THE UK Independence Party has chosen Bob Edwards to be their prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the new Central Devon Constituency at the next general election.

Bob (63) is a former Royal Marines officer, Mid Devon District Councillor and five-times Mayor of Crediton.

In the 2001 general election he stood in West Devon and four years later he stood in the Tiverton and Honiton constituency. Both times he increased UKIP's vote by a considerable margin.

He told the Courier: "Britain has spent hundreds of years struggling to become a self-governing democracy, only for the three traditional parties to throw it all away in the last 40 years.

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