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Sainsbury’s Nantwich agrees food help for local RSPCA

Sainsbury’s Nantwich agrees food help for local RSPCA

RSPCA workers in Crewe and Nantwich are to get a helping hand from Nantwich Sainsbury’s this year. The Middlewich Road store  has signed another animal food donation contracts with Crewe and Nantwich District RSPCA.

August 2, 2012
Nantwich health spa’s top marks six months after launch

Nantwich health spa’s top marks six months after launch

Staff at a Nantwich health spa are celebrating top marks just six months after opening. Skin Health Spa, opened on Welsh Row by former Miss England Danielle Lloyd, has enjoyed excellent client feedback.

July 27, 2012
Wistaston pupils’ BBQ burgers prove hit at Cheerbrook in Nantwich

Wistaston pupils’ BBQ burgers prove hit at Cheerbrook in Nantwich

Enterprising pupils at a Wistaston school made their own burger – which is selling like hotcakes at a Nantwich farm shop! Youngsters at The Berkeley Primary School rose to the challenge to create a vegetarian BBQ product as part of Enterprise Week.

July 27, 2012
Sainsbury’s Nantwich raises £6,000 for St Luke’s Cheshire Hospice

Sainsbury’s Nantwich raises £6,000 for St Luke’s Cheshire Hospice

Supermarket staff and shoppers in Nantwich have helped to raise more than £6,000 for St Luke’s (Cheshire) Hospice. Employees and customers at Sainsbury’s on Middlewich Road raised the money through various stunts and events.

July 26, 2012
Nantwich Show Cheese Industry Award winner unveiled

Nantwich Show Cheese Industry Award winner unveiled

The British Cheese Board has awarded the prestigious Nantwich Show Cheese Industry Award to Craig Mitchell. Craig, operations manager at Lubborn Cheese in Somerset, takes the annual title awarded during the International Cheese Show at Nantwich’s Dorfold Park.

July 25, 2012
Hundreds enjoy sun at Aqueduct Marina’s Fun Day near Nantwich

Hundreds enjoy sun at Aqueduct Marina’s Fun Day near Nantwich

By Jonathan White Hundreds of people bathed in warm sunshine for the fourth annual Fun Day and Marina Open Day at Church Minshull Aqueduct Marina near Nantwich. It included a host of stalls and activities for all the family.

July 25, 2012
Nantwich dairy farmers join the growing milk price protest

Nantwich dairy farmers join the growing milk price protest

Hundreds of dairy farmers from Nantwich and South Cheshire have joined in the protests over milk prices. The farmers have been demonstrating outside processing firms calling on fairer prices for their milk.

July 23, 2012
Major meat business to open new premises near Nantwich

Major meat business to open new premises near Nantwich

An expanding meat company has opened a new base near Nantwich. Alternative Meats Ltd has moved to newly converted premises and has started to trade from a new butchery and cold stores.

July 17, 2012
Nantwich Show organisers focused on International Cheese Awards

Nantwich Show organisers focused on International Cheese Awards

Nantwich Show organisers said all efforts are now focused on making The International Cheese Awards as big a success as possible. Secretary Adrian Lawrence confirmed they had to cancel the rest of Nantwich Show because of saturated ground conditions at Dorfold Park.

July 15, 2012
Reaseheath College scholarship sends students around the world

Reaseheath College scholarship sends students around the world

Three young agriculturalists will travel worldwide thanks to a Reaseheath College-backed scholarship launched at the Cheshire Show. Dairy vet Nicola Fair and dairy farmers Adam Brown and Paul Billington have been awarded £2,000 John Platt Travel Scholarships.

July 13, 2012
Nantwich-based TheFunkyChoir receives Wulvern backing

Nantwich-based TheFunkyChoir receives Wulvern backing

A Nantwich community choir has received a cash boost to kit its members out in funky new t-shirts! Members of faith-based TheFunkyChoir.com have received funding from local housing provider Wulvern.

July 12, 2012
Nantwich knitters urged to help Age UK Cheshire’s Big Knit bid

Nantwich knitters urged to help Age UK Cheshire’s Big Knit bid

Age UK Cheshire wants nimble-fingered knitters from Nantwich to give them some needle – and create woolly hats for Big Knit 2012. Now in its ninth year, Big Knit raises funds for winter projects to help keep older people warmer in winter.

July 12, 2012
Fineswimming invests £60,000 to revamp disused Nantwich pool

Fineswimming invests £60,000 to revamp disused Nantwich pool

A company is to launch swimming lessons after breathing new life into a disused pool in Nantwich. FineSwimming is currently renovating the indoor pool owned by Elim Church, on Regents Park, London Road.

July 11, 2012