News in Frodsham

Frodsham Festival of Walks Chair, Cllr Caroline Ashton, is inviting residents to join in with the Great Walk Together by planning a local walk for Sunday 20 June.

The Great Walk Together forms part of the Great Get Together 2021, an initiative of the Jo Cox Foundation which aims to bring people together to celebrate new connections and Jo's #MoreInCommon message.

Community sector organisations in Frodsham carrying out projects aimed at reducing health inequalities are being invited to apply for grants from Cheshire NHS bodies.

Cheshire West and East Integrated Care Partnerships are working with Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group to distribute £660,000 of funding, with up to £30,000 available over 18 months to support each project.

For our Frodsham Heroes this week, we celebrate the work of consultant surgeon Robert Jones, who also lives in Frodsham.

Robert is a consultant hepatobiliary and general surgeon at Liverpool University Hospitals, and Royal College of Surgeons lead for research into bowel cancer that has spread to the liver.

Climate Action Frodsham is inviting local residents to join its projects meeting on Wednesday 9 June.

The meeting will take place at 7:30pm via this Zoom link.

If you're interested in keeping Frodsham's local community spaces looking neat, tidy and inviting, you might want to get involved with the Frodsham Station adoption team.

Created by North Cheshire Rail Users Group and Transport for Wales, this group of volunteers looks after the station gardens and floral displays, winning various awards over the years for their work.

El Misti, the band headed up by Kash 22's Paddy Bleakley, have this week been chatting to Robert Elms on his BBC Radio show.

During yesterday's programme, Elms played two El Misti tracks - 'Couldn't God Damn Someone Else' and '1983' - while talking with Paddy about the making of each song.

Covid-19 case numbers remain low in the Frodsham area for the moment, although infections rates are rising rapidly in other parts of the borough due to the Delta variant.

In the seven days leading up to June 5, there were three new coronavirus cases recorded in both Frodsham and Helsby wards, making for a rolling rate of 32 and 60 per 100,000 respectively.

A partial solar eclipse will apparently be visible from Frodsham and other parts of the North West this morning.

A quarter of the sun will be blocked by the moon in the largest partial solar eclipse since 2015.

A planning application has been submitted to convert the former William Hill shop on Church Street into a 'public house/wine bar or drinking establishment'.

If it does not become a bar, the application seeks to change the premises into a Class E development, that is, a retail, food and drink or professional services business.

Cheshire West and Chester Council leaders are urging residents to get vaccinated against Covid-19, as infection rates more than tripled over the past seven days.

It was only a few weeks ago that Cheshire West had the lowest level of infection of any local authority in mainland England, with a rolling rate of just five per 100,000.