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Metropolitan Borough of St Helens
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| Metropolitan Borough of St Helens | ||
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| Geography | ||
| Status: | Metropolitan borough | |
| Region: | North West England | |
| Ceremonial County: | Merseyside | |
| Historic county: | Lancashire | |
| Area: - Total |
Ranked 221st 136.38 km² |
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| Admin. HQ: | St Helens | |
| ONS code: | 00BZ | UPRN prefix= 39 |
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| Population: - Total (2006 est.) - Density |
Ranked 85th 177,600 1302 / km² |
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| Ethnicity: | 98.8% White | |
| Politics | ||
| St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council http://www.sthelens.gov.uk/ |
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| Leadership: | Leader & Cabinet | |
| Executive: | Liberal Democrat / Conservative | |
| MPs: | David Watts, Shaun Woodward | |
The Metropolitan Borough of St Helens is a metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England. It is named after its largest town, St Helens, though covers a much wider area which includes the settlements of Newton-le-Willows ,Earlestown, Haydock, Rainhill, Eccleston, Clock Face, Billinge and Rainford.
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The Metropolitan 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, all from the administrative county of Lancashire.
Between 1974 and 1986 the borough council shared functions with Merseyside County Council. The functions of this body were in part devolved to the boroughs and in part transferred to ad hoc agencies.
The borough borders the borough of Knowsley, within Merseyside, in the south-west, the West Lancashire district of Lancashire in the north, the Greater Manchester borough of Wigan in the north-east, and to the south the unitary authorities of Warrington and Halton.
On 17 May 2006, following local elections held on 4 May, the political control of the Council changed from the Labour Party to a coalition formed by the Liberal Democrats and the Conservative Party. Labour had been in power since 1 April 1974 following the first elections to the shadow council in 1973.
- St Helens Celebrity News
- St. Helens MBC
- Earlestown Historical Website
- Newton-le-Willows Historical Website
- St. Helens Rugby League Football Club Website
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| Metropolitan districts | City of Liverpool • Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley • Metropolitan Borough of Sefton • Metropolitan Borough of St Helens • Metropolitan Borough of Wirral |
| Cities/Towns | Bebington • Birkenhead • Bootle • Crosby • Formby • Great Crosby • Halewood • Heswall • Hoylake • Huyton • Kirkby • Liverpool • Maghull • Newton-le-Willows • Prescot • Rainhill • Southport • St Helens • Wallasey • Whiston See also: List of civil parishes in Merseyside |
| Rivers | Alt • Dee • Mersey |
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