Council Leader in line to be the ‘last first citizen’.

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25^th March 2008

 At a full meeting of the Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council on the 23^rd January, it was agreed that Cllr. Brian Silvester will be proposed as Mayor at the Annual Council meeting in May. The Borough Council is due to be abolished and replaced with the Cheshire East Unitary Council in April next year so Cllr. Silvester will be the last Mayor of the Borough.

Councillor Silvester, aged 56, was first elected to the Borough Council in 1976, representing the Shavington Ward. He now represents the Willaston Ward.  He has been a Borough Councillor for 27 years. He was born in the house next door to the Churches Mansion in London Road in Nantwich and is proud to be a Dabber. He attended the Manor Road Primary School in Nantwich and then attended the Nantwich and Acton Grammar School in Welsh Row. He has lived and worked in the Borough all his life and lives at Shavington House Farm.  Councillor Silvester cut his political teeth as Chairman of Nantwich Young Conservatives before he was elected to the Council.  He has been the Leader of the Conservative Group three times and Leader of the Council twice. From 1995 to 1998, Cllr Silvester attended Staffordshire University where, as a mature student, he gained a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honours in Business Studies and Politics.

Now ready and willing to be the Borough’s ‘last first citizen’, Councillor Silvester wants to build on the growth, prosperity and dynamism that have become features of Cheshire’s fastest growing Borough in recent years. He said:  “It is a great honour that my colleagues have put me forward to be Mayor.  I am really excited at the prospect of seeing this Borough continue to grow and prosper as we move into the next phase of our evolution.  We now have our own rapidly developing academic sector which includes a prospering University and we are home to the world’s finest motor car.  We have a long tradition of excellence anchored in our rail engineering heritage and we have a beautiful rural hinterland.  Nantwich is a delightful historic market town and we make pretty good cheese too!” 

“It is sad that the Borough Council is coming to an end after 34 years, but we must be positive and ensure that Crewe and Nantwich takes up its rightful place in the new Council and that local residents do not lose out.  The Borough Council is being abolished but I am sure that our Borough will go from strength to strength.  I am determined that the Borough Council will go out in a ‘blaze of glory’.”

(1)  Councillor Silvester’s website can be found at –

http://www.crewe-nantwich.gov.uk/your_council/councillors/silvester/home_page.aspx

(2)  Councillor Silvester can be contacted by telephone on – 01270 567757

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