The results are in from yesterday's Sully and Lavernock Community Council election and Kay Bowring (Sully Ward), Robert Lang (Sully), and Robin Lynn (Lavernock) have emerged as your new councillors.

Turnout was a moderate 29% in Sully and 19% Lavernock.

Cllr Bowring received 687 votes, Cllr Lang 624 and Cllr Lynn 101.

This means they defeated the other candidates by a considerable margin.

The defeated Andrew Smith received 226 votes, Graham Newton 109, and Robin Smith (Lavernock) 52.

The SLCC has a troubled and scandalous past, and the election has attracted much attention.

Here's what your new councillors had to say when Nub News spoke with them this morning:

Cllr Kay Bowring

Cllr Bowring Kay Francis Bowring is a retired secondary school teacher and has lived in Sully for 38 years.

She resigned in the spring of last year amidst allegations of bullying and an altercation between fellow councillors that took place on Sully Sports Field.

Speaking on her triumphant return to the SLCC she said:

"Bob (Lang) and Robin are good men. I feel far more positive now than I have done before.

"We need to make sure we are acting on behalf of the residents. Having been on the council and seeing how some have behaved, I just want to put it behind us and move forward.

"Now we can push things through for the right reasons and 'those two' will be marginalised."

Here Cllr Bowring is referring to a faction within the council but refuses to name names.

"The time spent in meetings on stupid arguments - that's got to go and now it will because the majority of councillors now all think in a similar way."

Cllr Robert Lang

New to politics, Cllr Lang used to work for Western Power, becoming a Power Policy Manager.

He has been a founding member of the sailing club in Sully since 1976, and says he will draw on this managerial experience to bring the Council together.

"I've very glad and am celebrating really," he told Nub News this morning.

"I must admit, I've notice in the last few years the arguments and breakdowns within the Council. There has been much more in-fighting than there should ever be for a council to go forward.

"With my experience with committee work, hopefully I can bring some management skills to the committee meetings and hopefully pull the factions together.

"I want to be a calming influence and to bring it together. I want to talk people around and take the softy softy approach.

"I've dealt with a number of awkward characters over the years and you have to use different tacts for different people."

Cllr Robin Lynn

Robin Lynn is a retired Civil Servant who has lived in Sully since 1985.

He says his primary aim in standing is to ensure that Lavernock gets the voice it needs, now and in the future.

"I am very gratified and encouraged by the result and it means I'll have to get out there and make good on the expression of confidence they've put in me.

"I think it is something we need to put behind us by whatever processes necessary.

"Whether the personal relationships can or cannot be healed is too early for me to say."