Faddiley have finally kicked off their Crewe Regional Sunday Premier Division campaign with a 5-3 win over Cheshire Cheese.
The hosts were unable to fulfil their first two fixtures as they could not field a team.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East is to reconsider its borough-wide cemetery strategy after claims the plans are “at best thoughtless and at worst inhumane”.
The council reviewed the strategy in 2018 and a long term proposal was that families would have to bury loved ones in Crewe or Macclesfield as other local cemeteries became full.
By Jonathan White
Nantwich Town FC Reserves beat AFC Crewe 17-1 in the First Round of the Crewe & District FA Challenge Cup.
The Dabbers reserves are managed by military veteran Colin Carruthers, who served for 20 years in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan.
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I have written to Nantwich News several times in recent years about my genuine fear roads in the village of Wistaston will become an accident blackspot due to the associated rise in traffic of several hundred occupants vehicles, due to two new, large housing estates: Wistaston Brook and Kingfisher Reach.
A Tenovus breast cancer awareness day fundraising event takes place on Sunday September 19 (2-5pm) at Crab Mill Farm, Baddiley Lane, Baddiley, Nantwich CW5 8BP. Tea, coffee, cakes available. Tropic, Lizella clothing. Tombola. Sit and relax in their garden. Plenty of room inside if weather not good.
Crewe and Nantwich RUFC are today staging a charity family fun day.
From 1pm-9pm, everyone is invited to attend the Vagrants on Newcastle Road in Willaston.
Nantwich Museum is restarting its popular walking tours.
Options include a Riverside Walk, Lake and Woodland Walk, Town Tour and Welsh Row Tour.
A social group called “Nantwich Piece Makers: Needles and Natter” is back up and running after being closed during the pandemic.
The group is for those who enjoy needle crafts such as quilting, knitting and embroidery.
Nantwich’s Words & Music Festival makes a return next month with legendary ‘Whispering’ Bob Harris, Danny Baker and John Cooper Clarke leading the line-up.
Now in its 14th year, the popular festival took an enforced break last year like many events due to the pandemic.
By Belinda Ryan
More people will need Cheshire East’s emergency assistance scheme to support their families once the £20 universal credit uplift ends, a councillor has said.
The scheme provides rent deposits, furniture, white goods and emergency food to vulnerable people facing immediate hardship following a crisis or disaster or to prevent homelessness and to keep families together.
Nantwich Town councillors have rejected a new Cheshire East Council draft policy on how it will transfer its assets in future.
In the past, the town council has taken over CEC assets such as the Civic Hall, indoor market and public toilets.
Police chiefs defended their handling of the impact of the M6 crash this week which left thousands of drivers stranded for up to 12 hours on the motorway in soaring temperatures.
The incident, which resulted in the death of an HGV driver, happened northbound between junctions 17 and 18 when a lorry collided with a railway bridge.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Bin collections have been disrupted in some areas of Cheshire East because of the impact of Covid and the availability of HGV drivers.
Cheshire East has managed to deliver local essential services throughout the pandemic and, unlike some local authorities, has maintained bin collections.
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