CONGLETON Borough Council is the richest authority in the country, yet it will not fund a swimming pool for Middlewich, a councillor has claimed.

Borough Clr Russell Watkinson believes that Congleton borough has a huge stash of money from the sale of its council houses to private company Dane Housing.

And he is urging the authority to use this money to pay for a swimming pool in the town.

At a town council meeting last Monday, Clr Watkinson said: "Even the poorest borough councils in the country provide swimming pools for their town. We are sick of funding other swimming pools in the borough."

Councillors agreed to send a letter to the borough expressing their feelings.

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