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  • Plans to turn Albion mill into 30 flats

    By on January 12, 2023

    Plans to turn an historic Grade-II listed mill in Cheshire into apartments has been recommended for approval. Cheshire East Council planners said converting Albion Mill...

  • Macclesfield Post Office living on borrowed time?

    By on January 10, 2023

    Following the announcement that Crewe’s WH Smith’s (and post office) will close in March this year, we have to ask how much longer can Smith’s...

  • Lyme Green housing project underway

    By on January 9, 2023

    Work is underway on the new housing project at Lyme Green, Macclesfield. Developer, Vistry Group, is to build 306 new homes at a 56-acre site...

  • New B&M store for Barracks Mill Retail Park

    By on January 7, 2023

    B&M will open its new store and garden centre in Barracks Mill Retail Park, Macclesfield at 9 am on Wednesday 25th January 2023. Customers can expect...

  • Funeral of Cheshire East councillor Steve Carter

    By on January 7, 2023

    The funeral of Cheshire East councillor Steve Carter, who died after suffering a heart attack on holiday, will take place later this month. Cllr Carter...

  • Four-day VW festival at Tabley

    By on January 6, 2023

    Image: ⓒ Matt Webb A four-day festival for Volkswagen enthusiasts has been given the go-ahead. The Dubbed Out Festival, expected to attract up to 4,000...

  • What’s on at Cinemac

    By on January 5, 2023

    Cinemac Price Updates To start 2023 we have had to increase our prices, after feedback from our last email we have reviewed the increases and...

  • Cheshire’s new Chief Fire Officer

    By on January 5, 2023

    Macclesfield’s MP, David Rutley, recently met Alex Waller, new Chief Fire Officer of Cheshire Fire & Rescue Service (CFRS). The key initiatives discussed included the...

  • Fly-tipper caught and fined

    By on January 4, 2023

    A Wythenshawe man, who picked up waste in Macclesfield then dumped it in a field, has admitted criminal damage and fly-tipping. Craig McCullough, 34, from...

  • Cheshire Fire Authority also wants more of your money

    By on January 4, 2023

    Hot on the heels of Cheshire Police’s consultation on a council tax precept increase, Cheshire Fire Authority has launched its own. The Government is permitting...

  • Neil Danns on Macc FC’s Widnes victory

    By on January 3, 2023

    The Silkmen began 2023 in the best possible manner, as a hat-trick from James Berry coupled with a 64th minute Alex Curran strike completed a...

  • Police – are you happy to pay 10.7% more?

    By on January 3, 2023

    These are very tough times, perhaps not the best time for the police to be asking us if we’re happy to pay between 6.4% up...

  • Missing Macclesfield girl found

    By on January 3, 2023

    UPDATE : We’re advised that missing Macclesfield girl, Amber, has now been found safe and well. Amber Edwards was last seen in the Woburn Close...

  • Sleeping Beauty at Buxton Opera House

    By on December 31, 2022

    After having to rearrange our tickets several times, due to cold viruses and tonsillitis knocking the house out one by one pre Christmas, we finally...

  • Death of Macclesfield councillor

    By on December 31, 2022

    Tributes have been paid following the death of Labour councillor Stephen Carter. Councillor Carter, who represented the Macclesfield Hurdsfield ward, is believed to have passed...

  • What’s on at Cinemac

    By on December 30, 2022

    Last listings of the year, we hope you have a great New Year and we wish you all the best for 2023! Thursday 29thMatilda: The...

  • Is there a Santa Claus?

    By on December 22, 2022

    Eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York’s Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial on September 21st,...

  • Two jailed for stealing stone from churches

    By on December 22, 2022

    Three men have been sentenced after pleading guilty to stealing York stone from churches in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Lancashire. Jason Perry, 49, from Wallshaw...

  • Broken Cross roundabout

    By on December 22, 2022

    Following continued concerns – and a number of recent traffic accidents at the Broken Cross roundabout works – local MP, David Rutley, met Simon Wallace,...

  • Local opticians help raise over £9,000 for local food banks

    By on December 21, 2022

    Angharad Butler, Specsavers Macclesfield, with Dan Blackman team lead, Silk Life Foodbank   Specsavers  Macclesfield has helped to raise more than £9,000 to support those struggling...