News

  • Debt sinks the Silkmen

    Macclesfield Town Football Club has been wound up in the High Court over debts totalling more than £500,000. Judge Sebastian Prentis made a winding-up order...

  • A word of warning to Amazon buyers

    Take a screen grab of any Amazon orders you place! I’d been looking for a gun-rest for several days last week – then found one...

  • Police apprehend suspects

    Image: @mistergrist Now there’s a headline you don’t often see. Cheshire Constabulary has advised us its “Week of Action” was “a great success with suspects...

  • Two jailed for supplying drugs

    Two people involved in the supply of Class A drugs in Macclesfield and Styal prison have been jailed. Anton Daniels, 36, and 31-year-old Tania Dewar,...

  • Peak Park breeding success

    The Peak District Bird of Prey Initiative (BOPI) has had breeding successes for several raptor species in the moorland areas of the Peak District, thanks...

  • Congleton link road on schedule 

    As the planned opening of the borough’s largest major infrastructure project to date moves closer, council leaders have been given a further glimpse of how...

  • Update: Willow has now been found

    Cheshire police have advised us that Willow Dale has now been found and we’ve been asked to thank everyone who contacted them to assist in...

  • Councils aid Macclesfield’s recovery

    Cheshire East Council has joined forces with Macclesfield Town Council and local stakeholders to help spearhead the town’s recovery from the impact of Covid-19. A...

  • Bury entrepreneur to buy Macc Town FC?

    Above: Robert Benwell (centre) pictured at a recent Bury Town Hall meeting. A Bury entrepreneur, who tried to buy Gigg Lane, is in talks to...

  • Silkmen have one week to clear debt

    Following a winding up bid by tax officials, Macclesfield bosses have been given just one week to show that a debt of nearly £189,000 can...

  • Bollington man charged following three burglary incidents

    A 56-year-old Bollington man has been charged following three burglary incidents in and around the area. Simon Walmsley was arrested in Bollington at around 3.30pm...

  • Silk Museum reopens next week

    Macclesfield’s Silk Museum on Park Lane is going to throw open its doors again on Thursday 17th September – and the staff can’t wait to...

  • Kinexia’s trek for Air Ambulance

    Staff at Macclesfield company Kinaxia Logistics completed a virtual trek across Britain and Ireland to raise hundreds of pounds for Air Ambulances UK, the company’s...

  • Traffic chaos at King’s School

    Photographs which have appeared on Facebook show the traffic chaos at Prestbury Four Lane Ends since the opening of the new King’s School campus. Of...

  • Cheshire Police’s week of action ‘to find criminals’

    Yes you read that right, Cheshire Constabulary is carrying out a week of action  “to locate those evading justice.” Forgive my ignorance but I thought...

  • The icing’s on the cake for Lyme

    There was a very special visitor at the National Trust’s Lyme Park yesterday – a life-size cake of Mr Darcy was unveiled to celebrate the...

  • New emergency care unit for Macclesfield

    Patients who are referred for same day treatment to Macclesfield Hospital will experience a more efficient care journey thanks to a new, same day emergency...

  • Macclesfield man now found

    Note: this man has now been located Cheshire Police are asking for help to trace 30-year-old Aaron Bradley, from Macclesfield, who is wanted on recall...

  • Mayor’s ‘Made in Macclesfield’ Charity Auction

    Each year the new Mayor of Macclesfield chooses two charities to raise funds for throughout the mayoral year. This year’s Mayor, Cllr Sarah Bennett-Wake, is...

  • Tidy Planet rockets Scottish college

    City of Glasgow College has invested in equipment from a Macclesfield organic waste and Waste-to-Energy solutions firm to compost an estimated 26 tonnes of food...