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How to celebrate Cheshire Day with a celebration of Cheshire cheese in Nantwich

Cheshire Day marks the coming of spring.

The annual celebration of food, culture and heritage from my home region of Britain is still relatively low key.

But, as a Cheshire resident, I find plenty to celebrate on my home patch.

So, this year, I prepared for the Cheshire Day cheese fest with a trip to Nantwich [St Mary’s Church pictured above] and cast my eye around the region.

The travel assignment was for Telegraph Travel.

Read a sample here:

I’ve come to Nantwich to stock up for Cheshire Day, celebrated annually on March 30.

It’s a historical reference to the date the county was given its own Charter of Liberties by King Edward I in 1300 — in effect its own Magna Carta.

It’s also a somewhat manufactured construct because Cheshire suffers from an identity crisis.

Read the full feature via Telegraph Travel, In praise of Cheshire, Britain’s most misunderstood county.

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How to follow the official Harry Styles tour of Holmes Chapel, Cheshire

To Holmes Chapel, east Cheshire for an unlikely musical pilgrimage in an equally unlikely location.

I joined a sneak preview of the new Harry Styles Harry’s Home Village Tour [pictured above], which launched this weekend.

Read a sample from my article here:

When we finally arrived at the Twemlow Viaduct, it looks like a cross between the sometimes graffiti-covered grave of Jim Morrison in Paris’s Pére-Lachaise cemetery and an alcohol-free, teenage festival.

The messages range from “My mum loves Harry” to the more philosophical, “You bring me home”.

After three hours, I was desperate for a coffee and a sausage butty at the Village Kitchen, one of the local businesses offering fan deals back in the village.

But first I fell into conversation with 52-year-old superfan Andrea McGillivray [pictured below].

She lives locally and was one of the first visitors to test drive the new tour, having sat in the ITV studio audience the evening Harry first auditioned.

Clutching a slate-heart message to her idol and sporting a I Hiked to Harry’s Wall sweatshirt from the new merch range, she said:

“We’re happy to share Harry and his message of kindness with the world.”

Tours £20pp; more information from Holmes Chapel Partnership.

Read the full story via the iNewspaper: I joined the offical Harry Styles walking tour of his home village

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