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  • Cheshire East focusing on COVID-19 business grants

    By on April 20, 2020

    Cheshire East Council has distributed more than £35m in financial aid to companies throughout the borough – and is urging businesses to bear with it...

  • Cheshire East Council welcomes heritage sector support

    By on April 20, 2020

    The National Lottery Heritage Fund has launched a £50m emergency response package to support the heritage community following the Covid-19 crisis.  The Heritage Emergency Fund...

  • Paul’s pics

    By on April 19, 2020

    A wonderful image of one of Britain’s most notorious raptors – the sparrow hawk – from local wildlife photographer Paul Beech. The Sparrowhawk has pale...

  • Sex-tortion scams on the increase

    By on April 18, 2020

    As a result of a recent rise in the number of reported sextortion scams, police are urging people to be aware of and report threatening...

  • Can you help COVID-19 patients?

    By on April 18, 2020

    The NHS needs to locate people who’ve recovered from coronavirus (COVID-19) asking them to donate blood plasma, as part of a potential clinical trial to...

  • Lockdown with Spring nature diary

    By on April 17, 2020

    Hundreds of diary entries written during the first official week of spring have been published by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and National Trust...

  • Police stations open just one hour a day

    By on April 16, 2020

    Image: @mistergrist It’s good to know that despite the harsh press coverage meted out to a number of the UK’s police forces during the current...

  • Soundscape celebrates Peak Park Anniversary

    By on April 14, 2020

    Above: Poet and audio artist Mark Gwynne Jones has created Voices From The Peak, a new soundscape for the Peak District National Park (photo by...

  • Great-gran, 97, beats coronavirus

    By on April 10, 2020

    Above: Joyce fell ill on March 16, but has now fully recovered from her ordeal and is back home (Image: Stoke Sentinel / BPM Media)...

  • Avoid the Peak Park this Easter

    By on April 9, 2020

    National Park Authority urges visitors to keep staying at home ahead of Easter weekend break. As the country comes towards the end of a third...

  • Housing market comes to a standstill

    By on April 9, 2020

    The housing market in the region has come to a complete standstill. The March 2020 RICS UK Residential Market Survey results show that, despite the...

  • Enjoy Easter at home 

    By on April 9, 2020

    Image: © National Trust, Megan Taylor Stay at home this Easter, urges Hilary McGrady, at what is traditionally one of the charity’s busiest times Trust...

  • Stay connected to nature

    By on April 8, 2020

    Above image: Newborn Hebridean lambs Tatton’s Parkland is a beautiful space, especially in springtime, and though Tatton Park is closed for the period of the lockdown,...

  • Over 200 Covid-19 cases confirmed in Cheshire East

    By on April 8, 2020

    Over 200 cases of coronavirus are reported in the Cheshire East local authority update. In today’s update Public Health England confirmed there were now 209...

  • Cheshire East roll-out £90m Covid-19 business funding

    By on April 8, 2020

    Cheshire East Council has begun rolling out almost £90m of Covid-19 business grant funding to local firms.    Around 8,000 businesses in the borough are...

  • Alderley Park joins the Coronavirus fight

    By on April 6, 2020

    An Alderley Park laboratory is at the centre of the national drive to increase Coronavirus testing across the UK. Since the government announced the establishment...

  • The Corona Era Part 2: Money and the Men who hold it

    By on April 5, 2020

    Jen Kelly – a.k.a. Cheshire’s Revenge / The Word Nerd – brings ilovemacc her own take on the highs and lows of The Silkmen So,...

  • Put bins out as normal

    By on April 3, 2020

    Cheshire East Council are advising residents that staff shortages are leading to some problems with waste bin collections. A spokesman said: “During the current time...

  • Council appeal to help rough sleepers

    By on April 3, 2020

    Cheshire East Council is trying to help the homeless in the borough during the present health emergency.  The council has already succeeded in securing temporary...

  • Macclesfield Town Council respond to Covid-19

    By on April 1, 2020

    In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Macclesfield Town Council has been issuing emergency grants to specific community groups directly involved with helping residents through this...