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.
A cross-party working group of community members has met to tackle the problems of travellers illegally setting up camps on Barony Park in Nantwich.
Councillors from all parties, officers from Cheshire East and Nantwich Town Council, and Cheshire police officers and residents’ representatives, have met to address the issue.
Nantwich equine students are riding high after winning a hotly-contested inter-college team competition.
Katie Gibbins, Lucy Lloyd-Brown, Nieve Dillon, Lucy Lunt-Bell, Emily Hassell and Cerys Calcutt, who study Horse Management at Reaseheath College, competed against teams from four other leading land-based colleges.
Hundreds of drivers in Nantwich are being warned as a main road in and out of town will be closed for five days.
The B5074 London Road will be closed between June 12 and June 16 for major resurfacing works.
Scout leaders in Nantwich are appealing for help to renovate the town’s crumbling Scout hut.
The base, off Davenport Avenue, is the only one for Scout Troop/Explorers in Nantwich, and is now 50 years old.
Rail users in Nantwich and Crewe face travel problems this weekend – caused by the Champions League Final more than 150 miles away in Cardiff!
Arriva Trains Wales is severely reducing services between Wrenbury, Nantwich, Crewe and Manchester in a bid to cope with thousands of football fans flocking to the Welsh capital.
Nantwich floristry students proved they are among the nation’s best by taking top awards at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
Reaseheath College diploma in floristry students were runners-up for the third consecutive year in the “Future Florist” national competition open to all colleges and training institutions.
Members of Nantwich Civic Society have celebrated the organisation’s 50th anniversary at the town’s museum.
The society was formed half a century ago by enlightened Nantwich residents, worried by the demolition of many historic buildings.
A Nantwich schoolgirl raising money for a once-in-a-lifetime expedition to South America, has received backing from a local marina.
Emily Flattery is raising funds to help poorer communities in southern Peru as part of a Camps International project.
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