CONSERVATIVE party chairman Eric Pickles went on a walkabout in Crewe this morning (Tuesday) with local Tory candidate Edward Timpson.

Mr Pickles, who was behind Mr Timpson’s 2008 by-election campaign, was in Crewe to back the Conservative’s bid to retain the Crewe and Nantwich seat which they snatched from Labour two years ago.

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