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  • 24 drivers caught speeding in Chelford Road

    TWENTY-four drivers were caught speeding in Chelford Road on Tuesday, September 3, by PCSO Chris Pountain, using the TruCam device, the highest speed of the vehicles recorded exceeding the 30mph limit being 43mph.

  • Knutsford Literature Festival runs from October 12 to 16

    CATE Haste, Dan Jones, Sonia Purnell and Rachel Reeves will be appearing at the 20th Knutsford Literature Festival next month. The festival runs from October 12 to 16, and will be the last in what has become a highlight of the town’s autumn season

  • LETTER: Sound basis for future

    CHESHIRE East Conservatives welcome the Spending Round announcements that launch an ambitious agenda that reflects the public’s priorities and marks a welcome move away from austerity. We have long recognised the excellence of our local schools

  • LETTER: Losing sight of democracy

     WHATEVER side of the Brexit debate readers may be on, people have lost sight of what parliamentary democracy means, which is perhaps not surprising in all the circumstances. Parliament has not undermined democracy and ‘taken control’ – it was

  • Open letter to Ester McVey

     AN open letter to MP Esther McVey: Much as I respect your deeply held views on the wisdom of a departure of the UK from the European Union, I wish to convey to you my alarm at the decision of the Prime Minister to ask Her Majesty the Queen to prorogue

  • LETTER: Act of kindness restores faith

     ON Saturday afternoon, I visited a shop on King Street, Knutsford, to purchase a card and present for my wife’s birthday. Even though I’m now retired, I do regretfully fall into the all-too-familiar category of someone squeezing in a few-toomany-

  • Brewing up for cancer charity

     I’M proud to be supporting Bowel Cancer UK’s Brew Together. Every 15 minutes someone is diagnosed with bowel cancer in the UK. That’s 42,000 people every year. Held at home, in a community hall or at work, Brew Together is the perfect chance to

  • LETTER: Remainer MPs ignore majority

     THE fact that the Remainer MPs appear happy to take a ‘no deal’ solution off the table proves two things. One – that they have no business acumen. That is something you just don’t do! And second – despite that, most of them voted for Article

  • Price at the helm as Peover stay afloat

    PEOVER secured their Cheshire Cricket League Division Three status with a draw against Audlem at Wellbank Lane on Saturday. Peover were asked to bat on a drying wicket and once again Stephen Price, 80, was the lynchpin of the innings as the home

  • Club misses out on bringing the Bell Cup home

    PIKE Fold Golf Club, the home club of the MDLGA President Linda England, provided a course in excellent condition and with plenty of challenges to set up another thrilling finals day for the historic Bell Cup. The competition was begun in 1911 and

  • 'I thought I was about to die'

    A MUM horrifically injured after being savagely attacked by her ex-boyfriend has vowed to help save the lives of other victims by opening the town’s first domestic abuse clinic. Abi Blake suffered a permanently damaged spinal cord, punctured lung