Chester MP “delighted” about support from the Postcode Lottery to tackle social isolation
CHESTER MP Chris Matheson attended the presentation of a cheque for £20,000 from the Postcode…
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Debenhams to host a tea party with Chester MP and Leader of the Council, to celebrate 90 years of equal voting rights for men and women
Monday 2nd of July marks the 90th anniversary of the 1928 Representation of the People…
MP hosts big coffee morning for carers
Chester MP, Chris Matheson, has organised Chester’s biggest coffee morning at Storyhouse on Friday 15th June…
Update on River Dee sewage discharge
Chester MP Chris Matheson has confirmed that long term action to tackle the sewage discharge…
MP’s football competition raises £1,000 to fight poverty at Christmas
A football competition organised by Chester MP, Chris Matheson, has raised one thousand pounds towards…
Chester MP Deeply Concerned About Local Fire Cuts
New Home Office figures show that cuts to Cheshire’s fire and rescue service have seen…
Chester MP Limbers Up For A Festive Fundraiser
Chester MP, Chris Matheson, is preparing his team of MPs ahead of this week’s Football For…
A Labour Government Will Stop Fracking In Cheshire West And Chester
The message from Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy could…
MP calls for greater access to city police
Chester MP, Chris Matheson, has called upon Cheshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner to prioritise better…
Blog posts
Parliamentary pub of the year
In the last couple of weeks, I have been running a public poll on my Facebook page to choose the best pub in Chester. Each year, MPs are asked to make a nomination for the Parliamentary Pub of the Year and I thought this would be a good way to…
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Out of bounds
Much of the talk in Westminster this week has been about the new parliamentary constituency boundaries, published by the Boundary Commission on Monday. But even as they have been revealed, there are some doubts they will be adopted. There are two main flaws with the proposals. The first is that…
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Cuts have consequences
News last week that Torbay Council in Devon has become the fourth council in England to declare emergency financial controls will come as no surprise. Many readers will have seen that Northamptonshire County Council has effectively gone bust and is now being run by Commissioners appointed by the Secretary of…
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Super Trees Steve
Steve Hughes is an industrial chemist from Chester. He is also a runner – a serious runner. Steve organises the Park Run every Saturday morning in the Countess Country Park, where up to a hundred runners of all ages and all abilities take part whether to compete against their own…
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100th anniversary of women having the right to vote
Parliament, indeed the whole country, has been celebrating the 100th anniversary of women having the right to vote. In fact, in 1918 it was only women over 30 who could vote, and it took another decade, to 1928, for the age that women could vote to be equalised with that…
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Reflections on the Armed Forces…
For the first thirty years of my life, Northern Ireland was ever present. Every night on the news would be more depressing stories of bombings, brutal sectarian killings, or British soldiers being shot and often killed themselves. For younger generations, we still need to explain the background to this: decades…
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