By Jonathan White
Houses across Nantwich and Crewe have been lighting up in time for the festive season.
These pictures show just a selection of homes where residents have gone to town with their Christmas lights.
Nantwich Methodist Church could be the new venue for the town’s luncheon club.
Cheshire East Council is in talks with a number of potential venues to find a new base for the club as its current site The Gables is to be sold.
Town councillors could reconsider buying The Gables venue in Nantwich to stop it being sold off to private buyers.
Cheshire East Council has revealed its intent to sell off the Beam Street asset in the new year, putting the town’s popular luncheon club at risk.
School children from Nantwich wowed the town’s Mayor when they flooded her with entries to a Christmas card competition.
Cllr Christine Farrall asked youngsters to put their creativity into action and design this year’s card.
By Jonathan White
Scores of fun-loving Santas ran around Nantwich town centre to help raise charity cash in the annual Nantwich Santa Dash.
And the “Rudolph family” deservedly won the best dressed competition as they consisted of a Father Christmas, Mother Christmas, sleigh and three reindeer!
Nuisance street “chuggers” in Nantwich are facing a crackdown, council bosses have claimed.
It follows a number of complaints from shoppers and visitors in the town about aggressive ‘hard sells’ by some fundraisers.
High Sheriff of Cheshire Susan Sellers visited Nantwich Museum to pay tribute to the work of volunteers.
Mrs Sellers met volunteers and said without them, the Pillory Street venue would not survive.
Four hundred over 50s residents in Crewe and Nantwich have enjoyed a free Christmas party thanks to support and donations from local organisations.
Two parties, each for 200 people, are being staged with local schoolchildren helping serve up their tasty meals.
A 90-year-old World War Two veteran popped in to a South Cheshire car dealer – to reveal he’d finally given up driving and taken up cycling!
Sgt Bernard Morgan, one of the last surviving war veterans from World War Two, has been a regular at Gateway Peugeot in Crewe.
The Oxfam shop in Nantwich is one of just 21 in the UK chosen to sell an exclusive vinyl by Tim Burgess, lead singer of The Charlatans.
The vinyl is a collaboration between Burgess and best-selling author Ian Rankin
Drink and drug drivers in and around Nantwich are being targeted by Cheshire Police’s Operation Blue Christmas.
Officers will be targeting suspected drink and drug drivers throughout December to reduce the number of fatal and serious collisions on the county’s roads.
Nantwich Mayor Christine Farrall joined guest speaker Fiona Bruce MP to help celebrate 75 years of Cheshire East Citizens Advice Bureaux.
Citizens Advice Bureaux (CAB) first appeared in 1939, when more than 200 emergency centres were established throughout the UK and were all governed by a Central Committee in London.
A 10-year-old Nantwich girl will be taking centre stage in the hit West End and Broadway production, Shrek The Musical.
Emma Currie, a pupil at Pear Tree Primary in Stapeley, will be performing to packed audiences at the Palace Theatre in Manchester.
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