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3 JULY 2024 Visit our website: www.independentnewspapers.co.uk 10% off your first order of Compatible Cartridges I left an extra bag next to a public bin as my bin was full. I got fined £400. Anika my responsibility The dumped rubbish in Sale is Your waste is your responsibility. Make sure you dispose of your rubbish correctly. “ “ held since 1918, for the first time with a majority of over 9,000. The shocks didn’t end there. Congleton, which had only ever returned Conservative MPs to Parliament, also went to Labour, with a massive 21.6 per cent vote swing. The results meant electoral defeats for two long-standing Cheshire Tory MPs – David Rutley inMacclesfield and Fiona Bruce in Congleton. The Conservatives did man- age to hold on to Tatton, but sitting MP and government minister Esther McVey saw her majority slashed to just 1,136. In Crewe and Nantwich, Labour’s Connor Naismith won the seat with a 9,000 majority over Conservative Ben Fletcher. Macclesfield, once considered one of the safest Tory seats in the country, saw an 18.6 per cent swing to Labour, with TimRoca elected as its new MP. The new MP for Congleton is Sarah Russell, who overturned a Conservative majority of 18,000 to win the seat by 3,387 votes. In his victory speech Tim Roca said Macclesfield was “turning the page” on 100 years of one party representing it in Parliament. He said he “will work his socks off” to repay the trust of Cheshire sees Red! Out: Defeated Tory David Rutley voters and declared that Labour had “offered something that peo- ple could believe in.” l Continued page four In: Macclesfield’s new Labour MP Tim Roca (Photo credit: Tim Roca) HESHIRE was rocked by a political earthquake on General Election night as Labour made historic gains in seats once considered rock solid Conservative. The political map turned from blue to red with some historic results as the party took Mac- clesfield, a seat the Tories had