Bradley Stoke Town Council could change its policy over advertising councillor vacancies after a position was only advertised in the ward rather than online.

The Bradley Stoke Journal has reported that Caroline Charlton has stood down from her Meadowband seat but the vacancy has yet to appear on the council’s website.

Press spokesman John Ashe has told the Examiner: “The legal requirement is only to advertise the vacancy on notice boards throughout the parish which was done, so no notice was posted on our website.

“However I do think that we should in future advertise vacancies on the website as the parish notice board ruling has obviously been around for decades before the invention of the web.”