CANDIDATES for the 2003 South Ribble Borough Council elections:

(All wards have two seats available, except the Longton and Hutton West ward, which has three.)

Bamber Bridge East ward: William Kirkwood Chisholm (C), Stephen Hawkins (The Idle Toad), Margaret Eileen Livesey (C), Barbara Ann Bridget Nathan (The Idle Toad), James Owen (L), David John Watts (L).

Bamber Bridge North ward: David Elliott Banks (L), Stephen Bennett (L), Carol Ann Chisholm (C), Julie Mullineaux (C).

Bamber Bridge West ward: Renee Noreen Blow (The Idle Toad), Thomas George Hanson (L), John Michael Higgins (The Idle Toad), Collette Nuttall (C), Brian Patrick Pemberton (L), George Woods (C).

Broad Oak ward: Harold George Hancock (Lib Dem), David Howarth (Lib Dem), Alistair Michael Woollard (C), Linda Rose Woollard (C).

Charnock ward: Dorothy Ann Gardner (C), Melvyn Gardner (C), Robert Russell Taylor (L), Michael Thistlewaite (L), Adrian Underwood (Independent).

Coupe Green and Gregson Lane ward: Warren Lee Bennett (The Idle Toad), Rita Harrison (L), Roger Paul Messenger (C), Thomas Edward Sharratt (The Idle Toad), Derek Victor Walmsley (C), David Woolridge (L).

Earnshaw Bridge ward: James Alan Aspden (C), Dorothy Jean Eastham (C), William Evans (L), Peter Louis McClelland (L).

Farington East ward: Andrew John Bennison (L), Nigel Bluck (Lib Dem), Colin Robert Cookson (L), Christine Harrison (Lib Dem), Dylis Hayton (C), John William Michael Otter (C).

Farington West ward: Mark Lindsay Alcock (Lib Dem), Marian Derbyshire (L), Thomas Derbyshire (L), Judith Alison England (Lib Dem), Philip John Smith (C), Brian David Whitlock (C).

Golden Hill ward: John Neville Talbot Edwin (Lib Dem), Jean Fell (C), Georgina Lewis (L), Frank Redfern (C), Matthew Tomlinson (L).

Howick and Priory ward: Marjorie Barbara Askew (C), Leonard Thomas Read (Lib Dem), Mary Josephine Robinson (C), David Charles Shaw (Lib Dem).

Kingsfold ward: Frank Almond (C), Andrew Milne Gardner (C), Howard William Gore (L), James Patten (L).

Leyland Central ward: Charlotte Louise Ashworth (Lib Dem), Malcolm Philip Barker (C), Clifford Dawber (L), Dorothy Foster (Lib Dem), Agnes Gwilliam (L), Edith Anne Sayer (C).

Leyland St Ambrose ward: Derek Bradshaw Forrest (Lib Dem), Nancy Anne Morris (C), Neva Orrell (Lib Dem), Donald Smith (L), Brian Walmsley (L), Dorothy Joan Webster (C).

Leyland St Mary's ward: Simon Butler (L), John Geoffrey Demack (C), Jeffrey Henry Knowles (Lib Dem), Michael McNulty (C), Raymond Mellor (Lib Dem), Michael John Titherington (L).

Little Hoole and Much Hoole ward: Colin Coulton (C), Marie Garratt (Lib Dem), Marion Hancock (Lib Dem), David Harry Suthers (C).

Longton and Hutton West ward: Martin Peter Cassell (Lib Dem), Colin John Clark (C), Geoffrey Neil Garratt (Lib Dem), Jonathan Hesketh (C), Jane Helen Marchant (Lib Dem), Peter Gareth Rogers Stettner (C).

Lostock Hall ward: Doreen Maud Baines (Lib Dem), Robert Alan Baines (Lib Dem), Kathleen Beattie (C), Donald William Parkinson (C).

Lowerhouse ward: John Anthony Barnes (C), John Derek Clement (C), Michele McGrath Edwin (Lib Dem), Fred Heyworth (L), Joseph Anthony Kelly (L), Christine Leeming (Lib Dem), Ronald William Taylor (Independent).

Middleforth ward: David John Bretherton (L), Gaynor Bretherton (L), William Gerard Bryce (Lib Dem), Rosemary Holding (C), Doris Pimblett (Lib Dem), David James Ross (C).

Moss Side ward: Anne Brown (L), Michael Anthony Green (C), Rita Hughes (C), James Barry Minall (L).

New Longton and Hutton East ward: James Edmund Jeffrey Breakell (C), Margaret Rose Smith (C), Marilyn Roberta Sumner (Lib Dem), Nicholas Andrew Sumner (Lib Dem).

Samlesbury and Walton ward: David William Lyon (L), Peter Mullineaux (C), Michael Nathan (The Idle Toad), Frances Walker (C), Christine Linda Lillian Watts (L), Barrie Yates (The Idle Toad).

Seven Stars ward: Doreen Mary Baker (C), Donald James Harrison (L), Alan Frederick Ogilvie (C), Brenda Joan Wilson (L).

Tardy Gate ward: Joseph Clifford Hughes (C), Mark Thomas Livesey (Lib Dem), Kenneth Wilson Palmer (C), Peter John Stringfellow (Lib Dem).

Walton-Le-Dale ward: Harold Clarkson (C), Graham Davies (L), Graham O'Hare (C), Christopher David Watts (L).

Whitefield ward: Vernon Baker (C), Marie Elizabeth Fryer (C), Anthony Edward Pimblett (Lib Dem), Timothy Francis Chilton Young (Lib Dem).