Question: What’s big and yellow and will be out and about in Huntingdonshire with a reminder to people to go out and cast their vote on 3 May?
Answer: A Huntingdonshire District Council refuse lorry.  Or to be totally accurate – 10 refuse lorries.

Each of the 10 vehicles has been fitted either side with panels running the whole length of them carrying the message: Be counted on May 3 …use your vote….don’t waste it’ to remind voters to go to the polls for the district, town and parish council elections on Thursday 3 May.

They took to the streets of Huntingdonshire’s towns and villages today, Monday 23 April, where Chief Executive and Returning Officer David Monks was there to see them on their way.

He said: “We believe we are one of the first councils in the country to use our refuse freighters in this way. They are out and about throughout the district every day, going into every road and every street and are highly visible, so they are an ideal medium to use to remind people to exercise their democratic right on 3 May to go out and vote.”

There will be elections in 19 of Huntingdonshire District Council’s 29 wards on 3 May this year with 57 candidates contesting the seats listed below. There is one vacancy in each ward.
Brampton, Earith, Ellington, Elton and Folksworth (by-election), Fenstanton, Gransden and the Offords, Huntingdon East, Huntingdon North, Huntingdon West, Kimbolton and Staughton, Ramsey, St. Neots  Eaton Ford, St Neots  Eaton Socon, St Neots  Eynesbury, St Neots  Priory Park, Somersham, Stilton, Upwood and The Raveleys,  Yaxley and Farcet.
    
Elections will also be held in the following towns and parishes:  Abbotsley, Catworth, Earith, Ellington, Grafham, Great Gransden, Huntingdon East, Huntingdon North, Huntingdon West, St Neots Eaton Ford,  St Neots Eaton Socon, St Neots Eynesbury, St Neots Priory Park ,  Spaldwick, Stilton, Stow Longa.

A county council election takes place on the same day in the Little Paxton and St Neots North division.