Greens choose teachers to fight elections
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16 March 2005
THE Green Party now has two candidates standing ready to fight the forthcoming General Election, both of them local teachers.
Newly chosen to fight the Torridge and West Devon seat is twice Mayor of Bideford Peter Christie.
Mr Christie, 54, is a lecturer in geography and family history at the North Devon College and also a lecturer for the Open University.
In 1985 he was elected as Bideford's youngest-ever Mayor and the first Green mayor in Britain. He is currently wearing the mayoral chain for a second term.
A longstanding member of both Bideford Town and Torridge District councils, he stood in the European Parliamentary elections in 1989 and came second, beating both the Lib Dem and Labour candidates.
Mr Christie lines up alongside Ricky Knight, earlier chosen to represent the Green Party in the North Devon constituency.
Mr Knight has been a Green Party member for more than 20 years.
Born and bred in Barnstaple, he is a teacher of foreign languages with 25 years experience and is a well-known local musician.
Mr Knight is also a local councillor.
He said: "As a founding member of the North Devon Peace Council, I have been active in the anti-war movement for more than 20 years, but it was the illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq that drove me to seek political representation, and in May 2003 I became the first elected Green Party councillor in the North Devon constituency and am now proud to represent the Newport ward on Barnstaple Town Council.
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