Nantwich Town Council says it will “discuss alternative delivery methods” with organisers of external markets it plans to withdraw from.
It says the decision to withdraw from around 12 externally organised Artisan and Antique Fair markets was taken because of difficulties attracting staff and wellbeing on existing workers.
A former Reaseheath College butchery apprentice has represented Team GB in the “Young Butcher” category at the World Butchers Challenge in California.
Jason Edwards was selected due to his success at the WorldSkills UK butchery national finals.
Conservative MPs across the North West have backed Crewe’s bid to become the home of Great British Railways.
Eighteen MPs have signed a joint letter to the new Secretary of State for Transport Anne-Marie Trevelyan including the Crewe & Nantwich MP Dr Kieran Mullan who organised the approach.
Town councillors in Nantwich are hoping a £15,000 “weed-buster” machine will help clean up its allotments and streets.
They voted to test out the new “Foamstream” machine with a view to buying one for the council’s use.
Councillors have backed plans to axe around 10 externally run Antique and Artisan markets in Nantwich town centre.
The proposal would see the council stage more live music and children’s activities on the square in their place.
A “morbidly obese” dog taken in by Crewe & Nantwich RSPCA has managed to lose half her body weight – through swimming!
And now the new-look eight-year-old Staffie cross called Roxanne has found her forever home nearby.
The new on-demand bus service ‘go-too’ is proving just the ticket for people in rural areas around Nantwich after clocking up its 10,000th passenger journey.
The service was launched 12 months ago in a bid to help reduce isolation in villages in a wide area south of Nantwich.
Elected members of Cheshire East Council will have more cash to spend on highways projects in their local wards next year.
Ward member budgets, introduced in 2021, will increase by 50% from £4,200 to £6,500.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East Council chiefs have been using taxpayers money to maintain more than 500 green space plots of land which may be privately owned.
Director of environment and neighbourhood services Paul Bayley said the authority has been maintaining 547 parcels of land not registered as being owned by the council.
The new A51 Reaseheath bypass should be open by end of October, residents have been told.
An update on the road was given at a parish council meeting last week as it emerged how many homes have now been occupied on the Kingsbourne housing development.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
The former Hunters Lodge Hotel in Crewe which has held many local weddings and other functions for decades, is to be bulldozed and replaced with a care home and 55 dwellings.
Cheshire East’s southern planning committee gave the go-ahead for the scheme despite hearing there would be some incursion into the Green Gap.
Cheshire College – South & West’s on-campus nursery ‘Starting Point’ has been awarded “Outstanding” status by Ofted.
The nursery, on the Crewe campus, was inspected in August and staff are “overwhelmed” to have maintained their Outstanding rating.
A poll of almost 1,000 voters in Nantwich shows most do not want a section of Beam Street in the town centre pedestrianizing.
We ran a poll amid the current closure of the section between Manor Road and Waterlode/Welsh Row for footway and resurfacing works.
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