South Cheshire’s cancer unit has been illuminated purple to raise awareness of pancreatic cancer.
The Macmillan Cancer Unit at Leighton Hospital will be lit purple every evening in November as part of a campaign being run by Pancreatic Cancer UK for Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month.
Saddle-sore cyclists Ben Reinhardt and Jim Forkin pedalled all 922 miles of the River Rhine to raise money for blood cancer charities.
The friends, from Willaston and Crewe, started their “Riding the River Rhine” adventure at the source of the Rhine in the Swiss Alps at Lake Toma.
A young fund-raiser from Brine Leas has inspired Nantwich town councillors to bid for life-saving defibrillators in public places.
Harrison Lunt (pictured) and his mum Berny spoke to councillors about their application for British Heart Foundation funding for a public defibrillator.
Aqueduct Marina staff near Nantwich have presented more than £2,000 to the charity Crohns and Colitis UK.
Employees Julie Beedham and Coryn Lawton at the Church Minshull venue presented a cheque for £2015.73 to charity representatives Barry and Sue Flint.
Leighton Hospital Prostate Cancer Support Group has donated £10,000 to the medical imaging department at the hospital.
The money will support the purchase of 10 additional SpeechMagic licenses.
Residents can find out more about Leighton Hospital at a meeting held in Nantwich next month.
Bosses at Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MCHFT) are inviting the public to its annual members meeting at Regents Park Conference Centre on October 8.
Workers at a Nantwich finance firm raised more than £11,000 for Kidney Research UK after tackling the Yorkshire 3 Peaks challenge.
Employees at Afford Bond, on Wellington Road, walked 23 miles on a circular route over three peaks with more than 5,000ft of ascent in just 12 hours!
A charity football match organised by a teenager in memory of his uncle, raised £470 for Bloodwise charity.
The event featured an 11-a-side match between Aidan FC and Leukaemia FC at Cumberland sports ground in Crewe.
Hospital staff in South Cheshire will be tackling the Sandstone Trail this month in aid of MRI Scanner Appeal.
Six workers at Leighton Hospital will set out along the 34-mile trail on September 19.
By Jonathan White
Two South Cheshire friends are to cycle the length of the River Rhine in aid of Bloodwise charity.
Ben Reinhardt, from Crewe, and Jim Forkin,from Willaston, are spending September cycling the full river length of 860 miles.
Patients in Nantwich are being seen and treated for suspected cancer faster than the national average, latest NHS England figures show.
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MCHFT), which manages Leighton Hospital, has been named as one of the leading trusts in terms of the proportion of cancer patients seen and treated within the expected time frames.
A charity worker from Nantwich is representing England at the Cerebral Palsy International Sport and Recreation Association Games.
Andy Small, 22, who was born with cerebral palsy, was inspired to get involved in wheelchair racing by the London Paralympics in 2012.
A Nantwich teenager has completed a tough trek along the length of Hadrian’s Wall as part of his campaign to raise awareness of heart disease in the young.
Harrison Lunt, from Aston, was joined by his dad Ken for the walk from Newcastle across the country to Solway in Cumbria.
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