News in Macclesfield

A Macclesfield-born DJ has received her first full-time job as a radio presenter.

Numi Gildert (27) grew up listening to Silk FM, and will now 

Cheshire police has warned that anyone caught flouting lockdown restrictions this evening will be given a fine.

The warning comes on the first day of Tier 4 restrictions in Cheshire East in which residents have been told they should stay at home and only to mix within your household or 'bubble' indoors.

Police are appealing for witnesses to come forward following a fail to stop collision in Macclesfield.

A car and cyclist were involved in the collision which occurred on The Silk Road between the junctions of Brooks street and Windmill Street.

The leader of Cheshire East Council has "implored" residents to adhere to the new tier 4 restrictions which came into force today.

Under the strictest level, people have been told they must stay at home unless you have a "reasonable excuse".

The return to school after the Christmas holidays has been delayed for secondary students, the education secretary has announced.

Students who are due to sit exams this year will return on 11 January, with others returning a week later.

Cheshire East will move into the tightest Covid-19 restrictions from tomorrow, Matt Hancock has confirmed.

Speaking to the House of Commons this afternoon (Wednesday, December 30), the Health Secretary outlined that both Cheshire West and Cheshire East are to move from Tier 3 to Tier 4 controls.

Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, is set to make a statement on the government's fortnightly tier review later today, less than a week after Cheshire was put into Tier 3.

On the day that the decision was made to move the county up from Tier 2, Cheshire's infection rate stood at 213 cases per 100,000 residents.

Update 30 December: A 27-year-old woman has been charged with arson with recklessnes as to whether life was endangered. Emma Atkins, of Bridge Street, Macclesfield will appear at North Cheshire Magistrates today.

At 6.13am this morning (29 December) emergency services were called to a fire on the ground floor of a terraced house in Bridge Street.

Cheshire's police and crime commissioner, David Keane, is calling on the government to protect women and older people within hate crime law.

Existing hate crime laws do not recognise gender or age as a protected characteristic but the commissioner says there is clear evidence for misogyny and elder abuse to be recognised in law.

Firefighters have rescued a woman from a house fire close to Macclesfield town centre this morning.

Three fire engines were sent out to the incident on Bridge Street at 6:13am to put out the fire on the ground floor of the terraced house.