EX-BARRISTER Giles Wingate-Saul sounds just the man to keep a firm grip on proceedings when he chairs a Question Time-style debate in Hawkshead Market Hall on April 10.

All five Westmorland and Lonsdale parliamentary candidates have been invited to take part in the hustings at which the future of threatened GP practices in Hawkshead and Coniston is expected to be one of the key issues raised.

The debate, which starts at 7.30pm, is organised by Churches Together in Hawkshead.