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Residents urged to have their say on high speed link
CHESHIRE East Council is urging people to join its conversation on the HS2 high-speed rail link. The authority told the Guardian it understands that people want to know what this means for them and for their communities and wants them to help shape
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Walkabout offers chance to see town’s potential
MEMBERS of North Knutsford Community Group welcomed Adrian Fisher, Cheshire East’s Strategic Planner and Housing Manager, for a morning tour on Wednesday last week. Walking the areas of North Knutsford that may be developed in the near future gave
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Please don’t stop the 27 bus service
I AM writing to ask Centrebus to please reconsider the plan to stop the No 27 bus service from going round Bexton Road and Beggar Man’s Lane, (Guardian, February 6 edition). There are many people who cannot drive anymore for various reasons, including
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HS2 is luxury for a small number
IN the Guardian edition of February 6, our MP George Osborne compares the HS2 project with the railway through Knutsford and the M6. The Knutsford line serves both passengers and every useful freight service transporting limestone to the chemical
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HS2 will bring immense benefits
IT was wholly understandable to read of the alarmed reaction of affected local residents in relation to the High Speed 2 announcement (Knutsford Guardian, January 30 and February 6). It is vital that those whose homes, businesses or farms are affected
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We call on council to change plans
THE newly-published Cheshire East Development Strategy, which is now open to consultation, has interestingly earmarked even more green belt land to the north of Knutsford for housing and employment use. The northern green belt site, referred to
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No HS2 interest from private sector
MUCH is made of the argument that HS2 is the biggest investment in railway infrastructure since Victorian times. This purposefully neglects to mention that the Victorian investment in railways was private money, not taxpayers’ money. If the business
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Let’s get a Tatton candidate now
SO once again George Osborne has dropped his Cheshire constituency in the mire by letting the HS2 rail link run straight through rural Cheshire, then has the gall to say he had no say in the matter. He goes on to say the impact will be minimal.
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Crews tackle High Legh barn blaze
AN electrical fault caused a wooden barn to catch alight in High Legh on Monday evening. Fire crews from Knutsford and Stockton Heath attended at 7.49pm and found the barn ‘well alight’. Two hose reel jets and a main jet were used to fight
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Harry Styles takes centre stage at the BRITS
HOLMES Chapel’s Harry Styles and his One Direction pals were some of the stars of this year’s BRIT awards. The group performed their Comic Relief single — a mash-up of One Way Or Another by Blondie and The Undertones’ Teenage Kicks – on ITV last
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Estate company: Save lifeblood of community
AN estate company has called on the future of the 27 bus to be secured after describing it as the ‘lifeblood’ of the community. Henry Brooks, from Tatton Estate Management, said: “While we appreciate budgets are tight, the 27A bus service is the
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Firm deals another blow to bus users in Knutsford
BUS users in Knutsford and the surrounding villages have been hit with another public transport blow after a bus firm decided to withdraw a popular service to Macclesfield. Centrebus – the company operating the 27 service between the two towns
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Vikings make promising start
KNUTSFORD’S Vikings secured second spot behind hosts Trafford Metro at the calendar year’s first Peaks Plains League meeting last weekend. They sent 37 swimmers to the gala, aged from nine through to 17-years-old, including a host of debutants