Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been rated “Good” by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) following inspections of its services and leadership.
It’s the second consecutive time the Trust, which manages Leighton Hospital, has received the rating.
Highways bosses say a number factors caused the traffic chaos across Nantwich this week.
Thousands have been caught up in gridlock as a result of resurfacing work at the junction of Hospital Street, London Road and Millstone Lane, in Nantwich.
By Stephen Topping
A charge for new and replacement wheelie bins will hit Nantwich and Crewe residents next month after a request to look again at the scheme was rejected.
From October, Cheshire East residents will be faced with a £30 charge for the standard 240-litre recycling, black residual waste or garden waste bin, or £25 for a smaller 140-litre bin.
By Stephen Topping
A housing development in the heart of Crewe which was previously deemed “not worthy” of the town has been approved at the second attempt.
Countryside Properties has been given the green light to demolish unused buildings at the Bombardier site in West Street – along with the historic boundary wall – and build 239 homes and 24 flats in their place.
Detectives probing the murder of Audlem dad Adam Lovatt have renewed their appeal for help – four months after the incident.
Officers are still keen to trace people who witnessed anything on the night of Adam’s death.
A Reaseheath College student in Nantwich has been recognised as the top gamekeeping student in the country.
Connah Baker, 18, was presented with the coveted Frank Jenkins Memorial Trophy at the Midland Game Fair at Weston Park, Shropshire.
Crewe & Nantwich Labour MP Laura Smith has called for the first General Strike in the UK for more than 90 years.
In a speech given last night at the Momentum’s World Transformed festival, Ms Smith said the action would bring down the Conservative government.
Detectives have released CCTV footage of a man they want to speak to in connection with a burglary in Shavington.
A stranger entered a house in Marshfern Place, Shavington, at around 2.10am today (September 25).
By Jonathan White
Crewe Vagrants Hockey Club presented a cheque for £1,041.46 to Liz and Mike Boffey from the charity Bloodwise at The Vagrants Ground.
The money was raised by the club via a ‘Hockeython’ 12-hour hockey game at The Vagrants Ground in Willaston earlier this year.
Nantwich residents are being urged to lodge their views as part of the Cheshire East Local Plan consultation, which highlights areas of the town centre that could be developed in future.
The consultation follows the adoption of the Local Plan Strategy in 2017.
Regeneration plans for Crewe town centre have taken a step forward after Empire Cinemas agreed terms for a new state-of-the-art eight-screen multiplex.
The 800-seat cinema will be centre-piece of the Royal Arcade scheme, shown in these newly released artist drawings.
Work is set to start on the controversial Taylor Drive – Edmund Wright Way ‘link’ route in Nantwich.
The link has sparked protest from residents living close to it, but others say the link is essential to ease traffic along Welsh Row and Queens Drive and should have been built years ago.
By Stephen Topping, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East Council chiefs have reiterated support for the planned HS2 route between Crewe and Manchester – but are calling for “world class mitigation” for the environment.
Phase 2b of the high-speed rail link is due to be built to the west of Middlewich and Knutsford – including through the Cheshire Showground in Tabley.
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