By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East Council spent the equivalent of nearly £202,000 in staff time investigating complaints about councillors in 2024/25.
A total of 44 complaints were received by the monitoring officer during the last financial year. Of these, 36 related to town or parish councillors.
A South Cheshire organisation dedicated to making society safer for women and girls is celebrating official registered charity status.
Guests at the Alpha Omega Women Peace & Security (WPS) Foundation annual fundraising ball stood to cheer as the announcement was made in a packed Crewe Hall events centre.
Cheshire East Council is set to receive a record funding boost of £77.4 million for fixing roads and potholes.
And there is another £29 million available if the authority publishes “clear pothole and maintenance data”.
The former Cheshire East Council leader Michael Jones, who represented Bunbury ward, has died at the age of 61.
Mr Jones was first elected to Cheshire East as the Conservative ward member for Bunbury in 2011 and became council leader the following year.
Three paramedics were left in hospital after their ambulance crashed on a rural road near Church Minshull.
Police are now appealing for witnesses to the “serious collision” which happened on Eardswick Lane.
People in South Cheshire are being urged to come forward with information on ketamine supply across the county.
The appeal from Cheshire Police comes amid growing concerns about the harm the drug is causing to people and communities.
A Nantwich man has completed an astonishing 11,000km solo cycle from his home to Khorgos on the Chinese border, travelling through 19 countries over 139 days.
Edmund Doyle, 22, set off on June 11th on his dad’s old mountain bike, inspired by a YouTube video of a Brit riding home from Shanghai.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East Council should not restrict members of the public from asking questions at future cabinet meetings just because the subject isn’t on the agenda, a councillor has said.
The council is due to switch back from its current committee system of governance to a leader and cabinet style in May next year.
Reaseheath College and University Centre in Nantwich brought its PRIDE values to life through an inaugural UNITY Festival.
It was a week-long celebration encouraging the campus to pause, take stock and recognise what makes its community strong.
A specially crafted memorial bench has now been installed on Nantwich riverside in honour of local character Michael “Flash” Meakin.
Flash was a familiar figure throughout Nantwich for more than five decades as the town’s “metal man” – collecting scrap, cans and unwanted metal and, in doing so, helping the community and the environment.
Construction work has started on “critical infrastructure” for the development of the new health and care neighbourhood with a new Leighton hospital at its heart.
The work will see the creation of a new electrical substation enclosure, providing power for the proposed new net zero hospital to the north of the existing Leighton Hospital.
Police have seized almost 400 illegal vehicles such as e-bikes off the streets of Cheshire, figures showed today.
Officers working under Operation Lawmaker seized a further 10 vehicles and arrested two people during the latest crackdown in Crewe and Nantwich.
An orphaned seal pup nursed back to health by the RSPCA in Nantwich is shining bright with her own pup – more than five years after being released back into the wild.
Staff at Stapeley Grange Wildlife Centre spent three months caring and rehabilitating grey seal pup Kale when she was brought in by the British Divers Marine Life Rescue back in 2020.
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