Record-breaking crowds thronged to Reaseheath College’s Family Festival, making the event the best and biggest since its launch 23 years ago.
Around 11,000 visitors enjoyed the action-packed event on the college’s Nantwich campus, which offered hundreds of fun activities and displays in a day of perfect spring sunshine.
By Stephen Topping, local democracy reporter
Lords are calling on the Government to consider scrapping plans to build a new HS2 line through Cheshire’s countryside and upgrade the existing mainline instead.
This beautiful swan and her new family are proving a real attraction for people out and about in Nantwich!
Captured by this stunning photo by Laura Hockenhull, the swan recently had what is believed to be six cygnets hatch on the banks of the River Weaver.
Angry residents are set to descend on Nantwich Town Council this week amid ongoing concerns around unauthorised traveller camps on Barony Park.
The fourth group of travellers to use the public park for an encampment arrived on Sunday – just an hour after the UK Triathlon event had finished.
Plastic Free Nantwich campaigners have hailed Aldi bosses after revealing it was the only supermarket in town to support their campaign.
Aldi in Nantwich has allowed campaigners into their store to help shoppers take off unnecessary and wasteful plastic wrapping on shop products.
Two young Nantwich Scouts were triumphant at the 53rd Cheshire Hike competition.
Jake Long and Stanton Smith, both 11, are celebrating success after taking three top prizes as they represented the 7th SWC Nantwich Millfields Scout group at the 2019 competition.
Combermere Abbey near Nantwich has pledged an ancient oak in its grounds to help rebuild Notre Dame in Paris after the devastating fire.
Owners of the Abbey have rallied to contribute the mature oak tree towards the re-building of the cathedral’s roof.
Nantwich Partnership is hoping to carry out improvements to two visitor attractions in the town.
It has submitted plans for more seating and a landscape feature area on Mill Island.
By Stephen Topping
Figures released by campaigners have revealed the scale of concern surrounding alleged illegal fox hunting across Cheshire.
The League Against Cruel Sports received 21 reports of suspected incidents during the 2018-19 hunt season – which began last November and ended recently.
Angry Nantwich residents have called on Cheshire East Council to build perimeter fencing around Barony Park after it emerged the authority has potentially earmarked part of a £2 million investment for the work.
It comes after families lost use of the park for more than a week when the latest illegal traveller encampment parked on the site between Good Friday April 19 and Saturday April 27.
Nantwich Police have paid tribute to Jazz Festival volunteers and revellers after just two arrests were made the five-day festival between April 18-22.
Tens of thousands of people were drawn to the festival thanks to the glorious weather.
Four young seals who have spent weeks being rehabilitated at an RSPCA wildlife centre in Nantwich have begun the next stage of their journey – before being released back to the sea.
The seal pups all arrived at RSPCA Stapeley Grange at the end of last year, in separate incidents – all of which involved them having been found alone without their mums nearby.
Cheshire East Council’s ‘Little Bus’ service is to be upgraded and extended across a wider area from August.
Little Bus supports 600 regular users in the elderly, disabled and people who have no access to a scheduled service.
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