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A new Aldi store and a Starbucks drive-thru planned for Congleton should be open for business next year. Cheshire East’s strategic planning board approved the scheme for the supermarket, coffee shop and another retail unit at Viking Way on Wednesday (S…
A 60-year-old man stopped in a Mazda on the M6 in Cheshire with cocaine worth more than £50,000 has been jailed.
Gary Boone – from Somerset – admitted two drugs offences and has now been locked up by a judge for four years. Police stopped the car near …
There are major delays on the M6 this afternoon as multiple incidents have blocked a section of the motorway on both sides.
Three out of four lanes are currently closed northbound near Junction 17 for Sandbach, with traffic reportedly queuing back seve…
Police have closed a lane on a busy stretch of the M6 after a crash in Cheshire. The southbound side of the motorway is reportedly gridlocked
The accident has happened between juntions 18 and 19, for Middlewich/Holmes Chapel[1] and Knutsford[2], respec…
17 August 2023
Cheshire East Council has submitted its petition against the second additional provision to the HS2 Phase 2b Hybrid Bill – continuing to seek the best possible outcomes for the borough and its communities from the arrival of high-speed r…
A crash between a lorry and a car closed two lanes on the M6 earlier this evening. Traffic was queuing due to the smash on the northbound carriageway between junction 18 and junction 19 in Cheshire.
Lanes three and four were closed at around 6.45pm. Li…
As part of a wider £60 million investment programme, significant additional capacity for electric vehicle charging has been created at the region’s busiest motorway services.
Upgrades carried out on the electricity network mean that around 350 rapid el…
Two lanes of the M6 Northbound have been closed following a crash.
The closure is in place between J18 (Middlewich/Holmes Chapel) and J19 (Knutsford).
This has led to “severe” and “increasing” delays and queuing traffic, the AA’s website states.
Accord…
A DISCARDED vacuum cleaner battery is believed to have started a fire in a waste disposal lorry at Warrington.
The blaze was in Lincoln Close, Woolston early this morning and three fire engines were sent to the scene.Waste material was removed from the…
Cheshire’s five-time Olympic gold medalist Dame Laura Kenny has welcomed a baby boy. Dame Laura and her husband, seven-time Olympic champion Sir Jason Kenny, welcomed baby Montgomery on Thursday evening (July 20).
Dame Laura announced the birth on Inst…
Protestors gathered at Northwich railway station yesterday to protest the closure of the station’s ticket office. Over 20 local residents, inculding disability campaigners, rail workers and the local MP gathered outside the station Sunday (July 16).
Un…
Angus Kitcher, of Manchester Road, pleaded guilty to exceeding the 70mph speed limit at Manchester Magistrates Court on July 7.
The 25-year-old was caught on camera driving a Vauxhall Astra Estate car on the M62 westbound between junction 11 and 12 at …
Motorists were warned a stretch of the M6 northbound was shut this morning – after a ‘defect’ was found. And specialist engineers were called to assess the discovery, with major disruption ongoing.
However it means the stretch between Junction 18 and 1…
The motorway was closed northbound this morning between junctions 19, for Knutsford, and 18, for Middlewich, after the defect was discovered overnight while roadworks were taking place.
There were long delays throughout the morning, but two lanes have …