News in Macclesfield

Two people from Greater Manchester have been charged with drug dealing offences after quantities of what are believed to be heroin and crack cocaine were seized from a house in Macclesfield.

Milo Stanley – a 24-year-old man of Old Chapel Street, Edgeley, Stockport – and Tia Ingham – an 18-year-old woman of Eadington Street, Manchester – were arrested in Park Lane, Macclesfield, on the afternoon of Friday 12 February.

A health chief has hailed the "heroic effort" to protect Cheshire's most vulnerable residents from coronavirus and signalled the determination to drive a reduction in health inequalities via the vaccine roll-out.

All over 70s, frontline health and care staff, older care home residents and people classed as clinically extremely vulnerable have now been offered a COVID-19 vaccination – less than 10 weeks after Mona Thomas, 92, became the first person to receive a COVID-19 vaccination in Cheshire.

The founder and chairman of JD Wetherspoon has demanded that pubs reopen at the same time as non-essential shops.

Tim Martin, whose pub chain includes The Society Rooms on Park Lane, stated the pub industry is on its knees, and that jobs would be lost if pubs did not open their doors soon.

The mayor of Macclesfield has praised the local coronavirus vaccine rollout after receiving her first dose.

Cllr Sarah Bennett-Wake got the vaccine because she works with vulnerable children and has her own health conditions which can put her at greater risk.

Cheshire East Council leader Sam Corcoran has issued a withering comparison of England's Covid death rate with that of New Zealand.

Only 25 people have died in New Zealand where a three-day lockdown has been implemented in its biggest city Auckland today because three positive cases were discovered.

VisitBritain CEO Sally Balcombe writes for Nub News:

As we approach the February half term, a time when many of us would usually have been looking forward to a short-break away, the impact on the industry and the economy from the loss of tourism again comes into sharp focus.

An LGBTQ+ bar in Macclesfield is being forced to close after the brewery which owns the premises did not renew the lease.

The Village @ Porters, located on Roe Street, made the announcement on social media this evening (9 February).

Cheshire Police have issued sixty fines to people flouting lockdown restrictions in Macclesfield since early January.

Police are urging residents to continue to stick the rules after a large number of fines were issued in the first month of lockdown.

A vote of no confidence in the Mayor of Cheshire East is set to be held next week, after appearing in the viral Handforth Parish Council video clip.

Mayor Barry Burkhill, who represents Handforth as an Independent, also sits on the parish council and can be seen — in the longer version of the video — asking 'where the chairman [Cllr Brian Tolver] has gone' after being placed in the Zoom's waiting room by Jackie Weaver.

Residents across Cheshire could soon benefit from new funding to improve the energy efficiency of their homes.

That's after Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire East, and Warrington councils agreed to submit a £6.3 million bid — to be split equally — to the government's 'green homes fund'.