Petition update

The number of signatures is growing - but very slowly. We need more - many more. So if you're reading this and you're Cheshire-based and you haven't yet signed it, please do so!

Some comments received so far from the signatories:

"Chester has a rich history and is a city and county of great importance. It should be given the same resources as other counties."

"I too have complained to the beeb with no reply."

"Come on the BBC, get your act together and give us BBC Cheshire news pages!"

"Why not? Viablity is clearly not a genuine problem for all of the rest of country."

"I add my name in protest at the way we have been ignored. I have found this disgraceful. License fee paid, only to be ignored and lumped into regions I rarely travel to."

"BBC should recognise a county. Maybe we should ask BLAIR for our very own cheshire regional assembly and pull away from the entire nation..????lol"

"For a major tourist destination its surprising that Cheshire doesn't have a page of its own - and if you want the local weather forecast you have to look at Stoke and guess... Still, we do have the 'Chester At Large' website - are the BBC worried about competition?"

That's a few unhappy licence-payers out there...

Congleton coverage

The campaign was contacted by a trainee journalist last week, who happens to be based in Cheshire and also thinks the BBC's news coverage of our county is below par. The journalist is writing a feature on the campaign and we should get some column inches in the Congleton Chronicle very soon.

The news interest is very welcome and we look forward to seeing the article in print shortly. If it goes online, we'll post a link to it on this blog.