By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
A massive 37% more working age households applied for council tax support in Cheshire East during the pandemic.
In May 2019, 9,306 working age households applied for the support.
A charity supporting South Cheshire children and adults with autism has received a boost from a nearby company as it introduces more popular gaming sessions at its specialist centre in Crewe.
Teenager Aiden Taylor, who has the condition and is a keen gamer, was the inspiration behind the donation to Autism Inclusive from security firm Alpha Omega based on Crewe Business Park.
Millfields Primary School pupils have been encouraging residents to join them on their new Fairground Trail around Nantwich.
The 5km route starts and ends at Millfields School on Marsh Lane, and residents have been decorating their houses along the route.
The Motherwell Cheshire charity is calling for support after experiencing a 25% increase in demand for counselling help.
The charity offers educational services, holistic therapies and mental health support, to promote positive health and wellbeing to women across Cheshire.
Cheshire East will not take action at this time regarding the review of parliamentary constituencies, saying the suggested changes don’t impact significantly on the borough council, writes Belinda Ryan.
But the local authority does believe it may have to make representations during the second round of consultation, once Cheshire West and Chester Council makes its views known to the Boundary Commission.
A proposal for a new “free” primary school in Nantwich has been unveiled by Cheshire East Council.
The school would be built as part of the new Kingsbourne housing development near Nantwich Town’s stadium between Waterlode, the A51 at Reaseheath, and River Weaver.
A nightclub boss in Nantwich is preparing to open after what he described as a “tough 15 months” of lockdown closure.
Nigel Woodhouse, who runs Studio Nantwich on Castle street, will reopen the venue for dancing after being force to close due to the Covid pandemic.
Eight people have been arrested in Crewe as part of a cross border operation targeting people involved in organised crime.
Cheshire officers teamed up with Merseyside Police and British Transport Police (BTP) as part of an ongoing “county lines drug dealing” crackdown.
Regular Nantwich News contributor Jonathan White has been named as Local Legend award winner by The Cat FM.
Jonathan, a community journalist from Wistaton, becomes the station’s seventh Local Legend monthly winner.
There have been 1,715 incidents of “intentional harm to animals” in Cheshire over past five years, latest RSPCA figures show.
The stats were released as the charity launches its new “Cancel Out Cruelty” campaign.
Pop-up walk in vaccination centres will be available in South Cheshire next week as health chiefs continue to tackle the rising cases of Covid.
Walk-in vaccination clinics will be running in Crewe on Monday and Tuesday at Grand Junction Retail Park and Weston Road, run by Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Trust.
Childcare inspectors say services for children with special educational needs (SEND) across Cheshire East have been “transformed”.
It comes three years after an earlier report highlighted “significant weaknesses” in the provision.
A plan to designate Cheshire’s Sandstone Ridge as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) is not going far enough, warns Cheshire Wildlife Trust.
They say the move is not enough to support an “abundance of wildlife, nor to contribute to tackling our climate and nature emergencies”.
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