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New Chester Tory MP Stephen Mosley asked to pursue petition over County Hall sale

OPPONENTS of Cheshire West and Chester Council’s decision to sell County Hall have handed over the baton to newly elected city MP Stephen Mosley.Read

Ellesmere Port and Neston Conservative parliamentary candidate Stuart Penketh believes he is best placed to serve constituency

IN JUST a few days time Ellesmere Port votes in the most important election in a generation. There are two possible outcomes, five more years of Gordon Brown or a change with the Conservatives. We will back the NHS, stop Labour's jobs tax, support pensioners, fight back against crime, make Britain the most family friendly country in Europe and restore trust in politics.Read

Ellesmere Port and Neston Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate Denise Aspinall believes she would create jobs and fairness for her constituents

ALL INDIVIDUALS have the right to live in a fair and free society.Read

Graham Evans (Con)

nAS YOUR MP I would be hard-working, accountable and accessible.Read

Chester’s SongSmiths perform at M&S in aid of Samaritans

CHESTER shoppers were given an early Christmas treat on Saturday as a choir performed in Marks and Spencer.Read

What it’s like to be a Chester city centre Santa Claus

What’s it like being Santa Claus? Tom Evans found out...Read

Children’s play area at Hawthorne Road, Frodsham, could be turned into a community garden

A CHILDREN’S play area in Hawthorne Road, Frodsham, will be closed by the town council.Read

Chester Samaritans base base ‘unfit for purpose’

CHESTER Samaritans, based on Upper Northgate Street, need to find a new home.Read

Official complaint

Deputy Labour group leader Cllr Bob Rudd has registered an official complaint with city council monitoring officer Charles Kerry about Cllr Drury’s conduct.Read

The Olive Grove, Broughton - Diamond in the rough

I got some fan mail the other day! All those weeks of painstakingly putting my address at the bottom of this page – and thinking of a food-related pun to go alongside it – paid off when Jane Wells (Mrs), of Saltney, used some of her lovely multi-coloured writing paper to recommend the Olive Grove in Broughton.Read

La Fontana, Chester - Fountain of food

Near the beginning of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the protagonist, Arthur Dent, has just been told his best friend is an alien and that both his house and his planet are about to be destroyed to make way for bypasses.Read

The Bacchus, Chester - Food of the gods

Bacchus was the Roman god of wine and intoxication, known to the Greeks as Dionysus. His prowess for partying was literally legendary, as were a whole host of stories not fit for a family newspaper.Read

MD's, Chester - What Katie’s did next

Last Friday, I had a sunny afternoon off while my wife was at work. I was lazing in the garden, clad in an old T-shirt and a slightly grubby pair of shorts, when I was struck by a flash of romance.Read

Siam Thai, Chester - Old-school Thai

THE first great food invasion of these shores must have come with the Romans. Before that, our Brit ancestors were content to slap on the woad and squat around the campfire, eating scavenged offal and cups of mud.Read

Cock O'Barton, Malpas - Chef’s special

Let’s get one thing straight – a famous chef is not the same as a celebrity chef. The former is a person who has become famous for cooking while the latter is a famous person who cooks. It’s a fine distinction but a crucial one.Read

The Fat Cat, Chester - The Cat’s whiskers

Who remembers Britpop? For a couple of years in the mid-1990s, Britpop was everywhere. It seemed the whole world was obsessed with the question who would release a single that was less bad: A gang of cocky Southerners with art-school pretensions and irritating fake Cockney accents or a bunch of knuckle-dragging Northerners with superiority complexes and real (but no less irritating) Mancunian accents.Read

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Tom Evans started at Chronicle Newspapers in 2002. He was a sub-editor, designer and restaurant critic until 2009, when he became a multimedia desk editor. He can be contacted on 01244 6060430.

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