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| Borough of St Helens | |
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| Geography | |
| Status: | Metropolitan borough |
| Region: | North West England |
| Ceremonial County: | Merseyside |
| Area: - Total | Ranked 221st 136.38 kmē |
| Admin. HQ: | St Helens |
| ONS code: | 00BZ |
| Demographics | |
| Population: - Total ( 2002 est.) - Density | Ranked 82nd 176,720 1,296 / kmē |
| Ethnicity: | 98.8% White |
| Politics | |
| St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council http://www.sthelens.gov.uk/ | |
| Leadership: | Leader & Cabinet |
| Executive: | LabourThe Labour Party is a centre- left or social democratic political party in Britain (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdom's three main political parties. Under its leader Tony Blair it won a landslide in the 1997 general election, and forme |
| MPsThis is a list of MPs elected to the House of Commons for the Fifty-Third Parliament of the United Kingdom at the UK general election, 2001, arranged by constituency. New MPs elected since the general election and changes in party allegiance are noted at: | David Watts, Shaun WoodwardShaun Anthony Woodward (born October 26, 1958) is an English politician, and Labour member of Parliament for St Helens South. He was elected as a Conservative MP for Witney at the 1997 election, having previously been a senior official. He was a front-ben |
St Helens is a metropolitan borough in Merseyside, North West England. It is named for its main town, St Helens. Other settlements in the borough include RainfordRainford is a village in the north west of England, just north outside of the town of St. Helens in Merseyside. It has a population of approx. It is well known for its industrial past when it was a major manufacturer of clay smoking pipes. It was also a l.
The borough was formed on April 1, 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 .
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