By Mark Ray
Thousands of people enjoyed the Nantwich Christmas Lights switch-on which lit up the town square last night (November 19).
Families young and old enjoyed live music and song, fair rides, refreshments and a firework display during the event.
More than 200 girls from Weaver Division (Crewe and Nantwich) Rainbows, Brownies and Girlguiding groups united for a Science Day.
Interactive workshops were set up across South Cheshire College, where girls visited each pod in their individual groups.
Malbank students, staff and governors have helped out in a World Record by run by the National Arboretum Memorial.
The Nantwich school on Welsh Row has supported a project which hopes to break the Guinness World Record for the biggest Christmas card.
A Nantwich youngster has won a contest to switch on the town’s Christmas Lights this weekend.
Eight-year-old Lilyanna won with her answer of 2,000 when trying to guess the number of lights on the star which will top the town’s Christmas tree.
Council leaders in Cheshire East have welcomed a Government report which revealed more details about Phase Two of high-speed rail project HS2.
The report from the Secretary of State confirms the intended route known as 2b through Cheshire East and on to Manchester Airport and Manchester.
A Freightliner locomotive in South Cheshire has been named ‘Patriot’ in honour of railway workers who lost their lives in the First World War.
The naming ceremony, at Freightliner’s new maintenance facility in Crewe, was attended by more than 40 people on Armistice Day.
A £200,000 upgrade of Nantwich Pool has started with repairs and improvements to the Cheshire East Council owned leisure facility.
The refurbishment will include a replacement of decayed wooden ceilings, replacement of lighting with economical LED lighting systems, full redecoration, refurbished changing room lockers and servicing of main pool pumps.
More than 2,100 tickets have been issued to Cheshire motorists caught using mobile phones while driving.
Latest figures were unveiled as Cheshire Police joined other forces across the UK in a campaign to target phone use by drivers.
Thousands of people young and old paid tribute to fallen heroes at a series of Remembrance Day services in South Cheshire.
Towns, villages, schools and colleges staged services throughout the weekend to mark Armistice Day.
Elderly bus users in Nantwich are calling for timetable changes to key morning routes so they can use their free passes.
They say they are being disadvantaged because the number 89 bus to Wrexham leaves Nantwich bus station at 9.25am.
HSBC Bank chiefs have revealed they are to close the Nantwich branch because of a dramatic drop in footfall.
The branch, on the corner of High Street and Hospital Street, is set to close on January 27.
RSPCA staff in Nantwich ‘flue’ to the rescue of an owl which had fallen down a chimney and had become stranded in an empty house!
The RSPCA was called to help fire crew rescue the owl after neighbours had spotted him sitting on the window ledge inside the vacant property.
College students have teamed up with Crewe and Nantwich School Sport Partnership to improve the health and wellbeing of primary school youngsters.
Sport students at South Cheshire College invited children and teachers from seven Crewe and Nantwich schools to explore nutrition and sporting activities.
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