Tickets are selling fast for next week’s Nantwich Words and Music Festival which features a string of big names. Venues across the town are staging live performances by musicians and wordsmiths throughout the festival, October 7 to 13.
A woman has appealed for help to trace her half-sister from Nantwich that she has never met in 70 years. Diane Goodenough is keen to find out if her dad (pictured) Wilfred Ratcliffe’s daughter from a first marriage is still alive in South Cheshire.
This was the haul of rubbish found dumped under a hedge by stunned Nantwich Litter Group volunteers. Fly-tippers left a pile of garbage including wood, carpet, pans and other items under the hedge where litter pickers uncovered it.
Volunteers are needed to help collect for the annual Poppy Appeal in Nantwich. This year, The Royal British Legion is calling on people to offer two hours of their time to help make 2013 appeal the biggest ever.
RPSCA chiefs are hoping to erect warning signs around Nantwich Lake after a popular young cygnet was attacked and killed by a dog. The cygnet and its parents have been a regular attraction around the lake and riverside over the summer.
A social adventure group for the over 35s in Crewe and Nantwich, has already signed up 150 new members. Go SOUP was launched by founder Julie Hadall as a way of offering members a chance to enjoy activities they normally would not.
A baby swan witnessed by many walking near Nantwich Riverside and lake in the summer, has been killed. It’s feared the popular cygnet, the only survivor of three eggs from a nest of mating swans on Mill Island, was attacked by a dog.
Rail chiefs have apologised to Nantwich residents for testing out a new, louder level crossing alarm in the middle of the night. Families say they were woken by workmen installing and testing the alarm at the London Road crossing in Nantwich.
An award-winning country inn near Nantwich is celebrating new accolades from top national guides and publications. The Yew Tree Inn at Spurstow, Bunbury, has been voted Cheshire’s Dining Pub of the Year by the prestigious Good Pub Guide 2014.
A young cadet from Nantwich has enjoyed a Royal visit to remember after completing his Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award. William Patterson, formerly of the 100th Air Training Corps (Nantwich), was invited to meet HRH the Earl of Wessex at St James Palace.
A talk on the 1oo years of Chatwins is taking place at Nantwich Museum next month. Paul Rooney will be hosting the talk at the Pillory Street venue on Wednesday October 2.
A mural to celebrate the extension of a miniature railway line in Nantwich has been unveiled by MP Edward Timpson. The line from the Methodist Church on Hospital Street has been lengthened to link up to Morrisons supermarket car park.
A diamond ring has sold at a Nantwich auction for a staggering £108,000. The sale sets a new record for Peter Wilson antiques and art auctioneers based on Market Street, Nantwich.
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