Chard'S Town Clerk Nick Randle has been elected as the first full-time chief executive of the Society of Local Council Clerks.
Mr Randle will leave the town council to take up the role at the head of the professional organisation which represents Clerks from the 9,000 town and parish councils in England and Wales.
He has been Town Clerk in Chard for ten years.
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