Letters & Opinion

READER’S LETTER: Memories of the Queen in Crewe

READER’S LETTER: Memories of the Queen in Crewe

Dear Editor,
On June 24 1987, Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the Crewe Rail Heritage Centre.

The Crewe Rail Heritage Festival took place to mark 150th years since the arrival of the first passenger train to stop at Crewe station on the Grand Junction Railway.

September 11, 2022
READER’S LETTER: A message for new PM Liz Truss

READER’S LETTER: A message for new PM Liz Truss

Dear Editor,
My message to new PM, Liz Truss. These are the priorities the PM needs to act on urgently.
1) Freeze energy bills so people can afford to stay warm this winter

September 7, 2022
READER’S LETTER: Crewe most dangerous town in Cheshire

READER’S LETTER: Crewe most dangerous town in Cheshire

Dear Editor,
According to the Crewe 2022 Crime Scorecard:
Crewe is the most dangerous major town in Cheshire. Crime in Crewe is 48% higher than the regional crime rate in the North West. And crime in Crewe is 22% higher than the national crime rate.

August 31, 2022
READER’S LETTER: Local Conservatives taking credit for Labour achievements

READER’S LETTER: Local Conservatives taking credit for Labour achievements

Dear Editor
They say plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery, so it is pleasing to see the local Conservatives seeking to take credit for the achievements of the Labour-led Cheshire East Council.

August 30, 2022
READER’S LETTER: What cost Social Care?

READER’S LETTER: What cost Social Care?

Dear Editor,
As we wait for the outcome of the Prime Ministerial contest, I’ve personally asked both candidates this question; “Cheshire East spends two thirds of the budget on Social Care. How will you support and fund social care going forward?”

August 30, 2022
READER’S LETTER: Geothermal energy will boost Crewe residents

READER’S LETTER: Geothermal energy will boost Crewe residents

Dear Editor,
At a time when everyone is worried about the ever escalating energy prices, it is good news that Crewe residents could be the beneficiary of cheaper clean energy.

August 27, 2022
READER’S LETTER: Caught out by Nantwich restaurant’s parking system

READER’S LETTER: Caught out by Nantwich restaurant’s parking system

Dear Editor
I would like to make your readership aware of the parking system at a bar and restaurant in Nantwich.

Myself and a friend had drinks and a meal at The Townhouse bar & restaurant on Mill Street in Nantwich on a weekday evening in July this year.

August 27, 2022
READER’S LETTER: New fencing erected after four-year battle

READER’S LETTER: New fencing erected after four-year battle

Dear Editor,
After four years of campaigning by Woolstanwood Parish Councillors, the Borough Council has erected a new metal safety fence between the footpath and the drop down to the Valley Brook, in Middlewich Road, near to the Rising Sun public house.

August 25, 2022
READER’S LETTER: Cheshire Police must solve more burglaries and thefts

READER’S LETTER: Cheshire Police must solve more burglaries and thefts

Dear Editor,
In Crewe SW and Wistaston, over a period of three years (6/2019-5/2022), Cheshire Police failed to solve a single burglary.

The best performance locally was Nantwich SW, but even there 60 of the 70 burglaries went unsolved.

August 11, 2022
READER’S LETTER: “Relief and despair” at latest CEC gritting decision

READER’S LETTER: “Relief and despair” at latest CEC gritting decision

Dear Editor
Re: Coole Lane WILL be gritted after CEC reinstates it to winter programme – By Belinda Ryan, 26th July 2022 (Nantwich News)

I read this article with a mixture of relief and despair; relief that at two dangerous routes have been reinstated to the Cheshire East Council’s gritting routes but despair that so many routes have been effectively ignored.

July 27, 2022
READER’S LETTER: Crewe Royal Arcade “Art for Who’s Sake?

READER’S LETTER: Crewe Royal Arcade “Art for Who’s Sake?

Dear Editor,
So Cheshire East Council has commissioned a huge public art piece to adorn the side of the Royal Arcade Bus Station as we were told by a fellow Crewe Councillor at Wednesday’s full Council meeting!

Elected members at the meeting looked bemused – many of us knew nothing about it! (It appears we missed the email sent out late the previous afternoon).

July 21, 2022
READER’S LETTER: Outrage over CEC “verges” letter to Crewe residents

READER’S LETTER: Outrage over CEC “verges” letter to Crewe residents

Dear Editor,
Cheshire East have sent out letters to many Crewe residents asking them to REMOVE the large stones off the grass verges, in front of their homes, within a month, or they will be sent the bill to remove them.

This is an outrage.

July 17, 2022
READER’S LETTER: Why are EU tariffs still in place?

READER’S LETTER: Why are EU tariffs still in place?

Dear Editor,
The UK has import tariffs on oranges, bananas, olives, rice etc., that Britain does not produce domestically.

Why? To protect EU countries, who do produce them, from competition. We left the EU on 31/1/20.

June 30, 2022