Nantwich accountant Steven Betts has only one number in mind as he gears up for the 38th World Worm Charming Championships in Willaston.
But he won’t be counting his chickens – only his worms – in the hotly contest event which draws in competitors from around the world.
Nantwich Museum’s popular Plant and Book Sale in aid of museum funds will take place on June 3.
The sale, at the museum on Pillory Street, will run between 10am and 12.30pm.
Canal & River Trust has awarded a contract to Church Minshull Aqueduct Marina to repair and refurbish five of its maintenance workboats.
And it’s hoped the arrangement will continue as a rolling programme of annual work.
Nantwich Town have secured a new shirt sponsor deal with local firm County Insurance – as another key player departs.
The financial company will sponsor the Dabbers tops next season after a two-year deal with Fairerpower came to an end.
Jonathan White
A record 1,000 adults and 370 youngsters took part in the popular Nantwich Triathlon and Duathlon events at the weekend.
Competitors in the adult race entered either the Sprint, Super Sprint or Fun race distance, or the Team Relay.
Health and wellbeing specialists in Nantwich have welcomed a fall in the number of days taken off sick by the country’s workforce.
Office of National Statistics say absence days are at a record low after dropping from an average of 7.2 to 4.3 days a year per worker since records began in 1993.
Willaston Parish Council held its first Civic Service at St John’s Methodist Church on Wybunbury Road.
The event was hosted by the Chairman Cllr Maurice Jones and was attended by Mayor of Cheshire East, Cllr Olivia Hunter, which was last occasion of her mayoral year.
The chairman of the Leighton Hospital Prostate Cancer Support Group has stepped down after 17 years.
Gary Steele founded the group after having been diagnosed with prostate cancer.
Big-hearted staff from South Cheshire firm EMaC tackled the ‘X-Runner Mud Run’ raise funds for Alder Hey Hospital where a colleague’s son is being treated.
19-month-old Harry Tidy was admitted to Alder Hey for treatment on a serious spinal condition.
Crewe & Nantwich Labour candidate Laura Smith has hit back after Edward Timpson claimed success in the Cheshire East schools funding campaign.
Theresa May announced in her Tory Party manifesto that no schools would have its budget cut under any new National Funding Formula.
World famous steam locomotive Flying Scotsman cruised in to South Cheshire to help celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Crewe Heritage Centre.
Members of the public could see Flying Scotsman at close-hand and Flying Scotsman merchandise was available for purchase.
A Nantwich schoolgirl raising money for a once-in-a-lifetime expedition to South America, has received backing from a local marina.
Emily Flattery is raising funds to help poorer communities in southern Peru as part of a Camps International project.
By Jonathan White
Nantwich bikers in the South Cheshire Motorcycle Club helped to raise £1,900 for St Luke’s Hospice on the ‘Charity Ride Out’
The ride followed a 35-mile route from Winsford and was led up High Street in Sandbach by the St Luke’s Cheshire Hospice Routemaster double-decker bus.
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