  == Borough status ==  When the borough was created in the Local Government Act 1972....  Borough status in the United Kingdom suggests that, alone among all the metropolitan districts created in 1974, as a result of the Local Government Act 1972, Sefton did not become a borough.  The three former boroughs, Bootle, Crosby and Southport had charter trustees created to maintain their borough and mayoral status, which were abolished when the metropolitan district was granted borough status the following year, in 1975.  Why Sefton was treated differently to every other metropolitan district, I haven't a clue.  No can I find any confirmation of this elsewhere.  Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council's website suggests that Sefton was a metropolitan borough from day one, and this is reiterated here.  However, on the list of past mayors, the absence of any mayor for the period from the district's inception in 1974 until 1975 suggests, that the Borough status article is probably correct.    