News in Frodsham

This week, as lockdown dragged into its second month, there was a bit of excitement at Frodsham's Hover Force.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, a small crew from CBBC's Blue Peter, including presenters Richie Driss and Adam Beales, came to try their hand at some of the centre's adrenaline-filled activities with Frodsham locals and Hover Force instructors, Megan Lovett and Jake Martindale.

Unicorns? In Helsby? Surely not...

Unlikely as it may seem, your eyes are not deceiving you!

Cheshire West and Chester Council is launching a scheme of grants encouraging homeowners to bring long-term empty properties back into use.

Although the Council has helped to get 900 such homes occupied over the last five years, there are still 2,100 in our borough that remain vacant.

Cheshire Police's Rural Crime Team have recently completed Operation Marsh, a week-long crackdown on offences such as fly-tipping on Frodsham and Ince Marshes.

The operation was carried out between 26 and 29 January, in partnership with Cheshire West and Chester Council and Frodsham Police.

Much-loved actress and national icon Joanna Lumley - like Nub News - shares a love of visiting and highlighting local communities across the country and has just launched her new TV series doing just that.

Nub News is delighted to help spread awareness of her series, 'Joanna Lumley's Home Sweet Home - Travels in my Own Land' which is on ITV.

When we look at this photo of Frodsham's Cenotaph Field in 1964, we always wonder about the pair sitting in the foreground.

Are they a couple or just friends? What are they talking about? How did they come to be sitting there?

If you are registered with a GP in Frodsham, Helsby or Elton, you can now access help and guidance from a team of additional support link workers, who are there to enhance and strengthen care provision in our communities.

In this article, we introduce you to Anna Andersson, your local Employment Support Link Worker.

February is, usually, a marked improvement on January. Days get longer, pancakes are scoffed, and love is in the air.

In the world of local government, February also sees a flurry of activity compared to the first month of the year. Why?

More than £1 million of investment could be coming to Frodsham's local rural bus network through a funding bid endorsed last month by Weaver Vale MP Mike Amesbury.

On Wednesday (February 10), proposals to submit a funding bid of £1.075 million to the Department of Transport's Rural Mobility Fund will go before Cheshire West and Chester's cabinet.

The BBC has reported local elections in May are set to go ahead despite concerns they might spike another surge in Covid-19.

This includes Frodsham Town Council by-elections for Lakes and Waterside wards, as well as a Cheshire Police and Crime Commissioner election which was postponed last year.