All posts by Editor

  • Cheshire East targets visitor economy

    Cheshire East Council has set out its plans to grow the Borough’s visitor economy to £1.08 billion – an increase of more than £200m –...

  • The Holly Bush opens its doors

    Bollington’s hidden gem –The Holly Bush – is back in action. The pub has been restored to its former glory by owners Robinsons Brewery. Built in...

  • Shrigley Hall on the market

    The Shrigley Hotel, Golf and Country Club has been put up for sale. The Grade II* listed country house hotel has 148 bedrooms and is...

  • Barnaby 2016 – the stars the limit

    PLUS zillions of new events added!   BBC’s Nick Robinson and The Guardian’s Owen Jones In Conversation. Macclesfield and Stockport raised respectively, from utterly different political traditions,...

  • Stockport Council to buy shopping centre – a lesson for Macclesfield

    Stockport Council has exchanged contracts to buy  Merseyway Shopping Centre. The council, which did not disclose the purchase price for “commercially sensitive” reasons, said following the...

  • Owen Jones will join Nick Robinson ‘In Conversation’

    Political activist Owen Jones joins top BBC journalist Nick Robinson ‘In Conversation’ at the Barnaby Festival on Saturday 18 June in one of a number...

  • Britain’s first national park peaks ‘naturally stunning’ list

    The Peak District National Park’s hills have been voted number one in a survey by National Express. A thousand people were polled by the UK’s...

  • Council seeks Supreme Court planning ruling

    Cheshire East is to seek a Supreme Court ruling in a bid to protect local planning powers and prevent developers ‘riding roughshod’ over councils’ development...

  • Bollington to take control of leisure and sports

    Bollington is set to be handed control of two key open space amenities for sports and leisure use thanks to a land transfer arrangement with...

  • Police tackle rogue traders

    Rogue traders and forceful doorstep sellers were targeted during a week of action by police and partners. Cheshire Police and colleagues from a number of...

  • Move to Alderley for Redx headquarters

    Redx Pharma is moving its headquarters from Liverpool to Alderley Park. The move will see the company’s Oncology business join Redx Anti-Infectives and Redx Immunology...

  • Klezmer music is coming to town

    Klezmer Music is coming to Macclesfield for the next Treacle Market on Sunday 24th April, and is being performed by the nationally-known group of Klezmer...

  • Barnaby Festival – Bedwyr in Town

    Bedwyr in Town Filming FLEXURE! A technologically challenged hypnotist becomes hooked on his own self-hypnosis tapes and enters another time and space, a place of...

  • MP supports Green Belt campaign

    Member of Parliament for Macclesfield, David Rutley, met with local campaign group, Save Macclesfield Greenbelt, to voice his concerns about current proposals for the Cheshire...

  • MP welcomes marathon man Ben

    Ben Smith, who’s running 401 marathons on consecutive days for anti-bullying charities, was welcomed on his return to Macclesfield by local Member of Parliament, David...

  • Bike restoration ace to attempt 48-hour rebuild at Stafford show

    Thousands of enthusiasts will witness expert restorer Jerry Thurston take on the challenge of a live motorcycle rebuild at Staffordshire County Showground’s annual classic bike event...

  • Seth Lakeman to close Buxton’s Big Session Festival

    West Country folk singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Seth Lakeman will be closing this year’s Big Session folk festival on Sunday 1 May. Seth is one...

  • Award winning success heading for Buxton stage

    The award-winning West End and Broadway success One Man Two Guvnors garnered rave reviews in the national press.  Now it hits Buxton Opera House for...

  • English Touring Opera in Buxton

    The world-renowned English Touring Opera will be back in Buxton with three titles Iphigénie en Tauride, Don Giovanni and Pia de’ Tolomei from Friday 22 to Sunday 24 April. Iphigénie en Tauride by Gluck features...

  • What’s on at Cinemac

    Cinemac Heritage Centre
, Roe Street
, Macclesfield SK11 6UT Recorded Information: 01625 423535 Enquiries: 07871 422937 Monday 11 to Thursday 21 April With apologies, please note that the 12.00 &...