Proud local Knutsfordian, Guy Wolstencroft aged 42.5, is embarking on running Europe’s toughest and most brutal marathon, at Mont Blanc, Chamonix. Rather than ask for the usual charitable money donations, Guy is asking people to donate a pint of their blood for FREE. He has set a target of 2011 pints by July with a [...]
SPONSORED FEATURE A B&B business in Betws-y-Coed, Snowdonia, is laying down a challenge for Green Tourism Week: travel from your home to the top of Snowdon using only public transport. http://www.greentourismweek.co.uk Bryn Bella Guest House, run by owners Mark and Joan Edwards, overlooks the landmark town of Betws-y-Coed in Snowdonia National Park, and is just [...]
ROBERTS Bakery is asking all budding chefs to use their loaves and submit their best recipes incorporating bread as an ingredient. The master chef who comes up with the best creation will have it reproduced in the Food Live Theatre at this year’s Cheshire County Show in June. “As well as being great for toast [...]
Two new mums at Tatton’s Home Farm are tickled pink-ish with their new babies! On May 14 ‘Ursula’ a Red Poll cow calved a female heifer called ‘Tatton Yarrow.’ The day before, Friday, May 13, was lucky for another Home Farm resident as ‘Sugar’ a Red Dexter cow had a beautiful male calf called, appropriately [...]
A new project led by Cheshire Wildlife Trust will discover more about one of the region’s most secretive animals, the dormouse. The common dormouse or hazel dormouse was last recorded in the wild in Cheshire over a century ago, however during 1996 and 1997 a project saw a number of the tiny mammals re-introduced to [...]
Local children’s charity, The Children’s Adventure Farm Trust, have their amazing supporters to thank for raising £17,000 at their 11th Annual Golf Day which was held at The Mere on 12th May. 22 teams had a fabulous day of golfing at the prestigious club followed by a fabulous Prize-giving Dinner in the evening. The day [...]
Coronation Street favourites Lee Boardman and Jennifer James, aka bad lad Jez Quigley and barmaid Geena Gregory, are helping to kick-start a local charity’s Ladies Lunch event. The husband and wife team got into the glamour of the event when they visited the charity recently, sporting feather boas and elegant outfits! The 17th June will [...]
Says business group in the wake of Project Merlin’s poor lending figures The Forum of Private Business is responding to the announcement that the UK’s major banks are more than £2 billion short of hitting their small business lending target by repeating its calls for better competition, more investment in regional branches and the restoration [...]
On Friday 27th May, at Northwich Memorial Hall, three local Amateur Theatre groups will pay tribute to a well-loved friend and fellow performer, Mrs Anne Hooker. Amateur theatre was a big part of Anne’s life. She met her husband, Roy, when they both played the lead roles in South Pacific back in 1964. Both of [...]
A group of ‘calendar girls’ from Macclesfield have stripped off to help promote their fundraising campaign at this year’s Cheshire County Show. The Macc Calendar girls posed for a photograph on the Cheshire County Showground to help launch their ‘Bras in the Car’ challenge at this year’s event. The women have been busy collecting unwanted [...]
