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Balancing the budget By far the biggest challenge for St Helens Borough Council in 2020 will be to close a projected £20.4 million funding gap so it can deliver a balanced budget. Senior Labour politicians have been working on budget proposals – described by council leader David Baines as “drastic” – for several months now. The council had originally been developing an emergency budget in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, which saw all of its services come under review. This work has carried into next year, partly due to emergency measures taken at the start of the pandemic ...

Vietnam veteran Jim Savage presented the commission with the formal request Tuesday. “We have been working on this for the past six years, and in the past three or four months, things are falling into place,” Savage said. “The memorial is eight feet wide and five feet tall at its highest peak and three panels.” Military insignia will be placed within the memorial, and it will be professionally placed. “We are looking to start late spring or early summer,” Savage said. “What we need is your blessing and a location to place it on county property.” Savage ...