt and Eight Ash Green (1): Ian Yates (L), Una Jones (LD), *Jill Tod (Con).

West Mersea (1): Bry Mogridge (L), *Margaret Kimberley (Con), Ronald Baker (LD).

Wivenhoe Cross (2): Paul Bishop (L), Aulay Mackenzie (L), *David Adams (Con), Eugene Kraft (Con), Barry James (LD).

Wivenhoe Quay (1): Stephen Ford (L), *Richard Davies (Ind), Christopher Fox (Green), Kenneth Rogers (Con).

* denotes councillor seeking re-election

Figure in brackets denotes number of councillors to be elected.

Key: Conservative (Con), Labour (Lab), Liberal Democrat (LD), Green Party (Green), Independent (Ind), Socialist Alliance (SA)