CANDIDATES for wards in the Leigh area are: ASTLEY MOSLEY COMMON: Ian Michael Davies (Green Party), Joseph Haley (Liberal Democrat), Glynnis Rhian Hogg (Lib-Dem), John Lea (Labour), John Keith Stackhouse (Lib-Dem), Alan Stephenson (Lab), Brian Malcolm, Wilson (Lab).

ATHERLEIGH: Mark Aldred (Lab), Ann Davies (Conservative), Susan Loudon (Lab), Francis Joseph Myler (Community Action Party), Patricia Mary Myler (CAP), Anne Turnock (Lab), Gladys Wilkes (CAP).

ATHERTON: Karen Aldred (Lab), David John (Lib-Dem), Reginald Holmes (Lab), Philip Loudon (Lab), Andrew Philip Moore (Lib-Dem).

GOLBORNE LOWTON WEST: Gerard Martin Bretherton (Lab), Peter Ramsey Franzen (CAP), David Kelly (Lab), Rosina Oxley (Conservative), Peter Antonio Solinas (CAP), Kevin Vincent Williams (CAP), Dorothy Joan Angell (Cons).

HINDLEY: David Joseph Culshaw (Independent), James Ellis (CAP), Dorothy Edna Grace (CAP), John Holland (Lab), Edward Noel Houlton (Community Action Party), Stephen Murphy (Lab), Alfred Robinson (Lab).

HINDLEY GREEN: Robert Brierley (CAP), Barry Jack Fagan (CAP), Gordon Stanley Jackson (Lab), John Phillips (Lab), William Stanley Simmons (Lab), John Melville Vickers (Ind), Andre John Paul Walker (Cons), Adele Wilkes (CAP).

LEIGH SOUTH: John David O'Brien (Lab), Andrew John Oxley (Cons), Charles Rigby (Lab), Janice Susan Solinas (CAP).

LEIGH WEST: Daniel Phillip Burrows (CAP), Richard James Moreton Close (British National Party), Ian Kristian Franzen (CAP), Barbara Jarvis (Lab), Yvonne Lavelle (CAP), Peter Richard Charles Smith (Lab), Myra Joan Whiteside (Lab).

LOWTON EAST: Christine Margaret Cottam (Lab), Ian Alexander Franzen (CAP), James Nelson Grundy (Cons), James Atkin Lavelle (CAP), Jeanette Leigh (Cons), Lynne Liptrot (Lab), Alan James Lowe (Cons), Jonathan Miller (CAP), Eric Joseph Waterworth (Lab).

GOLBORNE LOWTON WEST: Gerard Martin Bretherton (Lab), Peter Ramsey Franzen (CAP), David Kelly (Lab), Rosina Oxley (Conservative), Peter Antonio Solinas (CAP), Kevin Vincent Williams (CAP), Dorothy Joan Angell (Cons).

HINDLEY: David Joseph Culshaw (Independent), James Ellis (CAP), Dorothy Edna Grace (CAP), John Holland (Lab), Edward Noel Houlton (Community Action Party), Stephen Murphy (Lab), Alfred Robinson (Lab).

HINDLEY GREEN: Robert Brierley (CAP), Barry Jack Fagan (CAP), Gordon Stanley Jackson (Lab), John Phillips (Lab), William Stanley Simmons (Lab), John Melville Vickers (Ind), Andre John Paul Walker (Cons), Adele Wilkes (CAP).

LEIGH EAST: Keith Cunliffe (Lab), Derek Davies (Cons), Natalie Leila Franzen (CAP), Brian Jarvis (Lab), Peter O'Connell (CAP), Frederick Bown Walker (Lab), Stuart Winstanley (CAP).

LEIGH SOUTH: Kevin Anderson (Lab), Stephen Ellison (CAP), Irene Linda Franzen (CAP).

TYLDESLEY: David Allen Boydell (Lab), Richard John Derricutt (Lib-Dem), Richard Evans (Lab), Stephen John Hellier (Lab), Neil Hogg (Lib-Dem), Keith William McManus (Lib-Dem), Deborah Ann Woodcock (Cons).