Nantwich Signal Box has finally been moved and relocated to a new home in Crewe after a 12-month battle to save it.
A team of engineers worked from 1am to 3.30am moving the landmark from next to the Wellington Road level crossings.
Missing dementia sufferer Roy Tomlinson disappeared from a privately-run Nantwich care home, it has emerged.
The 83-year-old walked out of Brookfield House private residential home at 5pm yesterday – and has not been seen since.
By Jonathan White
Troops marched and battled each other as thousands of people flocked to Nantwich to enjoy the town’s Holly Holy Day celebrations.
The event, which also included a Winter Fayre, took place in and around Nantwich town centre and on Mill Island in dry weather.
Reaseheath College and North Shropshire College could soon be combining resources and expertise, it has emerged.
An agreement could see them working in “close collaboration” as both are specialist land-based institutions.
Residents are calling for the Battle of Nantwich re-enactment on Mill Island to be moved or cancelled because of saturated conditions.
Weeks of wet weather has left River Weaver levels very high (pictured), the ground at saturation point, and the island covered in early flowering daffodils.
Police are hoping to step up their crackdown on speeding drivers with new SID units around Nantwich.
Only one mobile Speed Indicator Display (SID) unit is currently in operation in the town.
Baby otters orphaned by storms are working up a huge appetite – by eating half a kilo of trout a day at Nantwich’s RSPCA wildlife centre.
The otters were found by a member of the public in Rea Brook, Shrewsbury, on December 23.
All door staff at Nantwich pubs and clubs could soon wear body cameras to boost security and safety, it has emerged.
The plans were unveiled by police at a Nantwich Town Council meeting tonight (January 11).
Campaigners fighting to stop Nantwich’s Walled Garden being developed, have labelled the latest plans “cultural vandalism”.
A development company is bidding to repair the damaged Grade II Listed walls surrounding the Tudor gardens off Kings Lane, Welsh Row, and create vehicle access.
A Reaseheath College lecturer is working in the Philippines with an emergency team to help communities devastated by a typhoon.
Jonathan ‘Jono’ Finlow and fellow members of DART International UK (Disaster Arborist Response Team) are part of a global relief effort in Northern Samar.
A bus service which operates between Nantwich and Crewe will now run six days a week throughout the year, after Cheshire East Council provided more funding.
The 44 service, which links the two towns, had been reduced to a “term time” only Monday to Friday timetable by operator GHA Coaches.
Organisers of the “Battle of Nantwich” Holly Holy Day event hope it will not be washed out by the heavy rain and flooding.
Prolonged wet weather has left River Weaver very high, and ground conditions saturated on Mill Island.
Residents and drivers across Cheshire East are being warned to be aware of potential flooding problems this week.
Cheshire East Council highways teams have to close three roads due to floods today (January 4), including Windmill Lane in Buerton near Nantwich, and Maw Lane and Gresty Lane in Crewe.
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