A NEW chairman has been voted in for Middlewich Town Council as two councillors step down for health reasons. Cllr Mike Hunter, Labour, is the third chairman the council has had since last May’s ...

A town council has reclaimed full control of its cemetery following a long-running legal dispute. It has been run for many years by a committee that the local authority said "had managed to separate" ...

AIR quality in Middlewich will come under the microscope after councillors agreed to launch a review. It means Middlewich Town Council will consider buying a new air quality monitoring station to ...

At the town’s annual meeting on Monday, May 8, Cllr Simon Whittaker was duly re-elected by his fellow Middlewich town ...

Middlewich Town Council regained control of the cemetery in 2025 Allegations that graves were historically not dug deeply enough - leading to coffins becoming compressed - are "likely to be accurate", ...

RESIDENTS could soon be given the opportunity to call a referendum if they feel a Council Tax increase is ‘excessive’. But Middlewich chiefs have slammed the Government proposal describing it as ...

MIDDLEWICH Town Council has a new deputy town clerk. Former admin assistant Nicola Antoney has been promoted following the appointment of permanent town clerk Lisa Benskin. Nicola, who has worked at ...

MIDDLEWICH Town Council believes the organisation running the town’s cemetery is doing so without legal authority. Lisa Benskin, town clerk, told councillors last week that she had checked 76,000 ...

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