By Stephen Topping
Crewe and Nantwich MP Laura Smith, a former teacher, has spoken up on the “urgent need” for extra education funding.
Ms Smith, who used to teach at a school in Winsford, was elected in 2017’s General Election after playing a leading role in the fairer schools funding for Cheshire East campaign.
A cat who went missing from her family home five years ago has now been reunited with her owner thanks to RSPCA staff in Nantwich.
Lucy, a black and white short haired cat, went missing from her home in Crewe in 2014.
Football legend John Barnes will be in Nantwich later this month for a special St Luke’s Hospice fundraiser.
The former Liverpool and England winger will be the star of “An Evening with John Barnes” at Nantwich Civic Hall on February 28.
Police have launched an investigation into suspected illegal fox hunting near Nantwich after a fox was found dead.
Officers say they received reports of a fox being killed at a hunt on land at Hack Green, near Nantwich, at around 3pm today (February 5).
Crewe and Nantwich Ladies weathered an early storm to come from behind and beat a physical Leigh team 32-12 in the National Challenge 1 North West League.
With a challenging run of fixtures, Crewe shuffled the team and rested some key players against Leigh, a team they had beaten heavily away from home earlier in the season.
A South Cheshire woman who deliberately ran over two other women as part of a revenge attack has been jailed.
Kim Venables, of Elizabeth Street, Crewe, was sentenced to nine years and nine months in prison at Chester Crown Court yesterday (February 4).
By Stephen Topping, local democracy reporter
Officers in charge of buying healthcare across the borough have spoken out against the ‘scale of savings proposed’ in Cheshire East Council’s next budget.
The local authority ran its pre-budget consultation for 2019-20 last autumn, and revised proposals will be put before councillors later this month to be signed off.
Crewe & Nantwich RUFC’s recent strong run came to an end when they were beaten 35-0 away at league leaders Ludlow.
Crewe were forced into fielding a much changed side with the unavailability of 2nd rows Allcock and Wright, wing forward O’Leary and a long-term injury to prop Sposton.
A man had to be cut free from his car today after a smash off the A51 near Nantwich closed the road.
The incident happened at around 11.45am and involved one vehicle on the busy route close to Reaseheath College.
A teenage girl was arrested after Cheshire Police scrambled a helicopter during a car chase in Nantwich.
Officers were called after reports of a vehicle taken from an address in South Cheshire at around 12.48pm yesterday (February 3).
George and Dragon hammered 13 passed Brighton Belle in the only Crewe Regional Sunday League game to survive the big freeze.
The match was able to go ahead after teams agreed to move it on to a 3G pitch with all other games off due to frozen grass surfaces.
By Stephen Topping
An ambulance service has been handed extra funding to provide non-emergency transport for South Cheshire patients – less than a year after it agreed to end its original contract.
South Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group will be one of six in Cheshire, Warrington and the Wirral to benefit after a new five-year contract to West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS), which begins on April 1.
A Nantwich family is to stage an 80s Fancy Dress Night at Crewe Alexandra’s Stadium to help raise funds for two local charities.
Steph Marvell, her sister Sophie and cousin Jessica Youle are organising the event in aid of Motor Neurone Disease Association (Cheshire Branch) and St Lukes Hospice.
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