Home From Home For Christmas

Want to get away for the festive season but somewhere that’s comfortingly close? Here is our top 10 of feel-good escapes in and around Cheshire

LAUREN SIMON

Lauren is still in shock about where she lives, but is making the most of autumn in Cheshire

LOUISE MINCHIN

The BBC breakfast host on life beyond the red sofa

KALINI KENT

In conversation with Cheshire’s movers and shakers

AT HOME WITH Dave Lister, Lloyd Mullaney, Trunk of Funkster CRAIG CHARLES

The multi-faceted entertainer spends his working life here, there and everywhere, and he’s very happy he has Cheshire to come home to

CLARE MACKINTOSH

Where does the author of four bestselling novels find inspiration when she’s stuck for words?

Suits you

Your chance to take home a bespoke tailored suit made in the heart of Liverpool

Swamp thing

Kunal Trehan and Thomas Hope are creating the home of their dreams in Sandbach, and started with the very damp grounds

An autumn stroll with Darcy and Elizabeth

A quarter of a century ago Colin Firth took a swim and plunged Cheshire’s Lyme Park into global fame

A BRUSH WITH CHESHIRE

Explore our diverse county through the eyes and imaginations of these artists and their very different styles

The Sweetest Things

Chef Graham Mairs’s life is like a box of chocolates – and with his artistry, you never know what you’re going to get

Landscape art

Nicky Thompson’s stunning new illustrations turn Tatton Park into a wildife gallery this autumn

THE BIKING BUG

From polo players to penguins, NHS workers to chippie owners… Cheshire is getting on two wheels

THINK BIG

The American love of dressing up front doors has hopped the Atlantic to the UK, and Chester resident Alison Inglis is among those leading the charge

Love letters to the Golden Triangle

Alderley Edge, Prestbury and Wilmslow have some of the most desirable postcodes in the UK, and three happy residents tell us wh

GIVING THE PAST A FUTURE

The restoration of Hankelow Hall, near Nantwich, has saved this extraordinarily beautiful building for new generations to admire and learn from

Go wild in the country

Foraging for food is no new pastime, but foraging for skincare? Our beauty editor Armand Beasley makes some naturally wonderful discoveries

BUILDING THE DREAM PART THREE: Star-glazers

Kunal Trehan and Thomas Hope have taken a unique approach to the glasswork at their self-build Sandbach home

A MAN OF MANY PARTS

Actor Ian Bartholomew is turning his portrayal of Coronation Street’s reviled wife abuser Geoff Metcalfe to good, with a new role, supporting charities helping the real-life Yasmeens

'I Wrote online, on forums and blogs. I wrote in notebooks and on scraps of paper, and in fevered, unfinished documents on my laptop. And as I wrote, I mended'

Bestselling author and new Cheshire Life columnist Clare Mackintosh tells the story of her life today… and her journey getting there

Ploughing A New Furrow

When everything stopped, they didn’t. And British Food Fortnight, starting September 19, is the perfect time to support our farmers

My Magnificent Seven For Spring

Cheshire gardener Linda Sage chooses her favourite bulbs to light up your new year garden

Why Lockdown Lifts Are Zooming

Surgeon Ian Morgan has seen a 130% increase in enquiries as Zoomers decide their sagging eyes and jowls need a stitch in time

The new wed-iquette

More and more couples are tearing up the rule book when it comes to planning their weddings

ART HOUSE

Holly Johnson admires the Arts & Crafts style so much she completely redesigned her 1970s’ Allostock home, from the outside in

Through town and country

Two for the price of one in this month’s walk: the cosmopolitan town centre of Knutsford and the vast manicured landscape of Tatton Park

The King's new reign

Caroline Johnson, director of external relations at The King’s School in Macclesfield, reflects on the culmination of an eight-year vision to relocate one of the country’s oldest schools to a new £60m campus during a year like no other

Bird's eye vıew

Take a look at our landscape from the skies on a flight with a new business that’s taken off during lockdown

A long green road

Sustainable living is a phrase we’re hearing all the time, but what does it mean for the property sector?

A CHESHIRE LOVE AFFAIR

Jenny Schippers chooses the fantastic 14 places she’d visit for a couple’s staycation