10th November 2017

By Graham Smith

The funeral of former Labour MP and Cornwall councillor Candy Atherton will be at Truro’s Penmount crematorium at 12 noon on Tuesday 21^st November.

Ms Atherton, who had been the MP for Falmouth & Camborne from 1997-2005, and a Falmouth councillor since 2013, died of a stroke while attending a local government conference in Milton Keynes.  She was 62.

Falmouth Town Council has opened a book of condolences.  By-elections, for the Town Council and for Cornwall Council, will be held in due course.