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Chess make all the right moves

11:50am Saturday 26th July 2008

ALDERLEY Edge based Chess Telecom was a finalist in two categories in the National Business Awards North West finals at Liverpool's ACC last Thursday.

Brave cadets tackle weather

11:50am Saturday 26th July 2008

CADETS and adult Instructors from the Cheshire Army Cadet Force braved wind and rain in Moel Famau country park in North Wales for their Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Expedition last weekend.

Planning applications

11:30am Saturday 26th July 2008

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Macclesfield District Hospital, Victoria Road, Macclesfield, SK10 3BL: single storey extension to mental health day unit.

Assault ends with man in hospital

11:30am Saturday 26th July 2008

A SECOND serious assault within ten days in the Wood Street area of Macclesfield has put another man in hospital with severe head injuries.

Sign up for midnight walk

11:51am Friday 25th July 2008

SIR Nicholas Winterton, MP, is calling on local people to sign up for East Cheshire Hospice’s first ever Midnight Walk on Saturday September 13.

Engine failure killed pilot

11:44am Friday 25th July 2008

AN adventurous man who beat cancer three times, died when his plane plummeted to the ground after the engine cut out, an inquest revealed.

Aaron has sights set on China

Aaron Cook

11:32am Friday 25th July 2008

MACCLESFIELD’s Olympic hopeful in Beijing next month, 17-year-old Aaron Cook, took up Taekwondo at the age of five because he wanted to be a Power Ranger.

Do you know this Chappie?

11:35am Friday 25th July 2008

STAFF at Windyway animal sanctuary are keen to trace the owners of a young dog found in a Gawsworth Road garden a fortnight ago.

M56 closed

12:52pm Thursday 24th July 2008

THE M56 has been closed in an Easterly direction because of a seriousc ar accident.

New chief constable announced

11:02am Thursday 24th July 2008

GREATER Manchester Police’s new chief constable has been named as Peter Fahy - currently top cop at Cheshire Constabulary.


National News

Army dog handler 'was due to leave'

Lance Corporal Kenneth Michael Rowe of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps

Updated 12:56am Sunday 27th July 2008

The British Army dog handler killed in Afghanistan was due to leave front line duties the day before he died, the Ministry of Defence has said.


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