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The Metropolitan Borough was formed on 1 April 1974 as a merger of the former County Borough of St Helens, along with the urban districts of Haydock, Newton-le-Willows and Rainford, and parts of Billinge-and-Winstanley and Ashton-in-Makerfield urban districts, along with part of Whiston Rural District, all from the administrative county of Lancashire.
Newton-le-Willows racecourse closed down in 1898 and was replaced by Haydock Park Racecourse. The Old Newton Cup is the world's oldest continually competed for trophy, with a history dating back over 200 years. Football has always been an important sport within the town, and Newton-le-Willows had its own club between 1894 and 1908. Newton-le ...
The seat includes the large town of St Helens, noted by visitors for its successful rugby league side and the nearby horseracing racecourse at Haydock Park.Despite these prominent sports venues, workless claimants, registered jobseekers, were in November 2012 higher than the national average of 3.8%, at 4.7% of the population based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian, which was close ...
Newton-le-Willows Community High School was a community school administered by St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council with around 900 pupils. [3] The two schools merged in September 2011 as Hope Academy, now a joint-faith school sponsored by Liverpool Hope University, the Anglican Diocese of Liverpool and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of ...
[10] Between 1894 and 1974, Lowton was part of the Golborne Urban District, in the administrative county of Lancashire. In 1974 as part of the local government reorganisation enacted in the Local Government Act 1972 it became part of Greater Manchester with the boundary at Newton-le-Willows marking the edge of the new county of Merseyside.
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St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council Election Results, 2019 Party Candidates Votes Stood Elected Gained Unseated Net % of total % No. Net % Labour: 16 10 0 4 4 36.4: 14,276 Green: 14 2 2 0 2 24.6 9,651 Liberal Democrats: 6 2 1 0 1 14.3 5,623 Conservative: 16 1 0 0 14.2 5,552 Independent: 1 1 1 0 1 7.0 2,753 UKIP: 3 0 0 0 3.5 1,356
Newton-le-Willows 7 a side Leagues, Keep Football Alive Leagues; Litherland 7 a side Tuesday Evening League, Keep Football Alive Leagues; Bootle 5 a side Tuesday Evening League, Keep Football Alive Leagues; Liverpool Soccer Sixes Wednesday League; St Helens Thursday 6 A Side League; Southport Tuesday 6 A Side League