Former mayor, Ronnie Conway-Haskins, says her decision to quit from the Liberal Democrats was nothing to do with the Aztec West consultation - but was entirely down to a misplaced quote.

Councillor Conway-Haskins left the party after a quote, apparently from her, was included in a Lib Dem Focus newsletter - she says the quote was not hers and asked for it to be removed before it was printed.

Lib Dem prospective parliamentary candidate John Kiely told the Examiner that her decision was “strange” and that the councillor had been thinking of leaving anyway.

But Mrs Conway-Haskins told us Mr Kiely had “totally missed the point” and that she quit because she asked for the quote to be removed and it was not.

“The whole essence of my resignation is that he put in a quote, purportedly from me, which I asked him to remove. He failed to remove the quote and now denies that I asked him to.”

Mrs Conway-Haskins added that she did not want to get into a political fight and added that she wanted to do her best for the town.

“I do not believe that a town council should become a political forum and have always used my best efforts to represent the people, irrespective of who they vote for and I will continue to use my best efforts to represent the interests of the people of Bradley Stoke.”