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The introduction of an ambitious clean-up project in Crewe last year is already reaping dividends with cleaner streets and fewer incidents of fly-tipping being reported.

Cheshire East Council is reminding businesses to come forward and take advantage of the recently opened Omicron Hospitality and Leisure Grant scheme.

Cheshire East Council has pledged to become a carbon neutral borough by 2045.

Free walk-in Lateral Flow Tests (LFTs) are available from Cheshire West and Chester Council’s own mobile pop-up COVID-19 testing units which will be located in Northwich and Hoole next week.

Police will meet with a Conservative MP who has alleged that government figures have been engaging in "intimidation" that amounts to "blackmail" against Tories who have questioned Boris Johnson's position.

The UK Health Security Agency has designated the Omicron variant sub-lineage, known as BA.2, as a variant under investigation - but current case rates are very low.

Could the timing be any worse? A new "sub-lineage" of Omicron coming along just as the government abandons all COVID restrictions. 

The daughter of murdered Muriel McKay has appealed to Scotland Yard's commissioner to speed up the search for her mother's body on the farm where the family believes she was buried 52 years ago.

It is the early hours of the morning, but this corner of Calais is busy, just as it always is.

Babes in the Wood killer Russell Bishop has died at the age of 55, the Ministry of Justice has said.

Three people have been arrested after a man died when a bridge collapsed during a shooting trip on a farm.

A former Conservative MP said a government whip threatened to pull funding for a major link road around Bath if he rebelled against a Brexit vote.

It doesn't matter that I lived in Russia and experienced its winters for a number of years.

The US and Russia have met to discuss the crisis in Ukraine - and sought to lower the temperature after days of heated standoff over a feared Russian invasion.

The UN has condemned an airstrike on a detention centre in Yemen that killed at least 60 people.

There were chaotic scenes in Honduras's congress after a brawl broke out between members of president-elect Xiomara Castro's party during the swearing in of a new congressional president.

The US and UK have warned by Russia that it would "pay a heavy price" if it invades Ukraine.

The Irish government has agreed to lift almost all coronavirus restrictions from tomorrow - in a move attributed to the passing of the peak of the Omicron wave, and the country's high vaccine uptake.

It is the early hours of the morning, but this corner of Calais is busy, just as it always is.

At least 17 people have been killed and 59 injured in a huge blast in Ghana after a truck carrying explosives to a gold mine collided with a motorcycle, authorities say.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has been involved in a multi-vehicle crash in Los Angeles, California.

The producers of James Bond have said British actor Idris Elba is "part of the conversation" to be the next 007.

The next two editions of Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible films have been delayed again due to the COVID-19 pandemic.`

Adele says she is overwhelmed by the support she received from fans after being forced to postpone the start of her Las Vegas residency.