Cheshire split finally reported by Aunty

About flaming time.

For the last 9-10 months or so, the 1 million residents of Cheshire have been learning of government plans to abolish Cheshire County Council and six district councils and merge them all, into either one or two unitary authorities.

It goes without saying that the proposals have been splashed all over the various local and regional newspapers in our county. But until today, the issue was virtually ignored by the BBC.

This is a major story that will cost millions of pounds and affect 1 million people yet Aunty considered it not worth covering. Until today.

Note that the BBC's coverage is on the Staffordshire news page. There's clearly no need to remind you that it's there because we do not have a dedicated page for Cheshire news. Oh, the irony of reporting such a massive story on the web page for a neighbouring county...