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READER’S LETTER: Thank You Schools in Cheshire East

READER’S LETTER: Thank You Schools in Cheshire East

Dear Editor,
A huge thank you to all of our school teachers, assistants and governors who have worked hard to plan, prepare and organise classrooms, playgrounds and dinner halls into Covid friendly spaces.

June 16, 2020
Why Leighton Hospital nurse wrote COVID-19 warning poem

Why Leighton Hospital nurse wrote COVID-19 warning poem

A Leighton Hospital nurse has penned a poem which pleads for people to take COVID-19 seriously.

Jenny Howarth said she felt compelled to write the poem as she felt more people were ignoring Government guidance on staying indoors and social distancing.

June 16, 2020
READER’S LETTER: Parking charges “outrageous act” by Labour council

READER’S LETTER: Parking charges “outrageous act” by Labour council

Dear Editor,
Parking charges across Crewe and Nantwich were suspended from March 27 to support key workers during the lockdown.
They are now being re-instated. This is an outrageous act by the Labour run Borough Council.

June 15, 2020
READER’S LETTER: Remember the visually impaired as shops re-open

READER’S LETTER: Remember the visually impaired as shops re-open

Dear Editor
Across England, non-essential shops are due to reopen on 15 June.

It is expected that, as with shops that have remained open throughout lockdown, visual markers will be used to signify the correct distance from others, one-way systems and designated queuing areas.

June 12, 2020
READER’S LETTER: Support Nantwich businesses during pandemic

READER’S LETTER: Support Nantwich businesses during pandemic

Dear Editor,
I wrote an open letter in mid-March this year to ask people to support businesses in Nantwich during the Covid-19 pandemic.

A few days later the UK was put into lockdown by the government to help control the virus, forcing most businesses to temporarily close.

June 10, 2020
FEATURE: 5 things to do when moving business premises

FEATURE: 5 things to do when moving business premises

Sometimes you can find yourself making the difficult decision to move business premises.

It could be that you have outgrown your original place.

May 27, 2020
FEATURE: Why is security in the workplace important

FEATURE: Why is security in the workplace important

Let’s face it, most of the day is spent at work and in the workplace environment – when we’re not in lockdown!

When we leave the house in the morning to head off to work, we want to feel comfortable and confident that we are spending the next few hours in a safe and secure setting.

May 27, 2020
Margaret Simon

READER’S LETTER: Leader of Cheshire East Council is “rattled”

Dear Editor

At last Tuesday’s virtual Cheshire East Council’s Cabinet meeting, I was outraged to have to listen to the Labour Leader of the Council, Cllr Sam Corcoran, launch into a tirade blaming the previous Conservative administration for the Well Managed Highways Infrastructure Policy which his own Cabinet team had only recently unanimously voted through

May 14, 2020
EDITOR’S LETTER: Independent news providers receive ZERO Govt support

EDITOR’S LETTER: Independent news providers receive ZERO Govt support

Dear Reader,

It has been more than six weeks since Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced lockdown measures and still there has been no package of support for your community news site.

May 12, 2020
READER’S LETTER: This CEC Council Leader is “out of tune”

READER’S LETTER: This CEC Council Leader is “out of tune”

Dear Editor,
Did my ears deceive me or did Cllr Sam Corcoran, Leader of Cheshire East Council, inform his Cabinet (on Tues May 5) and his residents how marvellous it is to ride his bike on empty roads in lovely clean air?

May 7, 2020
LETTER: A Dabber Debate – what’s your preferred derivation?

LETTER: A Dabber Debate – what’s your preferred derivation?

Dear Editor
A person born in Nantwich is called a DABBER.
“You can always tell a Dabber, but you can’t tell them much?”
But which of the following below is your readership’s preferred derivation?

May 3, 2020
LETTER: Top 10% Cheshire East claim on grants payments “not the case”

LETTER: Top 10% Cheshire East claim on grants payments “not the case”

Dear Editor,
In response to Cllr Sam Corcoran’s claim that Cheshire East is in the top 10% of the 314 English Councils for payments of grants made to small businesses*, I feel that it is my duty to point out that this is not the case, at least not in any meaningful sense.

April 30, 2020
LETTER: “Disgusted” with number of people ignoring lockdown

LETTER: “Disgusted” with number of people ignoring lockdown

Dear Editor
I am disgusted with the general public in Nantwich and surrounding areas.
I live on a main road in Nantwich and I have stood in my window and watched the amount of cars and pedestrians going past each day.

April 29, 2020