Up to 57,000 pupils will be returning to schools and colleges across Cheshire East in the next week under fewer Covid safety measures.
Almost 180 schools and colleges have been working with Cheshire East staff to agree arrangements following the recent lifting of national restrictions.
A new health programme for those suffering breathing diseases and conditions is being launched at Crewe Lifestyle Centre.
Everybody Sport and Recreation has teamed up with the Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership (CCICP) Pulmonary Rehabilitation service to run the project.
By Jonathan White
Two key Covid vaccination centres in Nantwich and Crewe are preparing for the rollout of a proposed “booster” jab.
The centres at Masonic Hall in Willaston and Crewe Honda Centre on West Street have already administered up to 55,000 jabs between them.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Unvaccinated Cheshire East Council staff who take time off work to self-isolate as a close contact of a Covid-19 case won’t be classed as being off sick.
From yesterday (August 16), people who are double jabbed or aged under 18 are no longer legally required to self-isolate if they are identified as a close contact of a positive Covid-19 case.
Cheshire East Council and its partners have been awarded a grant of £647,000 to support the new Domestic Abuse Act which was signed into law in April.
The new act means councils must ensure victims and their children can access life-saving support in safe accommodation.
A new digital directory of services has been launched to help survivors of sexual violence in Cheshire find support.
It features a postcode search function which allows users to find local support services.
A care home in Nantwich has unveiled a new pathway thanks to a family of a couple staff cared for.
The pathway, known as “Taylor’s Walk”, is installed at St Catherine’s Care Home on Barony Road.
Green-fingered residents at Richmond Village Nantwich have been keeping fit – by producing a bumper crop of their own radishes!
Grown from seed and planted out earlier in the year, the radishes were harvested and given to Head Chef Wai who is using them in his salads.
Cheshire MPs are urging the Government to select Leighton Hospital as one of eight in the country to benefit from a multi-billion pound building programme.
Crewe and Nantwich MP Dr Kieran Mullan, Eddisbury MP Edward Timpson, and Congleton MP Fiona Bruce say they have written a joint letter to new Health Secretary Sajid Javid.
Crewe and Nantwich MP Dr Kieran Mullan has praised the work of a Willaston team running a Covid vaccination centre in the village.
He visited The Acacia Suite at Willaston Masonic Hall to see how the progress of the centre.
A group of Crewe Vagrants hockey players are taking on a 40-mile walk in honour of their team-mate who is battling Acute Myeloid Leukaemia.
Seventeen of Steph Thompson’s friends want to raise awareness of the Blood Cancer which has hit the popular Brine Leas School teacher for a second time.
A baby club set up in Nantwich during the pandemic lockdown is booming!
Baby Club Cheshire was the brainchild of young mum Steph Tully when her youngest daughter Izzy was just six-months-old.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
A 90-year-old woman has blasted Cheshire East Council proposals to charge over 85s for a lifeline care alarm service which is currently free.
Cheshire East is consulting with residents on proposals to introduce a £5 a week charge for the telecare service which, at present, is free to residents aged 85 and over if they live alone.
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