A £1.5 million project to extend and remodel Tarporley Church of England School to cater for rising pupil numbers has been completed.
The school in Park Road now features four new classrooms, a larger hall, new entrance, multi use games area and playground.
The busy A534 between Nantwich and Wrexham is closed for emergency resurfacing after an HGV overturned spilling diesel.
It happened between the A49 and A41 close to Bickerton Poacher pub.
Nantwich Police have hailed an operation targeting rural crime along the A49 corridor a big success.
Operation Tractor saw 10 vehicles taken off the road, red diesel seized and enforcement tickets issued for motoring offences.
Hundreds of villagers turned out to enjoy the annual Bunbury Village day in glorious sunshine.
The event saw the crowning of the new Rose Queen Aimee Doyle, who took over the robes from retiring Queen Gracie McKenzie.
Arsonists used gas canisters to torch the back of a property in the village of Ridley, near Nantwich, detectives say.
Police have launched an appeal for witnesses to the arson at a house on Wrexham Road in Ridley.
By Stephen Topping
Men and women are expected to live up to 15 years longer in rural areas of Cheshire than in the centre of Crewe.
Latest figures released by the Office of National Statistics highlight an alarming inequality in life expectancy across Cheshire East.
Big-hearted Bunbury children stopped their old school uniforms going in the bin – so they could donate them to an orphanage in Uganda.
The pupils worked together to collect more than 500 items of old uniform after Bunbury Aldersey CE Primary near Nantwich decided to change its outfit.
Family man Jake Lomax is standing for Labour Party in next week’s Bunbury ward Cheshire East Council by-election.
The 44-year-old, who lives in Bunbury with his family, has worked in manufacturing, defence and financial services for many years.
Alpraham resident Mark Sharkey has been chosen by Green Party as candidate in next week’s Bunbury ward be-election.
The seat – which covers the communities of Acton, Alpraham, Aston, Barbridge, Church Minshull and Reaseheath and Bunbury, was vacated by former Cheshire East Council Leader Michael Jones.
Cllr Mark Ireland-Jones has been selected by the Liberal Democrats to stand in the forthcoming Cheshire East by-election seat of Bunbury.
The by-election was called after former Cheshire East Council Leader Michael Jones announced he was quitting as councillor in December.
The Government’s latest league tables for Nantwich primary schools have been published, rating schools on the improvement shown by pupils in reading, writing and maths.
The tables show the percentage of pupils achieving the expected standard by the end of Key Stage 2 (year 6), compared to where pupils were at the end of Key Stage 1 (year 2).
The winter freeze has brought joy and frustration to families across Crewe and Nantwich.
Thousands enjoyed the weekend snow as young and old went sledging, built snowmen and enjoyed gorgeous Winter walks.
Spurstow artist and former teacher Dee Walker has been shortlisted for the prestigious MS Amlin Continuity Prize with her painting, The Lake is Deep.
The prize, part of the National Open Art (NOA) competition, is sponsored by MS Amlin, the London-based arm of Japanese global insurer MS&AD.
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