Staff at Nantwich’s RSPCA wildlife centre are appealing for donations of food after being inundated with baby birds.
Stapeley Grange, on London Road, currently has hundreds of baby birds and many require a diet of ‘meaty loaf’ dog food to help them grow.
Barn owl nest boxes at Cheshire Wildlife Trust’s Bickley Hall Farm headquarters are certainly being put to good use!
Members of Broxton Barn Owl group, along with Cheshire Wildlife Trust’s Charlotte Harris, found three barn owl chicks in one of the boxes during their annual check.
Reaseheath College students enjoyed success at the Royal Cheshire Show with a “Highly Commended” award for its eye-catching trade stand and a fistful of rosettes for agriculture students in the showring.
The stand was singled out by judges for its interactive and educational activities and welcoming and friendly staff.
A Nantwich headteacher says he has been reassured his school is safe after rigorous checks were carried out after the Grenfell Tower fire disaster.
Andrew Cliffe contacted developers who worked on refurbishing parts of Brine Leas School and erecting new buildings to check cladding was safe.
Cheshire Wildlife Trust fears the five-mile section of HS2 will destroy vital areas of natural habitat.
They believe the high speed link just south of Crewe will destroy 69 ponds, 14 miles of hedgerows, and 27 acres of native woodland, including ancient woods.
A Willaston family has scooped top honours at the 38th World Worm Charming Championships.
Hundreds gathered for the event, held in the grounds of Willaston Primary Academy.
Reaseheath College students in Nantwich put their backs into their latest exam – by renovating a dilapidated canal building.
The students spent nine months on the project to revamp the site at Sykes Hollow, near Venetian Marina, as part of their 3rd year NVQ Level 3.
A Nantwich headteacher is investigating cladding used on his school buildings, in light of the Grenfell Tower disaster which claimed more than 70 lives.
Andrew Cliffe, head of Brine Leas School on Audlem Road, says he has asked “questions” about cladding on a number of buildings on his site in wake of the tragedy.
Two men have died after a crane collapsed on a building site near Morrisons supermarket in Crewe, police have confirmed.
Emergency services were called to a new build site on Dunwoody Way following reports of a collapsed crane at around 4.30pm today (June 21).
Fire crews have battled a major blaze which ripped through the roof of the former Methodist Church on Hospital Street in Nantwich.
The fire broke out around 9pm, and crews rushed to the scene to cordon off the area.
Three orphaned baby kestrels found helpless at the bottom of a tree are being cared back to full health at the RSPCA wildlife centre in Nantwich.
A member of the public found the birds – initially thinking they were owls – shaking and frightened in the grounds of a residential home in South Yorkshire.
The RSPCA is urging residents to look out for local wildlife after a swan was taken to Stapeley Grange wildlife centre in Nantwich with multiple injuries – on the same day seven of her cygnets went missing.
The swan, nicknamed Mabel, is a known character on the River Weaver in nearby Northwich, along with her mate Albert and their nine cygnets.
An exhibition of two Roman hoards discovered in Cheshire has opened at Nantwich Museum and will run until Saturday July 8.
The coins and jewellery were buried for safe keeping nearly 2,000 years ago but their owners never returned for them.
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