Fans will bid farewell to the club’s boss at the Moss Rose on Saturday with a ‘hats off to Keith’ tribute. Five hundred specially commissioned baseball caps, just like the one Keith used to wear, will be on sale at the ground.

David Scott, 20, of Green Meadows, who has not been granted bail, attended the preliminary hearing yesterday morning..

Freddie, as he is known, commissioned the six-bedroom home nearly three years ago but is selling up after moving to Dubai.

A showcase of tracks by Joy Division and New Order, the hugely exciting show will include a never-released song, penned by Macclesfield-born Curtis. Former Joy Division and New Order bassist Hooky says he’s planning to remember the 30th anniversary of Curtis’s death with a Joy Division set, including the recently finished track Pictures, at his new club FAC251.

Scientists at Macclesfield’s iconic eye to the skies believe the cutting edge education and visitors complex can inspire a new generation of pioneers in physics and astronomy.

Joanne Foster, 35, said she was ‘disgusted’ at the decision to reject her appeal against the five-year manslaughter sentence given to John Anthony Cunningham in January.

Cheshire Peaks and Plains Housing Trust is footing the £850,000 bill for the eight new apartments on Cumberland Street.

Alexander, who recently took time off due to illness, passed away after arriving home on Tuesday night from Macclesfield's League Two match away at Notts County.

That is the challenge Macclesfield Barnaby Festival organisers were posing as they launched a photography competition this week.

Serial sex offender Christopher Tomas William Wilkinson, 23, was said to have ‘uncontrollable urges’ and flashed five woman for his ‘own gratification’.

More than £3m has been awarded by Cheshire East Council for the town’s ambitious regeneration scheme.

The company’s Macclesfield base has been spared the axe but three research and development (R&D) sites in the UK are set to be shut it was announced yesterday (March 2).

A 23-year-old woman and a 37-year-old man were treated for smoke inhalation after the blaze at the apartment above Best One newsagents on Merriden Road near to the town centre, in the early hours on Sunday, February 21.

Coun Fitzgerald told The Express he had ‘no idea’ why the BBC’s new ‘English regions survey’ showed the 14,000 workforce being reduced by five per cent, equivalent to 700 jobs, over the next three to five years.

The team of pyjama-clad tiny tots – all aged between two and nine months – dived into the pool for a Haiti appeal fundraiser organised by the Water Babies swim school.

This party girl, born in Lower Withington in 1903, turned the grand old age of 107 on Monday (March 1) with a celebration at Woodlands Care Home where she lives.

Macclesfield’s maverick Member of Parliament is refusing to retract his comments that MPs enjoyed a ‘different status’ to passengers in standard class on trains.

Roger Wilkinson, 54, has made every one of his ‘Kittiwake’ sailing boats at his workshop on a farm near Pott Shrigley, Cheshire. He has sold them to buyers all over the world.

]]> news http://www.macclesfield-express.co.uk/news/s/1194030__sailor_turns_boat_building_hobby_into_profession?rss=yes#comments 2010-02-26T12:18:39 http://www.macclesfield-express.co.uk/news/s/1193835_medal_of_honour_for_hero_dog_treo?rss=yes Macclesfield's hero soldier dog Treo has had his day once again – after being awarded the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross.

The four-legged army trooper yesterday (Wednesday) received the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA) Dickin Medal from HRH Princess Alexandra, under the proud gaze of handler and former Tytherington man, Sergeant David Heyhoe.

Reporter Ben Turner will be sending live updates from the meeting at Crewe from 2pm.

The blaze happened in the apartment above Best One newsagents on Merriden Road off Westminster Road, Macclesfield, in the early hours of Sunday morning (February 21).

When the Express reported how Margaret Frain, of Ullswater Mansions, saw a series of lights hovering over town on February 14, Theresa Bowers realised she and her family were the unwitting culprits.

The Rainow-based Tatton MP’s sibling, Dr Adam Osborne, 33, used misleading and dishonest behaviour when he falsified the name of a friend on a prescription, the General Medical Council in Manchester found.

Up to 200 extra staff could arrive at Macclesfield Town Hall after the data centre is installed in April.

Setting an overall budget of £177.5m, police chiefs decided they require just 2.72pc extra from their council tax precept of a Band D household - about 7p per week. Last year in contrast the precept shot up by 17pc.

The Byrons Lane pub hosts its latest seasonal taste testing talent show from Friday to Sunday (February 26-28), from noon to closing each night.

Scott Richard Darlington, 47, of Park Lane, Macclesfield, appeared at Chester Crown Court yesterday (Tuesday, February 22), to be sentenced for false accounting.

The 'Empower Card' allows the elderly and disabled to manage their own budgets by paying for social and leisure services themselves.

He joined officers heading out on the streets on Friday night as part of Cheshire Police's ArcAngel - a high-profile campaign to check on bars and pubs, and a fight against underage drinking on the streets.
 

Speaking on a heated radio phone-in this morning, he told furious callers 'a totally different type of people travel standard class'.

Notorious Darren Carnochan, 39, who has a record spanning two decades, had until now avoided capture after his heroin addiction drove him to commit a spate of thefts near his home on Mill Lane.

The annual contest to raise vital funds for Macclesfield Hospital charity MAST was cancelled last year due to a lack of participants. But its revival was met with huge support, with hundreds of supporters lining the streets to cheer on competitors including would-be MP David Rutley.

The new system, to be installed this week, will measure the speed of a vehicle between any two cameras on the highway, which is a 50pmh speed limit.

Margaret Frain, of Ullswater Mansions, Macclesfield, was mystified when she saw a convoy of strange orange lights hovering in the skies above her home on Sunday evening (February 14). - and her thoughts turned to little green men.

So the little lad was flabbergasted when six weeks later his balloon turned up in Le Havre, France – more than 300 miles from home.

The Macclesfield man, admitted a string of sexual offences, starting when he was aged just 14, when he appeared at Chester Crown court.

Macclesfield firefighters battled from 4.30am to 2pm on Wednesday, February 10, to stop the flames at Brownside Farm, on Mudhurst Lane.

But Cheshire East Council (CEC) insist the system will be more efficient – with those remaining dealing with more cases and less paperwork.

The hard-hitting campaign, in which a girl sews her mouth closed to show how victims are silenced by bullies, was originally stopped by a media watchdog.

Neil McDonald, 34, from Percyvale Street, Macclesfield, died after being punched in the head by John Anthony Cunningham following a night out. Cunningham, 30, of no fixed abode and previously of Reddish, Stockport, was jailed for five years last month.

The proposed rise, which is yet to be formally approved by Cheshire East Council, would see the overall bill for an average band D property increase by £20 a year, to £1,216.

Wilmslow-born Mark Saunders was shot dead following a stand-off with armed officers in London two years ago.

Treo, an eight-year-old Labrador, detected Taliban roadside bombs in the war-torn country.

Unloved Craven House, off Churchill Way, has attracted the interest of a major firm that already has a store in the town.

Dr Adrian Heald, a consultant physician at Leighton Hospital who lives in Nantwich, was chosen from final shortlist of four.

He has not entered an election race before now.

Residents could be dragged from their beds as late as 2am by police checking their windows and doors are locked in a new tactic to slash burglaries across Macclesfield.

Jeffrey Ramsbottom, 67, fractured two vertebra falling down stairs and was unable to sit, stand or walk without constant pain.

Bollington musician Joe Ashworth, 37, is still coming to terms with his traumatic experience after being stabbed by his girlfriend in a frenzied attack.

This summer, East Cheshire Hospice invites all supporters to come along to The Big Event, a fun-filled, four-day mix of great events, to raise funds for the wonderful service.

An outbreak of honey fungus has resulted in at least six huge trees being cut down to size in January according to Friends of South Park (FoSP).

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) have confirmed that criminal investigators arrested four people from Cheshire during a series of raids.

Erika Hasler, 44, claimed she was a jobless single mum as she pocketed £29,581 in income support, housing and council tax benefits for seven years. But she could have legally claimed more in working tax credits.

Officers used the Cheshire Police Piper Highlander plane to photograph road markings from the air to help prosecute Steven Tarry.

The additional cuts add to an existing programme to reduce its workforce, which will now see 15,000 job losses across AstraZeneca's global operations.

The third year art student's attempt to make the world's biggest cardigan was foiled last year when officials classed her entry as a jumper.

Paul William Lewis Wardle, 21, shoved community champion Ronald Booth, a well-known football coach on the estate, causing his hip to fracture in the fall.

The Express has discovered PCSOS and police have been jointly monitoring a secluded side road just outside the village for more than a year after receiving ‘numerous complaints’

Mr Murphy, who represented the Tytherington ward on Macclesfield Borough Council until April 2009, announced on Monday he wants to become the town’s next MP.ol last October.

In an exclusive interview with Macclesfield's sister paper, the M.E.N, Coleen, 23, of Prestbury, said she is learning 'as she goes along' how to be a mum to her 'gorgeous' son and that her husband is doing 'fantastically well'.

John Anthony Cunningham, 30, jailed for killing Macclesfield father Neil McDonald with one punch during a town centre night out could be released in just over two years.

He was seen laughing as he walked away from the unprovoked assault in Waters Green last August, Chester Crown Court heard.

The village’s popular drum group failed to impress the notoriously tough judges at the auditions for Britain’s Got Talent.

Cheshire East Council (CEC) has blown its budget for 2009 to 2010 with social services causing the biggest financial strain, a Full Cabinet meeting heard last week.

Steven Derek Briscoe, 40, ex-leader of the Macclesfield Round Table, was sentenced at Chester Crown Court for throwing his partner to the ground outside the couple’s ground floor flat on South Street, Alderley Edge, after a drunken night out at the Bubble Room.

A catalogue of stars joined friends and family of the Macclesfield Town manager at a packed funeral service in Lincoln cathedral.