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  • Chronicle Newspaper - News from Congleton | Biddulph | Alsager | Sandbach
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  • Congleton News
  • CRB checks stall charities' efforts to recruit volunteers
  • Dapper Michael retires from Jantex
  • Egg farm plan protestors get Mayor's praise
  • Found at last: white van hero
  • Invitation to join credit union for people who are 'struggling'
  • 'Loss of old town tavern would help pub trade of today'
  • Nature reserve owner praised during appeal
  • New dementia care centre only a vision
  • Town gripped by carnival fever
  • Biddulph News
  • Biddulph could be on world heritage site, with your help
  • Bus diversions won't be the ticket for some
  • Business leader begs drivers not to park in front of town's alleys
  • Call for bus station to ease town centre clog
  • Campaigner Terry gets oat-so many followers
  • 'Fuel security v the landscape' poser raised in gas drilling talk
  • Pub-goers can live it up for longer, but they must keep noise down
  • Residents wait for the council to swing into action over play area
  • Villagers tell a drilling firm to step off the gas
  • Sandbach News
  • Councillor is forced out by 'hostile and corrosive comments'
  • Daughter's memory of the day her father was saved from a mad bull
  • Firm is fined for polluting brook after dam breach
  • Garden grabbing 'greed' slammed by neighbours
  • Man released without charge after stabbing
  • Now's my chance to give something back to town
  • 'Our schools are full so why build 269 extra homes?'
  • Parking, heritage and markets are town plan topics
  • Return of the man who wrestled mad bull 50 years ago
  • School academy bids on timetable
  • Traffic lights at bridge as repair work begins
  • Village News
  • After 157 jobs go, what is next for bathroom factory?
  • Latest plans before council
  • Latest plans before council
  • Lead thieves can't strip 'determination and will to win' from a church
  • Long loo wait is over at St Mary's Church
  • Masked gang terrorises couple in their home
  • Moorlands plans
  • Plans for a new-look Alsager 'negated' by car parking charges
  • Special meeting with MP to discuss Alsager's problems
  • The waiting is over! Carnival time is here and we want to rock
  • News Archive
  • Congleton News Archive
  • A second bid to save High Street store fails
  • Annual food festival will prove town's got taste
  • As our soldiers fight, campaign opens to help the home front
  • Bigger Bridestones must not harm rest of town - warning
  • Bridestones plans 'that people can be proud of'
  • Call to publish test results from schools that boycotted SATs
  • Campaign wristbands in such hot demand that more are needed
  • Candidates vow to fight cuts in council services
  • Care centre gets reprieve in £3m cost-cutting plan
  • Charities protest as thieves swipe bags from street
  • Cloud’s slopes are reduced to scorched earth
  • Cost cuts put plans for two new health centres in coma
  • Council apology after our readers' views on future of town snubbed
  • Council plans 300-plus job cuts to 'streamline'
  • Councillors' expense claims total revealed on Cheshire East list
  • Councillors need parking spaces? Just close a car park for the day!
  • 'Daft' justice system halts efforts to seize fraud cash
  • Extra work bonus for council bosses who took '£100,000 redundancy deals'
  • Find ways to save money, council leader tells workers
  • Four-year jail sentences for Congleton kidnappers
  • Glam opening for 'Where were you in 72' exhibition
  • High schools backing SATs boycott as primary heads hold firm over exams snub
  • Is road safety work reducing accident figure for Cheshire East? - councillor queries
  • Job advert for sex work 'with a difference' is appalling says new MP
  • Kidnapper ran a gym used by club with police links
  • Labour’s 13-year reign in Staffordshire Moorlands at an end
  • Loss of two PCSOs 'will not mean less policing'
  • Man admits setting fire to town bar
  • Mandatory sex lessons after age of 11, whether or not parents approve
  • Man's 'kidnap' claim was a lie, court told
  • March was just the first punch
  • Market move to Fairground plan unveiled
  • Marks sparks hope that other big name stores might follow
  • Mercian wristband sales going well
  • 'Mindless idiots' hunted after country park blaze
  • Museum appeals for town's 70s memories
  • New Aldi store will 'keep Sainsbury's and Tesco at bay'
  • New MP promises to prove constituency is great place to live by holidaying here
  • New police station forms part of town centre plans
  • Parish priest reaches milestone
  • Parking scheme for residents is to be discussed
  • Parking slip lets cheeky drivers into ‘golden gap’
  • Pizza firm wants a slice of town's fast food business
  • Poison pen letters taunt 'Beartown' brand leader
  • Police to take 'no further action' over town centre brawl
  • Protest marchers' parking plan won't work: council
  • Pub's 3.30am opening bid 'a joke' says National Trust
  • Redundant workers get payout, thanks to CAB
  • Regular Sunday craft and farmers' markets in town, if plan works
  • Residents' flooding fear over 'marsh' homes plan
  • Residents' parking permits 'unlikely' in town centre street
  • Rival firm has new plans for town centre
  • Sentences for metal theft gang
  • Shopping centre plan under new ownership
  • Short-stay car parks are working, council claims
  • Staff cuts will harm adults in need, social workers claim
  • Super surgery plans have run out of cash
  • Tories hold Congleton
  • Tory grip on Congleton constituency continues
  • Town could have a hotel - against residents' wishes
  • Town's 'bored' teens are at risk says 13-year-old
  • Train derailed by car
  • Two cleared of assault in pub
  • Two jailed for torching bar in town centre
  • Two soldiers on 72-hour leave will be surrounded by love of their families
  • Unite in fight for road safety measures, residents urged
  • Volcano ash smashes Mexico wedding dream
  • We must fight to save future of Fellowship House: mayor
  • We want a surgery, not a discount store: residents
  • We will make Fellowship House work says council
  • Wrong blood type - but daughter's kidney donation to mum went ahead
  • Youth café closes amid claims that well-heeled county doesn't get cash
  • Biddulph News Archive
  • Atkins loses Moorlands seat
  • Battle for child's life-changing op
  • Biddulph gardener's bombshell discovery
  • Bike race clash put the spoke in wedding day
  • Bus route was changed but public not told
  • Cameron-Clegg rule will benefit Moorlands: MP
  • Candidates back health centre plan
  • Church rounds up new ringers
  • Do your bit to aid a World Heritage bid, locals urged
  • First steps towards a town centre meeting place for youngsters
  • Guides grounded in Italy during six day flights chaos
  • Health centre plans will go before council
  • Injured mother’s warning after a taxi fare dispute
  • Jobs agency aims to 'build confidence' of unemployed families
  • Just a council minute! What do they mean by a 'legal challenge'?
  • Mayor’s banquet venue destroyed
  • Parents hit by hike in childcare costs
  • Protest over axing of two town PCSOs
  • Pupils to meet domestic violence offenders in a bid to understand cause
  • Retired doctor (62) dies while climbing
  • Schools so good that parents lie to get children in
  • Supermarket short-changes town with cuts to development
  • Temperatures rise over parking plans for health centre
  • Three in court to enter pleas after serious assault in Brown Lees
  • Tough decisions beckon, says new MP
  • Traffic lights go on again 'any time now'
  • 'Tribal' Tories accused of hogging chairmens' seats
  • Tributes paid to man who was the 'heart and soul of Biddulph'
  • Waiting game continues over health centre plan
  • Warning over new Tory 'blue swathe' at county council
  • Waste collection catch-up efforts are rumbling along
  • Water bubbled up from roads during flash flood
  • White stuff brings town to standstill
  • Woman feels sick after racist comments were left on Facebook page
  • Young achievers would make any parent proud
  • Sandbach News Archive
  • ‘Apprentice’ star opens centre and will return to help future tycoons
  • ‘Awe inspiring’ battle to save primary school
  • ‘Catch these animals’ says victim of attack
  • ‘Gas’ man was a thief
  • £140,000 grant a Godsend for historic church
  • £2m soccer centre plan causes crowd trouble at town hall
  • £8,000 towards repair of building that council says 'must not be lost'
  • 160 homes planned at wallpaper factory site
  • 375 homes planned at former industrial site
  • 40,000 bricks needed for Leonard Cheshire building plan dream
  • A and E admissions double as hospital shuts its doors
  • A diabetic girl lobbies MP for more support
  • A Fair Trade banana on legs greeted customers
  • A flurry of flu facts baffles medical centre
  • A load of old cobbles going back in square
  • A tax-freeze in the season of goodwill
  • A two-week wait for binmen threat
  • Affordable housing would have cottage-style design
  • Air raid bunker play times led to 60 years of marriage
  • Alarms aim to reduce bag-snatch incidents
  • Ann Winterton shuns an MPs' anti-incinerator bid
  • Another crash, but safety work stalls at junction 17
  • Another estate agent fails in property market slump
  • Any short-term sewer work trouble ‘worth it’
  • Arctic Circle runner aims to raise over £1k for leukaemia research
  • Asbestos alarm
  • Bats and barn owls survey delays church conversion
  • Benefit fraudster's sentence prompts a council warning
  • Best team at the World Dance Championships
  • Better future for disabled begins with a first brick
  • Big cat on the prowl?
  • Biker said he was going on a ride as it was such a nice day, inquest told
  • 'Blanket car park charge policy not for Sandbach'
  • Bored owners dump their Christmas cats
  • Boys told to jump to it and join new gymnastics club
  • Break-in by gang of four
  • Burglary victims are threatened in their beds
  • Buyers turned off by Old Hall's £500,000 repair bill
  • Bypass crash closure causes rush hour jam
  • Cadet captain held in high regard honoured
  • Cadet to the rescue after colleague suffered a fit
  • Campaigners convinced Old Hall is in safe hands
  • Car park charges here in September, councils told
  • Car park charges stall as council's vote put on hold
  • Caribbean company is Old Hall's new owner
  • Cash robbery
  • Certificate proves town plays fair with world's producers
  • Chance to find out what is going on in the village
  • Chapel put in a good fight but still lose out
  • Chapel were not firing on all cylinders, but still win
  • Charity says thanks for helping street children
  • Cheshire East weighs up the Waitrose car park - claim
  • Chimney House jobs saved 'just for Christmas'
  • 'Chronicle' photographer Glyn snaps up prestigious accolade
  • Coalition can learn from us, says Cheshire East Lib Dem
  • Cobbles Christmas tree faces the chop
  • Cobbles revamp attacked by public
  • Cobbles work is starting at last to create vibrant town
  • Cobbles work reveals the old town hall cell
  • Cobbles work will rain on our parade, Legion fears
  • Community groups to shine in the spotlight
  • Cost of Old Hall repairs to be published in new year
  • Council ‘twitters’ the latest news
  • Council backs schools' consultation proposals
  • Council defends its 'integrity' after the cash for festival row
  • Council finds fault with two schemes to build retirement apartments
  • Council 'ignored' people's car park charge protests, ombudsman told
  • Council in discussions over running of market
  • Council promises it will dig around for new allotment land
  • Council pulls the plug on enterprise agency grants
  • Council services could be kicked to help pay for £2m soccer centre
  • Council takes up plan offer to preserve area
  • Council tax cut, but quality services aren't cheap new authority has been warned
  • Council tax rise to help pay for CCTV and 2012 Olympics co-ordinator
  • Council votes against rubbish-burning plan
  • Council welcomes plans to revive town centre bar
  • Councillors who manage without expenses named
  • 'Couple of snags' have delayed gas main work
  • Couple re-united after visa granted to stranded wife
  • Court backs car clamp victim but firm fights back
  • Cranage man dies a revered hero in Oman
  • Crowds line route as Remembrance Day parade marches through town
  • Crowds lined Sandbach streets for 90th year of Remembrance
  • Crowds packed church to say final farewell to hero
  • Crusading Curshaws net super six goals
  • Curshaws victorious following nervy start
  • Curshaws win in tough encounter with Sandbach
  • Dangers of delay spelt out to Market Square doubters
  • Dates for meetings to discuss parking fees
  • Defence played its part in a deserved victory
  • Detectives still on hunt for Sandbach prowlers
  • Developer says 26 new houses will 'enhance appearance of the area'
  • Did you see M6 minibus key thieves?
  • Disaster-struck Chapel have to settle for draw
  • Ditching M-way widening plan puts pressure groups at odds
  • Don't dump your litter picking responsibility, community is urged
  • Don't end up like my son, bereaved mum tells school
  • Driver unaware of car under bumper 'in no way at fault'
  • Drivers stuck on roads after M6 bitumen spill
  • Dumping grot spot tidied up thanks to team effort
  • Elworth (25 points) 208 for eight declared beat Leycett (7 points) 148 all out by 60 ru
  • Elworth march into next round
  • Elworth succumb at Knypersley CC
  • End of road for vehicle workers' union branch
  • Extra 300 homes threat galvanises the battle against new development
  • Fallujah-type birth defects feared if incinerator is built
  • Familiar sparkle was missing for Elworth
  • Farm hand who loved his work was killed on second day of new job
  • Fast food change from hairdresser's premises could be cut and dried
  • Fears for High Street trade as Woolies closes
  • Female patients to take part in landmark study to stop broken bones
  • Fenced-off playing field could be back in game for youngsters on estate
  • Fenced-off Residents who 'suffer in silence' invited to voice their concerns
  • Festival charge led to 'fringe' show in town, says classic car owner
  • Festival due to be a long parade of entertainment
  • Festival funding row
  • Festival planners' bid to pacify town traders
  • 'Fewer trains as London leaches local rail service'
  • Fight goes on to get out of junction 17 jam
  • Fight parking charges proposal while you still can, villagers are urged
  • Fire-struck church hall's vicar praises Elworth's 'huge' community spirit
  • Firm sheds 1,000 jobs as sales slump by 34%
  • First an Italian, then Indian, what next for Arclid pub?
  • First chief executive is ready to take helm of Cheshire East Council
  • First female head begins with outstanding results
  • Flowers mark death crash spot
  • Fly tippers blocked us in, says furious family
  • Fond memories of former Westfields
  • Football club pitches for its future on the internet
  • Football pitches plan due to get the green light
  • Fortnightly bin collection start is announced
  • Foxes capitalise as rain stops play across area
  • Foxes rue two-run defeat that stopped dreams of promotion
  • Foxes stretch lead
  • Foxes' weekend a double delight
  • Friends rally troops in battle to kick out 'sneaky' pitch plans
  • From Foden's film to the Batmobile: animator Paul is nominated for an Oscar
  • Funeral of councillor whose market stall was a meeting venue
  • Future is sealed for school under threat
  • Gang trouble in Sandbach almost over, says town's first police support officer
  • 'Garden grabbing' plan is rejected despite a warning that appeal would succeed
  • Girls engineer prestigious Arkwright Scholarships
  • 'Give us more time' plea for homes plan is turned down
  • Go metric and end measure muddles says kilo-supporter
  • Go-ahead for a ‘good’ plan to build 4l houses
  • Goats with foot rot were suffering, vet tells court
  • Government wants Cheshire to be waste burning capital of Britain, campaigners fear
  • Grateful patient and Kevin from Corrie ride out for The Christie
  • Gravestones safety check
  • 'Gutless' incinerator company refuses to attend town meeting
  • Gypsy site expansion plan could be refused
  • Halve local tax and save lives, pensioner begs
  • Hard work turns primary school's fortunes around
  • Heart attack at wheel caused death of M6 driver: inquest
  • Helping hand greets business beginners
  • Higgins marathon snickers Rode Park
  • High school only one in Cheshire to score 'outstanding' hat trick
  • Holmes Chapel golf club has ‘X Factor’
  • Homes plan would bring brownfield site back into use, say council officers
  • Hotel’s new owners proud to expand in tough times
  • Huge weekend on cards for promotion hopefuls Foxes
  • 'I won't repay' says MP Ann over expenses
  • Ice cream lads' saucy calendar scoops cash for building fund
  • Ideal candidate Fred will open village fair
  • Idiots woz here: paint daubers smear the town
  • 'Imagine' a Sandbach with allotments that could save the planet
  • Incinerator fight will go on, after plan is refused
  • Incinerator 'no'-votes by the metre for the East Cheshire mayor
  • Incinerator plan to be decided at special meeting
  • It's Christmas time in town
  • It's snow joke for market traders
  • J17 business park plans are back on the agenda
  • Job hopes dashed for Ethel Austin workers
  • Join fight to close hostel, campaigners have urged
  • Junction 17 lights will not help the town
  • Junction safer but residents can't park outside own homes
  • Just cut and run, councillor tells 'no-win' builder
  • Just four more months of free car parking left
  • Keep your nerve’ protestors are told as incinerator firm calls for an inquiry
  • Killer saved gran from a blaze he had started
  • Knifepoint theft terrifies staff at Bargain Booze
  • Lack of fire safety ‘put lives at risk’
  • Lame animals found on farm, after raid: court
  • Last gasp penalty seals success for Chapel 1st
  • Last post for Wheelock
  • Leader warns of parking ban at Scotch Common
  • Legal muddle lifts parking charge threat
  • Legion's last day
  • Let gipsies have my land, says thwarted owner
  • Library closes for two-week revamp
  • Litter-buster's on a mission to brush up his town's act
  • 'Live' appeal kickstarted parents' hunt for Steven
  • Local crews rush to help Middlewich
  • Looking forward to fun of the fair
  • Lorry driver abducted at motorway services
  • Lorrys chaos fear over plan for incinerator
  • Lottery bid band needs you to trumpet its success
  • Love triangle resulted in a schoolyard fight, magistrates were told
  • Make no bones about it, those remains belong to us: Aussies
  • Man suffered slight burns in gas cylinder house fire
  • Man who put Sandbach firm on world map launches book
  • Market traders reject 'picture-perfect' pitch
  • Measles jabs drive aims to halt outbreak
  • Meet-the-yob scheme is better than court for low-level crime: police
  • 'Megabucks' needed to repair St Mary's church
  • Merseyside contract fires up anti-incinerator group
  • Metric man made sign miles better with can of paint
  • Metric system arrives in the borough - 40 years late and possibly illegal
  • Missing man's family hopes new TV appeal will 'loosen tongues'
  • Models step back in time to make wish come true
  • More crime in parts of area, stats show
  • More supplies drafted in after beer-lovers drink festival dry
  • Motorists advised to plan their journeys carefully
  • Motorway death: witnesses sought
  • Move to make parking changes to busy road
  • MP hopeful Col Bob makes Congleton his sole target after defeat over the border
  • MP's confident 'I will run again' prophecy is in political dustbin
  • Mum's lottery win grants a holiday dream to her son
  • Mums urge village to fight incinerator plan
  • Neglected park will get new lease of life
  • Neighbouring homes 'at risk' concern over plans
  • New chapter for church as planning committee grants conversion plan
  • New council holds out hope of tax cut
  • New lease of life for bar?
  • New lease of life on the cards for chamber of trade
  • New man to lead the town forward
  • New probe after ‘car on lorry bumper’ clip is shown on internet
  • New rail service between Sandbach and Northwich a good idea, report says
  • New rule will harm patients, doctors warn
  • New safety measures are needed to make Crewe Road drivers hit the brakes: report
  • New street name could be the way to remember coach firm
  • New traders' group has 'STAR' quality
  • New WH Smith 'brilliant news' for Sandbach
  • New-look square praised
  • No bottled water for 'green' town council
  • No sneaking in for banned drinkers on the picture list
  • No upgrade for 'top priority' crossing but changes promised
  • Now that cobbles area is officially open, stage is set for public events
  • Number plate fixing session puts the screws on criminals
  • OAP was told by bogus pair that one was there to catch the other
  • October start for work on old Market Square
  • Off the menu: restaurant at town gateway closes
  • Old Hall could be preserved as a museum
  • Old Hall repairs are going ahead with council cash
  • Old Hall study agreement welcomed by action group
  • Old Mill Road closure
  • Old Mill Road homes plan deferred again
  • One of the last links to old Westfields is flowing again
  • Online campaigns back parking charge protest
  • Over 2,000 visitors flock to reborn Holmes Chapel fair
  • Overflowing culverts are driving councillor crazy
  • 'Overpowering' flats plan is thrown out
  • Pair's polar challenge raises £3,700 for diabetes charity
  • Parents condemn county council over last minute school shake-up u-turn
  • Parents welcome revised plans for primary schools
  • Parking charge plan approved, then it stalled
  • Parking charge report was published too soon: claim
  • Parking charges are your poll tax, Town Mayor tells Cheshire council
  • Parking fears over plan for apartments at derelict pub
  • Parking fees must be fair say residents
  • Pay to park outside your own house
  • PCSO role is criticised, but defended by police
  • PCSOs could slap tickets on your cars
  • People's 'good will' makes it easy for thieves, police warn
  • Pervert’s arrival at bail hostel puts residents on alert
  • Pictures past and present in memory of 'Mr Sandbach'
  • Pitch plan has backing of council's planners
  • Plan matches football fans and older folk
  • Player facing a six month stay in hospital after rugby injury
  • Playing field group so close to reaching goal
  • Poignant honour for Goostrey novelist
  • Poisonous lake closed to public 'for rest of the summer'
  • Police issue 'stranger danger' warning after more kids approached
  • Police on right track to catch rail cable thieves
  • Post deliveries will not be affected by closure
  • Poster campaign hounds the careless dog owners
  • Pre-Christmas bids hope for Capricorn site
  • Priest stoned by vandals during Sunday mass service
  • Primary school reprieved
  • Pring workers seek legal aid
  • Probation service contacts the bail hostel protestors
  • Prolific author ready to start next chapter
  • Protest group calls on the professionals to fight pitches plan
  • Public invited to give views on the burning issue of an incinerator
  • Ranger blasts on, but rain intervenes to deny Foxes
  • 'Reckless' BMW driver died in a bypass crash
  • Record-breaking results crown head's last year
  • 'Red' road residents try to fix flooding problem themselves
  • Regan shines as Foxes' winning run continues
  • Reject council’s ‘arrogant and complacent attitude’ over parking, voters told
  • Renewed appeal for news about body found in field
  • Report on booze-filled borough is sober reading
  • Report praises 'active community' but more local jobs are needed
  • Reprieve for pub that served underage duo
  • Request for steel fence at the scrap yard with a plane on top
  • Resident begs town council to save our vanishing market
  • Resident blasts council's 'truly stupid' sign blunder
  • Residents' fears failed to stop plans for apartments
  • Residents in Sandbach and Holmes Chapel would have to pay at least an extra £6.70 council tax to maintain car parks if charges were not brought in, it has emerged.
  • Residents in Sandbach and Holmes Chapel would have to pay at least an extra £6.70 council tax to maintain car parks if charges were not brought in, it has emerged. - COPY
  • Residents to have permits for parking
  • Residents' views wanted on future of the town park
  • Residents' views will shape plan for village
  • Restaurant shuts after immigration agency raid
  • Retired head praised for bringing a school to 'outstanding' level
  • Retirement village will have gym and Jacuzzis
  • Reward offered in hunt for bank robbery gang
  • Ribbons round railings to rally school support
  • 'Right to graze sheep' could save Commons from parking charges
  • Road closed for a week while sewer is repaired
  • Road reopens after bridge repair hitch
  • Roads closing for sewer work
  • Roadworks at hospital will not affect access, patients are assured
  • Rob in peak of fitness for a charity challenge
  • Robbers abandon their getaway car at Sandbach hotel
  • Runaway bullock became road kill
  • Sadly, we no longer need our church building, say trustees
  • Saga over leisure centre management could be drawing to a conclusion
  • Sandbach at centre of measles outbreak
  • Sandbach beauty aims for Miss Cheshire title
  • Sandbach chosen as the hub of East Cheshire Council
  • Sandbach could be last to know about car parking charges
  • Sandbach cruise to victory after recent run of losses
  • Sandbach High School proud to break through ‘90% barrier’
  • Sandbach pays tribute to councillor who 'achieved much for the community'
  • Sandbach risks having 'nothing to say' on car parking charges
  • Sandbach United opens up soccer world to the deaf
  • Sandbach United the Real deal in Madrid.
  • Santa's sleigh in town
  • Save our school lobby 'in limbo' before next bout
  • Save Saturday parking for shoppers, traders to ask transport festival planner
  • Scaffolding at Old Hall is a good sign
  • Scheme for a Jacuzzi-style life for elderly
  • School that was saved is criticised in Ofsted report
  • Schoolboys start summer hols as swine flu suspects
  • School's passion for art has success in the frame
  • Schools should run schools, not leisure centre, meeting told
  • Scoop the poop or risk being reported, dog owners warned
  • Semi-final place for Sandbach singer
  • Served with a fine for ignoring smoking ban
  • 'Shock and awe' tactics of incinerator firm have not worked, meeting told
  • Shopkeepers v festival planners in lost trade row
  • Shops are split on idea of Sunday transport festival
  • 'Short sharp shock' puts the bad drivers back on right road
  • Short stay car parks will have three hour limit
  • Skip firm could be wound up in a few weeks
  • Skip hire firm won't move until owner is forced out
  • Slab in the face for those who want to keep every cobble
  • Sleepy man is rescued from smoky house
  • 'Slumdog' effect brings bounty to local charity
  • Smother plan for incinerator residents told
  • Soft furnishing firm beaten by recession
  • Speculators aim to turn green area into housing land
  • Speed danger protest could have a TV slot
  • Spot the banned drinker scheme spreads to pubs in Sandbach and Alsager
  • Spring date set for new school crossing project
  • Stalemate: as hall's owners declare plans to go it alone
  • Stallholders hope council takeover will boost market
  • STOP PRESS
  • Store's future is uncertain after owner's shares are suspended
  • Stream at cancer scare land 'safe enough to drink'
  • Street children's charity strikes £200k DVD deal
  • Streets furnished to pave the way for Cobbles work
  • Super six for Curshaws
  • Swift action demanded in fight to save the Old Hall
  • Swimmers go to great lengths to raise funds
  • Taker leads Elworth revival
  • Taser used on 'agitated' man
  • Team aims to build on a winning performance
  • Teen pupils centre plan for a primary school site shelved
  • Teenagers not always to blame for nuisance behaviour, say police
  • Telly cameras to film pets' cemetery through the year
  • Thanks for helping to save school, parents tell council
  • 'This building is Sandbach' say councillors as they agree to help pay for repairs
  • Those glory days have gone, but shoppers still love the bustling market
  • Three men in black kick their way into house
  • Tough time for town's traders as shops shut
  • Town asked to make £1m bid for park cash
  • Town branded bag about to hit the shops
  • Town Christmas lights planners not switched on to publicise event
  • Town council rejects 'name and shame' parking charge letter
  • Town councillors back church bid to be village hub
  • Town crier's tearful tribute to his strong and determined wife
  • Town hall eco fair
  • Town hall is alive with the sound of volunteers in showcase event
  • Town has going green in the bag
  • Town history walk
  • Town tax alert: our projects need cash
  • Town's youngsters honour fallen with a special tribute
  • 'Toxic diamond' of incinerators feared for area
  • Trade avalanche as demand for salt snowballs
  • Traders tremble over impact of parking charges
  • Traffic wardens in the name of ‘streamlining’ likely to hit the streets
  • Traffic wardens will be patrolling streets soon
  • Train services to be cut as part of major revamp
  • Transport festival given 'one more chance' with reduced council funding
  • Transport festival keeps on trucking
  • Tribute to Guiding hand who worked for children 'in the face of adversity'
  • Tributes are paid to a road crash victim
  • Tributes paid to one of village's 'oldest friends'
  • Tributes pour in for tragic farm worker
  • Trustees ask for more cash to repair grand old building
  • Two men killed after tipper truck touches overhead power line
  • Two-day transport festival is to have another chance
  • 'UFOs' could be lanterns
  • Unlucky break for McEnaney
  • Unlucky United miss out in cup tie thriller
  • Ursula enjoys a chapter as Tesco book selector
  • Victim due to speak at bail hostel protest
  • Victim support unit's new home a sign of its growth
  • Village fire station a waste of shopping space, report states
  • Village meeting place lost in two-hour blaze
  • Visa red tape puts marriage in a tangle
  • Wanted - residents' 2020 vision for town
  • Warring factions join forces in bid to solve festival parking issue
  • Waste incinerator stance is akin to a 'breath of fresh air'
  • 'Water board' thieves carry on with their 'check the taps' trick
  • We can fly! A banned club promises to use quieter model planes
  • 'We must fight plans to step up bail hostels use'
  • We need a lot of allotments, claims group
  • We were right, pitch plan will let builders in, says campaigner
  • We were robbed, claim pitches plan opponents
  • We will back school 100%
  • We’ll tell Cheshire East how to do car parking charges, say residents, traders and councillors
  • 'We'll never stop looking for Steven' - family vows
  • Well-earned points move Sandbach up in the league
  • What are new owners going to do with Old Hall, campaigners ask
  • Whirlwind weekend of fun for Tablers as Sandbach branch celebrates 60th anniversary
  • White paint marks out pavements in need of repairing
  • Will Holmes Chapel village ban HGVs?
  • Will land up for sale breathe life into business park bid?
  • Will new council raise the standards?
  • Winning weekend on the pitch for Holmes Chapel
  • Woman robbed at knifepoint behind town centre church
  • Woman's attackers still at large as police hunt falters
  • Woman's holiday jet horror at 30,000ft
  • 'Wonderful achievement' for confident Sandbach
  • Work begins on town’s cobbled market square
  • Working together to have a say under the new council regime
  • Young Chapel squad slips down to fourth
  • Village News Archive
  • A discovery centre to inspire budding young scientists and showcase research as it happens is planned for the University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Observatory near Holmes Chapel.
  • Access rights delay work on landmark rail bridge
  • Action taken to prevent dogging in village lay-by
  • Alleyway cleaned after commuter's dog mess moan
  • Alsager gets ready to rock at summer music festival
  • Alsager's roads closed during sewers upgrade
  • Analysing Arsenal squad's every move is a dream job
  • Annual arts festival set to be a sell-out success
  • Annual sheepdog trials
  • Army veteran finds ammunition in glove puppets
  • At last! Building work on surgery and homes should be starting soon
  • Back to the donkey cart for a Methodist preacher
  • 'Bad feeling' halts plans to sell Shipman's letters
  • Battlefield trip is prize for a pupils' war essay
  • Bid to ‘legalise’ land use fails to convince council
  • Big push for a paint brush-up
  • Bike crash boy helps to catch speeding drivers
  • Biker injures leg in A54 accident
  • Birthday girl kept good company for 100 years
  • Birthday girl Violet is 100
  • Birthday meal for Vera 90
  • Bosley for England in contest for the world tug of war title
  • Boundaries don't need changing: town council
  • Brown Lees And District Community Association
  • Bullet makers praised for response to Afghanistan
  • Bullets fire on all cylinders to race to a well won win
  • Bullets fired at within the first five minutes
  • Bullets' resistance was broken down in the end
  • Bullets-proof boss lives on with support of Town's fans
  • Call for meeting with councillor who backs the car park charges
  • Call for witnesses after two attacked outside a pub
  • Campus site plans go on show to the public
  • Caravans plan will create a new village, residents fear
  • Cash-strapped youth group forced to close
  • Cheshire East has 'little interest' in local councils - councillor claims
  • 'Children were truants because they were outsiders' court told
  • Christmas celebrations to be bigger and better
  • 'Chronicle' fan dies aged 104
  • Church invites all to hear organ's heavenly music
  • CHURCH LAWTON PARISH COUNCIL
  • Civic ball is cancelled for first time since Second World War
  • Climber Les comes back down to earth to run NY Marathon
  • 'Closing the school will close the village' - retired councillor
  • Closure-threatened school could win a reprieve today
  • Committed to future of town's community hub
  • Communication with passengers not good enough Network Rail told
  • Community helper Grace clocks off after 25 years
  • Congletonian Mark steers sledger to gold
  • Congletonian Tom will scale 10,000ft for foot
  • Co-op holds key to car parking charge rethink
  • Could the credit crunch hit health centre development?
  • Council can't charge us for using our own car park - headteacher
  • Council challenges moto-cross man’s right to ride claim
  • Council leader praises 'great attendance' for Remembrance Sunday
  • Council proposes to close Church Lawton Primary
  • Council sets ‘value for money’ budget
  • Council tax bill blunder sees Mow Cop woman battling with the bailiffs
  • Council trials 20mph limit outside schools
  • Council tries to obstruct free parking for parents
  • Councillors to check whether a house can go in back garden
  • Council's quarry vote was wrong, residents say in their campaign
  • Cowboys will be riding into town on carnival day
  • Crime falls but drugs are still a problem say police
  • Cyclists gear up for 38-mile charity trek
  • Dairy farming couple are ahead of the field
  • Dave takes over at A&A Music
  • Developer must prove affordable homes need
  • Difficult start to season goes on for the Bullets
  • Digging for 7 million tonnes of sand with expansion of quarry
  • Direct train service takes only two hours to London
  • Disabled sailors find haven after a stormy year at Rudyard Lake
  • Do you want fight against Portland Drive plans to continue, residents asked
  • Don’t point your litter finger at us says villager after ‘unfair’ TV shaming
  • Donate, don't dump, says charity shop
  • Don't let parking fines make driving even more expensive, police warn
  • Double celebration year for birthday boy Harry
  • Doubts cast over jobs pledge at plan inquiry
  • 'Dreadful' bus cut shock is slammed by town council
  • Drowning swimming club needs cash to keep afloat
  • Dunkirk veteran meets his band of brothers in London after 70 years
  • Eaton Parish Council news
  • Eddie the dog's owner has died
  • Employee praised for stopping £5k pensioner scam
  • End of school's American dream?
  • Everything from the garden was lovely
  • Ex-cadet now a Marine
  • Expansion of munitions factory brings jobs loss
  • Experts return to school to pass on their talents
  • Family run egg farm is praised as councillors approve new unit plan
  • Fan of Arnold Bennett finds new stories that are 'tip of the iceberg'
  • Farmers' milk money goes down the drain following dairy co-operative collapse
  • Father Nigel has another calling - on French radio
  • Fears over farm incomes after badger cull decision
  • Fence post decorations aren't smelling fragrant
  • Festival coup for young filmmaker
  • Festival was a feast of entertainment
  • Fight against quarry plan not yet over say residents
  • Fight to keep school failed, but 'we gave them a hell of a fight'
  • Fingers crossed for battling baby alpaca
  • Fire closes road
  • Firm had Kilimanjaro climbers wrapped up
  • Fisherman fell hook, line and sinker for his bride
  • Football club's 10-pitch plan decision goes
  • Former rector has new job at Derby Cathedral
  • Free parking time for school is 'too short'
  • Fuel thieves from 'over the border' hit the suburbs
  • Funds pulled for church redevelopment scheme
  • Future of Alsager schools could be placed on 'trust'
  • Gang pounces at garage cash point
  • Gardeners enjoy the fruits of their labour
  • Gawsworth Parish Council
  • Give the troops a rousing welcome on their march in our town: mayor
  • Glow ho ho! Nancy trips Mow Cop lights fantastic
  • Golf course in firing line if funding cuts go ahead
  • Governors plan to market closure-threatened school
  • Governors say goodbye
  • Great uncle went over the top, then died with honour
  • Gun club drinks licence request triggers protest
  • Happy day for diamond couple
  • Help needed to keep the runners on track
  • High degree of irritation results from university campus parking charge
  • Home-educated boy in nation's maths top 10 - two years early
  • Homes and business units earmarked for carton plant
  • Homes are being squeezed into every nook and cranny along Pikemere Road claim
  • Honours dished out to mark council's passing
  • 'Hooray, its here' but new store plan needs tweaking
  • Hospital friends' summer fete was a record-breaker
  • Hot under the collar over summer 'snow' blossom
  • Hundreds packed nature reserve for summer fete
  • 'I need to turn the water off' bogus builder tells victims
  • Info obtained in one go
  • Investigation into mystery lights above Mow Cop
  • iRead all about it
  • Irreplaceable records are stolen in church burglary
  • It would be a travesty if resident forced cricket club to fold: chairman
  • Jason appointed as the handyman around town
  • Job security for munitions workers after £40m boost
  • Jobs secured as homes plans get the go-ahead
  • Junior councillors' debates initiate summer workshops in drama and archaeology
  • Kerbing and car parking debated by parish council
  • Knypersley Community Association
  • KNYPERSLEY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
  • Lanes still need patching, parish councillors told
  • Last-minute shot clinched game
  • Latest Borough Plans
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  • Latest plans before council - COPY
  • Leader backs town bid to run civic hall
  • Lee’s strictly in the dancing mood after seeing a ‘Chron’ ad
  • Letters pray: new post box at church saves residents a long walk
  • Life sentence for girl's killer is cut because he remembers the crime
  • Litter pickers' goal was a cleaner town
  • Local newspapers are an 'unsung national treasure'
  • 'Losing touch with reality' jibe over park's louts is slammed at town meeting
  • Lottery money helps the work of two organisations
  • Man accused of pub assault and other offences
  • Man killed by van after dream move to London
  • Man who wants house in his garden will not take 'no' for an answer
  • Meeting to discuss parking permits for primary school
  • Men who used 'a good quality house' to grow cannabis plants jailed
  • Middlewich incinerator plan becomes talk of the towns
  • Missing Alsager woman is found
  • Moorlands plans
  • More questions help to ensure Milton Park will be what the people want
  • More space will be needed for burials close to home
  • Motor repair shop folds
  • Mourners enjoy a raffle at fund-raiser Mary's funeral
  • Move to town if you want to expand - Betchton boss told
  • Munitions factory builders must avoid town's 'narrow and bendy roads': council
  • Munitions factory gets an investment shot in the arm
  • My name should not have been on surgery petition
  • New benches for village
  • New home sought for North Rode PO
  • New organ is music to ears of villagers
  • New Saturday farmers' market is dreaded by struggling stallholders
  • News from Odd Rode Parish Council
  • No change is expected at market after takeover
  • No plans for safety measures at spot where 12-year-old girl was injured
  • Nothing against your school but we want to close it - council
  • OAP passengers unhappy with change to bus service
  • Odd Rode Parish Council
  • ODD RODE PARISH COUNCIL
  • ODD RODE PARISH COUNCIL
  • Odd Rode Parish to get two digital speed displays
  • Oh baby, you're the best!
  • Old school building could be second village centre
  • One-hit wonder Chesney leaves Can't Sing choristers on a high
  • Organ player pulls out all the stops to mark 65 years of music making
  • Our countryside is worth fighting for, council told
  • Outcry over danger road after 12-year-old injured
  • Panel will choose a new town councillor
  • Parade honours soldiers who lost lives in battle
  • Parents invited to meeting on plans to change school
  • Parish council has plans to increase its strength
  • Parish council still waiting for a contact list from Cheshire East
  • Parish councillors disappointed
  • Park security guards 'make perfect sense'
  • Parking charges will 'rip the heart out of Alsager' council told
  • Parking fees will penalise us for visiting school and library, residents fear
  • Partnerships with other communities will work, but please make it easy
  • Penalty shoot out ended in disaster
  • Permanently out of order, but a red icon to villagers
  • Petition power aims to stop parking fees plan
  • Phone boxes that no one uses could have new community role
  • Pit bull terrier kills family pet in park
  • Plan for 'strong and viable' Alsager town
  • Planning applications before East Cheshire Council
  • Pleas to keep Fairview car park charge-free earn 'consideration'
  • Pole-vaulter measures up to quest for glory in 2012
  • Police appeal for help in missing woman search
  • Police appeal for help to solve theft of safe
  • Police appeal for witnesses to crash
  • Police call for witnesses to a multi-vehicle death crash
  • Police chief asked to face residents and councillors
  • Police go on rail station patrol to stop vandalism
  • Police hunt 'low lives' after passengers beat and rob their taxi driver
  • Police pick up doorstep 'artists' who acted dumb
  • Police say town has drugs problem after three arrests in week
  • Procession roll gets longer for Congleton Carnival 2010
  • Progress being made on future funding of PCSO
  • Public invited to have a say on Alsager's future
  • Pupils and staff celebrate outstanding Ofsted report
  • Pupils read all about teacher's canal days
  • Quiet night reported after anti-social behaviour blitz
  • RAF officer's family story of WW1 courage brings home meaning of Remembrance
  • Ram raiders strike
  • Residents are furious at planners over new twist
  • Residents can help shape town improvement plans
  • Residents log dates and times of industrial noise
  • Residents told to 'step up' if they want more social events
  • Residents urged to prune hedges
  • Residents voice concerns at campus plan exhibition
  • Residents won't have to pay more for better services: town council
  • Roadside blaze
  • Rubbish dump now a beauty spot 'just as nature intended'
  • Rudyard was ready to spot the enemy tanks
  • Rules not always right so let this family firm grow, say councillors
  • Runners will be on their marks in Gawsworth
  • Sandbach gymnast Alex strikes gold at Olympics
  • Sandy Lane plan removal was year's main success
  • Scholar Green health centre plan go-ahead
  • School meeting was poorly organised, parents claimed
  • Schools' freedom could 'lead way to privatisation'
  • Second arrest is made after man's death in London
  • Shame on you, arson attack eyewitness tells fire-starters
  • Shop can keep drink licence but must meet 'Challenge 2l'
  • Shot-stopper’s ice show proves net gain for team
  • Sky's the limit for David
  • Smallwood Parish Council
  • Smallwood Parish Council
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  • Smallwood Parish Council
  • Smallwood Parish Council meeting
  • Soccer club cash appeal after vandals strike again
  • Sofa went up in flames at house
  • Some are still not old enough to vote but young people know what they want from the next MP
  • Somerford Parish Council
  • SOMERFORD PARISH COUNCIL
  • SOMERFORD PARISH COUNCIL
  • Somerford Parish Council
  • SOMERFORD PARISH COUNCIL
  • Speed limit down from 60 to 40mph ‘reflects aspiration of residents’for village
  • Speeding drivers could be logged by villagers
  • Stabbed woman dies: police have arrested man (70)
  • Staff must move with One Stop Shop plea
  • Staff sent home after overnight store blaze
  • Stall parking fees until we see new store plan, town council is urging
  • Stamp your mark on village's parish plan
  • Star treatment for Vale's biggest fan
  • Streamlining puts council jobs at risk
  • Success breeds success as Philip's horse proved
  • Successful Goosfest will be 'even bigger and better' next year
  • Surprise party was hit with Hilda (90)
  • Switched on to making Christmas even better
  • Test purchaser 'looked old enough to buy drink'
  • The Bullets come out flying on the pitch for Alsager
  • Thieves are urged to return rare road sign
  • Threat to provision of jobs led to houses plan refusal
  • Together again, 50 years after they were at school
  • Town at top of list for an economic boost - survey
  • Town could avoid parking fees by paying more in tax
  • Town could soon have ownership of civic hall
  • Town councillors flushed with rage as toilet revamp plan goes down the pan
  • Town grapples with its age groups imbalance
  • Town plans aim to keep people shopping there
  • Town sings praises of choir's loyal conductor
  • 'Town will suffer if car parking charges are forced through'
  • Town's popular inroad to close for nine weeks
  • Trapped woman rescued from car
  • Tributes pour in for respected former Town Mayor Dorothy
  • Triple bill opens art centre's final spring season
  • TWEMLOW PARISH COUNCIL
  • TWEMLOW PARISH COUNCIL
  • Two councillors thanked for their years of service
  • Twyfords jobs at risk of going down the pan
  • Ukulele link led to bond with a Beatle
  • Unconscious sledger boy rescued by air ambulance
  • University honours sporting star couple
  • Vandals targeted pub just days after it closed down
  • VC hero saved his major from Russians at Crimea
  • Village fights to save school train service
  • Village is ready to rock during summer festival
  • Village prepares to celebrate its 150th May Day
  • Village says there is no need for an incinerator
  • Village Scouts prepared for Xmas post avalanche
  • Villagers plan to stop ‘aggressive’ drivers
  • Waiting times easier after station facelift
  • Wanted: Goostrey villagers' home grown war tales
  • Warning about security after village burglaries
  • Waste collections will be fortnightly from end of July
  • 'Water board official' refused to go away
  • We made a parish plan, so it's over to you residents told
  • Website crime map shows a better-behaved Alsager
  • We'll call it 'Salamanca Lodge' says new owner
  • Will antique shop be transformed into a new café?
  • Willow Street closed
  • Woman had asked GP for help just before her death
  • Woman's escape from fire prompts warning about smoke alarms
  • World Cup thrill kicks off Congleton Carnival
  • Xmas lights collection gets volt of thanks from church
  • Young and old rocked by concerts at Milton Park
  • Young are keen to vote after expenses scandal
  • Young tricksters trio cons two residents
  • Youth centre allowed, but residents told not to worry
  • Youth centre calls on the professionals to assist ‘exciting plans’
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