News in Sandbach

A local estate agent has welcomed the government's extension of the stamp duty holiday, describing it as a "massive relief" for homebuyers.

The chancellor, Rishi Sunak, is set to announce that the pandemic measure will be extended from its current deadline at the end of next month up to the end of June, The Times reports.

A Sandbach man's long-fought campaign to have a litter bin installed appears to have faltered following a single objection.

John Hough first floated the idea of installing the bin halfway along Park Lane in 2019 after finding there weren't many places to dispose of dog poo.

A Sandbach hairdresser has described the government's roadmap out of lockdown as "not ideal".

Lisa Archer, the owner of LA Hairvolution in Hightown, believes the restrictions could be eased sooner due to the investment made in making businesses 'Covid-safe'.

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Legal limits on social contact are to end in June and beer gardens will be reopening in April.

The new four-step plan to ease lockdown could see all legal limits on social contact lifted by 21 June.

More than 1,000 people were unlawfully deprived of their liberty by Cheshire East Council, a new investigation has found.

The investigation by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman found that the council had 'significant' delays in processing Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DOLS).

Vaccine supply in Cheshire will be 'throttled back' in order 'to allow other areas' of the country 'to catch up'.

That's according to Labour Cheshire East Council leader Sam Corcoran, speaking this week.

Cheshire East Council leader Sam Corcoran has issued a withering comparison of England's Covid death rate with that of New Zealand.

Only 25 people have died in New Zealand where a three-day lockdown has been implemented in its biggest city Auckland today because three positive cases were discovered.

A health chief has hailed the "heroic effort" to protect Cheshire's most vulnerable residents from coronavirus and signalled the determination to drive a reduction in health inequalities via the vaccine roll-out.

All over 70s, frontline health and care staff, older care home residents and people classed as clinically extremely vulnerable have now been offered a COVID-19 vaccination – less than 10 weeks after Mona Thomas, 92, became the first person to receive a COVID-19 vaccination in Cheshire.

The Sandbach Transport Festival has been cancelled for another year as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

The festival, which features an array of classic car and other vehicles, normally takes place in the spring.