Archive for August, 2017

Nantwich healthcare firm offers support to Crewe Business Park workforce

Nantwich healthcare firm offers support to Crewe Business Park workforce

A Nantwich healthcare firm has teamed up with a Crewe Business Park company to offer health and wellbeing services to its growing workforce.

Physiotherapists at ctchealthcare carried out health checks on employees at Trak Global Group, which employs more than 230 people at Global House on Westmere Drive.

August 6, 2017
Chatwins worker’s £500 bike stolen by suspect with bolt cutters in Nantwich

Chatwins worker’s £500 bike stolen by suspect with bolt cutters in Nantwich

Police want to question this man after bolt cutters were used to sever chains and steal a £500 bicycle outside Chatwins bakery in Nantwich.

Stunned owner Nigel Attwell discovered his prize bike had been taken as he left work at around 5.30pm on July 25.

August 4, 2017
Canal fans treated to Historic Boats gathering in Audlem

Canal fans treated to Historic Boats gathering in Audlem

By Jonathan White
Canal fanatics were treated to a rare gathering of historic boats in Audlem as part of the Festival of Transport in the village.

Around 40 historic and colourful ex-working narrow boats were moored along the bottom three lock pounds of the Audlem flight of locks on the Shropshire Union Canal.

August 4, 2017
Baker Wynne & Wilson hands out £25,000 pledge to 24 lucky groups

Baker Wynne & Wilson hands out £25,000 pledge to 24 lucky groups

Nantwich estate agents Baker Wynne & Wilson has completed its £25,000 Community Pledge by handing out funds to 24 local charities and organisations.

The firm held a celebration event at Combermere Abbey where the lucky beneficiaries were invited to pick up their grants.

August 4, 2017
Secretary of State orders new inquiry into Muller Stapeley housing bid

Secretary of State orders new inquiry into Muller Stapeley housing bid

A public inquiry into Muller Property Group’s controversial “Nantwich South” housing plan in Stapeley is to be re-opened, the Government has ruled.

It’s the latest twist in a five-year battle between Muller, who want to build a 1,100-home ‘village’ on land off between Audlem Road and Peter de Stapleigh Way, and those campaigning against it.

August 3, 2017
England cricket stars to cycle to Nantwich for Tom Maynard Trust event

England cricket stars to cycle to Nantwich for Tom Maynard Trust event

Former England Test stars Michael Vaughan and Tim Bresnan will be cycling into Nantwich in October as part of the Big Bike Ride 3 event.

They will be taking part in day 2 of the five-day ride from Sheffield to Nantwich, to help raise funds for the PCA Benevolent Fund and the Tom Maynard Trust.

August 3, 2017
Wistaston mooning gnomes are celebrities despite council threat

Wistaston mooning gnomes are celebrities despite council threat

Defiant pensioner Laurence Perry’s mooning gnomes are still enjoying the limelight in Wistaston – despite threats from highways chiefs to have them removed.

Laurence has moved one of the gnomes a few feet from the roadside at Westfield Drive/Park Drive junction into the flower border.

August 3, 2017
Kitten tangled in wire has leg amputated by RSPCA in Nantwich

Kitten tangled in wire has leg amputated by RSPCA in Nantwich

A six-week-old kitten is recovering at Nantwich’s RSPCA centre after having to have a leg amputated after he got it tangled in twine.

The youngster, who has been named Stumpy, is making a good recovery at Stapeley Grange RSPCA centre after the surgery.

August 3, 2017
Nantwich Civic Hall to stage ‘Sounds of the Sixties’ by The Revolvers

Nantwich Civic Hall to stage ‘Sounds of the Sixties’ by The Revolvers

Music fans can re-live the golden era of 50 years ago when the ‘Sounds of the Sixties’ concert by The Revolvers comes to Nantwich.

The hit band will bring the great music of the 1960s back to life, recreating the youthful look and the hits from the favourite 60s artists of that decade.

August 2, 2017
Nantwich Town held by Newcastle in feisty pre-season encounter

Nantwich Town held by Newcastle in feisty pre-season encounter

By Dave Vickers
Nantwich Town were held 1-1 by lower league Newcastle Town in a feisty encounter which saw the Dabbers reduced to 10 men.

In-form Jordan Davies gave Nantwich the lead, but the visitors pulled level after Clayton McDonald saw red for the Dabbers.

August 2, 2017

NANOCON – Nantwich Comic Con

NANOCON is back! Saturday 5th August will see the return of Nantwich’s Comic Con event to the Civic Hall and once again fans of TV & Movies can “get their geek on”. We listened to what visitors wanted so we’re back on a Saturday, we’ve moved to a warmer time of year and we’ve got even more Characters. NANOCON Saturday[Read More…]

August 2, 2017
Third man involved in horror crane collapse has died, police confirm

Third man involved in horror crane collapse has died, police confirm

A third man who was involved in the horrific crane collapse on a South Cheshire building site has died, police confirm.

David Webb, 43, was badly injured in the incident on a new build site in Dunwoody Way, Crewe on June 21.

August 2, 2017
Data from a third of Cheshire East air quality test sites ‘manipulated’

Data from a third of Cheshire East air quality test sites ‘manipulated’

More than 40 of Cheshire East Council’s 119 testing sites have been implicated in the air quality data scandal rocking the authority.

A damning report last week revealed how air quality data had been “deliberately manipulated” for three years.

August 1, 2017