The British Hen Welfare Trust team in Cheshire is on track to rehome the 1,000th hen of 2019 at their collection event this weekend (April 7).
So far this year, the team has helped send more than 940 hens off to pet homes, and save them from slaughter.
Almost 10,000 people in South Cheshire were diagnosed with type 2 diabetes last year, health chiefs have revealed.
Now doctors are urging people to make urgent lifestyle changes or face risking life-threatening health problems.
Three senior appointments have been announced at Cheshire Police and Cheshire Fire and Rescue.
Julie Cooke has been appointed as the new Deputy Chief Constable at Cheshire Constabulary.
By Stephen Topping, local democracy reporter
The full list of candidates for next month’s Cheshire East Council elections have been confirmed.
Voters will head to the polls on Thursday May 2 to decide who they want to represent them on the borough council for the next four years.
Youngsters from three Nantwich schools donned their hard hats on a new housing development as part of a time capsule competition!
Year 4 pupils at Highfields Academy, St Anne’s Catholic Primary School and Acton C of E Primary School were challenged to fill a capsule which could be buried on the site of the new Tesni Homes development on Welshman’s Lane.
A new non-emergency ambulance contract for Cheshire will see more staff based locally and boosting standards of care, say health chiefs.
NHS commissioners have awarded a five-year contract to West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS).
South Cheshire people turned out in Nantwich to cheer on two former kickboxing champions as they stepped back in the ring raise money for charities close to their hearts.
There was standing room only at Civic Hall during a night of entertainment including interviews with ring legends Frank Bruno and Tony Bellew.
Staff at RSPCA Stapeley Grange in Nantwich are nursing this tiny fox cub which was found abandoned in the middle of a busy road.
Now the London Road centre is preparing for more fox cub arrivals in Spring with cuddly toys and comfort blankets.
Mid Cheshire Hospitals Charity staff raised £2,000 from a‘Fashion and Fizz’ evening in Nantwich.
The event, at Nantwich Town’s Weaver Stadium, saw 70 guests enjoy a full fashion show while sampling sparkling wines to raise funds for the charity’s “Everybody Knows Somebody’” dementia appeal.
Romazzino has officially opened its new High Street restaurant in Nantwich.
Bosses have moved the eaterie from its Love Lane premises to a large outlet, which used to be the Cooperative Pharmacy.
By Stephen Topping, local democracy reporter
Brexit is not set to severely harm Cheshire East’s social care workforce, health chiefs have claimed.
Alex Mitchell, chief finance officer at NHS Eastern Cheshire clinical commissioning group (CCG), gave governors an update about how the area’s health system is preparing for Britain’s departure from the European Union.
Police have vowed to step up patrols around Nantwich Cemetery as more thefts have emerged of treasured items from gravesides.
The mum of tragic Elle Morris has told her two lanterns were stolen from Elle’s grave at the Whitehouse Lane site.
The annual Nantwich Show is to become a two-day event for the first time in its history, from the year 2020.
And next year’s event will also move to different days of the week, being held on Friday and Saturday July 17 and 18.
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