Snugburys Ice Cream farm in Nantwich has unveiled their latest giant straw sculpture – Paddington Bear!
The giant 45ft high sculpture is the largest of the firm’s creations which are famously seen from the A51 Chester Road at Hurleston.
The return of the Nantwich Show for the third year at Reaseheath Old Hall has been hailed a big success by organisers.
More than 10,000 people enjoyed a day of countryside and agricultural activities and organisation.
Changes to household waste recycling centres in Cheshire East have come into effect this week.
It means Nantwich and Crewe users of the busy Pyms Lane centre will now have to book an online slot at weekends and Bank Holidays.
The family of an elderly resident of a Nantwich care home are staging a photography exhibition – to celebrate his lifelong work!
And Ian Tuckley’s daughter Zoe hopes the exhibition will give the 80-year-old inspiration as he battles against Parkinson’s disease.
By Belinda Ryan
Cheshire East paid out more than £1.32 million in allowances and expenses to councillors in the 2023/24 financial year – an increase of more than £92,000 on the previous year.
In total, the council paid £1,322,817 to councillors compared to £1,230,349 last year.
Staff at Stapeley Grange Cattery in Nantwich are braced for one of their busiest periods caring for, rehabilitating and rehoming animals.
New figures show that August 1 is the charity’s busiest summer day.
New Crewe and Nantwich MP Connor Naismith has raised concerns about the future of Leighton Hospital after the Chancellor’s announcement this week.
Rachel Reeves said on Monday that a number of Tory projects would have to be shelved due to what she called a £20 billion budget blackhole.
A campaign to ensure period dignity for women and girls has won high profile support as it gathers pace across South Cheshire.
Health and wellbeing charity Motherwell Cheshire has welcomed Nantwich Town Council and Crewe Town Council onboard as it works towards making Cheshire a beacon for Period Dignity.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
A cyber attack on Cheshire East would be ‘catastrophic’ and the council should ‘wargame’ a hypothetical situation to see how it would cope, a councillor said.
Cllr Andrew Kolker (Con) was speaking at the audit and governance committee and questioned whether the council was adequately prepared in the event of such an attack.
St Mary’s Nantwich has launched a £400,000 appeal to restore parts of the “Cathedral of South Cheshire”.
The grade 1 listed building is seen as being of “exceptional architectural and historic interest”.
A pair of talented horticulturists from Reaseheath in Nantwich won gold medals for their garden designs at the RHS Flower Show Tatton Park 2024.
Aspiring landscape architect Harry Dean received one of just four Gold medals awarded in the Long Borders category, while Horticulture graduate Callum Corrie took Gold in the RHS Young Designer of the Year competition on the show’s opening day.
Leighton Hospital and other Cheshire hospitals have received a donation of 7,000 cuddly teddy bears.
The bears, from the Freemasons of Cheshire, will help ease anxiety felt by children going to hospital.
A former police detective found guilty of assaulting a woman has been jailed and banner from entering Nantwich for 10 years.
Paul Whitehurst was jailed at Chester Crown Court today for 18 weeks and given an indefinite restraining order which prevents him from contacting the victim.
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