Cheshire might be nearly 200 miles away, but it’s a magnet for North Easterners as MATT CASEY discovered. IT WAS my first visit to Alvaston Hall, where I soon felt at home in more ways than one.

If you had asked the balding, greying, young-at-heart punters at the tribute bands festival at Alvaston Hall Hotel last month ... in the heart of the Cheshire countryside, is one of a clutch ...

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