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A schoolboy who raised over £2,000 for young patients at the Countess of Chester Hospital has returned to the children’s ward to see exactly what his fundraising helped to buy.

Samantha Dixon, Member of Parliament for Chester North and Neston, has celebrated World Book Day by visiting local schools and libraries as part of her commitment to visit every library across the constituency during the National Year of Reading.

Residents are leading an initiative to restore formal borders at Water Tower Gardens in Chester.

Chester Racecourse is delighted to announce that a record-breaking £35,000 was raised at last year’s Lord Mayor’s Fireworks Extravaganza, and that £10,000 of the money raised will be donated to Storyhouse to support an exciting new arts programme benefitting the local community.

Thousands of investors were “within touching distance” of being Isa millionaires in 2023 according to a money app, with many likely to have now surpassed this milestone to add to the more than 5,000 million pound Isa savers already in existence..

A new experimental treatment could help children with a rare and severe form of epilepsy “lead much healthier and happier lives”, according to researchers..

Ofwat has said it plans to fine South East Water £22 million over water supply failures between 2020 and 2023 impacting more than 286,000 people..

The idea that young people are shunning alcohol compared to previous generations may not be true, research suggests..