what year are you starting your full time then?.....bear in mind wigan, leeds and widnes were full time in the late 80's

I live under the wigan borough but have a mancunian post code. Still in the council so inside the boundry.

Wigan weren't.

Get your facts right. You've still got about another 40 pots to win before you catch us up.

Newton-le-Willows is in Warrington.....after we dumped it

...... at how this thread epitomises the parochial nature of RL!!!!

Following local government reorganisation in 1972 (local goverment act 1972), Newton le Willows Urban District became part of the St.Helens Metropolitan Borough. Newton has never been in the Warrington borough. Before it was in St.Helens it was in it's own urban district.
A 'postcode' is something created by the Royal Mail to help them deliver your letters.

A 'borough' is a local authority area. A council area.

Newton le Willows is a PLACE which is in the Warrington POSTAL AREA and in the St.Helens LOCAL AUTHORITY / COUNCIL AREA.

It's in Winwick PARISH and in Liverpool DIOCESE.

It's in Merseyside, but it's not at the side of the Mersey!

But - Primarily - It's called Newton le willows!

Hindley Green is in Hindley, Ince is Ince. Whelley is classed as Wigan I'll give you that. If the council turned around tm and said your area now falls under St. Helens council you woudn't then say you were from StHelens surely? Thats what some are implying here.

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