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23
Jan
Tory mayoral candidate Keane Duncan is to spend 100 days in a campervan touring North Yorkshire in the run-up to polling day.
Mr Duncan issued a press release today saying he would be "surviving on army-style ration packs and sleeping in the wilderness" in a bid to "demonstrate he will be a mayor for every corner of England’s largest county".
He added he would continue to fulfil his duties as the Conservative councillor in charge of highways on North Yorkshire Council, and had left his job as a journalist at the Daily Star.
Mr Duncan started his tour at the county’s western-most extremity, at the last house before the border with Lancashire, near Bentham this morning (January 23).
He will aim to visit 1,000 communities by May 2 in his Peugeot Partner Tepee, nicknamed ‘Peggy’.
He said:
Keane Duncan in Harrogate
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