The Latest Breaking News from Chester

While the capital is a travel hub for overseas visitors, it’s possible to have the trip of a lifetime in the UK without staying there a single night. Here’s where to spend your vacation instead

Rail firm Avanti said it was ‘disappointed’ by the watchdog’s decision

The debonair detective heads north for this breezily daft mystery featuring a missing masterpiece, vicious nuns and a full-bodied rendition of I Will Survive

A drug-driver crashed into a tractor, causing it to smash into a row of houses in Chester.

Matthew Cumpsty drove through a red light into the path of a tractor in Chester.

What happens when the women immortalised in old master paintings step out of their gilded frames and into the chaos of modern domestic life? That’s the question artist Sarah Lightman tackles, with wit, irreverence and insight, in her exhibition Biblical Women Ageing Disgracefully, now on at Chester Visual Arts, Grovesnor…

Letby is serving 15 whole-life orders after she was convicted of murdering seven infants and attempting to murder seven others

Fifty-seven-year-old arrested after Range Rover collided with central reservation in Neston, Cheshire on Saturday

Four ducklings add to safety-net population of African species that is estimated to be down to 5,000 in the wild