News in Macclesfield

Charlie Coldwell (17) has just finished a work placement with Macclesfield Nub, writing almost ten articles. .

The Macclesfield Broken Cross and Upton councillor has confirmed he won't seek another term - here's why. .

Read this open letter regarding the proposed housing plans on green land in Macclesfield. .

Macclesfield: Volunteering at the Treacle Market will look great on any CV - and further your love for our town.

Shane Warne was rightly regarded as the Einstein of cricket.

When he famously said "Monty you have played one test match 33 times", many people, not least the media, thought he was spot on.

The winning competitive debating team from Macclesfield: (back): Joey Symons, Jordan Kenyon, James Brunt. (front): Georgie Johnson-Greening, Emily Hamand, Katie.

"We are being bombarded daily with shocking news stories about our government Ministers, and those serving them. From illegal, or at least ill-advised, parties to fake news accusations from the dispatch box there seems no end to it."

"As a local councillor I find myself musing on how important is it that as public servants every one of us from the lowest tier of local government to the Prime Minister upholds standards of good behaviour? What does how we behave say to those who put us in office, and what right do we have to make decisions on their behalf without those standards?

The first thing to address about gritting is that no one wants to remove roads from gritting. I remember growing up when it seemed all roads were gritted, including side streets and pavements, with grit bins widely distributed on street corners for people to do it themselves if needed but that's long gone and I wince seeing people struggle to walk down icy paths or cars sliding on residential streets, as it turns out this year has been mild so far but how long will that last?

Years of cost-cutting under the austerity policies of successive Conservative governments must be a coincidence, it's also a coincidence that it's affecting other local authorities in the North. So we need to ask why are some roads being removed now, why the change? It's because winter gritting is now linked to the Well Managed Highways Infrastructure (WMHI) guidance, issued by the government's department for transport in October 2018 after advice from the chartered institute of highways and transport UK road liaison group.

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Yesterday I read our councillors letter and I was shocked how he denied his responsibility and say Riparian rights are basically when your land adjoins a watercourse or has a watercourse flowing through or within it, then you are responsible for it.

Since 2018, Macclesfield residents of Ryle and Hobson Street have had to deal with the stress and worry brought about by the appearance of sinkholes on their streets, but now they can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel.

After being elected in 2019, my fellow Central Ward Councillor Liz [Braithwaite] and I have been relentlessly trying to pry information away from the Cheshire East Council's highways maintenance, provided by a private company Ringway Jacobs who was given a 15-year contract in 2018 under the Conservatives administration.