Chester glowed green as hundreds of people took part in a special walk to raise funds for Clatterbridge Cancer Charity. Armed with glow sticks, fundraisers donned green T-shirts, wigs, leg warmers, hats and head bands for the colourful 7km route around the city. Glow Green Night Walk took walkers past some of Chester’s most famous […]
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The Duke of Westminster is leading the way in encouraging phone-free education in Cheshire. Under a Cheshire Police and Crime Commissioner initiative, all state high schools in the county will have phones locked away. This is made possible thanks in part to a significant personal donation of £250,000 from the Duke to enable schools to
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The first events for this year’s Chester Festival of Ideas have been announced, from some of the UK’s leading broadcasters sharing insights to spectacular science shows. The award-winning, free four-day annual festival is returning in the summer for the third time. Created by the University of Chester in collaboration with partners, the festival offers a
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Chester is bucking the national trend with a clutch of new openings in the city centre ranging from smaller independents to household brands. For the more active, JC London arrived in Eastgate Square and Sweaty Betty on Bridge Street, just in time for the Christmas shopping season. Already a firm favourite online, Chester is JC
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Anyone who has been to CAFT’s 10-acre farm in the Cheshire countryside will have seen first-hand the difference the charity makes to young people’s lives. Standing for The Children’s Adventure Farm Trust, the charity has been making memories to last a lifetime for more than 30 years. Everything is focussed on CAFT’s 17th Century Grade
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A director of a leading Chester and North Wales estate and lettings agent has raised funds for charity after successfully trekking in the Himalayas. Hugh Evans, a director of Cavendish Estate & Letting Agents, which has offices in Chester, Ruthin and Mold, tackled the mountain range in Asia in aid of the firm’s nominated charity,
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Knutsford-based social entrepreneur Jane Kenyon has been awarded an MBE for services to gender equality in women and young girls in the King’s Birthday Honours. She founded the non-profit social enterprise Girls Out Loud in 2010 and has since helped shape brighter futures for more than 30,000 teenage girls through her early intervention programmes, mentoring
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A Cheshire-based personal trainer is bringing his unique gym to people’s homes and businesses. Over more than 30 years, Matt Heath has trained everyone from beginners to elite amateur and professional athletes, written a book, given talks and appeared on radio shows. Now, in his boldest venture yet, Matt is rolling out the Original Mobile
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He’s known as one of the ‘most influential medical doctors’ in the country. Dr Rangan Chatterjee, who lives with his family in Wilmslow, Cheshire, is a former GP, author and respected Feel Better, Live More, health podcaster. His critically acclaimed podcast has recently celebrated its 500th episode and has had over 240 million listens. Last
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Inspire Cheshire joined forces with two local businesses for a ‘Recharge and Revive in 2025’ event, held at Chester’s Storyhouse. Delegates at the event, which took place at the end of February, heard from Adrian Dakers of Chester-based Little Blackbird and Gareth Preston from Farndon-based Aptitude Health and Fitness. The evening was billed as a
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