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Following the success of last year’s Climate Festival and Green Fayre, Congleton Town Council and Congleton Partnership are working together to bring another Green Week to Congleton - but this time from the 18th – 25th September.

On Friday 30th September, Congleton Town Council is hosting a marvellous Medieval Banquet as part of Congleton’s 750th Charter Year celebrations.

It has been an extremely rewarding day at Cheshire College – South & West, as over 200 A Level students attended the College’s Crewe Campus to collect their results.

Alderley Edge School for Girls is celebrating outstanding A Level results for its Upper Sixth students with 28% of grades awarded being an A*, 66% of students receiving an A* - A and 81% of students receiving A* to B.

Ryan Giggs has admitted trying to use his teenage daughter as "a lever" to stop the police being called on the night he allegedly headbutted his ex-girlfriend.

Police have released a third image of a man they are searching for in connection with the abduction of a six-year-old girl, as parents are urged to be "extra vigilant".

A-level grades received by UK students are lower this year than in 2021 and 2020 but remain higher than pre-pandemic levels - the last time students physically sat exams.

Ukraine has said Russia is preparing to stage a "provocation" at Europe's biggest nuclear power plant on Friday.

We drove along Butchers Street in Kabul, as the stripped carcasses of lamb and goat hung on meat hooks swaying in the wind, where gaggles of men argued over prices, and butchers boys heaved the meat onto their backs and delivered them to waiting trucks.

Two surfers on motorised boards who were labelled "idiots" by Venice's mayor for speeding down the city's Grand Canal have been identified by authorities.

Further details of a heated row between Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt on a private plane back in 2016 have been revealed, in newly revealed FBI documents.

Book sales for Sir Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses have surged after the author was stabbed at an event in the US last week.

Amol Rajan has been revealed as the new presenter of University Challenge, taking over from Jeremy Paxman in autumn 2023.