MANWEB is shutting up shop in Widnes.

The electricity and gas supplier announced on Monday that the Windmill Centre shop would be closed this summer.

MANWEB said the idea had come from staff themselves and said services would improve under new measures.

But Cllr Stan Hill, who runs MP Derek Twigg's constituency office, said: "Derek is absolutely blazing about it."

MANWEB pointed to plans to replace the Widnes office with a number of advice and drop-in centres.

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