News in Frodsham

Helsby's new Indian takeaway restaurant, Junoon at Home, has announced that it will be opening this Friday 9 April.

The restaurant is located at 201 Chester Road and will replace Koraai, which closed in February.

KM Barbershop on Main Street was last night (Monday 5 April) the scene of a fire believed locally to have been caused by a petrol bomb.

Shortly before 8.30pm firefighters from Runcorn, Warrington and Sandbach were notified of the fire, and attended the scene along with the police.

Frodsham Police have launched a new 'Street a Week' initiative aimed at encouraging community engagement and collective problem solving.

Street a Week involves a week-long period of increased police presence at certain streets and public spaces in a town, which, as well as deterring criminal activity, allows police officers work in conjunction with residents to address local issues.

On Saturday 3 April at 5:16pm, fire crews from Ellesmere Port and Chester were called to a house fire on Rake Lane in Helsby.

Crews, wearing two breathing apparatus, used a hose reel to put out the flames, which were coming from a bedroom.

Local hairdressers, barbers, beauty salons, nail technicians and tattoo artists can find out all they need to know about how to reopen safely with an online event on Thursday, 8 April.

The personal care sector will be able to open to customers on Monday, 12 April, and this Cheshire West and Chester Council webinar will advise how to do so safely.

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If you are hoping to get out into nature this Easter, you might enjoy this beautiful tour of our local wildflowers, written by Hob Hey Wood Friend, Mark O'Sullivan.

Spring is wildflower season in our woods. Any relatively undisturbed patch of woodland will host a wide variety of beautiful flowering plants from March until June. We are lucky in Frodsham that many of our green spaces are wooded and hold many varieties of wildflowers; a gorgeous spectacle for visitors to enjoy and a great reason to get out and enjoy Frodsham's green spaces.

Easter is upon us — and with a much-welcome four-day weekend for Cheshire to enjoy, there's some good news on the Covid-19 fightback front.

That's because after a small wobble in new case numbers, the county looks to be back on track with getting infections down — albeit slowly.

"The body is broken, both how we feel in it and how we feel about it. We have allowed our bodies to become the business of others.

"To fix the glitch, we need to find the road back to our self."

This week's six mile walk, with its mix of woodland, lane, river and field, is perfect for this time of year, its route peppered with the jewel-like colours of spring wildflowers.

Beginning in Kingsley, it dips down over brook after pretty woodland brook, heading with them towards the River Weaver.