By Jonathan White
More than 1,200 runners took part in the third annual ‘Nantwich 10k’ road race yesterday (March 17).
The event, organised by RunThrough, took part in a loop on closed roads starting and finishing close to Nantwich town square.
Two Nantwich students scooped gold medals at the Cheshire Cross country championships.
Isaac Leydon and Hope Smith won their U17s races respectively at a wet and muddy competition held at Knights Grange in Winsford.
A young Wistaston boy whose dad serves in the British Army, has been awarded a medal by military children’s charity Little Troopers.
Eight-year-old Archie Jacques has been awarded “Little Trooper of the Month” for coping with numerous challenges that come with having a parent serving in the Armed Forces.
Former Brine Leas student Bryony Page claimed her second Olympic medal after she won bronze in the women’s trampolining final earlier today (July 30).
Page, who trained at Wingate Centre in Wrenbury as a youngster, was a silver medallist at Rio in 2016.
Reaseheath College apprentice butcher Jason Edwards has proved a cut above the rest by winning a bronze medal at the WorldSkills UK national finals.
This little star from Nantwich took a regional gymnastics competition by storm!
Six-year-old Bella McKinney leapt and bounced her way to silver medal overall in her age group at the Hannah Wheelan Invitational in Warrington.
A Reaseheath College trained veterinary care assistant has been awarded a prestigious City & Guilds Medal for Excellence.
Katie Ford, 33, now works at the Alsager Vet Centre, part of The Willows Veterinary Group, where she completed her work placement as part of her course.
Olympics medallist Bryony Page returned to her roots to show students at Malbank School in Nantwich her Rio gong.
Page, from Wrenbury, won a silver medal at Rio after a stunning trampoline performance.
A Nantwich fireman was one of 19 in Cheshire to be honoured with a Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.
Kevin Smith, based at the Beam Street fire station in the town, was among those hailed by Chief Fire Officer Paul Hancock at a ceremony.
Innovative burgers made by food students in Nantwich scooped a bronze medal in a national contest. The students from Reaseheath College earned the gong in the first round of the EBLEX “England’s Best Burger Challenge”.
Young Nantwich Seals swimmers won a haul of medals and personal bests in two tough competitions. Fourteen swimmers made the journey to Warrington for the Percy Mason Memorial Gala and produced their best performance of the year.
A medal awarded to a Royal Navy hero from the second War of Independence in 1812, is to go on sale at a Nantwich auction. The medal is expected to fetch around £10,000 when it goes under the hammer at Peter Wilson auctioneers on Market Street November 27-28.
Olympians from Cheshire East have been honoured with the “Freedom of the Borough” to celebrate their success. Athletes such as Beth Tweddle, from Bunbury near Nantwich, and Ben Ainslie, from Macclesfield, were granted the freedom at a ceremony in Congleton.
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