MORE than £1 million of investment is coming to Cheshire West’s rural bus network.

CHATTY children at Weaverham Primary Academy have enjoyed special ‘friendship groups’ to help them catch up on some fun missed during lockdown.

THE owners of Wharf Cottage in Weaverham have received rousing support from neighbours over their plans to demolish and rebuild an exact replica of their home.

SIX men have pleaded guilty to stealing thousands of pounds worth of items from supermarkets across the UK.

JUST over 50 new cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed in Cheshire on Monday, March 15.

A MOTORIST was taken to hospital with head injuries after his car left a motorway on the outskirts of Chester.

NEARLY a quarter of care home staff in Cheshire West and Chester have not been vaccinated against Covid-19.

A BLOCKED drain is still overflowing with water 'cascading' down Saxons Lane in Northwich nearly three months after it was reported to the council.

THIS exquisite country estate set in 25 acres of award-winning gardens with its very own helipad is our property of the week.

CHOCOLATE shop Thorntons has announced plans to permanently shut its 61 stores with more than 600 jobs affected.

THIS year the clocks go forward at 1am on March 28.

NO-ONE should feel ashamed or worried if they need help, says Mid Cheshire Foodbank.

A HUB has been set up in Northwich to give out free PPE to unpaid carers who do not live in the same household as the person they are caring for.

The warning backs Chris Whitty’s prediction of a new deadly surge in coronavirus cases in the UK.

Royal Mail said that it has processed an unprecedented volume of parcels in the past year.

Changes are being made to certain laws next month from minimum wage to statutory sick pay.

RECYCLING rates in Cheshire West have fallen over the last five years, new data shows.

THIS spacious detached house overlooking Vale Royal Golf Course is our property of the week.

MANY families in Cheshire have been devastated by the loss of a loved one to coronavirus.

HAPPY Mother’s Day to the best mums in town.

THE M6 had to be closed temporarily in both directions this morning after a stray dog wandered on to the busy road.

Due to uncertainty over travelling further afield due to the pandemic, there has been a surge in interest in more local summer holiday destinations.

Here are the best and worst Easter egg deals in UK supermarkets.

WEEK one of step one of the road map is done. Schools are back, care homes are allowing designated visitors, and Cheshire has taken its first tentative step back to normality.

SEVERAL local businesses have seen their donated products being creatively 're-used' by imaginative volunteers in Transition Northwich.

OUR high streets have long been a source of unique, specialist and independent traders, and many have gone above and beyond during the Covid-19 lockdown.

Guardian beauty columnist and owner of The Cheshire Beauty Barn Emma Wilkinson answers your lockdown beauty questions

SOME say that records are made to be broken - and these Cheshire residents did exactly that.

IF you’ve missed your live music fix over the past 12 months – and frankly, who hasn’t? – then Rare Vitamin Records Annual Diversion could be just thing you need post-lockdown.

Prince William admitted the brothers had not spoken since Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's Oprah Winfrey interview.

Vigils have been organised in Edinburgh, London, Bristol, Cardiff, Birmingham and more locations, under the banner Reclaim These Streets.

A SECOND man has now been charged after an armed robbery at Knutsford bank last Friday (March 5).

MIDDLEWICH Folk and Boat Festival has been cancelled due to Covid restrictions.

THE number of Covid-19 patients in Cheshire’s hospitals continues to fall, according to the latest NHS England data.

NORTHWICH MP Mike Amesbury’s proposed law to slash the cost of school uniforms has moved a step closer to becoming reality.

I subscribe to the saying my dear, departed grandmother often uttered: ‘How can you tell when politicians are lying…you can see their lips move’.

RESIDENTS in Weaverham say they are 'bitterly disappointed' with the section 19 report put forward by Cheshire West and Chester Council in response to 2019 floods.

THE Northwich Business Improvement District (BID) has outlined a series of projects that it plans to deliver in 2021 alongside key partners to boost the town and its businesses.

THE birth of a rare baby giraffe has been caught on camera at Chester Zoo.

Assistant Commissioner Nick Ephgrave said that Sarah Everard’s family had been told this “most distressing news”.

DURING a BBC interview, the First Minister stressed how people in England will not be able to holiday in Wales when self-contained accommodation reopens this Easter.

The celebrations will feature a busy programme of events which have yet to be announced and are dependent on how the coronavirus pandemic progresses.

THE company behind Lostock energy from waste plant says it is studying the possibility of bringing in waste by rail.

FALLS in Cheshire West’s infection rate are ‘fantastic’ but ‘more progress’ needs to be made.

FIREFIGHTERS are tackling a huge industrial fire in Northwich this morning, Thursday, with eight crews attending from across the north west.

CHESHIRE’S Covid-19 vaccine roll-out ‘remains on track’ to meet national deadlines, according to one senior NHS official.

NEARLY half of Cheshire and Merseyside residents have had their first dose of the vaccine, new NHS England data shows.

CHESHIRE boroughs have seen a rise in the number of new Covid-19 cases today, March 11.

A MUM whose toddler was beaten to death by a man from Winsford has paid tribute to her 'happy little boy' who will 'always be in her heart'.

A MONSTER who beat a toddler to death has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 19 years.