Councillor Fran McElhone

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Fran McElhone is one of three ward members for Exmouth Halsdon on East Devon District Council; elected on December 4th 2025. She is a journalist, photographer, writer, editor and author. She has extensive experience covering a broad spectrum of subjects including local politics, health and social care, the military, crime, education and issues-based human interest stories. She is passionate about journalism providing a voice for people, its power to shine a light on injustices, holding authority to account, and telling otherwise untold stories with empathy and integrity. She runs multi-media agency www.liminalmedia.co.uk

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  • Yellow Powwow

    Yesterday, myself and Suzanne, the new LibDem Town Councillor for Exmouth Halsdon, met up with longstanding town/district councillor Tim Dumper, and our social media guru and dedicated activist, Elaine, after our by-election win a few weeks ago, early December. Tim suggested the powwow because we’re brand new council members and he wanted to check we…

  • Where is all the infrastructure?

    Why isn’t any infrastructure mentioned in the East Devon Local Plan 2020 – 2042?! This is a good (and obvious) question emailed to me by a concerned 84-year-old resident of my ward of Exmouth Halsdon over Christmas and one which I was keen to get to the bottom of. On the face of it, if…

  • East Devon Local Plan 2020 – 2042

    The first thing I’m doing as a new ward member for Exmouth Halsdon is to get up to speed with the Local Plan… Here are some basics in the hope it helps you get your head around it: Every district council creates a Local Plan which sets out the vision for development across its district.…

  • Last full council meeting of 2025

    The last full council meeting on Wednesday 10th December was my first as a ward member for Exmouth Halsdon. Not my first council meeting! When I was East Devon News Editor for the Express & Echo between 2020 and 2015 I attended many, many council meetings, mainly at town and district level. Key takeaways from…

  • Hello!

    I am very happy and grateful to have been voted to represent the residents of Exmouth’s Halsdon ward. Thank you to all those who voted for me yesterday. Winning the by-election was a team effort by the hard-working Exmouth LibDems and we’re very happy we’ve held on to the LibDem seat at EDDC and to…