All posts by Editor

  • What’s on at Cinemac

    Cinemac Heritage Centre Roe Street Macclesfield SK11 6UT Recorded Information: 01625 423535 Enquiries: 07871 422937 Monday 4 to Thursday 21 January Monday 4 January Star Wars: The...

  • Book online for Peak District ranger events

    It’s never been easier to work off the festive excess by exploring the Peak District National Park with the people who know it best. Booking...

  • “Catalogue of errors” by care home

    A Warwick Mews resident died from a severe, million-to-one allergic reaction to lentils in her lunchtime soup, an inquest has heard. Deborah Molloy, 52, was a long-term...

  • Chief Constable receives New Year’s honour

    Cheshire’s Chief Constable, Simon Byrne, has received the Queens Police Medal (QPM) in the New Year’s Honours list. The QPM recognises those officers who throughout...

  • Criminal investigation launched into Cheshire East fitness contracts

    Cheshire Police have launched a criminal investigation into the awarding of council contracts to a firm run by the outgoing leader’s physiotherapist. According to a...

  • Over 100 arrested in Operation Hatay

    Almost 120 people have been arrested in a week as part of Operation Hatay 6. The policing operation, which was resurrected over the Christmas period,...

  • Rescue team and air ambulance scrambled

    Buxton’s Mountain Rescue volunteers were called to Teggs Nose after bank holiday walkers were injured. Many of the paths in the country park had been...

  • Crewe link road opening

    The final stretch of road, which completes the eastern bypass around Crewe, was opened just before Christmas by the Secretary of State for Transport, Patrick McLoughlin MP....

  • Ellie’s winning Christmas card

    Cheshire East Council’s Christmas card for 2015 was designed by a 11-year-old school girl from Macclesfield. Ellie Hill’s design of antlers, baubles and Christmas stockings...

  • Merry Christmas

    A very merry Christmas to all our readers Share this... Facebook Pinterest Twitter Linkedin Whatsapp Email Reddit Tumblr

  • Astronomy picture of the day

    Geminid Meteors over Xinglong Observatory  Image Credit & Copyright: Steed Yu and NightChina.netExplanation: Where do Geminid meteors come from? In terms of location on the sky, as the featured image composite...

  • Ban for directors of Congleton telecoms firm

    Three former directors of a Congleton-based telecoms company, have been banned from being company directors for over 30 years. The disqualification of James Elphinstone Reed...

  • MP celebrates Poynton heritage

    Member of Parliament for Macclesfield, David Rutley, donned his hiking boots, when he recently went on a Poynton Heritage Walk. David went on the specially...

  • A blue Christmas for Macclesfield’s offenders

    A policing operation aiming to round up outstanding and wanted offenders has made an excellent start. Operation Hatay has been resurrected over the Christmas period,...

  • Football fans handed banning orders

    Three Macclesfield Town football fans were handed football banning orders when they appeared at Macclesfield Magistrates Court on Thursday 17th December 2015. On appearing in...

  • 21st anniversary of the death of Tracey Mertens at Eaton

    As Christmas Day approaches, detectives are renewing their appeal for information on the death of a mother in Eaton churchyard. Tracey Mertens, 31, was doused in...

  • Police renew appeal following fatal collision

    Officers from Cheshire Roads Policing team have renewed their appeal for information in relation to a fatal collision in Macclesfield. The collision occurred at approximately...

  • Crewe bypass opens today

    It’s taken 15 months to build – and its opening follows a full weekend closure of the Crewe/Derby railway line to a allow a 2,000 tonne...

  • Astronomy picture of the day

    Star Streams and the Whale Galaxy  Image Credit & Copyright: R Jay Gabany (Blackbird Observatory) Collaboration: David Martínez-Delgado (University of Heidelberg), et al.Explanation: NGC 4631 is a spiral galaxy found only 25...

  • Northern Chamber Orchestra

    One of the top chamber orchestras in the country – Buxton Festival’s ‘Orchestra in Residence’ – Northern Chamber Orchestra will be in town on Friday 8...