From choosing your colour scheme to selecting your decorations, here’s how to set the scene for Christmas dinner with a stunning festive table

Choosing the correct school for your child is not easy under normal circumstances, says Jason Slack, newly appointed Head of Foundation at the King’s School, Macclesfield, but during a pandemic there are additional challenges

Our real housewife Hanna is back on our screens, and is busy, busy, busy!

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Christine Colbert is the owner of Dress, in Prestbury. Here she tells us how she built her successful business

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Treatment review: ClearLift laser facial treatment in Wilmslow

If anyone deserves to feel like a million dollars, it’s Jenna Unwin, Huyton-based founder of global skincare brand Million Dollar Facial

Dine fine in Manchester as The Midland re-opens their newest restaurant, Mount Street

Interior trends for autumn/winter 2020 for a cosy home.

It’s time to think about your Christmas wine - consider Côtes du Rhône for something rather special

Hale-based life coach Debra Thorpe wrote and published her first novel in September. We asked how it all came to be

Nick Hopkinson was appointed High Sheriff of Cheshire in April, via Zoom, but lockdown simply served to supercharge his fundraising

We tried, and loved, the mesotherapy treatment from Zest Rejuventating Facial Aesthetics in Knutsford

Hypha, the award-winning, Michelin Guide-listed vegan restaurant in Chester, has taken lockdown as an opportunity to evolve their offering and now present a seven-course tasting menu to enjoy

Covid-secure dining in Manchester works beautifully at Gaucho – and the food is pretty outstanding too.

Women going through the complicated, often confusing process of IVF and assisted fertility have a new resource to call on, in the shape of Kelly Saynor and Wendey Munroe

The Children’s Adventure Farm Trust near Altrincham has been keeping people smiling

Does Cheshire follow the rest when it comes to cocktails, or do we have our own favourites?

How do you plant the perfect garden? Cheshire garden designer Nira Sharma has some ideas.

Absolutely brilliant, Back to the Future the Musical is an experience you simple have to have

Highly entertaining, a political satire that doesn’t (quite) take sides, The Last Temptation of Boris Johnson delivers laughs and a wry commentary on the state of the UK today.

Cabaret at Manchester’s Palace Theatre is just superb; every moment a glittering, tawdry, brilliant jewel

Band of Gold is by parts funny and sad, and raises the question of what kind of society we think we live in

Riotous, rip-roaring fun that gives laugh-a-minute a new reality, the panto at Manchester Opera House is a 5 star success

SIX the Musical is absolutely superb, from first note to last

Circus 1903 is a visual feast packed with thrills, laughter and fun

On Your Feet kept me in my seat, says Kate Houghton