Mark Shields, 45, featured in Famous, Rich and Jobless – a BBC show about unemployment in Britain – after losing his £35,000-a-year job as a regional manager for a car valeting company.

John Wilmot, 68, failed to call a vet after a 10-week-old foal broke its leg. The horse, which had injured itself on a gate, hobbled around its paddock for two weeks before the RSPCA intervened.

Cheshire East Council has pulled the plug on its pay-per-use toilet in Bank Square, Wilmslow, after an audit revealed the loo – which costs 20p a go – was ‘significantly underused’.

It has been a particularly successful year for multiple births with twins Gavin and Andrew Bennison receiving offers from Cambridge and Oxford respectively.

Wilmslow left it until the fifth minute of time added on for centre and man-of-the-match Ricky Chadwick to cross in the corner and allow the terrace at Pownall Park to heave a collective sigh of relief.

A catalogue of stars joined friends and family of the Macclesfield Town manager at a packed funeral service in Lincoln cathedral.

Dagenham host Macc on Saturday and they will be harbouring hopes of making a late charge for the play-offs.

In their first home game since the death of their manager, Macc shocked their visitors with a fine battling performance to dent the Shakers' promotion hopes.

Wilmslow will face Wellington College at Twickenham on March 31 in what is sure to be a keenly contested game between two teams who look to play a dynamic running style of rugby.

It is part of a new agreement between De Vere and International Pairs and the UK final will be held at Wychwood Park which, like Mottram Hall, is a regular venue for Manchester Alliance competitions.

With four regulars unavailable for the match, Edge went in with the game plan of trying to make it difficult for second-placed Chester and play their free flowing break away hockey.

The first team lost 2-0 at Garswood United while the reserves were beaten 3-0 at home by Poynton reserves.

Gorsey Bank Primary School teacher Jon Goulding, 39, poured his obsession with Nuremberg’s team into a publication charting the stories of British-based fans of 1 FC Nurnberg.

Alderley Athletic and Alderley Edge Nomads will become the 300-strong Alderley United super-club next season and bosses hope the new package will be appealing to funders so they can transform facilities.

Handforth hypnotherapist John Wesdorp, 61, has created Nosmokingagain.org for smokers to quit as they sit in front of their computer screen.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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

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.

Setting an overall budget of £177.5m, police chiefs decided they require just 2.72pc extra from their council tax precept of a Band D household - about 7p per week. Last year in contrast the precept shot up by 17pc.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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