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GUINNESS world record-breaking attempts happen every day, all over the world. But for Chester Lions Club a special event also helped to raise a record amount of cash for charity.
In 2000, the club was approached by the Rolls-Royce enthusiasts club to take part in an attempt to get the largest number of Rolls-Royce cars on a road at one time.
Lion Ron Cain said: "The enthusiasts offered to make a donation to the club so we agreed to get involved.
A HISTORIAN is trying to identify this young girl, pictured at a war-time celebration in south Cheshire.
Neil Rees, who lives in Buckinghamshire, has been carrying out extensive research into the stories of the Czechoslovaks who were exiled to the UK during the Second World War.
A MAP of Chester in 1872 is the latest to be published in a series of almost 150 British Victorian towns.
Heritage Cartography's series is based on the first large scale surveys of the Ordnance Survey. In that year, Chester still bore its medieval roots as a walled market town set in a defensive crook of the River Dee. Apart from a large lead works, the industrial revolution has had little impact on the city.
It is 30 years since the very first Vauxhall Astra rolled off the production line at Ellesmere Port. LAURIE STOCKS-MOORE looks back on its historic role in the town's fortunes...
SIX GENERATIONS and 2.8 million units later, the Astra has established itself as the fourth most popular car ever sold in Britain and accounts for almost one in 20 of all vehicles registered in the UK.
The latest mark six version, launched last year, is Britain's best-selling UK-built car.
Its popularity has single-handedly sealed the survival of the Ellesmere plant and has kept hundreds of locals in jobs over the decades.
A COLLECTION of history enthusiasts have formed a new society to mark the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain later this year.
Mold Salutes is holding an open evening later this month to attract new members and appeal for memorabilia for a four-day event it wants to stage in August.
A HOST of famous pop singers, soap stars and DJs have appeared at Destiny & Elite during an eventful and sometimes controversial ten years.
On the opening night in 2000, TV presenters Jenny Powell and John Leslie were the special guests along with Geoff Capes, twice winner of the World's Strongest Man title, whose firm was providing security.
A FLINT man who emigrated to America in the 1950s has captured his memories of the town in a book.
Peter Williams, 75, now lives in Newark, New Jersey, and is author of Whistling in the Soup (Boyhood in Wales during WWII), a collection of his childhood memories.
A HISTORIC Cheshire water mill has been closed due to funding cuts in United Utilities.
Bunbury Water Mill in Mill Lane ended its working life in 1960 but since then it has operated as a museum with fully working machinery.
Thousands of schoolchildren visited the site each year to see the mill producing wholemeal flour and oatmeal made from locally grown milling grain.
But the mill, which usually opens between March and October, will not reopen this year as United Utilities have decided to stop funding it. They hope to find another organisation to take it over.
The same site has been used for the corn milling for the past four centuries but the current mill was rebuilt after the previous one burnt down in 1844.
ORGANISERS of next weekend's Holly Holy Day Battle of Nantwich say the event will still go ahead despite the recent horrendous weather.
The Mill Island surface, like the rest of the country, has been covered in snow and ice for weeks but thousands of soldiers are all set to battle.
ANSWERS to readers' questions sometimes elude me but fortunately there is usually someone out there who can help out.
Such was the case when Paul Snelson, now 54, asked me if I could tell him when the original Grange Infants School opened.
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