BBC scoops Chester Chronicle

For once, the BBC were actually ahead of local news services when reporting this story from a week and a half ago. Last Saturday, I was anxiously scanning the Chester Chronicle for what I expected to be a quite detailed and lengthy report into the Ermine Road stabbing. I couldn't find it, so I went through the entire paper a second time. Not there. It looks as though the Chronicle failed to report on what has been one of the most violent incidents in a very long while. I was quite astonished that they managed not to cover it, not even in the news-in-brief columns. So, that's a heads up to Aunty on this occasion.

Today, BBC News Online reported another knifing incident in Chester. Wonder if that will get local coverage...

In the meantime, random scanning of the BBC's pages for Manchester and Staffordshire to check for coverage of Cheshire issues in those sections reveals that there is no improvement. So, it's still mostly business as usual. Which means very few Cheshire news stories at all.