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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
By Laura Normansell A Nantwich mum has launched a new tanning business so she can run it with her special needs daughter. Suzanne Woolley, who lives with fiancé Gordon, has welcomed daughter Sally-Anne into her new “Tanz-on-the-run” company.
A housing developer claims more residents “accept” the need for controversial plans to build a new “Nantwich South” village. Colin Muller unveiled updated plans to create 1,000 homes in Stapeley with a new school, shops, business units and sports pitches.
A housing firm has launched a new scheme to help elderly residents in Nantwich live longer in their own homes. Platform says the new service will offer residents a chance to adjust and alter their homes to make daily living tasks easier and safer.
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