Bradley Orr claimed the ancient document meant he did not have to close his children's play centre.

Blackburn's Prof Dominic Harrison says child jabs are "desperately needed" to fight a rise in cases.

A woman who took on parental responsibility for her grandchildren says there is a lack of support.

Cheshire Police's dogs will be given collar numbers to make them "part of the team", the force says.

The latest news, sport, travel and weather from across the West Midlands and south Cheshire.

Saqib Mahmood takes his first five-wicket haul as Lancashire beat Yorkshire in the Roses match by an innings and 79 runs.

A man is held over the theft of a car believed to have been in a crash that killed two men.

Yorkshire's chances of saving the Roses match against Lancashire are dented after they lose two late wickets.

A teenager is arrested after a man, believed to have been hit by a vehicle, dies, police say.

People living in some areas of the county are being urged to get tested after a rise in Covid cases.

Keaton Jennings leads the way for Lancashire with 114 as they build a commanding Roses match lead over Yorkshire.

A tyre shop owner tells a court a drive-by gunman who killed a passer-by "was looking at me".

The BMW crashed into a Vauxhall while going in the wrong direction on a motorway, investigators say.

Chester Zoo says a £100m government fund for zoos which is closing was "too difficult to apply for".

There is terror on the tracks in Blackpool as Michael Portillo embarks on a new journey across Bradshaw's Britain with his Victorian guidebook. He makes potent new friends in Fleetwood then heads to Manchester, where George Stephenson built the world's first modern railway line. This epoch-defining achievement is being incorporated into a new multimillion-pound rail link between Manchester's Victoria and Piccadilly stations, and Michael lends a hand with the welding. At a moving ceremony in Manchester Piccadilly station, Michael unveils a new monument to 87 railwaymen of the London and North Western Railway, who lost their lives in the Great War.

Michael Portillo's journey from the Irish Sea to the North Sea continues by tram from Manchester. At the imposing town hall of the world's first industrial city, Michael comes face to face with the Victorian scientist who invented modern atomic theory. He then heads to the city's National Graphene Institute, where he learns to make the groundbreaking material invented there by two Nobel Prize-winning scientists. His Bradshaw's leads him to an 18th-century settlement built by refugees from Europe.

Next, deep underground at Standedge, Michael discovers an ambitious Victorian engineering marvel. At Silkstone Common, he tracks down the forge where a Victorian metallurgist created wrought iron axles strong enough for railway rolling stock and is delighted to discover the works operates its own miniature train.

Cheshire host Cumbria at Didsbury Cricket Club in the National Counties Trophy - listen to BBC Radio Cumbria commentary.