There’ll be fewer people to vote for in Castletown after the commissioners voted to cut their own numbers.
At the board’s last meeting, Kevin Weir put forward a motion to go from a board of nine down to seven.
His motion was approved by commissioners and will see the Island’s ancient capital make the changes in four years time.
Kevin says there are still some hoops to jump through before that:

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