Former Bunbury ward councillor Sarah Pochin has won the Runcorn and Helsby by-election for Reform UK by just SIX votes.
Ms Pochin, who was Conservative councillor and then Independent councillor on Cheshire East, was declared the winner earlier this morning after Labour ordered a recount.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cash-strapped Cheshire East Council is spending a whopping £203,000 on a specialist agency to recruit top bosses to vacant posts.
The information was revealed in a freedom of information request from a member of the public.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Plans to use a field at Walgherton near Nantwich as a dog exercise paddock have sparked objections from neighbours and the parish council.
Steve Newman has applied to Cheshire East Council for permission to use part of a field at Ballaglass, off London Road, as a fully enclosed paddock for members of the public to exercise their dogs.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Councillor Janet Clowes is stepping down as leader of the Conservative group on Cheshire East Council due to ill health.
The Wybunbury councillor was rushed to hospital last month after she collapsed and was unconscious for some time.
by Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East Council claims introducing evening and Sunday parking charges will not involve any additional cost for the council to enforce.
The controversial charges are due to come into force on council-owned car parks on May 26, together with a hike in prices.
Crime in Cheshire has dropped for the third year running, according to latest figures.
Statistics compiled by Cheshire Police suggest crime decreased in the county by nearly 2% (-1.7%) in 2024-25 with 77,791 crimes recorded in the past 12 months, compared to 79,152 in 2023-2024.
Cheshire East Council has appointed a new executive director of children’s services.
Dawn Godfrey, who was previously strategic director children and families at Rutland County Council, will take up the role as permanent executive director of children’s services.
Patients in Crewe and Nantwich are to benefit from a new state-of-the-art hospital after the Department of Health and Social Care rubber-stamped hundreds of millions of pounds of funding to redevelop Leighton Hospital.
Health Minister Karin Smyth has confirmed funding available for schemes in the first wave of the New Hospital Programme, including Leighton Hospital.
A Nantwich resident has called for work on limiting or preventing traffic on a busy town centre route to be speeded up.
Neil Dodd appeared before Nantwich Town Council requesting an update on discussions around potentially pedestrianising Pillory Street and Hospital Street in the future.
Nantwich councillors have voted to uphold a decision to sack their Town Crier for misuse of social media.
The decision comes despite a petition presented to the council last week with more than 100 signatures calling for him to be reinstated.
Nantwich Town Council has voted to end its lease of “Brookfield Hall” which one councillor said has “fallen into disrepair”.
The hall, off Shrewbridge Road and next to Brookfield Park, was used as the town council administration centre for many years.
A Nantwich petitioner made an impassioned speech to councillors, calling for the re-instatement of the Town Crier Dev Hobson.
Jean Thayre said without him, the town had lost its “sparkle” and “magic”.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Councillors have called for Cheshire East Council to look at how it delegates decision-making to officers following an angry backlash over the location of mobile tips and the hike in parking charges and hours.
Cllr Sue Adams (Con) has called for the whole process to be looked at so changes like the introduction of Sunday and evening parking charges cannot just be “sneaked through” by officers as a delegated decision.
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