News in Frodsham

Cheshire West and Chester Council have released a video recorded by Frodsham Mayor, Cllr Caroline Ashton, in which she looks back on a year of coronavirus restrictions and celebrates the community-minded actions of local residents.

In it, she says: "During the last year, which has been the worst times most of us have been through in our lifetime, we have witnessed the best of Frodsham.

In a couple of weeks, Frodsham Market should be back to its full offering, as non-essential stalls return after lockdown.

Until then, it's essential pitches only, namely:

Primary school pupils in Frodsham, Helsby and Kingsley used yesterday's National Day of Reflection to create touching symbols of hope and remembrance.

Horn's Mill Primary School classes have been busy creating their own Miller Meadow of Memories, fashioning colourful flowers out of tissue paper, plastic, paint and paper, to represent their recollections of the past year.

We are now just five days away from 29 March, the date when we will legally be allowed to meet up with more than one person from outside our household for the first time since the New Year.

From Monday, the 'stay at home' order will be lifted and up to six people will be able to gather outdoors, including in private gardens. However, indoor mixing will still be banned.

Castle Park Arts Centre will be reopening on Tuesday 13 April with a new exhibition from the Association of Animal Artists.

From this date, the galleries, Courtyard Café and shop units will be open from Tuesday to Saturday as normal, and it is hoped that Castle Park's popular Elevenses performances will be able to start up again.

A number of Frodsham Town Councillors have supported a vote of no confidence against Council Chair Judith Critchley.

This came as Councillors reviewed the way in which Frodsham Town Council is managed at an extraordinary meeting on Wednesday.

On Sunday (21 March), the organisers of Tributes on the Hill announced that they would be giving away 100 tickets to NHS workers in order to say 'a massive thank you' for all they have done in the past year.

This was met with an 'amazing response', with all the tickets being claimed by healthcare workers across the country, including staff from South Wales and the North East.

Local residents who are Clinically Extremely Vulnerable (CEV) will no longer need to shield from coronavirus after Thursday 1 April.

Updated national guidance has been issued for Clinically Extremely Vulnerable (CEV) people following the announcement of the new roadmap for easing restrictions.

Cheshire West Libraries is launching a service that will make it easier for members to download and read eBooks and listen to audiobooks.

Any library member will be able to download the new BorrowBox app to their digital devices and access thousands of eBooks and eAudiobooks free of charge at any time of the day or night.

In April 2020, Sky News was one of several news providers to report on the socially distant dancing organised by local fitness instructor, Janet Woodcock, on Springbourne, Frodsham.

This week, the Sky News team returned to the street to see how its residents have coped with the past year.