Ballot box THIS year s local elections in St Helens will see several independent candidates running once again. There are currently three independent councillors at the town hall, who are not affiliated to a political party. Independent candidates have risen in prominence in recent years, especially in Rainhill ward, which has seen independents elected at the last two elections, with James Tasker and Donna Greaves displacing the Labour incumbents in 2018 and 2019. Here is what some of the independent candidates standing in 2021 said to the Star about the campaign and the issues they are running on:
Kate Stevenson (Rainhill) My manifesto is simple. To represent the best interests of the people of Rainhill, and to chase long overdue investment in Rainhill from St Helens Borough Council.
Entire contents of house dumped on path near family home This is not a one off chancer, this has been a full man and van job because of the amount that is there
Steve Roden from Rainhill stumbled across a massive amount of rubbish on Cronton Lane that had been dumped on an footpath near a family home (Image: Steve Roden)
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