Linda has lived in Bexley since 1972 with her husband and two daughters and four grandchildren. All were educated in Bexley schools and all still live in Bexley.

Councillor Nigel Betts is widowed, with a grown up family and formerly worked in the field of computer security.

He was first elected in May 1974 and has served on most Council Committees. He is currently Vice Chairman of the Places Overview & Scrutiny Committee.

Brian has lived in Bexley for over 40 years having moved from East London looking for a good place to live and bring up a family. He now has grandchildren attending school and nursery and his own children are happy living in Bexley.

Bexley has been her home town now for the past 43 years and she has two daughters living locally. It is important to Christine to continue to ensure Bexley remains a safe place to live with good schools and opportunities, particularly as her grandchildren attend local schools and nursery.

Sybil has lived and worked in Bexley since 1966 and retired from teaching in 2009 after a 42 year career.

Christine has lived in the London Borough of Bexley since 1988. She currently lives in Bexleyheath. She has three adult children who went to local primary and secondary schools and works as Head of Department in a local Academy school teaching Foreign Languages.

Val has lived a great deal of her life in Bexley and that experience, combined with engaging regularly with residents on their doorsteps and through monthly surgeries means she understands what matters to her residents allowing her to represent their views.

John has lived in the new West Heath Ward all his life and will continue to work hard to keep it a place that all of it's residents love to live in; looking after our parks and open spaces, improving our roads and pavements and keeping it clean and safe.

Louie has lived locally all his life and is passionate about protecting and improving our local area and community.

Having lived and worked in the borough for many years John has an understanding of what’s important to those living & working locally and has tried to represent that over the 12 years he has been a Councillor.

Sue lives in Bexleyheath and has been a Bexley resident for 34 years. She is married (her husband manages a local charity) has 3 children and a grandson.

Steven has lived in the heart of East Wickham with his wife and son since 2004 and was an East Wickham Councillor between 2009-14. He can often be seen in the Ward walking his Beagle dog, Boris, or on the daily school run.

Howard was born in Devon and has lived and worked all over the UK in the last 10 years. But after getting married to his wife he decided to move here to Bexley.

Geraldene is proud to have lived in Crayford her whole life – in fact she is the sixth generation of her family to be able to call themselves ‘Crayfordians’ – and she is married with four grown up children & 9 grandchildren.

Caroline has been a local Councillor since May 2010. Over the past eight years, she has been proud to represent the area in which she has lived for many years. She went to Hillsgrove Primary and Townley Grammar schools and still lives in Welling to this day.

Teresa has been a Bexley Councillor since May 1998 and has been the Leader of the council since May 2008. She was also formerly the Deputy Leader and a Cabinet Member for Children’s Services & Education.

Eileen has been a Bexley resident for over 25 years living in Barnehurst.

She first became a Councillor in 2010 for Crayford Ward and then in Barnehurst Ward where she lives when one of the seats became vacant in 2014.

Philip has lived in Bexley almost all of his life and his married and has 2 daughters both of whom attended local schools.

Peter is married to Irene and has 5 children, 16 grandchildren and 1 great grandson. He's lived in Bexleyheath for all but five years of his life and for the last 15 years in the West Heath Ward.

Melvin is self-employed within the Building Trade having moved to the Borough nearly 40 years ago. His wife was born in Crayford and works for the NHS. His children attended St. Paulinus Infants School.