Cheshire's Silk 106.9

Building on the achievements of the CheshireWorks4U digital jobs fairs over the last year, Macclesfield’s MP, David Rutley, is now actively supporting the ambitious NorthWestWorks4U event planned for early April to help better connect job seekers with available employment opportunities in our area.

A local hospital has received pregnancy loss comfort bags to support bereaved local parents.

Dog owners in Cheshire are being invited to have their say on dog thefts by police and crime commissioner David Keane.

Residents are being urged to continue to stay at home ahead of the first phase of relaxation of coronavirus lockdown restrictions next month.

The prime minister has offered Britain's stadiums for the whole European Championship while eyeing a bid for the 2030 World Cup.

The booming online fashion empire Boohoo and many of its suppliers are facing the possibility of a United States import ban because of widespread allegations over the use of slave labour.

The British Horseracing Authority has been made aware of a video circulating, seemingly showing an individual jumping onto the back of a dead horse.

A man who claims he has fathered dozens of children by offering sperm donations online says demand has risen during the coronavirus pandemic.

Former Liverpool star and TV pundit Ian St John has died aged 82.

A university has been told to pay a student £5,000 in compensation for lost teaching time during the first coronavirus lockdown.

The government should resume research into graduated driving licences, a committee of MPs has said.

The chancellor is expected to give £408m to help museums, theatres and galleries to reopen in England as coronavirus restrictions ease.

A group of girls who were abducted from a boarding school in Nigeria have been released and are "safe", reports say.

The UK will discuss with the EU the bloc's proposals to create a vaccine passport that could allow people to travel more freely in time for the summer holidays.

The prime minister has offered Britain's stadiums for the whole European Championship while eyeing a bid for the 2030 World Cup.

Scientists say they have confirmed the existence of space hurricanes, with a 600 mile-wide mass spotted above the North Pole.

France has approved use of the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine in people with existing health problems aged between 65 and 74.

A painting by Sir Winston Churchill and owned by Angelina Jolie has been sold for £8.285m.

Barring the golden domes of its church, Correctional Facility No 2 (IK-2) in the town of Pokrov, 60 miles east of Moscow, is utterly unprepossessing. 

The Queen has unveiled a statue of herself in Australia, despite being thousands of miles away in Windsor Castle.

The Download Festival has been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic for the second year running, its "heartbroken" organisers have said.

The man who was walking Lady Gaga's three dogs when he was shot as thieves stole two of them says he had "a very close call with death".

Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot has announced she is pregnant with her third child.

Taylor Swift has criticised a Netflix show for containing a joke about her which the singer called "lazy" and "deeply sexist".