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Bunbury pub Yew Tree Inn to stage Bank Holiday beer festival

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.

August 21, 2014
RSPCA in Nantwich issue desperate plea for cat homes

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.

August 21, 2014
Police and council deal with travellers on Barony Park, Nantwich

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.

August 20, 2014
Police and council chiefs praise CCTV after Crewe town centre stabbings

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.

August 20, 2014
New service for isolated Nantwich and Crewe people in volunteers plea

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.

August 20, 2014
Evo-Stik Premier League: Nantwich Town 0 Skelmersdale Utd 1

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.

August 20, 2014
Review: “Tosca” by Heritage Opera, Nantwich Civic Hall

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.

August 20, 2014
£20,000 grant to repair Wingate Children’s Centre potholes

£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.

August 19, 2014
Celebrity chef Nigel Haworth teams up with Mid Cheshire Riding for the Disabled

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.

August 19, 2014
Nantwich Museum to host First World War historian talk

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).

August 19, 2014
Open air theatre from Chapterhouse to be staged in Nantwich

Open air theatre from Chapterhouse to be staged in Nantwich

Open air theatre company Chapterhouse are to stage a performance in Nantwich as part of a national UK tour.

The production this year is The Jungle Book, and it will be staged on the lawn of Reaseheath Hall on Wednesday August 27.

August 19, 2014
Nantwich Town boss Johnson praise for skipper Mark Jones

Nantwich Town boss Johnson praise for skipper Mark Jones

By Richard Scott
Nantwich Town manager Danny Johnson has praised his skipper after the Dabbers won three points in their opening league game.

Mark Jones’ fine strike from the edge of the box earned Nantwich a 1-0 away at Buxton.

August 19, 2014
Nantwich MP Edward Timpson welcomes new employment figures

Nantwich MP Edward Timpson welcomes new employment figures

Crewe & Nantwich MP Edward Timpson has welcomed new figures showing 1,090 fewer people in Crewe and Nantwich are relying on Jobseeker’s Allowance since 2010.

He believes the 45 per cent drop shows the Conservative plan put in place after the 2008 crash is working.

August 18, 2014