News in Macclesfield

Giving back is in the air in Macclesfield this Christmas, as a Bollington company has generously gifted over over £1,000 to East Cheshire Hospice.

The Macclesfield good cause has been handed thanks to a 'Will Week' initiative by Bollington-based specialist wills and trusts company, Moneybox Wills and Trusts.

The Silk Road will be shut on one of the first days of the new year.

It is to allow construction workers to prepare for an access point to the new retail park on Barracks Mill, off've Macclesfield's Back Lane.

Care workers in Macclesfield should be well paid for doing a tough and sometimes 'unpleasant' job just as miners were in past years for digging coal, a Cheshire East councillor said.

Cllr Stewart Gardiner (Knutsford, Con) was speaking at Wednesday's meeting of Cheshire East Council where it was announced the authority has been awarded almost one million pounds.

Parents and kids of a youth football club are being praised, after a generous effort to support a Macclesfield food bank.

On Tuesday evening for their regular training session, Tytherington Juniors FC players and adults donated food and funds to support Silklife Foodbank.

While we do not know how many Omicron cases there are in our town, we do know cases in Macclesfield have been rising since the variant was first recognised by the World Health Organisation last month.

This is as figures for positive tests of the virus in Macclesfield for the seven days until December 5 have been revealed.

Do you fancy a cheeky Nando's in Macclesfield?

Well getting the family a round of butterfly chicken with Peri-Peri and chips could soon be possible, as one hungry Macc resident wants Nando's to come to our town.

Cheshire wealth management firm Franklyn Financial Management held their inaugural 'Winter Waltz' ball at the Mere Golf Resort and Spa in Knutsford on Friday November 26 hosting over 300 guests and raising over £136,000.

The event was sponsored by Macclesfield solicitors SAS Daniels LLP, who have an office on Churchill Way.

Macclesfield's MP has responded to Nub News' request for comment about reports of gatherings held in Downing Street last winter.

It follows last week's national news reports of two alleged Downing Street parties on November 27 and December 18, and one at the education department on December 10.

Who said cops didn't have a sense of humour?

Cheshire Police have sent Christmas wishes with a 'special card' to repeat offenders from Macclesfield.

AstraZeneca has announced a partnership to build new a renewable energy plant to provide clean heat and power for their site in Macclesfield.

AstraZeneca will work with British clean energy company Future Biogas to build a new renewable energy plant to generate biomethane as a substitute for natural gas, which will provide a renewable source of heat and power for AstraZeneca's site on Charter Way.