Health

  • School’s toy collection for abandoned children

    Pupils from Kettleshulme St James school clubbed together to make up 38 shoe boxes with toys, gifts and personal items for young neglected and abandoned...

  • Christmas clampdown on drink and drug drivers

    You might celebrate the festive season with your family and friends, end even enjoy a drink or two – but all we want for you...

  • Fallibroome students success

    Supported by The Rotary Club of Macclesfield Castle, students Daisy Lee and Catie Heyes from The Fallibroome Academy, successfully competed in this Rotary District disabled...

  • Winter Wellbeing – nominated neighbour scheme

    Cheshire East Council and its partners are offering a range of advice and support to residents on how to keep warm, well and safe this...

  • Macclesfield A&E services will be retained

    Local health and care leaders have assured residents that the Accident and Emergency (A&E) department will be kept at Macclesfield Hospital. Following recent articles in local media and significant public...

  • Local MP’s join campaign to keep A&E services

    Local MPs David Rutley, George Osborne, Andrew Bingham and Fiona Bruce have pledged their strong support to the campaign to keep Accident & Emergency services...

  • MP calls for A&E services safeguard

    In response to the NHS Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) for Cheshire & Merseyside report, published on 16th November, MP for Macclesfield, David Rutley, said,...

  • New year, new challenge?

    Police & Crime Commissioner for Cheshire, David Keane, is currently looking for volunteers to fulfil the role of Custody Visitor. Custody Visitors are members of...

  • Celebrating 30 years of child line

    To mark 30 years of Childline, the free 24-hour counselling service for children and young people, David Rutley, MP for Macclesfield, attended a special event...

  • Council launches local welfare safety net

    Cheshire East Council is taking immediate action to address a central government need to find welfare savings of £12billion. The ‘Cheshire East local welfare safety...

  • Improving the Tissington Trail

    Work to resurface and widen part of the Tissington Trail in the Peak District National Park will begin tomorrow (10 November). A 1.7km length of...

  • MP queries future of Macclesfield A&E

    MP for Macclesfield, David Rutley, has sought reassurances that a Minor Injuries Unit is not being considered as an option for Macclesfield Hospital and has...

  • Protect yourself from flu

    Cheshire East Council is reminding residents there’s still time to get their flu jab. People at increased risk of severe illness are the elderly, the very young,...

  • MP supports ‘Secondary. Not second’ rate campaign

    Local MP, David Rutley, recently met with Breast Cancer Care to hear about the charity’s campaign to ensure people with incurable secondary breast cancer get the...

  • Fund will protect and support victims of crime

    Pioneering projects aimed at tackling and preventing crime in our communities have been given a boost with the launch of a fund backed by Cheshire...

  • Council seeks help to identify homeless ‘hotspots’

    Cheshire East Council is urging members of the public to help identify ‘hotspots’ where homeless people sleep rough. The aim is to assist a national...

  • £100,000 health initiative

    Macclesfield residents will get an opportunity to vote on health projects, in an event being held at the multi-activity centre in Goodall Street on Saturday....

  • MP lends his support

    Local MP, David Rutley, hosted an NSPCC event in Parliament highlighting the need to provide abused children with the crucial support that they need. Attendees...

  • Eye Society seeks officers

    Macclesfield Eye Society have enlisted our help to recruit two officers for the organisation. A Charity Business Manager https://www.cvsce.org.uk/job/charity-business-manager-macclesfield-eye-society-east-cheshire-–-part-time and a Fund Raising & Awareness...

  • MP helps improve Hospice care

    Hospice care in Cheshire East is benefitting from a unique collaboration between the public, private and charity sectors organised by the local MP for Macclesfield,...