By Jonathan White
A Queen’s Birthday celebration concert to mark Her Majesty’s 90th birthday took place at Wistaston Memorial Hall.
Crewe Concert Band performed highlights of music from England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and Cornwall.
Nantwich mother-of-five Denise Thorley had her long locks lopped off to raise money for cancer sufferers.
The music teacher hoped to raise £500 for the Christie Hospital in Manchester – but has doubled that thanks to support from family, friends and piano pupils.
A gang of thieves stole two expensive cars from a pub car park in Wybunbury near Nantwich.
Police say the crooks struck at the Red Lion pub on Main Road in the early hours today (June 19).
Nantwich Town midfielder Elliott Osborne has signed for League One Fleetwood Town.
The 20-year-old midfielder, who scored 22 goals last season for the Dabbers, will link up with Barry Nicholson’s development squad in a bid to progress into the first team.
Cholmondeley Castle near Nantwich is to host a leg of 2016 Rally GB – the first time it’s been to England since 1999.
Britain’s round of the World Rally Championship has just been held in Wales in recent years.
Headline acts for Nantwich’s 9th Words & Music Festival have been unveiled.
Legendary punk poet Dr John Cooper Clarke and Scottish singer Eddi Reader, formerly of Fairground Attraction, will lead the line-up for the six-day festival.
RSPCA vets in Nantwich dealt with one of their most “incredible cases” when a young jackdaw pecked off more than it could chew.
The bird had swallowed a pair of tweezers and was rushed to RSPCA Stapeley Grange Wildlife Centre on London Road.
Saucy 1950s and 60s postcards could fetch hundreds of pounds when they are sold at a Nantwich auction.
The smutty vintage cards up for sale contain punchlines like “It’s time you bought me some new drawers Mr Smith” and “Would you like to come in and demonstrate your apparatus”.
Voting has opened for this year’s Nantwich Food Festival food awards.
The annual awards are a chance for the public to vote for their favourite local outlets that champion produce from Nantwich and the surrounding Cheshire area.
Mornflake has helped The Alex Soccer Centre in Shavington kick off a major appeal to repair its leaky roof.
The breakfast foods company in Crewe is the first to get behind a fundraising drive at soccer centre, which needs £28,000 to stop rain pouring into its changing rooms.
The programme for the next concert by the Nantwich Singers has been unveiled.
The hour-long recital of words and music is being staged to celebrate Shakespeare’s 400th anniversary this year.
Independent retailers in Nantwich are teaming up to stage a one-off ‘discount sale’ at Nantwich Civic Hall
The town has a growing reputation as a shopping paradise, drawing visitors from far and wide because of its range of designer boutiques and fashion stores.
By Claire Faulkner
If you’re a fan of gothic horror, and like a bit of darkness in your theatre, then you’ll enjoy ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ at Crewe Lyceum.
Adapted from the original by Robert Louis Stevenson, and directed by Nicholas Briggs, this production has everything you want from a Victorian classic.
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