Taken from the official websiteThe club is delighted to announce that Andy Burnham MP, currently the Shadow Secretary Of State For Health, and the Member Of Parliament for Leigh since 2001 has accepted the honorary position of Vice President of Leigh Centurions.
"Since those worrying times when I was at the Fans Forums and the club was in deep trouble, I have been doing my bit behind the scenes and am much encouraged with the progress made thus far," said Burnham.

"I don't see this as just a title - I want to be really involved and help the club go as far as it can. The Board has worked tirelessly and the rescue plan I think can really deliver."

Keith Freer, Leigh Centurions Chairman added;

"This is another important step for us and we value Andy's wise counselling, advice and mediation skills. Whilst we don't think we will be able to totally convert Andy from his beloved Everton, he is a true lover of sport and at least his son has started playing the greatest game. Welcome aboard." [/i

My suggestion would be to hand over the running of the stadium to LRLFC - I believe we WOULD run it for less cost and generate more income. After all there was no debt on the building of it.
My understanding is that the loss includes the sports centre etc - so the 20/30000 local council tax payers will be paying on average £12-18 per annum to have the facility in town. What does it cost to have a library, parks, Town Hall, Councillors Expense etc ??????????????? I pay a lot more to suppoort NHS, Education and policing per annum and I dread to think what it costs me to support the whiplash brigade and no win no fee lot via insurance.

So Mr Short/ Tin Tinfocus on areas we do waste money on a big scale and not coppers to offer the town sport/education and recreation for 30p per week.

The guys a pri*k looking for support willing to make stupid comments to attract any fool who will listen.

Was he the cabin boy for Captain Pugwash ? Mind you my dad always said that cartoon was full of double meanings and refused to let my mam watch it in case she became over frisky He did like his darts though which has nothing to do with it.

In answer to the original post however it might be because he is a former Minister of Sport who does not travel to the House of Commons by taxi unlike our current Chancellor of the Exchequer who does not live too far from Warrington.

Loads of urban myths surrounding Pugwash - all wrong!!
There were never characters called [i'Roger the cabin boy', 'Master Bates', or 'Seaman Staines'[/i........and the series was not canned because the ship was called [i"The Black Pig"[/i, and it offended the PC brigade!!

Don't believe everything the internet (or your Dad!)tells you!!

Rainbow - now is that famous last show still on youtube ????

Just type in last rainbow episode and enjoy true kids entertainment