By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Plans to expand a fishery and leisure park near Nantwich to create a new lake and 19 holiday lodges have been recommended for approval despite parish council objections.
Coole Acres Fishery and Leisure Park at Newhall has applied to Cheshire East Council for permission to remodel hatchery ponds to create a new lake and to use land for 19 holiday lodges and two mobile camping pods.
Fed-up road users in Wrenbury have launched a petition to get this busy pothole-ridden rural road re-surfaced.
It comes after residents believe Cheshire East Council had the funds to do the work on Station Road and Wrenbury Road last year – but then diverted the money elsewhere.
Dozens of young swimmers enjoyed another competitive annual Nantwich School Swimming Gala.
And Stapeley Broad Lane and Sound & District primary cam away with the trophies from Nantwich Pool this year.
Villagers are being invited to celebrate the opening of the new-look Broomhall and Sound Community Centre near Nantwich.
The £125,000 project was put together to build an annexe to Broomhall and Sound Methodist Chapel, originally built in 1838.
A pupil from Sound and District Primary School is one of the youngest this year to be selected to play cricket for Cheshire under 11s.
Ten-year-old Ben Wright is a year younger than most of his team mates.
More than 20 budding ‘Bear Grylls’ at a Nantwich primary school had a taste of the great outdoors to raise cash for charity.
The resourceful youngsters at Sound and District Primary School used tarpaulin, fabric, string, tape and cardboard to make their own shelters for the night.
Staff and students at Sound and District Primary are celebrating after SATS results put the school among the best in the country.
The school, on Whitchurch Road in Sound near Nantwich, is in the top 14% of all primary schools in Britain for all subjects.
A nursery in Nantwich is celebrating summer – as Britain is about to be hit by freezing temperatures and snow storms!
Youngsters at Sounds Active Nursery have banished the winter blues by holding a summer-themed day to celebrate their new opening times.
Remembrance Day will take on a special poignancy for a governor at a primary school near Nantwich when three generations of his family mark the 100th anniversary of World War One.
Fred Wright, chair of the governors at Sound Primary, will remember the fallen, including his own uncle and nine other pupils from the small rural school.
Animal cruelty charges against directors of a Nantwich abattoir have been dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service due to insufficient evidence.
The decision comes just four weeks after a separate investigation into alleged horse passports irregularities at the same Red Lion abattoir was abandoned for the same reason.
Five people charged in connection with the Red Lion horse abattoir in Nantwich are to escape prosecution.
The Food Standards Agency is to drop charges of alleged horse passport irregularities at the abattoir in Sound, near Wrenbury.
Young artistic talents of Nantwich primary schools are celebrating success in a local competition. Five schools participated in the 2014 Rotary Art Competition organised by The Rotary Club of Nantwich.
Residents and businesses in Nantwich can find out more this week about the roll out of high-speed fibre broadband in Cheshire. Connecting Cheshire will enable 80,000 premises to tap into high-speed fibre broadband over the next 18 months.
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