The Latest Breaking News from Helsby

Sir Keir Starmer faced questions from MPs in Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs), a day before people head to the polls to vote in the local elections and the by-election in the Cheshire constituency of Runcorn and Helsby.

Reform leader hopeful of win against Labour while Tories face losing hundreds of seats in the local elections in England

Sarah Pochin said winter fuel payments should go to those who need it and not those who don’t

The Runcorn and Helsby by-election next month will see both Reform and the Conservatives attempt to overturn Labour’s 15,000 vote majority in the safe seat

IN FOCUS: Having spent the first nine months in power struggling to get a grip on the narrative, a by-election loss in such a safe Labour seat would be a disaster for the party, as Millie Cooke and Harriette Boucher explain

Letters: John Burnell is disturbed by a petition launched by the party’s byelection candidate to close a hotel used for asylum seekers

Sarah Pochin, a former Conservative councillor and mayor for Cheshire East, will be the party’s candidate for the upcoming by-election.

It is expected the contest for Runcorn and Helsby will take place on May 1.

LABOUR have put out an “emergency” call for cash – warning supporters that the party faces “tough choices” about its own funding ...