Organisers of a Nantwich charity event are celebrating sweet success after raising more than £1,600 at a popular Strawberry Evening.
The event was held at Nantwich Cricket Club off Whitehouse Lane to raise vital funds for the Cheshire branch of the MND Association.
Big-hearted students and staff from Reaseheath College have raised more than £13,600 for North West Cancer Research.
The amount was handed over by the college’s Student Association at the student summer ball held on their Nantwich campus.
Hundreds of Crewe and Nantwich women helped raise a staggering £175,000 when they took part in St Luke’s Midnight Walk.
Around 960 women lit up the streets between Nantwich and Crewe as the Walk was held for the 13th time.
A new Riding for the Disabled (RDA) group is to launch in Crewe and Nantwich as part of an agreement with Reaseheath College.
The new Nantwich & District RDA group will provide help for many local disabled riders, who currently have to travel to Northwich, Knutsford or Clwyd.
A memorial day in honour of Nantwich baby Johnny Forbes has helped to raise more than £4,000 for Donna Louise Hospice.
Jessica and Neil Forbes were devastated after Johnny, born 23 weeks premature weighing 1lb 5oz, died just a few days old.
Care home staff in Nantwich have helped to raise more than £200 for Alzheimer’s Society.
Brookfield House Care Home, of Shrewbridge Road, was rocked last year when resident Roy Tomlinson walked out and was found dead six days later in an outbuilding.
Vintage vehicle fans crammed Nantwich’s streets for the ever-popular Weaver Wander classic car parade.
Wonderful vehicles of all shapes, sizes, colours and eras took part in the event, organised by the Crewe & Nantwich Weaver Rotary.
Members of Nantwich Civic Society have celebrated the organisation’s 50th anniversary at the town’s museum.
The society was formed half a century ago by enlightened Nantwich residents, worried by the demolition of many historic buildings.
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.
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.
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.
A nine-year-old Superhero fan is shrugging off his own life-changing condition to tackle the Nantwich Duathlon this weekend.
Thomas Robinson, who has Muscular Dystrophy, will aim to run 400 metres, cycle two kilometres and then run a further kilometre in aid of the charity that supports sufferers like him.
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