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Chester’s MP, Chris Matheson, has launched a campaign to encourage residents to ‘think local’ when buying their presents and planning social events this Christmas.

North West in Bloom judges awarded a gold award for a whole borough entry including Chester in the Large City category and the Local Authority Large Parks gold medal award to Marbury Park.

A 50-year-old man from Walton has appeared in court to face a number of burglary and theft charges following an investigation into a number of incidents in Hooton.

Ellesmere Port has received a set of impressive results in this year’s North West in Bloom competition.

Detectives in Chester are urging landlords to remain cautious following to discovery of a number of cannabis farms in rented properties.

Another Christmas favourite returns next week taking Chester back to the 1400s as the City Watch return for the Winter Watch parade on Thursday 9 December at 7pm.

Cheshire West and Chester Council has launched a recruitment drive to boost the number of people working in adult social care.

National Highways is resurfacing large sections of the carriageway along the four miles between junction 19 at Knutsford and junction 20 at Lymm. All the work will be done overnight between 10pm and 5am (7am at weekends) when traffic along the motorway is at its lightest.

The UK has recorded 53,945 new cases of coronavirus - the highest daily figure since mid-July following the European football championship.

A "wicked" stepmother and a "pitiless" father have been convicted of abusing and killing his six-year-old son.

The armed forces are being deployed to parts of Scotland which have been cut off following Storm Arwen, a minister has said.

A father was murdered "for no reason" after his teenage son was attacked by a knife-wielding man at a bus stop in northwest London, according to police.

Unvaccinated people in Germany are to be excluded from non-essential stores, cultural and recreational venues, Chancellor Angela Merkel has said.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) is set to deploy a surge team to South Africa to help deal with the new Omicron COVID variant outbreak.

Doctors treating people in the region of South Africa where Omicron is surging have told Sky News they have seen a rise in the number of patients being reinfected and vaccinated patients catching COVID-19.

Russia has warned the United States it will respond if Ukraine is drawn into any US "geopolitical games", while Washington has threatened "serious costs" for Moscow if the crisis escalates.

Moulin Rouge, one of the most hotly-anticipated musicals to hit the West End in recent years, will finally throw open its doors next week after months of uncertainty in the industry.

Alec Baldwin broke down in tears in his first interview since Halyna Hutchins was shot dead on a film set - and insisted he did not pull the trigger of the gun that killed her.

The original house from the 1990 film Home Alone will be available to rent on Airbnb during the festive period.

Bad Bunny, Taylor Swift and BTS are Spotify's most listened to artists in the world for 2021, the music streaming service has revealed.

Boris Johnson has stressed "people shouldn't be cancelling" events in the run-up to Christmas after conflicting comments from ministers and officials in recent days.

Unvaccinated people in Germany are to be excluded from non-essential stores, cultural and recreational venues, Chancellor Angela Merkel has said.

The UK has recorded 53,945 new cases of coronavirus - the highest daily figure since mid-July following the European football championship.

The world's rich nations must help vaccinate the poorest nations or else they will face a continual cycle of economic shocks and restrictions in the face of new variants, the OECD's chief economist has said.