Features & Lifestyle

Nantwich girl defies the Miss England stereotype to make national final!

Nantwich girl defies the Miss England stereotype to make national final!

Eleanor Farr admits she’s “not your conventional beauty queen”

But this South Cheshire businesswoman is defying the Miss England stereotype – she wears Doc Martens, shuns make-up, and displays her surgery scars with pride!

July 17, 2019
32% cars fail MOT in North West under new tests

32% cars fail MOT in North West under new tests

New research shows 32% of vehicles in Cheshire and North West are failing the new MOT tests.

Yet, the 68% pass rate is one of the highest in the UK, according to the study by breakdown cover provider Green Flag.

July 13, 2019
Readers’ Letters: Barony Park injunction not “silver bullet” to stop travellers

Readers’ Letters: Barony Park injunction not “silver bullet” to stop travellers

Dear editor
Last week’s front page of the Chronicle seemed to be ‘givin it large’ about Kieran Mullan’s suggestion that Cheshire East Council needs to apply for an injunction to prevent travellers occupying the Barony Park, as though an injunction is the “silver bullet” to prevent further occupation.

July 7, 2019
Readers’ Letters: Time for Nantwich residents to tackle the weeds!

Readers’ Letters: Time for Nantwich residents to tackle the weeds!

Dear Editor,
I have lived in Nantwich for nearly 40 years and feel disappointed at how it is looking mainly due to weeds in gutters and public areas that are no longer being treated by the council.

July 6, 2019
Readers’ Letters: “Why don’t horse owners clean up their mess?”

Readers’ Letters: “Why don’t horse owners clean up their mess?”

Cheshire East Council has spent a great deal of money publicising the fact that for owners not to clean up after your dog has emptied its bowels is illegal.

July 2, 2019
Readers’ Letters:  Openness and Transparency at Cheshire East Council

Readers’ Letters: Openness and Transparency at Cheshire East Council

Dear editor
It is just over 7 weeks since the local Council elections of May 2 saw the overwhelming Conservative majority at Cheshire East Council, a majority in place since the council’s inception in 2009, evaporate with the loss of 18 seats, leaving the Conservatives 8 Councillors short and unable to form the ruling administration.

June 24, 2019
Electric Vehicle drivers in Cheshire exposed to danger, warns charity

Electric Vehicle drivers in Cheshire exposed to danger, warns charity

Electric Vehicle drivers in Cheshire are charging their cars dangerously due to lack of public infrastructure, a charity has claimed.

Consumer protection charity Electrical Safety First say 72% of EV users in the region admit they charge dangerously due to absence of local public charging points.

June 17, 2019
Can technology resolve the parking crisis in the UK?

Can technology resolve the parking crisis in the UK?

SPONSORED FEATURE
There are millions of vehicles in the UK, and most of them are parked more than 90% of the time.

That is a lot of vehicles that need space in a country that is not friendly to parked vehicles.

June 13, 2019
Former air hostess from Wistaston flying high with first novel

Former air hostess from Wistaston flying high with first novel

Former air hostess Karen Kelly from Wistaston is flying high after self-publishing her first novel!

Read all about how her new book, Lillian White’s Journey, has been more than 15 years in the making.

June 4, 2019
Readers’ Letters: Stop employers paying benefit “cheats” in cash

Readers’ Letters: Stop employers paying benefit “cheats” in cash

Is anybody else sick of benefit cheats who claim all sorts yet work cash in hand and spend money on holidays, iPhones, drink, drugs and complain about not enough help?

June 4, 2019
Readers’ Letters: Fears over “accident blackspot” in Wistaston

Readers’ Letters: Fears over “accident blackspot” in Wistaston

I am fearful that the roads in the village of Wistaston where I live will become an accident blackspot due to the associated rise in traffic of several hundred occupants vehicles, on completion of two new, large housing estates Wistaston Brook and Kingfisher Reach

May 23, 2019
Readers’ Letters: Close busy roads during Jazz Festival, urges mum

Readers’ Letters: Close busy roads during Jazz Festival, urges mum

I am writing to you in connection with the festival. Fifteen years ago my son was hit by a police car on Welsh Row.

We spent four years getting all his injuries to enable him to have a quality of life …the long term affects were the bleed he had on his brain of which he never recovered.

May 19, 2019
Finding work – how distance learning can boost employability

Finding work – how distance learning can boost employability

SPONSORED FEATURE
The UK is currently experiencing the lowest rates of unemployment since the 1970s.

For some perspective, this means unemployment has never been so low since the Vietnam War was coming to an end and Jaws was hitting the big screen.

May 14, 2019