Fire crews tackle major blaze in Crewe youth centre
Dozens of South Cheshire fire fighters battled with this major blaze after a youth centre in Crewe went up in flames.
The blaze broke out in a building on Mirion Street, Crewe.
Archive for August, 2014
Brine Leas and Malbank students achieve top GCSE results
Students at Brine Leas and Malbank School in Nantwich were celebrating another excellent set of GCSE results today (August 21).
More than 80% of Brine Leas students in Nantwich achieved A* to C in both Maths and English, today’s results revealed.
Second Stapeley Gardens housing phase gets go ahead in Nantwich
The second phase of the Stapeley Gardens housing development in Nantwich has been given the go ahead by councillors.
Another 176 houses are to be built on the former Stapeley Water Gardens brownfield site between London Road and Peter de Stapleigh Way.
Bunbury pub Yew Tree Inn to stage Bank Holiday beer festival
The award winning Yew Tree Inn is rolling out the barrels and the bands for an August Bank Holiday beer and music extravaganza.
The pub, in Spurstow, Bunbury, twice voted ‘Pub of the Year’, has joined with Crewe’s Beer Dock specialist off-licence to showcase cask, craft keg and bottled ales from around the UK.
RSPCA in Nantwich issue desperate plea for cat homes
The RSPCA Stapeley Grange cattery is issued a desperate plea to find homes for abandoned cats.
Staff at the centre on London Road in Nantwich say they are now full and cannot take any more cats or kittens.
Police and council deal with travellers on Barony Park, Nantwich
Police and council officials were called in to move a group of travellers off Barony Park in Nantwich.
The travellers with seven or eight vehicles and caravans, were spotted setting up on a corner of the park near Birchin Lane.
Police and council chiefs praise CCTV after Crewe town centre stabbings
Police and council chiefs have praised CCTV and local retailers for their help during the Crewe town centre stabbing incident.
A 72-year-old woman and 55-year-old were allegedly attacked by a man with a knife in the Victoria Centre near WH Smiths and Asda during a busy shopping day.
New service for isolated Nantwich and Crewe people in volunteers plea
A new service to help vulnerable and isolated people in Nantwich and Crewe has already recruited 11 big-hearted volunteers.
Cheshire Community Action’s volunteer “car scheme” aims to help people who have difficulty using public transport.
Evo-Stik Premier League: Nantwich Town 0 Skelmersdale Utd 1
By Richard Scott
Nantwich Town showed true fighting spirit against the odds as they slipped to a first defeat of the new campaign.
The Dabbers, who played with 10 men for three quarters of the game, dominated possession and chances.
Review: “Tosca” by Heritage Opera, Nantwich Civic Hall
By Claire Faulkner
Heritage Opera returned to Nantwich this week with ‘Tosca’.
Sung in English, Puccini’s famous opera is full of love, deceit and more drama than any modern day reality TV or Jeremy Kyle show.
£20,000 grant to repair Wingate Children’s Centre potholes
A pot-holed road leading to a Nantwich children’s centre is to finally be repaired thanks to a £20,000 grant.
Parents and visitors have complained for years about the access road to the Wingate Children’s Centre, Wrenbury.
Celebrity chef Nigel Haworth teams up with Mid Cheshire Riding for the Disabled
Young members of a Cheshire riding school for disabled have put local celebrity chef Nigel Haworth firmly in the saddle!
Mid Cheshire Riding for the Disabled Group introduced horses to Nigel to launch a charity fundraiser at his new restaurant The Nag’s Head, near Nantwich.
Nantwich Museum to host First World War historian talk
The first of a series of talks accompanying the “Nantwich and the First World War” exhibition at Nantwich Museum takes place this week.
Prominent local historian Mark Potts will speak on “The Great War – the cost to the families of Nantwich” tomorrow (Wednesday August 20).
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