Hi Marged, all my husbands relations have a CH postcode wherever they are on the Wirral Peninsula - says I - very carefully - in case Gordon is reading. Personally I couldn't care less what my postcode is. I just wish we were recognised as belonging to some area! Your couisin can get a bus pass here - but not as good a one as you get - which also I don't think is fair - but there you go - that's councils for you - now don't get me going on that tack! Jackie I have a cousin who lives in either Great or Little Sutton, and she is pleased with the fact that their post code is CH and not L, but if she was a little way further towards Liverpool she would get a free bus pass (maybe she doesn't want one, but I am so pleased I have a Merseyside address! Of course, lost of Southport people would prefer to be in Lancashire rather than Merseyside, but not me! Marged