75,000 people off voter rolls

The Electoral Enrolment Centre has removed more than 75,000 people from the rolls for the October local authority elections.

It is warning voters they have until Friday to get enrolled in the normal way and will need special voting papers after that.

The centre's national manager, Murray Wicks, said that during the six-week enrolment campaign a record 75,159 people had been removed from the rolls and 32,351 new enrolments had been processed.

People are taken off the rolls when their forms are sent back from their old address and the centre does not know where they have moved to.