Paul has been married to Sonya for 20 years and they have 2 children, Amy and Jonathan.  Besides being a Councillor Paul is an LEA governor at Cledford Infant & Nursery School. He started working in the region in 1998 and moved into Middlewich in 2000. Paul joined the Army in 1976 serving with the Royal Engineers for 12 years and on leaving has worked in the Construction Industry ever since, with some of the major companies in the UK, latterly as a Project Manager.

He is presently working at Shell Oil Refinery in Stanlow on some of their major projects and has his own website http://www.pauledwards.org