CANDIDATES for this year's groundbreaking council elections in Hyndburn have been announced. Voting takes place on May 2.

For the first time since the council was formed in1974 every seat is up for grabs after boundaries were redrawn in a bid to make wards roughly the same size. Normally, only a third of councillors are elected at once. Total number of councilors will be cut from 47 to 35.

NOMINATIONS:

Altham (two seats): Alison Gabryszak (Con), David Myles (Lab), Miles Parkinson (Lab), Janet Storey (Con)

Barnfield (two seats): Anthony Dobson (Con), Wendy Beatrice Dwyer (Lab), Derek Scholes (Con), Stephen Walsh (Lab)

Baxenden (two seats): James Dickinson (Con), John Griffiths (Con), Ian Stewart Mason (Lab), Anne Patricia Ormerod (Lab)

Central Ward (two seats): Sardar Ali (Lab), Siddique Mohammed Kazi (Con), Abdul Ghafar Khan (Lab), Alma Joan Pilkington (Con)

Church (two seats): Jean Battle (Lab), John Armstrong Broadley (Lab), Edmund Hogan (Con), Marion Raynor (Con)

Clayton-le-Moors (two seats): John Fitzgerald Kennedy Burke (Lab), John Cooper (Ind), Timothy Aidan O'Kane (Lab), Angela Lesley Taylor (Con), Michael Taylor (Con)

Huncoat (two seats): Elsbeth Anne Mills (Con), David Parkins (Lab), Patricia Anne Scholes (Con), Brendan John Shiel (Lab)

Immanuel (two seats): Dennis Baron (Lab), Sandra Katherine Hayes (Con), Jean McNeil Lockwood (Con), Edwina Colette McCormack (Lab)

Milnshaw (two seats): Gordon John Mills (Con), Ian James Ormerod (Lab), Malcolm Eric Pritchard (Lab), Paul Kennedy Travis (Con)

Netherton (two seats): Adele Atkinson (Con), Keith Hargeraves (Con), Mohamed Altafur Rahman (Lab), Susan Armstrong Shorrock (Lab)

Overton (three seats): Peter Clarke (Con), Winifred Margaret Frankland (Con), Brenda Haworth (Lab), David Mason (Con), George William Slynn (Lab), William Robert Whittaker (Lab)

Peel (two seats): Derek James Barden (Con), John Trevor Cunliffe (Con), Bernard Dawson (Lab), Graham Peter Jones (Lab)

Rishton (three seats): June Butler (Con), Stanley Horne (Con), Winifred Lesley Jackson (Lab), Frances Patricia Molloy (Lab), Gerald Roy Newton (Lab), Ann Scaife (Con)

Spring Hill (two seats): Pamela Barton (Lab), Paul John Barton (Con), Edith Dunston (Lab), Abdul Qayyum (Con)

St Andrew's (two seats): Peter Britcliffe (Con), Maurice Cowell (Lab), Brian Walmsley (Con), Dorothy Westell (Lab)

St Oswald's (three seats): George Ernest Griffiths (Con), Douglas Hayes (Con), Gary Jones (Lab), John Patrick Stephen McCormack (Lab), Leonard Geoffrey Neil (Lab), Brian Roberts (Con).