By Stephen Topping
Seven sticking points in Cheshire are being highlighted on HS2 Ltd’s to-do list – but a leading opponent says it is nothing more than a ‘marketing tool’
The company behind the project came under fire from Antoinette Sandbach, MP for Eddisbury, for failing to provide visual designs of the planned rolling stock depot in Wimboldsley, between Winsford and Nantwich.
Tarporley Sixth Form students took part in their own hustings debate with the five main election candidates for Eddisbury.
Sixth formers, staff and governors watched the debate involving Antoinette Sandbach (Con), James Laing (Lab), Ian Priestner (LD), Andrew Garman (Green) and Rob Millington (UKIP).
Eddisbury Conservative MP Stephen O’Brien is to step down and take up a top job at the United Nations.
Mr O’Brien, who has represented the constituency which includes many villages around Nantwich since 1999, will be in charge of humanitarian affairs and emergency relief at the UN.
Green Party members have selected Dr Andrew Garman to stand in the Eddisbury constituency at the General Election.
Garman, 61, is semi-retired scientist and lives in Ashton Hayes village, in the north of the constituency.
Eddisbury MP Stephen O’Brien is holding a surgery for constituents this Friday April 26 at Bunbury Village Hall. The MP is keen to speak to anyone who wishes to raise issues affecting the local Bunbury community area.
A couple who run a local butcher were invited to Parliament after winning through to the Countryside Alliance national annual awards. Mark and Claire Burrows, of Bunbury, near Nantwich, made it through to the final after winning the “butchers” category in the North West competition.
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