'I'm voting for you, I hope you can sort my side entry out.'
This promise - and the humble request that comes with it - is aimed in Alan Gibbons' direction by a passing woman as he pounds the streets he has called home for the past three decades. Originally from Warrington, Alan - or Cllr Gibbons - has lived in the Orrell Park area of north Liverpool since 1994 with his wife Pauline.
It's a compact community of well-kept terraced houses that were predominantly built for workers in the nearby Bootle Docks during its rapid expansion in the mid-19th Century. Formed on a raised hillock, Orrell Park rises up above the nearby Walton Prison on one side and the border with Sefton on the other.
