VOTERS go to the polls on Thursday to decide three council by-elections in Dartford. Matthew Bryant (Labour), Shirley Burton (Conservative), and Mark Croucher (UK Independence Party) are standing for the vacant Joyce Green seat following the death last October of former mayor Len Eaton.

Tony Martin (Conservative) and Stephen De Winton (Labour) are battling for votes to secure the Sutton-at-Hone and Hawley seat left vacant by former Dartford Council leader Malcolm Nothard.

Joseph Coutts (Labour), Brian Ramsay (Conservative), Lisa Hawkins (UK Independence Party) and Roy Glover (Independent) will be campaigning to replace the late John Sandeford who served Fawkham and Hartley on Sevenoaks District Council.

Voting takes place between 8am and 9pm. Hartley residents can use the Longfield and District Scout HQ or All Saints Church Hall to vote. Fawkham's Village Hall will also be used as a polling station.

In Joyce Green, voters should go to the Hut in Trevithick Drive or the St Edmunds Parish Room in St Edmunds Road. Sutton-at-Hone residents can vote at the Methodist Church Hall in Ship Lane while people in Hawley can use the Mission Hall in Shirehall Road.