Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service has received a national award for its tyre safety checks.
The service, in partnership with Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service, Highways England and Protyre, won an award in the Emergency Services category at the Tyresafe awards.
By Stephen Topping
Urgent measures to improve support for youngsters in Cheshire East with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND) have been drawn up following a damning inspection.
Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) found “serious weaknesses” when they assessed Cheshire East Council and NHS bodies in the borough on their provision for SEND support in March.
Nantwich’s fascinating canal history is now told on new interpretation panels unveiled next to Thomas Telford’s historic aqueduct.
Known as ‘The Gateway to Nantwich’, the aqueduct was recently restored by the Canal & River Trust charity.
Volunteers helped Nantwich look bloomin’ marvellous when judges from the annual Britain in Bloom competition visited the town.
Dozens of people helped ensure flowerbeds, planters and hanging baskets were brimming with colour for the visit last week.
Reaseheath College in Nantwich has celebrated the achievements of more than 1,100 FE students at its annual awards ceremony.
Students, from across the UK and abroad, are now preparing for careers in a range of industries after completing their studies in Nantwich.
A Nantwich woman has inherited the £100,000 estate of a children’s book illustrator that had been left unclaimed.
The amazing story of how Judith Hooley discovered the inheritance is to feature on BBC One’s Heir Hunters programme next week (July 17).
A man has been jailed after his light goods vehicle crashed head on with a van on the A500, killing the Willaston driver.
Adam Daniel Staley, 35, was driving towards Crewe on the A500 at Barthomley when he crashed into a van driven by Neil Dey (pictured), 31, who was heading towards Stoke.
Police have vowed to tackle drugs activity in an area of Nantwich after finding a 15-year-old girl in possession of cannabis.
Residents reported seeing teenagers selling and using drugs around the sandbank area in front of the riverside properties near Mill Island.
Nantwich Town councillors could request Barony Park be transferred to them from Cheshire East Council in a bid to resolve ongoing issues with unauthorised traveller encampments.
The idea was mooted at last night’s Nantwich Town Council where members of the public, police and councillors discussed how to prevent traveller groups gaining access to the park.
Crewe & Nantwich MP Laura Smith joined the search for new life-saving breast cancer treatments at a research fair in Parliament.
The fair, hosted by UK charity Breast Cancer Now, was an opportunity to meet scientists behind cutting-edge research.
Students at Cheshire College – South & West have celebrated their annual awards at the college’s Crewe campus.
Celebrating the achievements of learners over the past 12 months, 33 individual awards were presented in front of parents, family, friends, college colleagues and employers.
Nantwich parents Sally and Rob Capener enjoyed a double celebration after the birth of their son.
For Logan was the first to be born at Leighton Hospital on the day the nation celebrated the NHS’ 70th birthday!
Cheshire East councillors have backed a £1 million expansion of a school in South Cheshire for children with special educational needs.
Springfield Special School, in Crewe, is to increase from 132 pupils places to 156 under proposals backed by the council’s cabinet.
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