A council is set to write off a £67,250 business‐rates debt after a soap manufacturer collapsed owing more than £229,000 to creditors, including employees and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). Flintshire Council’s cabinet met on Tuesday to consider cancelling the outstanding debt owed by Westminster Worldwide Trading, which entered liquidation in February 2025. The company, which produced handmade soap products from premises on Minerva Avenue at Chester Employment Park, had operated from the site f