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A V howitt πŸƒπŸ’šπŸƒ retweeted
Vote Rainhill Independents this Thursday 7th May #wearerainhill #rainhilltogether @AvcHowitt @rocketsrainhill @Tasker4MP
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A V howitt πŸƒπŸ’šπŸƒ retweeted
Keep it local this Thursdsy 7th May Vote RAINHILL INDEPENDENTS @Tasker4MP @rocketsrainhill @AvcHowitt
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Thank you so much your swift action. It's great when local clubs and amenities WORK TOGETHER with residents concerns over muddy boots. Great piece of proactive grass toots football care πŸ‘ @rocketsrainhill @Tasker4MP @ParishRainhill #triggersbroom
πŸ‘€ @Donna4Rainhill asked We did High visibility boot cleaning stations (technical termπŸ˜‰) at every exit Don't clean boots outside neighbours houses please @ParishRainhill @AvcHowitt @Tasker4MP πŸ’ͺ Up the Rainhill βš½πŸ˜‚
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Birthdays at Rainhill Rocket FC at the Holt ❀️🍰 Football family Community @ParishRainhill @Tasker4MP @Donna4Rainhill It's what we do
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Good to have @ParishRainhill at Holt tonight discus parking & future plans In a few years gone from damp left to rot for 40 years mess to fantastic sustainable maintenance free @FootballFoundtn signed off the last works commented how have we achieved so much with a small grant
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⚠️ IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THIS YEAR'S LOCAL ELECTIONS FOR RAINHILL ⚠️ ⚫️ CHANGE OF POLLING STATION Trinity Church, Longton Lane βœ…οΈ Longton Lane Primary school ❌️ Rainhill Scout Hut (Deepdale Drive)βœ…οΈ St Ann’s Millennium Centre (View Road)βœ…οΈ Find your polling station | Where Do I Vote? Click here πŸ‘‡ share.google/XZIpPa1ReuaVXUC… ⚫️ NO PHOTO ID - NO VOTE PLEASE REMEMBER TO TAKE YOUR PHOTOGRAPHIC ID WHEN VOTING ON 7TH MAY 2026 Click here to check πŸ‘‡ Voter ID - St Helens Borough Council share.google/wSDCjrBKf6OHReN… For more information about all aspects of the LOCAL elections, click here πŸ‘‡ Elections and voting - St Helens Borough Council share.google/Eduq55aIt3XUHIf… @rocketsrainhill @Tasker4MP @ParishRainhill @DeeGee100 @RainhillSOGB @RainhillLibrary #WeAreRaRainhill #RainhillTogether #7thMay * Promoted by James Tasker, Flat 2, Ran Lea, Mill Lane, Rainhill, L35 9NH on behalf of Rainhill Independents
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A V howitt πŸƒπŸ’šπŸƒ retweeted
The Rainhill Independents effect What was inherited What stage were at now All for very little Β£ @Tasker4MP @Donna4Rainhill @AvcHowitt β€οΈπŸ‘
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A V howitt πŸƒπŸ’šπŸƒ retweeted
It's my absolute honour to announce I am standing again for Rainhill Independents as a full Ward Cllr with @Tasker4MP and James Dunn in May 2026 I will also be standing for Rainhill Parish Council - New in NORTH ward with 4 other absolute belters who are committed to making Rainhill a better place πŸ’™β€οΈ More news to follow... #WeAreRainhill #RainhillTogether #7thMay2026
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We have been working for 4 years with a group of volunteers, at first, to try and save the library from closure and then to try and take on the former library building. Our aim is to set up a community library that can also act as a community hub to bring Rainhill Together again
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There's got to be a documentary on @netflix about this because you just could not make this up....it's an incredulous story but its not a story, its real life. This needs to serve as one of those planning quotes "has Astley due diligence been adhered to" so any future monumental fuff ups like this cannot be repeated. Much support and admiration to those impacted and please do not ever go quiet because that's how these things are allowed to just go away and be forgotten about @astleyaction
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And here we are again!!! While council tax is set to rise by 4.99%, COUNCILLOR'S BASIC RENUMERATION quietly rose by a further 3.22% to Β£9,400 for 2025/26 Again, as an Independent, I will not be accepting this and my renuneration will remain at the pre 2024 rate of Β£8,236 before that was massively increased by the contraversial 10.58% uplift. At the time, Council Leader Baines went on the attack at being challenged, saying Rainhill Independents were "stealing a living" and if anybody didn't deserve an increase, it was us, while he encouraged all his Labour Cllrs to take the increase. Ironically, David Baines is now an MP on an MPs salary plus expenses but he may have also felt a pang of concience at our challenge back because he was the only Labour Cllr (to my knowledge) that followed our lead and did not to take the increase, which you could say smacks of "do as I say, not as I do" Since April 2024, James and I, as true Rainhill Independents, have not taken the increase, still fulfilled our duties and been visible week in, week out, working hard in not only our ward but our commitments at the town hall on behalf of Rainhill. Therefore, that increase has remained within the council coffers and budget towards essential services across St Helens for the last 2 years. It may only be around Β£1700 each but between us, that's Β£3400 that we have refused to take. There were another 45 Cllrs in St Helens in the same position who all had the same decision to make, take it or leave it in the budget. While the majority took it, some of our other Independents in St Helens (Terry and Karl in NLW), took it on the proviso to specifically use within their ward on their own projects AS Rainhill Independents THAT IS SOMETHING WE COULD ALSO CONSIDER NOW AS IT ONCE AGAIN RISES BY A FURTHER 3.22%. So it's over to YOU Rainhill, what would you like us to do as your elected members? *Discussion now open..... Click here for the original 2024 postπŸ‘‡ facebook.com/share/p/1CBm7Z9… *please keep debate polite and respectful @Tasker4MP @ParishRainhill
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We've had nothing but positive help from current Parish council When problem of stop cutting open spaces happened professional politicians we turned to MP's etc ,for help towed party line &stayed away. The independents were there for our part of the community every minute
How did Rainhill Independents start? They started with a passion to protect our greenbelt and green open spaces in Rainhill. @RainhillSOGB However, they soon evolved into wanting better for EVERYBODY in Rainhill with a desire to see @sthelenscouncil politics become more open, honest, transparent and accountable. They were not manufactured, parachuted in, driven by a national party, they were born of community spirit and respect for where we live. Being Independent doesn't change a general election result because May 7th 2026 IS NOT A GENERAL ELECTION, ITS A LOCAL ELECTION, to determine who will have the best interests of Rainhill at their heart. It's NOT about "numbers for Nigel" or a "kicking to Kier" it's about your voice in Rainhill being heard in St Helens Town Hall amongst 5 NATIONAL political groups, driven by their own central agenda, not a Rainhill agenda. This is NOT a general election, it's local, so vote for the people that represent you locally that are not whipped how to act for the following of their national party/group, they are there to solely represent YOU and Rainhill. @Tasker4MP @ParishRainhill @RainhillLibrary #thinkindependent #voteindependent #weareRainhill #RainhillTogether #LOCALELECTIONS #May7th
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Replying to @LiverpoolWYFL
@LiverpoolWYFL Hi if you get any enquiries from people looking to start a women's team we would love to have a women's team and have quality pitch and facilities and would back a team as @rainhillfc women
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Vets team progress is flying Sponsor secured RFR Motors on Warrington road and kit ordered
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Wow Our @MerseyPolice sponsored trophies for team mate of the year for each age group
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Replying to @the3saints
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We held a lovely service this morning to mark the twinning of Rainhill with Latour-en-WoΓ«vre in France and to remember Rainhill airman 2nd Lt Thomas Alfred Jones who was shot down and killed over Latour-en-WoΓ«vre in WW1. The villagers buried his body and still tend to his grave.
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Replying to @LocalSolutions_
Pic of final of club fun day all different age kids mix Parents commented a real community feel Combined with Local Solutions we enable & employ teenagers. Refereeing especially is great confidence builder, this particular one can be too confident 🀣 Sent off the Santa Forward 😱
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Mondays on the Holt We've got Development boys recep-yr2 Wild cats girls recep-yr3 Girls team training yr4&5 U11 match Keeper training by open age keeper for all the junior keepers One club ⚽πŸ’ͺπŸ‘ŒπŸ»πŸš‚πŸš€
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