News in Frodsham

Residents, businesses and community groups are being invited to share their views on Cheshire West and Chester Council's budget proposals for the next four years. The six-week public consultation period will end on 3rd December.

The budget consultation, called Unprecedented Times, concentrates on the services residents saw as important when the current budget plan was formed, while also factoring in the 'huge and unforeseen impact of Covid-19'.

Mike Amesbury has agreed to be covered head to toe in slime, to raise money for Children in Need.

This Donate4Slime event, taking place on Friday 13th November, will see 10 buckets of gunge poured over the Weaver Vale MP on a live stream which people must pay to watch.

The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for rain, which is set to hit parts of North West England, including Frodsham, on Thursday (29th October).

Frodsham will sit at the edges of an area of low pressure caused by the ex-Hurricane Epsilon, which is still classed as a 'post-tropical cyclone'.

Work is beginning on a development of 11 affordable family homes in Helsby, delivered by Cheshire Housing Association and Weaver Vale Housing Trust.

Located on a Springfield Avenue site which was formerly an independent living scheme, the development will consist of seven two-bed and four three-bed homes.

Frodsham Town Council have decided to extend this year's over-70s Christmas voucher scheme to non-independent 'local hostelries', including all of Frodsham's pubs and bars.

This comes in a bid to widen Council support for the town's businesses, which have all been affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

This week, Frodsham's businesses and residents have been doing their bit to provide food for children who might otherwise be going hungry this half-term.

2020 has been an especially difficult year for some, as was reflected by Cheshire West and Chester Council's declaration of a poverty emergency in the borough last week.

From Golden Retrievers to Labradoodles, Shelties to 'Heinz 57 Terriers', Helen Shuttleworth has walked them all.

In May, when lockdown was in full force and she was facing redundancy from her job, Helen decided to set up her own dog-walking business, Walkies with Helen.

A new Covid testing site is to be opened in Frodsham in the next two weeks, Frodsham Nub News have heard from the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

There will also be new testing facilities for Ellesmere Port and Blacon, to join the centres that have already opened in Winsford and Northwich.

The future of Frodsham Leisure Centre was discussed by residents and Council officials today, during a public information session on Brio Leisure's 'Future Offer' for the borough.

During the meeting, local people raised various different concerns about proposed plans to close the Frodsham facility.

On Friday (23rd October), we reported that Frodsham's Queens Head pub would be providing free breakfasts for any child who would normally receive free school meals.

This followed the rejection of the Labour motion to continue directly funding provision of free school meals over the school holidays until Easter 2021 by 322 votes to 261 Wednesday 21st October.