By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Former Crewe and Nantwich MP Laura Smith has said she will not be standing as Labour’s parliamentary candidate at the next general election.
Ms Smith won the seat from the Conservatives in 2017, beating sitting MP Edward Timpson by just 48 votes after three recounts.
The refurbished flagship Queens Park has been unveiled by Cheshire East Council.
The unveiling ceremony was watched by local dignitaries including mayor of Cheshire East Council, Cllr Sarah Pochin, mayor of Crewe Town Council, Cllr Tom Dunlop, local MP Dr Kieran Mullan, and children from Edleston Primary School.
Politicians and business leaders across Cheshire have welcomed the launch of a competition to find the home of the new Great British Railways HQ and have backed Crewe to clinch the honour.
The town has been featured in the competition announcement video with broadcaster Michael Portillo championing.
The Crewe to Manchester leg of HS2 has moved one step closer as the legal process in Parliament to allow it to go ahead gets underway.
Crewe and Nantwich MP Dr Kieran Mullan and HS2 project champion Pete Waterman toured Crewe station to mark the occasion with new Rail Minister Wendy Morton MP.
Crewe and Nantwich MP Kieran Mullan is thought to be among a group of Tory MPs considering submitting letters of “no confidence” in Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
It’s believed Dr Mullan attended two meetings today and yesterday as part of the so-called “pork pie plot”.
Crewe and Nantwich Conservative MP Kieran Mullan is being urged to air his views on the Downing Street lockdown parties as pressure grows on Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
A number of Tory MPs have now publicly declared they have written to the chairman of the 1922 Committee to say they have no confidence in the PM.
Stapeley councillors say funding has been secured for a new Puffin crossing on the busy Peter de Stapleigh Way.
It comes just weeks after a schoolboy was hit by a car using a drop-down kerb crossing.
Crewe and Nantwich MP saying voting for a change to a planned Environment Bill outlawing sewage dumping is not financially practical.
Dr Kieran Mullan hit back at critics who blasted him and other Tory MPs who voted against a bid to amend the Bill to stop water companies dumping sewage in streams and rivers.
Dear Editor,
None of us likes the thought of sewage in our rivers and on our beaches. It’s disgusting to look at, smelly and unhygienic.
It appears, however, that our MP, Keiran Mullan, disagrees with that, and presumably thinks that raw sewage in our rivers and coastal waters isn’t that bad.
Tory MPs in Cheshire have welcomed the new Budget announcements – but business leaders have given it a mixed response.
Conservatives say Rishi Sunak’s Budget will help level up the North West, building on investments made in Crewe and Nantwich like the £22.9 million for a Town Deal and £14 million from the Future High Streets Fund.
Staff shortages are being blamed for delays facing patients trying to get through to a Nantwich doctors practice.
Scores of patients have taken to social media to complain about Kiltearn Medical Centre in recent days.
Crewe and Nantwich MP Dr Kieran Mullan has hit out at the lack of progress on making car parking charges across Cheshire East fairer.
Users of car parks in Nantwich and Crewe are currently charged for car parking, and face some of the highest charges in the borough.
Council chiefs say they will carry out a “further review” of a controversial crossing in Nantwich where a teenage boy was injured by a car earlier this week.
The 17-year-old Brine Leas student was using the drop down kerb crossing over Peter de Stapleigh Way when he was hit by a car.
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