Concerns that the British National Party was intending to target Maryport in next month's local elections have been confirmed.
BNP candidates will contest two Allerdale council wards in the town, including Ellenborough, which is held by husband and wife Martin and Janice Wood - the parents of teenage anti-BNP fighter Jonathan Wood.
They are being challenged by former town resident Martin Wingfield, who edits the BNP magazine, Freedom.
His wife, Tina Dorothy-Rose Wingfield, will fight the Ewanrigg ward, standing against sitting member Carni McCarron-Holmes and Carl John Holding, a Labour candidate who wants to replace retiring councillor, Pat McCracken.
The BNP is also fielding a candidate at Broughton-St Bridget’s, which takes in Great and Little Broughton, Brigham and villages around Cockermouth.
Nigel Williamson, a Great Broughton resident, will stand there against Tory hopefuls Adrian Paul Davis-Johnston and Eric Nicholson and Labour candidates John Ardron and Kenneth John McDonald.
Last month the BNP claimed it would not be standing in any Cumbrian constituency.
Paul Stafford, the BNP's Cumbria chairman, is to contest the Wigton seat. He is standing against Labour's John Crouch, independents George Scott and John Armstrong and Alan Hortin.
Times and Star
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