By Stephen Topping
The councillor in charge of Cheshire East’s roads insists their approach to repairing potholes is “the right way forward”.
Cllr Don Stockton believes engineers should be sent out to conduct structural repairs in a preventative way, rather than repair potholes as and when they need filling.
Dozens of people will sleep rough in Nantwich town square later this month as part of a campaign to raise awareness of local homelessness issues.
The Big Sleep Out also aims to raise much needed funds for CHANCE Changing Lives homeless charity.
By Stephen Topping
A nationwide fault meant 1,400 women from mid and south Cheshire were not sent invitations for routine breast cancer screening, it has emerged.
Jeremy Hunt, Health Secretary, announced last week that as many as 450,000 women aged 68 to 71 in England had not been sent invitations since 2009 – and up to 270 women may have died as a result.
A man who disappeared while swimming in the River Weaver in Nantwich, has died.
The man, 59, disappeared underwater during the incident close to the weir off Mill Island, sparking a massive police and fire rescue operation.
A housing boss bidding to push through a 1,100-home ‘Nantwich South’ development in Stapeley, claims Cheshire East Council is ‘misrepresenting’ the facts about planning permissions for new homes.
Colin Muller says almost a quarter of the homes that the authority claims it has granted planning permission for were actually approved on appeal.
Police divers have been searching the River Weaver in Nantwich today (May 7) amid reports of a missing person.
Police, fire crews and paramedics have been on the scene most of the afternoon at Riverside on the west side near Mill Island in Nantwich.
Furious shoppers confronted a woman in a Nantwich car park after they found this dog had been left in a car amid soaring temperatures.
The image, posted on social media, comes as the RSPCA is bracing itself for a surge in emergency calls about dogs shut inside hot cars.
Creative youngsters who entered the 10th Rotary Club of Nantwich Primary Schools Art and Handwriting Competition were honoured at a prize-giving ceremony.
The winners and runners-up were presented with prizes by Laura Smith MP and Cheshire East Mayor Cllr Arthur Moran presented prizes at the Nantwich Museum.
Staff working for Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have offered up their favourite recipes to create a fund-raising cook book.
Employees at Leighton Hospital and other trust centres hope it will boost the MCH Charity’s new £1.5m “Everybody Knows Somebody” Dementia Appeal.
A Scout leader in Nantwich is to represent the UK at the European Scouting event “Roverway” in the Netherlands.
Lucy Everall, of the 38th group on Davenport Avenue, will embark on the once-on-a-lifetime opportunity between July 21 and August 2.
Nantwich Town Council’s Mayor Cllr Penny Butterill hosted a civic reception to pay tribute to the winners of the annual Mayor’s Salt of the Earth Awards.
The awards, which have been running for four years, saw 11 local heroes honoured for their services to the community.
Nantwich’s famous outdoor Brine Pool is to re-open this weekend – just in time to catch the warm sunny weather forecast!
The pool re-opens to the public for the summer season on Saturday May in time for the Bank Holiday.
Landmark Nantwich bar and restaurant Firenze has opened in record time after a transformation by a team of Nantwich businesses.
Firenze, on historic Welsh Row, was closed for 12 days while painters, plasterers and upholsterers worked as a team on a major make-over.
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