The Sunday Times has released its Parent Power Guide for 2026 listing the highest-achieving primary and secondary schools across the UK.

The Sunday Times has released its Parent Power Guide for 2026 listing the highest-achieving primary and secondary schools across the UK.

Both prosecutions were brought by Cheshire West and Chester Council’s (CWAC) Trading Standards acting on complaints received.

Rhiannon Birch, founder of Cheshire Cat Marketing in Northwich, is shortlisted for the Business Mum of the Year category at the Women's Business Club Global Awards 2025.

IN support of Road Safety Week, Tiger Trailers’ newest recruits helped deliver road safety education to pupils at St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School in Winsford.

THE Met Office has issued a forecast for Mid Cheshire this weekend.

TWO highly endangered lions have arrived at Chester Zoo as part of work to safeguard their species from extinction.

The trial, which expected to last three days, has been brought by claimant, Middlewich Town Council

Jack Faint from Northwich completed his epic endurance challenge, Project India 4,000, on around Tuesday, November 11.

Cheshire Police closed the A54 in between Middlewich and Winsford for about one-and-a-half hours.

A similar scheme had been thrown out in August due to it being on protected green belt land.

An special highways order has been granted by Cheshire West and Chester Council for a convoy to travel through the borough between midnight on Sunday, December 7, and 23.59pm on Monday, December 8.

AN inquest has been opened into the death of a woman who ‘fell from height’ on the M6.

A PHARMACEUTICAL company has been given the green light for expansion plans so it can make life-saving climate-friendly inhalers and create another 150 jobs.

SHOCKING video footage has been released showing a dangerous driver trying to head the wrong way down the M62 during a police chase.

CHESHIRE East has granted permission in principle for two separate small developments in Bunbury, but councillors raised concerns that both sites could be for large houses ‘which are not needed’.

Roberts Bakery bread plant in Rudheath, now owned by Boparan Private Office, is taking on staff after 86 workers were made redundant by the administrators of its previous owner, Frank Roberts & Sons, on October 14.

The suspected diesel spill, reported to the Canal & River Trust on Monday, November 24, is believed to have affected a four-mile stretch of the canal between the Anderton Boat Lift and the Broken Cross area.

Scarlett Hayward, director of learning for religious studies at Hartford Church of England High School, is one eight teachers from across the UK commissioned to review teaching resources for lessons on freedom of religion by the Freedom Declared Foun...

Gregory Keniston, of Drillfield Road, ignored the signal on the A556, Chester Road, at the junction with Dalefords Lane, on Monday, May 19, while heading in the direction of Chester.

Detectives in Northwich have released a CCTV image of a man they are keen to identify in relation to a number of garage burglary attempts in Hartford.

The proposals were submitted by Falkirk-based company Klondyke Strikes Garden Centres which bought the site in 2006.

Liz Gorse, a retired vet, along with fellow Cheshire Forest Hunt director, Teryl Knowles, were due to stand trial on Wednesday, December 3, after two foxhounds were shot and another hit and killed by a train near Barnhouse Lane, Great Barrow.

DC Lomas, based in Road One on the Winsford Industrial Estate, was nominated in two categories in the Top Garage 2025 awards, run by Aftermarket Magazine.

A FESTIVAL inspired by empowerment and wellbeing is returning for its sixth year next summer.

Cheshire East councillors have approved controversial plans for 54 affordable homes in the open countryside with one saying government policy has put the council ‘between a rock and a hard place’.

The Quayside pub is asking for donations for its annual Christmas toy drive for children and babies at Liverpool’s Alder Hey Hospital.

THOUSANDS of people lined the Trent & Mersey Canal at the weekend as Santa Claus paid a visit to Middlewich - on a narrowboat.

A CHARITY concert to support children with cancer has been hailed a huge success.

Each councillor receives a basic allowance of £14,453. Some councillors also receive a special responsibility allowance.

Martin Mew, of Warmingham Lane, Middlewich, appeared at Chester Crown Court on November 28 where he faced a number of charges.

Shaun Tomkinson, from Northwich, died at Leighton Hospital a few days after admission on Friday, July 25.

FURIOUS campaigners have criticised plans to get the Anderton Boat Lift fully operational by mid to late 2027.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Budget was a manifesto-breaking, economy-busting, job-destroying, wealth-attacking, welfare-ballooning, tax-raising disgrace.

Winsford Grange Care Home received the lowest rating for a third time in a row on Wednesday, November 26.

CHESHIRE East spent the equivalent of nearly £202,000 in terms of staff time investigating complaints about councillors in 2024/25.

FORMER Cheshire East Council leader Michael Jones has died at the age of 61.

WELCOME to the world November babies!

Ibrahim Rahman, of St Georges Road, appeared at Chester Magistrates Court on Monday, December 1.

The single-vehicle crash was on Eardswick Lane, Minshull Vernon, at around 8.30pm on Friday, November 28.

POLICE have appealed for information after a man was seriously injured in a crash on the A49 Tarporley Road.

CHESHIRE Fire and Rescue Service has been named among the UK’s top 20 most inclusive employers.

TWO good causes have received a funding boost.

Sidorjan Lleshi, George Lleshaj and Jade Tubb are to go on trial on Monday, January 5, next year.

Benjamin Heron had a stash of up to 200,000 indecent images at an inspection on Tuesday, March 25.

Northwich is on a list of locations up for an M&S Food along with near neighbours Middlewich.

Richard Woodward, or Rick, was discovered dead at his home on Friday, October 24.

THE Middlewich Eastern Bypass is not just a ‘congestion-buster’ it will boost the prosperity of the town and the wider area, Cheshire East’s leader has said.

CAMPAIGNERS fighting the proposed Adlington New Town have called on Cheshire East Council’s leader and deputy to resign because of a letter they wrote appearing to support the controversial development.

ALDI is inviting people in Cheshire to help spread Christmas cheer.