Organisers of Holly Holy Day in Nantwich have paid tribute to volunteers who helped make the event the most successful ever.
Thousands flocked into town, despite the roadworks and traffic problems, to enjoy what many believe was the biggest ever staged in its 43 years.
By Jonathan White
Thousands poured into Nantwich to enjoy the Battle of Nantwich & Winter Fayre in the town centre and Mill Island.
And organisers The Holly Holy Day Society say the event, held in conjunction with the Sealed Knot society, was one of the most successful ever.
Nantwich residents hit out after the town was left in gridlock by roadworks at a busy junction which are set to clash with one of the biggest public events in the town.
Thousands of motorists have been caught up in chaotic traffic scenes today (Friday January 23).
A Nantwich butcher’s shop is turning meat bones into brass and raising vital cash for charity.
Cheerbrook Farm Shop, on Newcastle Road, has raised a tasty total of almost £600 for the South Cheshire branch of Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research (LLR) through its innovative ‘Bones for Bones’ scheme.
Planners have recommended a controversial bid to turn former Hack Green RAF camp near Nantwich into a large-scale site for travelling families, is rejected.
The plan is to create nine large plots on the site off Coole Lane in Austerson, for showpeople families to live and store fairground equipment.
A Nantwich school has beefed up its team – by landing a former Premier League star as the new headteacher!
Ex Middlesborough defender Phil Whelen is now top dog at Millfields Primary on Marsh Lane.
New courses for carers are being held in Nantwich by Alzheimer’s Society in Cheshire East.
The courses aim to help the carers of people affected by dementia cope with their roles.
A UK tour by a team promoting National Obesity Awareness Week visited Nantwich and Crewe today (January 17).
Dean Sidley and Lucy Miller organised a mobile roadshow to travel from Dorset up through the country.
Thousands of people and hundreds of soldiers are set to descend on Nantwich for Holly Holy Day.
The annual event, this Saturday January 24, celebrates the Battle of Nantwich of 1644 – a key battle during the English Civil War.
Pupils at two Nantwich schools have designed award-winning posters aimed at alerting residents to dangers of doorstep crooks and strangers.
Youngsters at St Anne’s Catholic Primary and Stapeley Broad Lane Primary were recognised in a competition run by Cheshire East Council’s Trading Standards team.
The family of a cyclist who died after being in collision with a coach on the A530 Middlewich Road in Nantwich, have today paid tribute to him.
Grandfather Robert Betteley, 59, died despite desperate efforts by paramedics to save him after the crash outside the entrance to Alvaston Hall Hotel yesterday (January 13).
Nantwich Town Council has frozen its council tax amount for 2015/16.
It means the amount paid by a Band D property owner to Nantwich Town Council will remain at £89.74.
Nantwich Civic Hall bosses hope the venue’s toilet troubles will be at an end soon.
The hall, now run by Nantwich Town Council, is to finally undergo a £81,000 project to repair and revamp its crumbling loos.
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