News that our Tatton MP has voted against a national lockdown this week should come as no surprise to anyone.

The extraordinary spectacle of the Government refusing to fund free school meals during holiday times, as the pandemic rages, must have made many of us marvel at just how often they have found themselves on the wrong side of public opinion, and of what is simply the right thing to do:

Elderly people are reported as having difficulty using the buttons on parking machines

Pandemic - Jonathan Smith says government has failed Cheshire

The Liberal Democrats have adopted Universal Basic Income - UBI - as a policy.  

What's it all about?

 21 local bus services are reported to be under threat in Cheshire East.

The continuing fight to protect vital green space in Longridge  must be won.

East Cheshire NHS Trust Board have extended the suspension of maternity services at Macclesfied until Spring 2021.  They did this at their virtual Board meeting on 3rd September, with no access for members of the public even as observers, and the crucial report on the future of birthing services at Macclesfield Hospital only published hours before –  ruling out any opportunity for written questions.

Maternity services at Macclesfield Hospital were suspended, due to the Covid crisis, until October.  But what will happen after that?  Will they restart, or will the unit close for good?  We don't know and we're not being told...