By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Education secretary Gillian Keegan spent the day on the campaign trail in the Crewe and Nantwich area in the run-up to next month’s general election.
The minister was helping Crewe and Nantwich Conservative candidate Ben Fletcher in his bid to retain the seat for the Tories.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East Council has reduced its special needs budget deficit by £10.1 million.
This means it was about £80m overspent in this area at the end of 2023/24 year instead of the predicted £90m.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Eight candidates will battle it out in the general election in a bid to become the next MP for Crewe and Nantwich.
Ben Fletcher is the new Conservative candidate and will be hoping the Tories can keep hold of the seat which has had a tendency to alternate between Labour and Conservative over the past few years.
Fire crews tackled a bedroom blaze at a house in Stapeley, Nantwich.
The fire broke out at a property on Chadwicke Close, off Clonnersfield, at around 8pm last night (Saturday June 8).
Piles of rotting rubbish have been cleared from outside a block of Nantwich apartments – within hours of Nantwich News highlighting the problem.
Residents at Weaver House and Wheelock House, on Barony Road, were relieved today after property management contractors arrived to clear the rubbish.
Brine Leas School in Nantwich has appointed a new headteacher following the death of previous head David Cole.
The Audlem Road school has announced that Paul Whitehead has been appointed as the new headteacher.
This is the view some angry residents in Nantwich have after weeks of not having rubbish collected.
Residents of Weaver House and Wheelock House, on Barony Road, say the piles of rotten garbage are now attracting rats and magpies and causing a horrendous stink.
A beacon was lit in Nantwich at the end of a day of commemoration as thousands in the town marked the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings.
The lighting of the beacon was preceded by several events throughout the day on Nantwich town square.
An aspiring garden designer will celebrate his community allotment’s 100th birthday in his debut show garden at RHS Flower Show Tatton Park.
Harry Dean, 19, a landscape architecture student at University Centre Reaseheath in Nantwich, will lead a team of 11 fellow vegetable growers from Over Allotments in Winsford on the garden build.
Nantwich community leader Anna Burton joined members of the Nantwich Litter Group this week to blitz an area of the town plagued by litter.
The team of 10 environmentally minded residents collected a dozen bin bags full of cans, bottles, crisp packets, cigarette butts and “disposable” vapes in just a couple of hours.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
The head of Cheshire East’s children’s services has said she should have known “things were not as good as they needed to be” in response to the “inadequate” rating by Ofsted.
Deborah Woodcock, executive director of children’s services, was speaking as councillors fired question after question at her in a children and families committee meeting.
Residents have launched a bid to have new roads in Nantwich named after D-Day veterans in the town.
Local campaigners want veterans like Frank Tew, pictured, to be honoured and remembered with a permanent road naming.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
The closure of Cheshire East’s school meals service is causing “real distress” to some headteachers and one small school faces losing a full-time staff member.
The council’s children and families committee voted last month to close its loss-making school meals service next April, saying it could no longer afford to subsidise it to the tune of approximately £515,000.
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