News in Frodsham

Frodsham Nub News aims to support our community, promoting shops, businesses, charities, clubs and sports groups.

We will be profiling some of these local businesses and organisations regularly over the coming weeks in a feature called 'Up Close In Frodsham'.

Helsby Scarecrow Trail is returning to local streets from the 24th-31st October, and is asking for entries under the theme of 'Children's Book Characters'.

Participants are asked to register their scarecrow to be in with a chance of winning a prize for the Best Residential, Best Commercial or Best Community Scarecrow.

The life of a local victim of the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing has been celebrated by her partner today during the public inquiry into the attack.

Det. Con. Elaine McIver, 43, who was originally from Ellesmere Port but who lived in Frodsham, had served Cheshire Constabulary as a regular officer since 1998.

Cheshire West and Chester Council have launched a consultation into their policy for providing services that can help children with Special Educational Needs or Disability (SEND) and their families.

The services known as 'short breaks' give SEND children the chance to have time away from their families, make new friends and have fun.

Nub News puts local community at the heart of everything we do.

We'll always aim to highlight the great work so many do in Frodsham, on so many levels for so many reasons.

A Helsby man who had a heart attack on the M56 has been reunited with the resilience firefighters who helped save his life.

Mark Ashton, 56, lost consciousness between junctions 11 and 12 of the motorway at 3pm on Wednesday 8th July, and crashed into the central reservation.

Cheshire West and Chester Council are urging their local communities to behave responsibly, to prevent a spike in Covid-19 cases.

"If we act now, we have time to avoid a new peak in infections and a local lockdown." Council leaders said.

This week, Robert Gleave & Sons garden centre will begin welcoming customers to its new outdoor Willow Tree café.

"For the past seven or eight years, we've had a really successful café within the garden centre, and then Covid hit and we had to close it," says Robert Gleave's Sal Halpin.

Frodsham Town Council is encouraging community organisations and individuals to apply for this year's grant scheme.

The grants aim to support the work and development of small voluntary associations by prioritising groups whose income is less than £10,000 per year and who do not employ paid staff.

New figures show that the number of parking fines handed out in Frodsham car parks and parking spaces has decreased dramatically since 2015.

A Freedom of Information Request by Frodsham Nub News found that, between 2015 and 2019, the number of vehicle owners receiving penalty charge notices from Cheshire West and Chester Council dropped from 557 to 143.