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‘Unbearable future’ for residents when new estate is built

Almost driven to insecticide when swarms of flies invaded

Business centre firms will not be pushed out

Could the Grampian condition kick-start plan for 200 houses?

Dark days lie ahead, warns council chief

Drinking in extra time granted at Town clubhouse

Freedom of the town honour for Dutch vets

Grass over threat for floral displays

Hungry Stoat lands Council in doghouse

Is the Congleton First party over?

It’s time to deal with drugs use

Lead thieves’ jail sentences reduced after court outcry

Legal hold-up stalls revamp of town centre

MP praises hard work of village for its new hall

On the picket line in a fight for pensions

Remembering happy times with Madelena

Residents told to bag rubbish that won’t be collected for a month

Treatment at the dentist’s was not safe

What’s happened to missing Madelena?

‘Blood on the floor’ after an attack in pub

‘Disappointing’ only a dozen turned up to community meeting

Biddulph has ‘enough car park spaces’

Council rejects proposal to cut Cabinet posts

Impact on town of health centre building works

Judge doubts knife was used in attack

No waste will be collected on strike day

October opening for temporary PO ahead of permanent solution

Parking ticket conman has to pay £2,500

Petition ramps up backing for skateboarders

Police helicopter tracked down a car fire suspect

Protestors aren’t feeling jolly about chippy plan

Pub could be the place to vote as well

Pure compost after change to bin service

Put ‘Moorlands’ in our address: council leader

Supermarket spot for new post office?

Tormentor of a grieving family is behind bars

Troublemakers kept well away for Hogmanay

A greenfield guard site to have houses

Abbeyfields homes plan is lost at appeal

Continental-style drinking is not working: council

Councillor cleared of being rude after row over parking charges

Councillor’s bid to waive £11,200 is turned down

Estate could be built due to legal error

Family ‘shame’ of woman who stole from grandmother

Honest scrap dealers caught up in raid to recover stolen metal

Man with guns and ammo stash is jailed

Market traders can hope for a rent rise U-turn

No appetite for alfresco café licence

Olympic torch will reach for the stars

Standing by for the unknown as strike looms

Trailblazer Emma makes history on a fund-raising run across South Africa

We could not keep Sam’s promise, says council leader

‘We should be backing HS2 line’

After Goosfest success, organisers look to 2012

Aiming to draw a line through high-speed rail link speculation

Bye bye beard! Clean-shaven Chris raises cash for Crossroads

Council has plans to turn Milton Park into entertainment venue

Green light for town’s new rewards scheme

Hair-raising experience for ‘Chronicle’ reporter

In One Direction to top of the charts

Jodrell Bank’s homes plan concerns failed to radiate

Latest plans before council

Milton Park entertainment worry ‘is a misconception’

Opening of bullet factory protects 480 Alsager jobs

Supermarket ‘would bleed shops dry’

Thirty shops sign up for new loyalty card scheme

Congleton News Archive

‘Shame on you’ if school transport price rise is made

‘Town with big heart’ to take in injured heroes

‘Wonder drug’ helped to save cancer patient

Alfresco? Council will frisk café owners of cash: business leader

Bears are christened

Body found near canal after call to police by relative

Cat killer 'needs to be named and shamed'

Complaints against police have risen in the last year

Council boss survives annual meeting item that wasn't on agenda

Crematorium running at half of its capacity

Do builders want to change history at a proposed site?

Easy choice for voters in two new rural wards

Eco school bid for Leo’s field

Election results

'Hard times' for Congleton man

House prices fall by £20,000 in year

Housing estate ‘will be an accident waiting to happen’

Jail term for drug grower

Keen cyclist dies in A50 collision

Kids shouldn't be sexualised message goes to the very top

Medical centre plan is in good health despite cuts

Pet's ear bitten off in attack by another dog

Proposal for bus service linking shopping centres

Pupils ‘mortified’ after Bosley Bear is stolen

Riverboat man floats idea of a new restaurant

Secret talks on bus service cuts

Somewhere that can ease the tension for separated families

Tattooist's ink not even dry yet on record deal

Tories didn't pay price for parking fees

We can make town the next Alderley Edge

Young anglers can pool their talents at new fishing contest

Biddulph News Archive

A car park for workers could free up Wharf Road spaces

Amateur snaps saved the day for council's Mercian march artist

Are you ready for the switchover to digital?

BROWN LEES AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION

Burial ground plan finally going ahead

Call for police station and clean streets in 'big' survey

Children swing into action a few weeks early at a play area

Council gets stick for lollipop cuts ‘U-turn’

Council officer on the spot over plan for old factory site

Councillor amazed only one dog fouling penalty issued in Biddulph area

Crash victim's friends appalled by comments

Group faces a dilemma over village green wall

High hopes for Victorian tower

Independents shine, but Tories are still in charge

'New plan brings mast even closer'

Next move to bring a market to Biddulph

Only one person shows up to meeting, so ‘does town centre have no problems?’

Park Lane care home is on a takeover list

Police figures back safer Biddulph claim

Poor signal for some mobile phone users

Post delivery service is far from first class

Public have their say about future of 77 Tunstall Road

Pupils miss places in popular schools

Six GPs lead health service changes in the Moorlands

Store chain boss says Sainsbury's has upset the balance for town

'Thank you Biddulph for giving my son a chance'

Wheelchair theft has trapped disabled boy

Woman hit in face on the school run

Sandbach News Archive

‘Active and cheerful’ widows die in crash

‘Stitched up’ councillor kicked off park project

Accountant to waive council allowances

Bail hostel protest group leader leaves

Bats bring work to a halt at old hotel site

Blog that helps parents makes awards shortlist

Brainstorming ideas aim to turn town hall into a money-spinner

Can we run the town hall better, that's the question

Children’s home is closing to cut costs

Compromise on market rents ‘misses the point’

Council apologises for the apology after its school places blunder

Council delay over plan for 'new village'

Farm site planners 'take on board' public's views

Good godfather! ‘Mafia’ accounts jibe at council’s finance meeting

Housing scheme 'will enhance appearance of conservation area'

I'll jump off a 131ft high building to say thanks to hospital that saved my son

Last stand for market traders who refuse to pay extra rent charge

New coffee shop will Costa us customers, town's traders claim

New leads raise fresh hope for a missing man's family

New Wheelock mast is not 'alien', says council planner

Newts to the rescue of incinerator's foes

Partnership and town councillors are friends again

Partnership chairman accused by councillor

Police eye in the sky had people looking upwards

Residents gear up to keep out the big lorries

Right royal warning over public inquiry into 280-homes plan

Roma says 'My big fat gypsy wedding' has destroyed her people

Sandbach the place to build, inquiry is told

Solution to junction 17 trouble next year?

'There's no way I'm going to pay': café owner slams proposed 'pavement tax'

Travellers' pitch 'invasion' ends without trouble

We need more than minimum price for booze

Will developers get residents’ ‘No’ message?

Work starts on new hall's foundations

You can run the markets but you can’t have the car parks, Cheshire East tells Sandbach

Village News Archive

Aid en route to Japan

Alsager bucks trend and re-elects all the Lib Dem councillors

Alsager train link to London is not being derailed

Bells to ring at celebration to mark a new-look church

Butcher's sausages a sizzling success

Chop for cop shop that 'does not have a positive image'?

Church accounts show 'positive signs'

Dogs destroyed after killing ewes

Firefighters kept busy on the M6

Guides ‘appalled and saddened’ by vandal attack at meeting hall

It's Jodrell Bank but not as we know it: new £3m discovery centre opens

Man (90) is victim of 'water board' conmen

Mum fund-raises for hospital that saved baby's life

New chapter for Congleton Library

ODD RODE PARISH COUNCIL

Police hunt Holmes Chapel fire-starters

Residents' views wanted on take-over of public services

See what's changed in Alsager since the 80s

Slow paste of wallpaper firm held up agreement

SMALLWOOD PARISH COUNCIL

Sony gold award for Scholar Green radio producer Emma

The writing is on the wallpaper if company does not sign in time

Train link to London is at risk amid efficiency drive

Two phone companies favour Christ Church site for their new mast

War museum coup for Sandbach author Jean

What's the payback from rent rise: market traders

Will Zoe be hired?

Work on new store to start ‘at the earliest opportunity’

Young garden designer inspired by floods risk

Battling Bears finally break the deadlock in 63rd minute

Bears deserved their one point after a tough match

Bears dumped out of Cup in woeful display

Cup defeat exposed weaknesses again

Fickle finger of fortune favoured Town in derby

New faces add a new dimension to Bears

Second from bottom Bears have to start clawing back points

Loads of points are a must after defeat to Malpas

Worst performance of season for 1st XI

Great second half display from 1sts

Half-time talk works wonders

Sandbach feel the burn against blazing Burnage

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A world of rare and exotic plants at Biddulph Grange

Breaking records since records began

Hall says hello to Haile

Home of the world's first factories

Introducing the 'greatest ever Neolithic monument'

Marton man coins a phrase Down Under

The bogus countess of Congleton

Truck giants were once the driving force in town

When cattle, not cars, were driven through main street

When Congleton had 34 town centre pubs...

Crime Through the Ages

Black night at Whitemoor

When we had our own bobbies

The Military in Congleton

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