Owners always tell me their dogs are intelligent but it isn’t true. Ask a dog to hop over a fence of varying height and they can’t work out that low is easier than high. There is however one skill in which they excel: reading other animals and that
THE family of a woman whose body was found by police at an address in Handforth have paid tribute to her. Pamela Ann Mellor, of Stoneyfold Lane, Bosley, near Macclesfield, was a 55-year-old mother of four adult children. Her family are being
FORMER England international rugby union player Steve Smith will be sharing stories at The Mere Golf Resort and Spa. Steve will be speaking at a Sportsman’s Dinner on Friday, October 4 to help raise funds for the Children’s Adventure Farm Trust,
WILMSLOW High School’s headteacher has praised the ‘fantastic’ GCSE results achieved by his students. With 85 per cent of Wilmslow High School students gaining a grade 4 or above in English and 83 per cent in mathematics, performance in the key
ALDERLEY Edge School for Girls is celebrating outstanding GCSE results. Almost 30 per cent of all grades awarded were at the highest 9 or 8 grades, more than seven percentage points up on last year. The highest grades of 9, 8 or 7, equivalent
STUDENTS from Alderley Edge and Handforth are celebrating outstanding GCSE results. The trio are students at King’s School in Macclesfield, which produced a record set of GCSE results. A remarkable 35 per cent of all grades are at 9/8 (A*), up
KNUTSFORD FC have hit out at Altrincham FC for sending a team “against the spirit” of football for Tuesday night’s clash. Chairman of Knutsford, Jimmy Evans, highlighted how the Altrincham Reserves side that won 6-1 included seven first-teamers
STUDENTS and teachers at Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School are celebrating outstanding success in this year’s GCSE examinations. Executive headteacher Denis Oliver said: “This is an outstanding and well-deserved set of results for everyone associated
KNUTSFORD Academy is celebrating its excellent GCSE results. Headteacher James Whittaker congratulated the students on their hard work and well-deserved success. He said: “These results represent a tremendous achievement for the students who
WHILE the Government’s promise to recruit 20,000 police officers to replace those lost in the drive for austerity is welcome one wonders at the sheer waste of money involved in this apparent act of repentance. However, John Dwyer, the Conservative
THE only thing that Simon Hutchence got right in his last letter is that I’m unhappy. But I’ve got news for you, Simon. I’m not the only one who is unhappy. All town centre residents I know are very unhappy with an unelected highhanded man from another
SARA Grove states that anyone can buy property anywhere in the EU. This may well be true but if they wish to live in that property they have to meet residency requirements. Once we have lost our freedom of movement post-Brexit, many of us
PLEASE, Mr Misogynist Hutchence, don’t patronise me by dismissing my letter as ridiculous. Such behaviour is typical of someone keeping women in their place; he has done it with Jo Carter, and now tries it on with me. As a Bexton councillor
I DON’T mind being criticised for my views, but it would help if critics actually read what I wrote. Sara Grove complains that I don’t regard the Balkans as European. What I actually wrote was that, at the time of the civil war, the Balkans were
COTTONS Hotel and Spa in Knutsford has secured Tatton Park’s former head gardener to host a lunch event today, Thursday, August 22. Sam Youd, the man who brought the RHS Flower Show to the North, will be the special guest at ‘The Gardener’s Palette
