Leigh just a small town in Wigan... No independance they should start calling themselves Wiganers they already have Wigan post codes Wigan phone numbers and the Wigan council stadium

If your Council Tax bill comes from Wigan Council you live in Wigan.

It's just a matter of which part of Wigan you live in, i.e. Newtown, Aspull, Hindley, Standish, Whelley, Ince, etc.

By the way Local Government Reorganisation came in on the first of April 1974.

Good to now you are here Standish lad (not in Wigan) it was in fact 1972 'Act'.

I was born in Newtown which was in the then County Borough of Wigan, Standish was a separate UDC with it's own council.

The "Act" may well be 1972 but it only came into being on the first of April 1974 when all County Boroughs and UDCs ceased to exist. Wigan became a Metropolitan Borough, made up of 14 former local authorities, of which Standish is one.

Wigan Council send me my Council Tax bill and empty my bins, or they should do, this is the second week they've missed! Here, you don't work on the bins do you?

They could have called it anything, they just named the Metropolitan Borough after the largest town. This doesn't always happen, Bootle, which is a large town, comes under Sefton, a small village. They called them whatever they thought would sound the best. Leigh is not a part of Wigan but the local council is called Wigan. Wigan had previously been a county borough meaning that while still in Lancashire it had it's own council which worked seperately from Lancashire County Council