Young Entrepreneur Investment
The Community Grant giving has been a fantastic success. It was also wonderful to hear from Ali Wheeler on the presentation evening how her Life through the lens project - which Lynn and I had funded...
View ArticleFrodsham Town Council and Frodsham Foundation
We had an interesting debate last night at Frodsham Town Council - and it all related to whether Frodsham Town Council should review an earlier decision it had made to pay the Foundation £11,000. To...
View ArticleCongratulations - Mayor elect Cllr Alan Wales
I'm delighted to announce that, last night Cllr Alan Wales was overwhelmingly elected to be the next Mayor of Frodsham, with Cllr Fran Sutton as Deputy Mayor.As a Council, in early 2012, we chose to...
View ArticleThe Emerging Local Plan - and who really cares about things around here
Today was an important day for all of us in Frodsham, and in fact for everyone in Cheshire West and Chester. Today was the last day on which those who had already commented on Part 1 of the Emerging...
View ArticleShale Gas Conference - NEC, Birmingham
I attended day one of the Shale Gas conference at the NEC in Birmingham yesterday. The conference brought together industry representatives and consultants, government, local government, political...
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Manor House School's Frodsham Show
Its been a glorious day today - an ideal day for Manor House School's Frodsham Show. It was wonderful to see so many people enjoy themselves at the school and especially to see so many people who...
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Driving the future - The Tesla Model S Electric Car comes to Frodsham
Graham Evans MP was invited to test drive the new Tesla Model S electric car and I was lucky enough to tag along and have a go too as the starting point was Forrest Hills. We were shown around the car...
View ArticleAre you pro or anti fracking? Come to the debate Forest Hills Frodsham tonight
'Are you pro or anti- fracking?' is one of those questions that journalists and campaigners use to try and divide people and politicians at the moment. I was posed a very similar question by David...
View ArticleThe renewables and fracking debate Forest Hills last night
The Frodsham and Kingsley Transition Initiative debate at Forest Hills was interesting and thought provoking. Professors Eirk Bichard from Salford University and Professor Peter Styles from Keele...
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Summer sun shine
One of the first books I read my children was a Postman Pat book that started: 'It was a lovely sunny day and...'As is the way of things the repetition of reading the book to the 3 of them has meant...
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Frodsham Governance Review
Well it looks like we've cleared the penultimate stage on CWaC's Governance Review of Frodsham. Tonight the Community Governance Review Committee approved the final recommendations to be made to...
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Super fast Broadband in Frodsham
This will be a momentous week in the Dawson household. Our super fast broadband - boasting speeds of 40Mb per second arrives. With 3 teenagers in the household all with on-line life styles - you can...
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How great thou art! The Royal British Legion's WW1 commemoration concert
Frodsham Community Centre was packed last night for the Royal British Legion, Frodsham Branch's first World War 1 Commemoration Concert. I say first, because given how successful it was our local...
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Townfield Lane Allotments open day
A big thank you to the Townfield Lane Allotments Society for inviting Cllr Lynn Riley and me to their open day. I enjoyed it so much I attended twice - the second time bringing my wife and wearing a...
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Remembering the fallen from World War I
I was very touched to receive a copy St Laurence's booklet on Frodsham's fallen from World War I this morning and have just spent a very reflective half hour reading it. The booklet provides...
View ArticleComprehensive Victory for Conservative Candidate Caroline Ashton
Today was the by-election for Frodsham Town Council's South ward.The result declared earlier this evening was:Caroline Ashton Conservative 229 votes 59.3%Ryan Edgehill...
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Frodsham South By-election Result
Here is the formal declaration of the Frodsham South by-election result from yesterday.A big thank-you to everyone involved in working so hard for Caroline and to those who helped give Caroline and the...
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Downhill Run and Festival in the Park
Wow what a fantastic 6th July in Frodsham. You can forget the Tour de France, the British Grand Prix and the Men's final at Wimbledon. Today was one of those fantastic days in Frodsham when we...
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Christmas 2014 - pledge of Members' Grant support
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Swing Bridge - Proposed Permanent Traffic Regulation Order
The text that follows below is the CWaC formal notice, statement of reasons and accompanying plan proposing a permanent Traffic Regulation Order for the A56 at the Swing Bridge to the east of...
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