Five candidates are set to contest a by-election for the seat of former council leader Jean Stretton after her sudden death.
Labour representative Ms Stretton died in September while serving as a councillor for Hollinwood ward, the area she had represented for 19 years in two stretches of service.
She had also held the role as leader of the town hall for two years from 2016 to 2018, becoming the first woman to take on the leadership in the borough’s history.
