A senior county councillor has left his role after a vote that saw elections postponed. Conservative Bill Borrett, who was responsible for public health at Norfolk County Council, announced he had left the cabinet on Friday.

Kent County Council has voted to press on with sweeping local government reforms which will include a directly elected mayor

The meeting, which took place on Thursday afternoon, discussed the plans and went in favour of the government's Devolution White Paper. The government announced in December it would would like to reorganise how local government works and do away with district and county councils in favour of unitary authorities,

A council has voted to ask the government to postpone the local elections in May and fast track the county for devolution. A government Devolution White Paper, published in December, outlined plans to scrap two-tier councils and replace them with strategic authorities - and an overseeing mayor.