Cheshire East Council bosses have re-launched a “Pick-Fit” scheme to help clear streets of litter and get people fitter.
CEC’s Ansa Environmental Services are linking up with Everybody Health and Leisure to run the scheme.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East Council’s “engagement” with the public about the new charge for garden waste collection poses more questions than answers, the opposition leader has said.
The council agreed at its budget meeting in February to introduce charges for garden/food waste bin collection and is hoping to rake in up to £4m when the scheme comes into operation.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East Council and developer Countryside need to “step up and deliver on their moral obligations” to people living on a Crewe housing estate with no planning permission, the House of Commons leader has said.
Penny Mordaunt MP also wondered “how in God’s name it could have happened” as she was responding to a question from Crewe and Nantwich MP Kieran Mullan (Con) about the plight of residents living at Coppenhall Place.
Nantwich pupils have scooped prizes in the latest Nantwich Rotary Club Art & Handwriting competition.
Club President Tony Webb and Deputy Mayor of Nantwich Stuart Bostock presented the awards to the young winners at the Nantwich Museum.
Nominations for the eight Nantwich Food Award categories can now be made by customers or businesses.
People can nominate their favourite business until June 14 to do so.
This is the stunning RHS Chelsea Flower Show garden which will be relocated to RSPCA Stapeley Grange wildlife centre in Nantwich this summer.
It’s hoped “The RSPCA Garden”, on display all week at the prestigious flower show, will inspire the next generation of animal champions.
Planet Doughnut are to close their Nantwich store from May 28, they have revealed.
The closure less than two years after it was opened on Pillory Street in September 2021.
Reaseheath College horticulture students have planted a cherry blossom tree outside St Mary’s Church in Nantwich to mark the coronation of Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla.
The Prunus incisa ‘Mikinori’ is a small Fuji tree that is covered with bee-friendly pink flowers in Spring and develops colourful foliage in the Autumn.
Nantwich town councillors have supported a plan to crowdfund a memorial to Michael “Flash” Meakin who died last month.
“Flash” was a well known and loved character in the town for more than 50 years, known as the man with the handcart collecting tin cans and scrap metal for recycling.
The Nature Recovery team at Cheshire Wildlife Trust have worked with farmers and landowners across Cheshire to plant more than 62,000 trees in past two years.
It’s part of the Trees for Climate programme, a multi-million pound national woodland creation programme being delivered by England’s Community Forests.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
An exhibition garden created for the Chelsea Flower Show could be installed at the RSPCA Stapeley Grange Wildlife Centre in Nantwich to help educate people about animal welfare.
The RSPCA has applied to Cheshire East Council for permission to have the garden installed at Stapeley Grange off London Road after the show closes at the end of this month.
The RSPCA has launched an appeal after four dead dogs were found dumped on the side of a lane in South Cheshire.
The dogs were found in plastic bags and are thought to be around under six months old. RSPCA think they are rottweiler type dogs.
Pupils from 14 primary schools and two secondary schools in the Nantwich Education Partnership have helped to create these colourful Coronation Crowns for the town centre.
The crowns are on display on St Mary’s Church green and Whitebeam tree next to it.
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