Makerfield voters give verdict as Burnham launches campaign - 'He's a local lad - I just think he'll win'

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Retired teacher Alison Myler is yet to make up her mind on how to cast her vote in next month’s Makerfield by-election - but Andy Burnham comes highly rated. One of the 64-year-old’s friends taught the young Burnham at a local high school. “She speaks very highly of him,” she told The Mirror in the blazing sun on Gerard Street in Ashton-in-Makerfield. “She said he was a very diligent student, well behaved and had a good family - so that’s a good a recommendation as any.” It’s a story that