BY now every home in St Helens should have received their copy of St Helens First together with the free pen which the council feels we all need.

What intrigues me is that, whilst the council is equally split between Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrats, only Labour Politicians, both local and national, appear in this publication. In this edition we have no less than six photographs of the leader of the Council.

Are we moving towards a one party state with control of the press?

MR ROTHERAM via e-mail, (address supplied).