Council Tax is set to rise by 5.99% this April – a higher increase than was proposed by Cheshire East Council just three months ago.
The authority’s Cabinet approved the move yesterday, claiming it is needed to “protect frontline services”.
Some evening bus services running in Crewe, Sandbach, Macclesfield, Middlewich and Congleton are being retained.
All subsidised evening services in Cheshire East were due to be axed in a bid to save £1.5 million in costs.
A 16-year-old from Nantwich has been interviewed under caution in connection with the Beam Street gang assault on a 23-year-old man.
Cheshire Police has confirmed today that the 16-year-old voluntarily attended a local police station.
A developer bidding to build more than 1,000 homes in Nantwich, has had its legal challenge of Cheshire East Council’s Local Plan thrown out by High Court judges.
Muller Strategic Projects, who want to build the ‘Nantwich South’ village in Stapeley, had argued the authority’s Local Plan was void because irregularities over air quality data.
Students at Cheshire College – South & West’s motor vehicle department are in the driving seat after achieving a UK first.
They have teamed up with CES UK to open the country’s first college-based motor vehicle parts store at its Crewe campus.
Graham Witter has handed over a cheque for £25,870 to Donna Louise Hospice raised from his Weston Christmas Light Display.
It’s another record amount raised by Graham from the festive display at Carters Green Farm which attracted more than 15,000 visitors in December.
The first 110 Redrow properties of the new Kingsbourne development in Nantwich are to go on sale.
The homes on the site close to River Weaver and town centre, will be sold ‘off-plan’ from an on-site sales centre from February 10.
Police have made no arrests a week after the horrific Beam Street gang attack by teenagers on a Nantwich man.
The assault by youths aged 14-16, which was caught on CCTV, began after the 23-year-old victim asked them to stop throwing bottles.
Residents in Nantwich are calling for action to make town centre stores tidy commercial waste and rubbish off the streets.
Many say not enough is being done and calls for a late night levy on commercial premises have re-surfaced.
Bald hens are feeling clucky this winter – thanks to woolly jumpers knitted by warm-hearted Nantwich students.
The 12 hens are among the latest additions to Reaseheath College’s mini zoo.
Some Cheshire East Council staff have suffered bullying and harassment, a new report into the authority’s working culture has revealed.
An independent review into the council shows while many staff don’t experience it, it is having a “profound impact” on those who do.
A Nantwich police chief said he was “sickened” when he viewed CCTV footage of a teenage gang attacking a young man on Beam Street.
Sgt Ian Bennett, who leads the Nantwich policing team, described the attack as “horrendous” and said the 23-year-old victim was lucky to only suffer minor injuries.
Fire crews tackled a lorry fire on Newcastle Road in Nantwich caused by an LED exterior light.
Firefighters from Nantwich and Crewe were called to the incident at around 5.30am today.
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