During the consultation phase, local councils

Under concerted pressure to quit the House of Commons, Amesbury - who lost the Labour whip after he was arrested last autumn and has since been sitting as an independent MP - agreed to stand down.Runcorn and Helsby includes the towns of Runcorn, Frodsham and Helsby, as well as various villages and a significant rural area.

In total, 22% of the constituency is classed as a built-up area, 60% rural and 14% as water or wetland.It has a population of 93,520, with 21% of residents under 18, 57% aged 18-64 and 21% over 65.Runcorn and Helsby is a new constituency that was only created in time for the general election in July 2024.

More than half of it (51.2%) came from the former constituency of Weaver Vale, with 37.1% from Halton and the remainder from three other former constituencies - Ellesmere Port and Neston, Eddisbury, and City of Chester.At the 2024 general election, Amesbury won Runcorn and Helsby for Labour with 52.9% of the vote, a majority of 14,696.

Reform UK came second with 18% of the vote, ahead of the Conservatives on 16%, the Green Party with 6.4%, and the Liberal Democrats with 5.1%.

Two smaller parties received 1.4% between them.She recently got diagnosed with ADHD - attention deficit hyperactivity disorder - which has helped her understand why she found her A-level revision period so difficult.

Emma says she sometimes finds it hard to focus until a deadline is drawing closer."I need the pressure - but I also hate it because I get so stressed and so burnt out so easily," she says.

Emma also says she sometimes struggled to get started with revision - even though she wanted to do it - because of how her ADHD affects her ability to start tasks, and organise revision sessions into manageable chunks."I think there's a lot of shame and guilt, because I thought I was being lazy," she says. "You feel really rubbish about yourself. Then when I get really overwhelmed I get headaches."