The Government study predicts that Manchester will be the fastest growing of the country’s four biggest airports and will handle 449,000 take offs and landings by 2050 - up from 213,000 in 2005.

Lovebirds Sir Charles Truffles and Camilla, were even due to be joined in holy mutt-rimony later this year.

Pupils from Lacey Green Primary have been acting as traffic wardens in a bid to stop their mums and dads parking illegally outside their school.

The soap star, known for playing evil Archie Mitchell, stayed with the struggling Shields family when he visited the town as part of a BBC One documentary.

A showcase of tracks by Joy Division and New Order, the hugely exciting show will include a never-released song, penned by Macclesfield-born Curtis.

The package was handed to us by Edna Bayley, the wife of the late Gordon Bayley who was a player, treasurer, manager and secretary in his time with Wilmslow Albion.

Wilmslow Football Acadamy scored a hit when it set up the womens’ football sessions in January following demands from mothers keen to get in on the action.

Gabrielle Westington, 17, and Jayana Patel, 16, who are both year 12 students at Withington Girls’ School, were part of the winning team in a special Apprentice-style competition organised by the Financial Mail on Sunday.

Magistrates said that Michelle Christine O'Neill, from Wilmslow, had the highest alcohol reading that they had ever seen.

Age Concern’s information and advice offices on Green Lane are shutting at the end of the month to save the charity £42,000 a year.

But the village's parish councillors said at a meeting on Monday (March 8) they are surprised Cheshire East Council has arranged the meeting, expecting to enter discussions with officers first.

Alexander, who recently took time off due to illness, passed away after arriving home on Tuesday night from Macclesfield's League Two match away at Notts County.

It was a match made in cyber-heaven when the lonely hearts met and fell in love on an internet dating site 23 years after they went to school together.

The company’s Alderley Park base has been spared the axe but three research and development (R&D) sites in the UK are set to be shut it was announced yesterday (March 2).

Twelve local hounds – all members of the Wilmslow Dog Training Club – will compete in the fly-ball and agility trials at this year’s Crufts, starting next Thursday (March 11), after qualifying in Scunthorpe earlier this year.

We know there are some real gems across our patch, pubs that are true standard bearers and hubs of the community.

Keith Wadcock, from Ashdene Primary School, says mums and dads are endangering their youngsters by parking on safety markings or on the pavement outside the school gate when they drop off or pick up their children.

Swanky salon House of W sent their stylist Jade Tinker out to the high prolife music awards in Los Angeles to learn what’s hot on the red carpet, and come back loaded with the latest styles for clients of the new salon on London Road.

For the second year running the Asics Wilmslow Half Marathon has been selected by England Athletics to incorporate the English Half Marathon Championships within the already highly successful and prestigious race, now in its 26th year.

After Cheshire East Council pulled the plug on funding for Macclesfield’s star-studded Party in the Park, there were concerns that Wilmslow’s popular summer show would suffer the same fate.

Not only was there a new king on the throne and the shock arrest of Dr Crippen for the murder of his wife, but closer to home there was the meeting of the suffragettes at Wilmslow Drill Hall and the second annual carnival in the village.

The hyper-critical restaurant reviewer and star of insurance adverts, visited Wilmslow to have dinner with a Wilmslow family as part of his ITV programme Dining Stars.

The proposal for an additional 1,060 sq m hall with four multi-use games courts, extra teaching space, equipment storage and staff accomodation was approved by councillors at a meeting of the Northern Planning Committee last Wednesday (February 24).

Reporter Ben Turner will be sending live updates from the meeting at Crewe from 2pm.

Developers Contour Homes has submitted an application to construct a three storey block of two-bedroom flats on land off Eccleston Way to Cheshire East Council.

Macclesfield’s maverick member of Parliament said last week that MPs enjoyed a ‘different status’ to passengers in standard class on trains.

The traumatised victims have made the unusual offer hoping someone will come forward with information about the lone male who broke into a Prestbury home on Macclesfield Road.

Sixteen-year-old Beccy Findow and friend Becky Poulton, 26, have scoured almost every shop in the town, from charity shops to the designer boutiques, to produce an eclectic selection of fashionable outfits.

The debate on the future of local government in the town will begin on May 10 when Cheshire East Council starts the long process of a Community Governance Review, leading to a ballot later in the year.

Inspector Matthew Welsted, who has 14 years’ experience across two constabularies, has taken the helm at Wilmslow Police Station.

House prices rose nationally in January, according to latest research, and this trend appears to be matched in two prized corners of the so-called Golden Triangle.

Those remaining will be expected to deal with more cases but do far less paperwork.

The 'Empower Card' allows the elderly and disabled to manage their own budgets by paying for social and leisure services themselves.

The annual contest to raise vital funds for Macclesfield Hospital charity MAST was cancelled last year due to a lack of participants. But its revival was met with huge support, with hundreds of supporters lining the streets to cheer on competitors including would-be MP David Rutley.

Norman William Ritchens, 80, who suffered from dementia and kidney disease, lay at the bottom of stairs at Cyprus House Community Support Centre in Handforth.

Lisa Theresa Marley, 32, died in the Keller Unit at HMP Styal on January 19, 2008, on the same day she was due to meet with a psychiatrist.

She is fuming after an alcohol licence was granted by Cheshire East Council to the new Tesco Express store on London Road from 7am to 11pm. She claimed there had been a marked increase in on-street drinking since the store opened last week.

For the past two weeks officers in Wilmslow have been prowling the streets visiting people whose properties are an ‘easy target’ for burglars and have been trying windows and doors in a bid to cut break-ins.

Student council representatives from 11 schools in the Wilmslow area attended the Joint Student Forum at the Hallmark Belfry Hotel in Handforth.

The proposed rise, which is yet to be formally approved by Cheshire East Council, would see the overall bill for an average band D property increase by £20 a year, to £1,216.

Arran Coghlan, 38, suffered serious knife injuries in the incident at his converted chapel on Brook Lane.

Wilmslow-born Mark Saunders was shot dead following a stand-off with armed officers in London two years ago.

The heir-to-the-throne made a special hush-hush stop on "Tornado", which whistled a tribute to Mr Clark, who died from cancer aged 75, as it entered the station.

The dedicated doodler, 85, of Hawthorn Street, has amazed his sweetheart, 86, with a fresh design and new poetic greeting every St Valentine’s Day since they met 40 years ago.

During its long 16 year history diners at Japanese restaurant Samsi have shown a real appetite for proposing after finding love on the menu.

Darren and Anne-Marie Fox thought their day had gone to the dogs when official best man Trevor Glynn failed to produce the golden bands at the crucial moment.

Officers from the town’s Neighbourhood Policing Unit are switching sides as they plan to roam the streets in the early hours posing as burglars to pick out homes opportunist thieves would target.

And they’d better choose well. A fearsome foul she is one of 11 former battery hens relocated to the mill after being rescued by The Battery Hen Welfare Trust. Despite being the ring-leader, she is the only one still nameless.

Birse, constructing the three-mile route, have begun the next phase which includes the building of three road bridges and a footbridge together with a new carriageway, surfacing, kerbing and drainage.

Erika Hasler, 44, claimed she was a jobless single mum as she pocketed £29,581 in income support, housing and council tax benefits for seven years. But she could have legally claimed more in working tax credits.

Officers used the Cheshire Police Piper Highlander plane to photograph road markings from the air to help prosecute Steven Tarry.

George James, 50, of Cranford Road, Lacey Green, was found guilty of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm at Chester Crown Court on Friday (January 29).

Despite concerns, the area’s biggest employer is unable to say if the 3,500 staff at Alderley Park and 2,500 employees at Hurdsfield will be affected over the next three years. A spokesman did confirm the company was considering closing some research sites - a primary function at both locations - but yesterday (Tuesday) a final decision was yet to be announced.

The United star and his wife are being sued for £4m in allegedly unpaid commission by Proactive Sports Management agency.

Eleven-year-old Jack Kiersey was playing for Alderley Athletic Junior Football Club when he was spotted by a talent scout and whisked off to Liverpool for trials, playing with the Everton Under 11s Academy team against Port Vale three days later.

Mum of two Helen Hayes, 40, says Cheshire East Council’s plans to re-texture the surface to stop skidding is a step in the right direction.

The big freeze returned bringing more snow and hazardous conditions on overnight on Sunday, January 31.

But her patient owner took a gamble and called in a ‘Dog Super Nanny’ to lead the way.

Cheshire East Council (CEC) has blown its budget for 2009 to 2010 with social services causing the biggest financial strain, a full cabinet meeting heard last week.

Top cop Luke McDonnell has been promoted to the constabulary’s headquarters, in Winsford, where he will be working on a project from February 22.

Cheshire East Council warned mums and dads driving their children to school that they face a £70 fine if they park on a double yellow line, or £30 if they block part of the road.

The additional cuts add to an existing programme to reduce its workforce, which will now see 15,000 job losses across AstraZeneca's global operations.

It is unclear what impact this will have on the Macclesfeild and Alderley Park sites, which employ 7,500 people.

Steven Derek Briscoe, 40, a former chairman of the Macclesfield Round Table, was sentenced at Chester Crown Court for throwing his partner to the ground outside the couple’s ground floor flat on South Street after drinking at the Bubble Room last May.

For it was thanks to the show’s legendary musical composer Lionel Bart that Maxine’s own mother found her long-lost father 18 years ago.

Jack Fleming Eccles, who fought as a lance corporal in Burma during The Second World War, was President of the Trade Union Congress during the bitter battle between miners and Margaret Thatcher’s Government.

Eighteen-week-old border collie Ziggy is already getting used to the limelight as cameras are following his progress while he trains to become a drugs detection dog. And he is already proving a hit with viewers on YouTube.

Wilmslow Symphony Orchestra, Girl guiding Handforth and Alderley Edge Orchestra all hope to be awarded £250 toward their funds as part of Cheshire East Community Grant scheme, based on their proven ability to top up their income from ticket sales and their long standing reputation across Cheshire East.

Despite months of protests, villagers said they thought that the development between Coppice Way and Hall Road would finally be given the green-light after council planning officers recommended it for approval.

The startling revelation has come from police after the spate of thefts in Wilmslow and Alderley Edge.

At least 25 refuse trucks in Wilmslow and Macclesfield had to be dug out by council workers or towed by tractor during the recent freezing spell, according to Cheshire East.

Residents were sent a survey in their rent statement to give staff at Contour an idea of how often they use their local office at The Paddock.