Illegal dog fighting is still rife in parts of Cheshire, latest RSPCA statistics show.
In the last four years, there have been 151 complaints of dog fighting in the county reported to the animal welfare charity.
The British Hen Welfare Trust team in Cheshire is on track to rehome the 1,000th hen of 2019 at their collection event this weekend (April 7).
So far this year, the team has helped send more than 940 hens off to pet homes, and save them from slaughter.
By Stephen Topping, local democracy reporter
Work will begin this month on an £8.5 million project to refurbish 21 of Cheshire’s ageing fire stations.
But Nantwich station on Beam Street will be one of the last to undergo the work, not until 2023-24.
Youngsters from three Nantwich schools donned their hard hats on a new housing development as part of a time capsule competition!
Year 4 pupils at Highfields Academy, St Anne’s Catholic Primary School and Acton C of E Primary School were challenged to fill a capsule which could be buried on the site of the new Tesni Homes development on Welshman’s Lane.
Staff at RSPCA Stapeley Grange in Nantwich are nursing this tiny fox cub which was found abandoned in the middle of a busy road.
Now the London Road centre is preparing for more fox cub arrivals in Spring with cuddly toys and comfort blankets.
Cheshire East Council has completed its public consultation on the type of development that could be seen around Crewe railway station following the arrival of HS2.
The public has submitted opinions on the development over the past six weeks.
The annual Nantwich Show is to become a two-day event for the first time in its history, from the year 2020.
And next year’s event will also move to different days of the week, being held on Friday and Saturday July 17 and 18.
A retired stonemason who left a matchbox buried in a wall at Beeston Castle has been reunited with it – more than 50 years later!
Martin Goulding, now 78, left the box and a note inside buried in a supporting wall of a toilet block he helped to erect in the ancient castle grounds back in 1964.
By Stephen Topping, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East and Cheshire West and Chester Councils have raked in millions of pounds in land sales in the past five years, latest figures show.
Between them, they raised more than £73 million, according to data produced by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
By Jonathan White
More than 100 people attended a “Plastic Free Nantwich” campaign group launch at The Leopard pub in Nantwich.
The group was set up by local environmental campaigner Jeremy Herbert and young mother/RSPCA Stapeley Grange Education Officer Emilie Janman, who both spoke at the event.
By Stephen Topping, local democracy reporter
The policing of Cheshire’s badger cull has cost taxpayers more than £1.3 million in the past two years.
Figures released by Cheshire Police show the force’s cull operation cost £484,892.16 last year – following the £831,093.07 cost in 2017.
Citizens Advice Cheshire East’s office in Crewe has moved to its new home with the demolition of its old building signalling the first stage of the Royal Arcade redevelopment works.
After more than 40 years in Victoria Street, the service has relocated to the ground floor of the council’s Delamere House building.
Cheshire Wildlife Trust is calling on budding photographers to enter wildlife photographs for its charity calendar competition.
Snappers can have their top pictures featured in the 2020 calendar which will go on sale later this year.
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