Human Interest

Nantwich care home resident celebrates 104th birthday

Nantwich care home resident celebrates 104th birthday

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.

May 21, 2012
Council Foster campaign to visit Brine Leas and Nantwich Show

Council Foster campaign to visit Brine Leas and Nantwich Show

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.

May 20, 2012
Street fun will boost Nantwich visitors, town council hopes

Street fun will boost Nantwich visitors, town council hopes

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.

May 17, 2012
Two exhibitions due to close at Nantwich Museum

Two exhibitions due to close at Nantwich Museum

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.

May 16, 2012
Cheshire rescuers enter last day in search for John Lawton

Cheshire rescuers enter last day in search for John Lawton

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.

May 15, 2012
New Nantwich Mayor Cllr Graham Fenton sworn in

New Nantwich Mayor Cllr Graham Fenton sworn in

Nantwich’s new Mayor was sworn in at a ceremony in Brookfield Hall in front of dozens of people. Cllr Graham Fenton was unanimously voted in by Nantwich Town councillors to take over from outgoing Mayor Cllr Arthur Moran.

May 15, 2012
Nantwich athlete’s Miss England and Team GB hopes

Nantwich athlete’s Miss England and Team GB hopes

A young Nantwich athlete is heading for an amazing national double. Sprinter Hayley Jones hopes to qualify for Team GB’s London Olympics squad – and land a place in the finals of Miss England!

May 15, 2012
Nominations open for new Cheshire Police Commissioner post

Nominations open for new Cheshire Police Commissioner post

Nominations for the new powerful £75,000-a-year Cheshire Police and Crime Commissioner position are now open. The post-holder, elected on November 15, will be in charge of holding Cheshire Constabulary to account for the way it polices Nantwich and other towns.

May 14, 2012
Nantwich town car parks free on Jubilee Bank Holidays

Nantwich town car parks free on Jubilee Bank Holidays

All council car parking in Nantwich will be free on the Diamond Jubilee Bank Holidays. Cheshire East Council has decided to suspend car parking charges on all its carparks in Nantwich and other towns.

May 11, 2012
Stapeley Parish Council seeks new community hall team

Stapeley Parish Council seeks new community hall team

Council chiefs are looking for volunteers to help run a new community hall in Nantwich. Stapeley Parish Council is taking over the lease of the new community hall on Pear Tree Field from Cheshire East Council.

May 11, 2012
St Luke’s Hospice chief issues stark warning as donations plummet

St Luke’s Hospice chief issues stark warning as donations plummet

Exclusive Hospice chiefs in Cheshire have warned they face future cutbacks if they can’t reverse a dramatic drop in donations. St Luke’s Hospice, which treats patients from Nantwich, Crewe, Audlem, and Alsager, could see a £200,000 shortfall this year.

May 9, 2012
14 Cheshire Search and Rescue volunteers join hunt for John Lawton

14 Cheshire Search and Rescue volunteers join hunt for John Lawton

A team of 14 search and rescue volunteers from Cheshire are flying out to Greece on Friday to join the hunt for missing marathon runner John Lawton. Cheshire Search and Rescue (SAR) revealed that donations have flooded in which will help fund the trip.

May 9, 2012
Nantwich Museum to stage Diamond Jubilee poetry competition

Nantwich Museum to stage Diamond Jubilee poetry competition

Nantwich Museum have announced two poetry competitions, one for adults and one for the children of Nantwich schools. The competitions are being run as part of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations.

May 7, 2012