Articles...
Apr 11 2008
IT is believed a child playing with matches caused a bedroom fire which resulted in serious smoke damage in the upstairs of a family home....
Apr 11 2008
THE co-founders of a luxury holiday firm have hit the jackpot after selling the firm to Thomas Cook for £25m....
Apr 11 2008
BAT-WIELDING thugs were chased from a British Legion club by customers brandishing chairs....
Apr 11 2008
A DRUG-DEALING ex-fireman drove for a quarter of a mile with a policeman clinging on to the bonnet of his car....
Apr 11 2008
VILLAGERS have won their battle to stop a soil supply firm’s plan to move on to farmland....
Apr 11 2008
A £50,000 campaign has been launched to persuade people to vote for the new Cheshire West and Chester Council on May 1....
Apr 11 2008
WATER spurted 15ft into the air outside The Chronicle’s offices in Chester yesterday due to a burst pipe....
Apr 11 2008
AFTER a decade in business, a Tarporley beauty business is enjoying the sweet smell of success by becoming the sole European importer of a new Australian product....
Apr 11 2008
A CHESTER man is one of four involved in a large-scale child pornography ring who have admitted their guilt....
Apr 11 2008
A VITAL part of village life needs to raise at least £70,000 if it is to survive....
Apr 11 2008
CHESTER Zoo has another tall story to tell after the birth of a second baby giraffe in just two months....
Apr 11 2008
A SPORTS memorabilia business at the centre of a court case concerning fake autographs is likely to go into liquidation....
Apr 11 2008
FORMER royal butler Paul Burrell is unlikely to be investigated for perjury despite being branded a liar by the coroner who looked into the deaths of Princess Diana and her lover Dodi Fayed....
Apr 11 2008
A DRUG addict died after losing so much weight he could not fight off infection, an inquest heard....
Apr 11 2008
DURING filming of Antiques Roadshow in Chester one of the city’s oldest jewellers presented ledgers which were described as “priceless” by an expert....
Apr 11 2008
TESCO has bought the building from which it operates the Chester store so it no longer has to pay rent....
Apr 11 2008
FLATS in Chester are on recycling collection rounds thanks to a scheme being run by Chester City Council....
Apr 11 2008
COMPLAINTS are gathering regarding a replacement bus service which is less frequent and has left some people stranded part way along the route without shelter....
Apr 11 2008
Chronicle chief reporter David Holmes has been “on the buses” to find out what it’s like to get behind the wheel of a Scania single-decker normally used to convey passengers around the streets of Chester...
Apr 11 2008
A SOAP star has been helping clean up a Chester community....
Apr 11 2008
HERE’S a flavour of what a new bar and restaurant at Chester Racecourse will look like when it opens later this month....
Apr 11 2008
RESIDENTS plagued by nuisance noise from Roodee events have offered a cautious welcome to an extended licence....
Apr 11 2008
NAMES put forward for Cheshire’s prestigious Cheshire Woman of the Year Award included a number of nominations from Chester and surrounding areas....
Apr 11 2008
A CONTROVERSIAL youth centre could still be built despite the plan being defeated by village objectors....
Apr 11 2008
EVIDENCE for and against the proposed waste recycling park and incinerator at Ince will be heard from Tuesday....
Apr 11 2008
POLICE are appealing for the owner of a silver Volvo to come forward in connection with a masked burglary....
Apr 11 2008
A LIFEBOAT fan took two trips up a mountain to raise £450 for an RNLI appeal....
Apr 11 2008
STAFF from Chester’s former psychiatric hospital have been invited to a reunion....
Apr 11 2008
COUNCIL enforcement officers have ordered the replacement of £10,000 worth of windows – because they are too modern....
Apr 11 2008
A MAN walked into the bedroom to find his partner hanging dead from the ceiling....
Apr 11 2008
TWO charities striving to promote and support agriculture in Cheshire are uniting in partnership to sustain rural communities....
Apr 11 2008
TRADITIONAL food connoisseurs in Cheshire will raise a glass to the “Father of Animal Husbandry” Robert Bakewell on Thursday, April 17 when they lunch on Longhorn beef reared on the Cholmondeley Castle farmland....
Apr 11 2008
BAGS and purses are the latest items to be sought after by thieves in Chester....
Apr 11 2008
A TESCO employee was fined £225 for his part in a card scam at a city centre supermarket....
Apr 11 2008
A PARTIALLY-SIGHTED woman has paid tribute to the guide dog who was her “soulmate” and guardian for 11 years....
Apr 11 2008
A “LIVING legend” teacher has closed the classroom door for the last time....
Apr 11 2008
A BOOZY thief evaded police after a high-speed chase but was caught when he went back to the garage to steal a second car the same night....
Apr 11 2008
AN ESTATE agents is talking to a potential buyer for a prominent empty building which keeps going up in flames....
Apr 11 2008
TORY leader David Cameron pulled out of a visit to Chester this week after his son was taken into hospital....
Apr 11 2008
VILLAGE high streets are besieged by motorists parking illegally....
Apr 11 2008
NEW signs on the A41 near Chester which tell drivers the number of deaths and collisions on the road have been labelled as “another distraction on an already dangerous road”....
Apr 11 2008
A HEROIN user who was rebuilding her life died alone on the floor after falling back into drug-taking....
