Cheshire's Silk 106.9

Knutsford Library has received £450 through Knutsford Town Council's Community Grant Scheme to help inspire young readers through this year's Summer Reading Challenge and a programme of creative activities.

A new publicly accessible defibrillator will be unveiled in Haslington celebrating a community whose volunteers supported 1000s throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.

A new appeal by East Cheshire Hospice features two wives who met through visits to the charity.

A county lines drug dealer from Stoke-on-Trent who was dealing class A drugs in Congleton has been jailed.

A woman has been arrested after four men were stabbed in Covent Garden in central London, police said..

A 35-year-old man has been charged in connection with the death of a nine-year-old child in Arbroath..

A body has been recovered in the search for a 13-year-old boy who got into difficulty in the sea off the East Yorkshire coast, police have said..

Thundery showers are set to batter parts of the country and a handful of flood alerts are in place in Scotland – while central and southern England are likely to miss out on most of the much-needed rain..