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The future of Chester’s History and Heritage Centre is to be discussed at a key meeting next week

A meeting to discuss the future of Chester History and Heritage Centre will take place next week. BARRY ELLAMS reports.Read

Cheshire West and Chester Council plans to make county “the best place in the world” to be educated

Education leaders say Cheshire is on track to becoming the best place in the country to be educated. BEN COULBECK reports.Read

Chester is bucking the trend over hotel bookings

A new national survey reveals that every two days a hotel company goes bust. Not in Chester, though, where PAUL MANNION reports on a thriving sector which is expanding all the timeRead

Tourism board Visit Chester and Cheshire turn their backs on iconic Cheshire Cat

THE Cheshire Cat is famous the world over. BEN COULBECK and MATHIEU WARWOOD ask if there is more marketing potential in the iconic feline?Read

Cheshire West and Chester Council to decide future of Quinn Glass factory at planning meeting on Thursday September 3

The latest stage in the bitter battle surrounding the future of the £260m Quinn Glass complex at Elton reaches County Hall this afternoon. DAVID NORBURY reportsRead

Point of view: The skin cancer victim

I AM now 22 but I first had symptoms when I was 20. When I was finally diagnosed I probably hadn’t used sunbeds for four months as I was in Ibiza but before that I was using them maybe two or three times a week.Read

Interview with Dr Ali Juma, senior plastic surgeon at the Countess of Chester Hospital

DOCTOR Ali Juma is a senior plastic surgeon within the NHS at the Countess of Chester Hospital.Read

International Agency for Research on Cancer raises sunbed classification to “carcinogenic to humans”

SUNBEDS can cause skin cancer.Read

Chester rogue traders Gary Lancaster and Neil Butler jailed after fleecing dementia sufferer

TRADING standards officers have advised the elderly and vulnerable on how they can avoid becoming victims of work scams.Read

Chester Samaritans report increase in users since recession

THE visible effects of the recession are everywhere – boarded up shops, closed down factories, repossessed homes.Read

CHESHIRE farmers are seeing prices for dairy cattle rocket due to a shortage in livestock.

The shortage of milking cows is blamed on the numbers that are having to be slaughtered due to bovine TB.Read

Farming in crisis

THE dairy industry is in jeopardy, with hundreds of farmers turning their backs on loss-making businesses.Read

£30million theatre plan unveiled by Cheshire West and Chester Council could help regenerate council.

A £30m theatre plan could signal the creation of a new waterfront in Chester. BARRY ELLAMS reportsRead

Chester Renaissance have unveiled plans to regenerate

Contemporary shop frontages with frameless windows and sliding doors could be the future of Chester’s Rows. PAUL MANNION reports.Read

Bridge Street trader Howard Harrison who is leaving Chester city centre sets up comment book on state of The Rows

A STRUGGLING craft shop owner has created a comment book for customers to write their thoughts down after a Chronicle report on his plight.Read

Violence against Cheshire police officers

Forty-two assaults were committed against police officers in Chester last year according to Freedom of Information Act figures obtained by The Chronicle. Punches, bites, slaps, kicks, throttlings, headlocks, launched objects – violent offences committed against police officers every week. LAURIE STOCKS-MOORE reports.Read

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