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More residents in Cheshire West and Chester are being offered COVID-19 rapid tests as part of the national roadmap to ease restrictions.

From Monday, 8 March care home residents across Cheshire West and Chester will be able to be visited indoors by a single, named individual.

An Ellesmere Port man has been jailed for eight and a half years for a string of sexual offences against a child.

The Chester Gift Card, launched as part of Chester BID’s battleplan to save the high street shops from suffering the effects of lockdown prior to Christmas, is set to pump tens of thousands of pounds into the city’s businesses.

A group of young people in Cheshire have produced a report detailing how police and partners can improve their engagement with under 25s.

Storyhouse has today announced that they will present their biggest ever summer event programme with over 200 events taking place from May.

With Mother’s Day fast approaching, Foster4, Cheshire West and Chester, Halton and Warrington’s fostering recruitment service, has launched a new campaign to find local people to care for both parents and their children together.

Parents, guardians and pupils in Chester will see an increase in safety messages on roads surrounding primary schools, thanks to funding from David Keane police and crime commissioner (PCC) for Cheshire.

New variants of COVID-19 are "very unlikely to send us back to square one" as coronavirus restrictions are lifted in the UK in the run-up to summer, a top scientist has said.

The UK has recorded 158 coronavirus-related deaths and 6,040 cases in last 24-hour period, according to government figures.

Mark Anderson-Hammersley was one of the few patients not behind a screen.

A man has been arrested in Dundee in connection with the disappearance of a woman and two children, who went missing from the South Gloucestershire area.

A nun who knelt in front of armed security forces in Myanmar to stop them firing on civilians has said she was prepared to die to save protestors' lives.

Pope Francis has met Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani - Iraq's top Shia cleric - at the Islamic scholar's home in the Iraqi city of Najaf.

Protesters in Cyprus are demanding the withdrawal of a Eurovision song they say promotes Satanism.

Greece's tourism minister has said Britons hoping for a summer holiday in the country can start booking as it prioritises giving the COVID vaccine to the inhabitants of around 40 small islands.

In March 2020, the world-famous Abbey Road recording studio shut its doors for the first time in almost 90 years.

The creator of a series of deepfake Tom Cruise videos says he wants to make people more aware of what they are watching - and that it might not be real.

Protesters in Cyprus are demanding the withdrawal of a Eurovision song they say promotes Satanism.

The first nominations for this year's BAFTAs have been announced - and for the first time, all the actors in the Rising Star category are British.

US jobs grew more than expected last month amid falling COVID-19 cases, rising vaccination rates and extra government support putting the labour market recovery back on firmer footing.

Mike Ashley's Frasers Group has branded the chancellor's new business rates holiday "near worthless" for larger firms and is an obstacle to it taking on old Debenhams shops.

The proposed 1% pay rise for NHS staff is a "slap in the face" and large numbers of nurses could quit after the pandemic, a union has warned as pressure grows on the government over the row.

New variants of COVID-19 are "very unlikely to send us back to square one" as coronavirus restrictions are lifted in the UK in the run-up to summer, a top scientist has said.