The idyllic Cheshire village that's like paradise for families - and rated among best places to live in UK

Fearne Cotton has announced the return of her successful wellness festival, with guest speakers including Rylan, DJ Fat Tony and Jono Lancaster already confirmed. The Happy Place festival's northern date will take place at Tatton Park in Cheshire on September 3 and 4.

The owners of Altrincham Market have unveiled their latest plans for a pub they have bought in Cheshire. The people behind the popular food halls will be taking over The Nags Head in Haughton just outside of Tarporley, which is set to reopen in the summer.

Former Love Island bombshell Molly-Mae Hague has been busy documenting her home renovation project after purchasing a lavish £4million property in Cheshire. The 22 year old, who has moved into the property with her beau Tommy Fury, has shared the couple’s home buying journey on her dedicated Molly Maison Instagram account - much to the delight of their 999,000 followers. As the loved-up pair continue to make their house a home, Molly-Mae has showcased her incredible taste for interiors which, at times, can be a little on the pricey side.

It’s a highlight of the Cheshire town’s annual event calendar and this year’s event will be the first for three years due to the pandemic …and it’s back with a bang!

Central Cee, Machine Gun Kelly and Avril Lavigne have been named among the artists who have the best-selling cassettes of 2022 so far.The near-obsolete format has been enjoying a revival in recent years; last year sales of cassettes increased by 13 per cent to its highest total since 2003.While it’s yet to be seen how well the format will perform in 2022 in comparison to previous years, the Official Charts Company has revealed the best-selling cassettes of the year so far.Central Cee boasts the best-selling cassette of 2022 so far with his second mixtape ’23’. The project, which topped the UK Album Chart back in March, has shifted the most first quarter cassettes, helped on by a now-sold-out, special edition yellow cassette, made available alongside its standard edition.The second best-selling cassette of the year is Machine Gun Kelly’s ‘Mainstream Sellout’, who managed to sell enough copies to make the chart in just one week of chart sales.

Coleen Rooney has shared a sneak peek inside her and husband Wayne's lavish new mansion, which boasts an enormous indoor swimming pool and luxury jacuzzi.The couple, both 36, moved into the sprawling £20 million property at the end of 2021, after waiting several years for building work to be completed. Mum-of-four Coleen and former footballer Wayne purchased the plot of land in Cheshire for £4 million in 2017, and have had their dream family home built on the 40-acre site.

Coronation Street icon Bill Roache has celebrated his 90th birthday today. Bill is renowned for being the longest-running soap actor, playing Ken Barlow on the ITV show since it first began in December 1960. In order to mark the impressive milestone, his family have released new portraits of the 90 year old taken by his son Will at their family home in Cheshire.

A chippy in Cheshire has been named one of the best in the UK - and now it's revealing the secrets of its success. The Codfather, in Northwich, accepted the accolade in honour of its former owner, who died tragically in a crash two years ago.

Pete Sandiford is a firm favourite among Gogglebox fans. He regularly has viewers of the Channel 4 hit in stitches with his comments as he appears on the show alongside his younger sister Sophie.

Brooke Vincent had a gorgeous glow as she stepped out in Cheshire after announcing her engagement. The Coronation Street star revealed the news on Instagram after she said 'Yes' to her footballer beau, Kean Bryan.

A Manchester man was arrested after a 'significant quantity' of cocaine was seized when police stopped an Audi on the M6. The 36-year-old driver is being questioned on suspicion of possession with intent to supply class A drugs.

The folks behind the Altrincham Market and Mackie Mayor foodhalls have bought a pub in Cheshire. They will be taking over The Nag’s Head in Houghton Moss, just outside Tarporley.

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Warrington has been named the third best night out in the country according to a recent study. It comes after the town's food and drink sector was praised for 'bouncing back' strongly. A new study, carried out by door safety security company Get Licensed, ranked Warrington as the best night out in Cheshire and the third in the UK.

A rare landscape blanketed in purple heather where wild Welsh ponies once roamed is just a drive away from Manchester in the depths of Cheshire. Bickerton Hill is one of few remaining lowland heaths in the region and boasts stunning views across the Cheshire Plain and beyond to the Dee Valley and Welsh mountains.

A country pub just half an hour out of the city is once again in the running to be voted one of the best in the whole of the UK. The Church Inn at Mobberley in Cheshire was voted as the top pub in the land in the National Pub and Bar Awards in both 2016 and 2019.

Twenty-two people died and hundreds were injured when a suicide bomber detonated an explosive device in the foyer at the venue at the end of an Ariana Grande concert on May 22, 2017.Martyn Hett, 29, was among those who died and his father Paul Hett has now said he “can’t understand” why the attacker Salman Abedi was not classed as a person of interest by the security services prior to the attack.Mr Hett told BBC Breakfast that when the bombing happened, “we thought that Martyn was just in the wrong place at the wrong time” and “extremely unlucky”.“Now we know that wasn’t the case,” he said. “The fact was that this could and should have been prevented and we just can’t get over that.”A public inquiry into the bombing has been exploring the circumstances leading up to and surrounding the bombing and is due to publish its findings later in the year.It has so far heard that on May 1 2017, Abedi had been assessed as meeting the threshold to be considered for further investigation by MI5 and was due to be considered for referral on May 31, 2017.A senior MI5 officer later conceded that it was a mistake not to question the bomber after he returned to the UK from Libya four days before the attack.Mr Hett said he “can’t understand” why Abedi was not a person of interest, because he had “at least eight” known terrorist contacts.“He also visited a convicted terrorist in prison on two occasions,” he said.