ANOTHER Westhoughton councillor has quit the Lib-Dem to join the Conservatives. Town councillor, Carol Kirkman who represents Central Ward, is the latest Lib-Dem councillor to defect to the Tory Party. She said: Today I ve decided to join Westhoughton Conservatives for positive reasons, they are hard working and friendly bunch of people who are genuinely trying to do the best for Westhoughton. I m really looking forward to working Cllrs Martyn Cox and Clle Bernadette Eckersley-Fallon on their plan to stop more house building in Westhoughton and on their strategy to invest nearly £8 million into Westhoughton Town Centre. Her resignation from the Lib-Dem group comes less than two weeks after Cllr Eckersley-Fallon went to join the rival party.