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  • Budapest Café Orchestra

    By on May 11, 2016

    Led by jazz violin superstar Christian Garrick, the Budapest Café Orchestra will bring the traditional folk and gypsy flavoured music from across the Balkans and...

  • Kate Bellis – Peak District photographer

    By on May 11, 2016

    The daily experiences of local communities, farming and family life in the Derbyshire hills are in the spotlight of the latest photography exhibition to come...

  • Ronnie Spector coming to Buxton

    By on May 11, 2016

    The iconic rock singer Ronnie Spector, credited as Amy Winehouse’s biggest inspiration is on tour paying tribute to the music of the ultimate girl group...

  • The Business Club – find talented individuals

    By on May 11, 2016

    The Business Club’s Summer event will provide guests with insight to help identify and develop talented individuals within a business. The Business Club (TBC), run...

  • Tour de France legend and Poynton youngster launch Tour of Britain business campaign

    By on May 11, 2016

    One of Cheshire East’s and Britain’s most promising young cyclists Monica Dew from Poynton, helped to launch the Borough’s build up to the Tour of...

  • Council’s enforcement team brings money launderer to justice

    By on May 11, 2016

    A money launderer who banked thousands of pounds from scam operations in Cheshire East and other parts of the North West has been brought to...

  • Play your part in key Council watchdog 

    By on May 11, 2016

    Are you interested in helping to ensure that your local councillors uphold the highest ethical standards? The Localism Act 2011 places a duty on all...

  • Holmes Chapel mum goes DribbleDry

    By on May 11, 2016

    An entrepreneur from Holmes Chapel, who stepped away from a career in media sales to launch a babywear startup, has revealed plans to expand. Mum-of-two Hannah...

  • Peak District chief blazes charity cycle trail

    By on May 11, 2016

    Peak District National Park chief executive Sarah Fowler is tackling the Eroica Britannia cycle challenge to help more people enjoy the National Park’s trails. Sarah...

  • Gawsworth & Timbersbrook Ward meeting

    By on May 10, 2016

    Gawsworth & Timbersbrook Ward are inviting residents to a meeting where they can get to know their police officers. The meeting is being held on 28th May...

  • Back to the floor for senior officers

    By on May 10, 2016

    Cheshire’s senior police officers and staff are going ‘Back to the floor’ again to experience first-hand some of the pressures that frontline officers and staff...

  • Local solicitor struck off

    By on May 10, 2016

    A Macclesfield solicitor currently serving a three-year jail sentence for eight counts of fraud and one of false accounting has been struck off. The Solicitors...

  • Spiralling demand for husband and wife team

    By on May 10, 2016

    Sallie Lowe, former finance manager of Macclesfield-based cable manufacturer Autac Products, has bought the business. Sallie, who joined Autac over 30 years ago, acquired the...

  • What’s on at Cinemac

    By on May 10, 2016

    Cinemac Heritage Centre
, Roe Street
, Macclesfield SK11 6UT Recorded Information: 01625 423535 Enquiries: 07871 422937 Tuesday 10 to Thursday 19 May Tuesday 10 May Florence Foster Jenkins (PG) 2.00, 5.15...

  • Another brick in the wall

    By on May 10, 2016

    Wake up Macc have contacted us regarding a couple of issues of interest. Cheshire East are consulting on design guidelines for residential developments. The council has prepared...

  • Something needs to be done about our town centre

    By on May 9, 2016

    I’ve been trying to come up with ways of helping struggling independents on the nation’s declining high streets. Out of town shopping has become successful...

  • Roll out the barrels

    By on May 9, 2016

    Another successful Macclesfield Beer Festival – benefitted in no small measure from the much-needed change to warm weather. The Beer Festival, first held in 1995, received...

  • Arley Hall Rhododendron Walks

    By on May 9, 2016

    Saturday 14th May & Sunday 22nd May 2016 – 11am.  £5 pp. With over 300 varieties of Rhododendrons, both species and hybrids, in the Grove...

  • M6 closed northbound following collision.

    By on May 9, 2016

    1.30 pm The M6 in Cheshire is currently closed northbound following a two vehicle collision. The collision is believed to involve two HGVs and as...

  • Bollington SciBar: Einstein, Gravity and Pulsars

    By on May 7, 2016

    While Einsteins theory of general relativity has been extremely successful in explaining the properties of gravity, aligning it with the other forces still remains elusive....