News Staffordshire Cheshire

Extra checks and higher fines to tackle school absence

Large cannabis farm shut down by police in Alderley Edge

Push to get MMR jab as measles cases rise in the North West

The rising number of parents in Staffordshire and Cheshire opting to home educate their children

Everton legend Kevin Sheedy helps front new North West bowel cancer campaign

Former Chester trampoline park bosses fined after visitors 'injured daily'

Owners of the Crooked House pub ordered to rebuild it

Investigation after armed robbery in Morrisons in Crewe

1 in 5 adults 'did not act' when seeing a child at risk of neglect or abuse

Campaigners call for U-turn on plans for gambling 'affordability checks'

Leek teenager who died at Staffordshire lake named

Cheshire man jailed for upskirting and voyeurism offences

North West to get nearly £1.5 billion to spend on transport

Woman dies in Leek house fire

17-year-old boy dies after getting into difficulty in Staffordshire lake

Concerns grow over rate of kids failing literacy in Staffordshire and Cheshire

Woman dies following fatal house fire in central Leek

Emergency services called as three people fall into Staffordshire lake

Crewe Alexandra move into promotion places

Nemesis Reborn set to open next month

UHNM repairs backlog hits £34.7m

Cheshire's NHS warn of 'significant disruption' as junior docs back on strike

Lucy Letby convictions appeal bid to be heard by judges in April

Our police forces to be scrutinised over Clare's Law stats

Stoke City's Ricky Martin leaves the club

Man charged following separate incidents assault and arson in Stoke-on-Trent

Kids across Staffordshire and Cheshire 'trapped in poverty' says charity

Investigation launched after blaze at derelict factory in Stoke-on-Trent

Police investigation after armed robbery in Crewe

Calls for zero-hours contracts to be scrapped in Staffordshire and Cheshire

Severn Trent fined two million pounds after hundreds of litres of sewage discharged into river

Stafford man jailed for 15 years for child sex offences

Calls for children across Staffordshire and Cheshire to learn more about money at school

Two people arrested after cannabis grow discovered

Stoke-on-Trent City Council launch legal challenge over sinkhole

Harry Potter first edition worth £10,000 gifted to charity shop