A family-run apiary in South Cheshire and a Nantwich gin company are proving a tasty team!
Crewe-based Buckley’s Bees, which cares for bees and produces honey, is providing this sweet ingredient for Three Wrens Gin and its new award-winning drink.
By Jonathan White
A charity auction in memory of a popular Crewe Vagrants hockey player helped to raise almost £2,000 for cancer.
Crewe Vagrants held a mixed Veterans Hockey Tournament and Charity Auction earlier this year in memory of Sarah Knight “Greenie”.
A hedgehog’s horrific death has prompted a warning from RSPCA in Nantwich about the dangers of carelessly discarding fishing tackle.
The juvenile hedgehog was taken to RSPCA Stapeley Grange Wildlife Centre on London Road after he was found entangled in a fishing line in a Nantwich garden by a member of the public on October 2.
Organisers of Nantwich Food Festival have been honoured with an award from the High Sheriff of Cheshire, Jeannie France-Hayhurst.
The special award to the entire Nantwich Food Festival Family was presented to recognise “their exceptional service to the community”.
A Nantwich student has secured her first illustration deal for a children’s book while studying her A levels!
Amelia Hatt, a year 13 student at Malbank Sixth Form, has agreed the deal with Candy Jar Books.
Town centre roads in Nantwich were re-opened today after an 18-week closure to allow for footway improvement works.
But the planned re-surfacing of Beam Street, as pledged in the initial Cheshire East Council scheme, have so far not taken place.
By Jonathan White
A Nantwich man has won an award for his hand-built scale-model of a ‘Crewe Tractor’.
Gerald Newbrook, 77, from Blakelow, has based his model on the Crewe Tractor which was originally made in Crewe Locomotive works in 1916 and 1917.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East Council has secured more than £150,000 from the government to install electric vehicle charging points in its towns.
Work is expected to start on installing the infrastructure in towns across the borough within the next few months.
Some of Nantwich’s best eateries were celebrated at a Nantwich Food Awards ceremony at the Civic Hall last night.
Hundreds packed in to the hall as the winners in several categories were honoured on stage.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Children and adult services are so underfunded that Cheshire East Council will have to abandon roadworks and waste collection to pay for them without government cash, a councillor has warned.
That was the stark warning from chair of Cheshire East Council’s children and families committee as she backed a call from Crewe councillor Laura Smith (Lab) for wealthy tax avoiders to pay their fair share.
A serious three-vehicle accident has closed the busy A51 today at Hurleston near Nantwich.
One woman has been taken to hospital with serious but not thought to be life-threatening injuries.
A posh train which has its head office in Nantwich has been voted the Best in Britain – and ninth in the World.
The 1930s Pullman-style Northern Belle pipped other famous luxury trains like Canada’s Rocky Mountaineer and India’s Maharajah Express.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Utility firms failing to turn up for essential work added to delays to the A530 Middlewich Road closure and can’t be forced to pay compensation, a councillor has said.
Middlewich Road, which has been closed between Pyms Lane and Smithy Lane since May, was due to re-open this month.
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