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Long-awaited demolition work on the empty former Ellesmere Port council offices - which include an underground bunker - has ...

A pregnant Cheshire woman visited her drug dealing boyfriend in jail - but ended up behind bars herself. Only days before, ...

An 11-year-old boy has died after being hit by a car while riding his bicycle. Emergency services were called to the ...

Also locked up during the course of the month was a pervert caught secretly filming women in a leisure centre changing room, ...

Wide-scale regeneration plans could completely transform a town centre. Halton Council's executive board has been advised in a report to approve the Widnes Town Centre Regeneration Framework, a scheme ...

Plans have been submitted to flatten a former recreation centre in Winsford to make way for the next phase of town centre regeneration. An application for prior approval for demolition has been lodged ...

A driver had been drinking when he mowed down a woman on Blackpool tram tracks. Stephen Walkinshaw, of Danebridge Place, Congleton, failed to stop following the collision and a pursuit ensued. The ...

A man from Nantwich strangled his ex-girlfriend, spat in her face and held a knife over her threatening to kill her. The incident of extreme abuse came after she rejected his advances. Jacob Rose, of ...