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Tyldesley councillor moves away to live in Yorkshire but insists he can still serve voters in the town
A Tyldesley councillor has moved away from the town he represents to his family home in Yorkshire for "personal family reasons".Coun Stephen Hellier, who is the chairman of the planning, licensing and regulation committees at Wigan Council, made the move earlier this year.Coun Hellier said in a statement: “I am happy to confirm that earlier this year I moved home from Tyldesley to live in Yorkshire."The move was not ‘kept secret’ and was necessary purely because of personal family reasons."I strongly refute the suggestion that I have ‘abandoned Tyldesley’.