Marks & Spencer is committed to a new store in Nantwich, a town councillor confirmed. Cllr Arthur Moran said the retail giant is to open a new food outlet on the old Beam Street health centre site behind Nantwich Library, despite rumours M&S had pulled out of the development.
A Nantwich farm outlet welcomed more than 3,000 visitors during their “Big Taste” weekend. Cheerbrook, off Newcastle Road, Stapeley, staged the event to give visitors a taste of the best food and drinks produced locally.
Among the nine Olympic Torchbearers who carried the Flame through Crewe today were three homegrown residents. Nantwichnews contributors captured them with these great pictures during their historic journeys around the town.
Hundreds of Nantwich children, teachers and parents crammed into the town square to mark the start of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations. They danced and sang to music, listened to speeches by dignitaries and watched as a special floral beacon was lit up.
Thousands have braved the rain this morning to cheer on the Olympic Torch along the streets of Crewe. This picture sent in by Nantwichnews reader Craig Buckley shows the torch along Edleston Road during its journey through South Cheshire at around 8.15am today (May 31).
The family of a 33-year-old chef who died in a collision near Nantwich have paid tribute to him. Mark Stolworthy (pictured) was driving his blue Suzuki Baleno along the B5074 Main Road from Church Minshull to Nantwich when it happened.
Leading autism campaigner Kevin Healey is to carry the Olympic in Crewe on May 31. Kevin, of Newcastle-under-Lyme, founded two autism charities in Staffordshire and set up UK Autism Radio UK.
Nantwich in Bloom is to unveil a unique Flaming Floral Beacon as part of the town’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations. The floral tribute will be placed in the bed behind the Cenotaph in Nantwich town square, said Nantwich in Bloom coordinator Doug Butterill.
Staff at a Nantwich care home staged a birthday celebration when one of their residents turned 104! Kathleen Haighton reached the incredible milestone at Richmond Village Nantwich, on St Joseph’s Way.
A Cheshire East Council team is to stage two events in Nantwich in a bid to boost the number of foster carers. The team will be at Brine Leas High School in June and at the Nantwich Show in July to highlight the You Can Foster campaign.
Nantwich Town Counil is hoping to welcome visitors to the town with a programme of street entertainment this summer. Councillors and retailers hope the events will enhance the shopping experience in the town centre.
The “Paintings and Drawings of Dorothy Bradford” exhibition in Nantwich Museum ends on Saturday May 26. It illustrates the favourite subjects of the artist who lived in the town in the later years of her life before she died in 2008, aged 90.
Cheshire Search and Rescue volunteers are entering their final day in the hunt for missing marathon runner John Lawton. Fifteen members of the Cheshire SAR team have been out in Greece for five days to boost the search for the 62-year-old from Alsager.
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