A Nantwich care home which was plunged into controversy after the death of one of its missing dementia patients, has been ruled “inadequate” after its latest inspection.
And it has emerged that Brookfield House Care Home, on Shrewbridge Road, is now the centre of a police and local authority investigation into allegations of neglect.
Staff at Stapeley RSPCA centre in Nantwich who reunited three feline siblings are now seeking a new home for them.
Ezra, Otto and Wilma were signed into the RSPCA’s care in March after coming from a multi-animal household.
By Stephen Topping
From rescuing oxygen-starved fish in the River Weaver to a freshwater jellyfish in the Shropshire Union Canal – the Environment Agency has been pretty busy this summer.
Tucked away on an industrial estate in Winsford, the team is working around the clock to keep Cheshire’s waterways safe for wildlife.
Town councillors in Nantwich say CCTV is effective in the town after five teenagers were caught on camera vandalising flowers and plants.
Nantwich Police officers were able to identify and trace the youths from the CCTV images catching them in the act in the town square and Pepper Street.
Visitors to Nantwich Lake may have encountered a more unusual inhabitant in recent days.
For this little terrapin is now resident at the popular beauty spot among the ducks, swans and fish.
By Stephen Topping
An attempt to build 112 homes to fund the renovation of the Doddington country estate near Nantwich has been rejected following fierce opposition from neighbours.
Lady Rona Delves Broughton, who owns the Doddington Estate, wanted to build 112 homes across 12 smaller plots of land to fill a £9.6 million funding gap for the renovation of her estate – which has planning permission to become a hotel, and is on Historic England’s ‘at risk’ register in parts.
United Utilities has lifted the proposed hosepipe ban for Cheshire and the North West, just three days before it was due to be enforced.
The water company says a number of factors have resulted in the ban, due to come in on August 5, being shelved.
Private sector landlords in Crewe and Nantwich are being warned of tough new penalties to crack down on poor housing standards.
Cheshire East Council has amended its housing enforcement policy to include new powers, which could see the most serious offenders banned from letting properties altogether or entered on to a national database of rogue landlords.
Fourteen students from Crewe and Nantwich’s German twin town of Bischofsheim sampled one of the hottest weeks in decades during a summer school organised by Crewe and Nantwich Twinning Association (CANTA).
The students, aged from their teens to 70s, received formal English lessons each day as well as dedicated cultural and learning visits.
Reaseheath College in Nantwich has helped two Cheshire farm workers embark on global adventures after awarding scholarships.
Lizzy Andow and Sam Walton have earned John Platt Travel Scholarships from the college and Cheshire Agricultural Society worth £2,000 to fund international research which will benefit Cheshire’s farming community.
Burglars stole vital equipment and furniture in a raid on Cheshire Wildlife Trust’s headquarters at Bickley Hall Farm.
Staff and volunteers were shocked to discover the raid thought to have happened overnight Friday-Saturday July 27-28.
Police have confirmed five teenagers have been traced and questioned over vandalism to Nantwich town centre flowers and planters.
One boy and four girls – aged between 14 and 16 – were traced after officers reviewed CCTV images of the damage caused in the town square and Pepper Street.
Angry residents and councillors have hit out at yobs who vandalised and destroyed Nantwich town centre flower beds and planters on consecutive nights.
These images and video show how vandals wrecked the tireless work done by Nantwich in Bloom volunteers to add colour to the town prior to the arrival of Britain in Bloom judges earlier this month.
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