Rail fans were treated to a rare sight today when the historic Blue Peter engine passed through Nantwich Station.
The historic locomotive was witnessed pulling the “Welsh Marches Express” to Cardiff.
Officers probing serious offences alleged to have involved members of a religious group called the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light, have arrested a number of people.
Cheshire Police were made aware of allegations of serious sexual offences, forced marriage and modern slavery, reported to have taken place in the group based in Crewe in 2023.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Peak Cluster could disrupt Cheshire East’s housing plans across a large part of the borough and run next to a primary school near Nantwich.
The proposed scheme aims to capture harmful carbon dioxide from cement and lime plants in Derbyshire and Staffordshire and transfer it by pipeline to a storage facility under the Irish Sea.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East’s planning system has come under fire again – this time from a resident at a public meeting who questioned the ‘transparency and fairness of the process’.
David Teal was speaking at a meeting of the northern planning committee about an application for one house on land at Bollington.
Dozens of bikers are set to pay tribute to a Nantwich dad at his funeral this week.
Kerie O’Donnell tragically died after a collision on the A530 Middlewich Road near Wistaston last month.
Nantwich Walking Football Club have raised more than £150 for the White Ribbon charity at a special curry night.
Two club members Kate Rose and Nicky Glover put their culinary skills to the test to provide a tasty post-match curry dinner served to fellow players at the Vagrants clubhouse in Willaston.
Nantwich Show officials have paid tribute to the event’s oldest sponsor as tickets for this year’s farming extravaganza get set to go on sale early May.
Breakfast food company Mornflake has been behind the show for more than 50 years and returns to the Reaseheath College showground on July 29 as a headline sponsor of the event’s Artisan Market.
Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cash-strapped Cheshire East is remaining tight-lipped over how much extra it is costing to employ interim bosses to top posts because it hasn’t been able to recruit permanent staff.
The council has haemorrhaged bosses over the past couple of years – including assistant chief executive Dami Awobajo who left in June last year, just three months after being appointed.
This was the scene after a driver lost control and ploughed their car into the side of a busy pub near Nantwich.
The incident happened at the Royal Oak pub on Main Road in Worleston.
Essential works to make Baddington Bridge safe for heavy goods vehicles on the A530 near Nantwich look set to go ahead – but could take up to nine months to complete.
It’s believed the cost of planned structural works could set Cheshire East Council back between £300,000 and £400,000.
A Cheshire man has been jailed for 11 years for raping a teenage girl in Nantwich back in 2019.
Guy Ashton (pictured) was found guilty following a trial two months ago at Liverpool Crown Court.
A huge fire which badly damaged a turkey farm in Nantwich killing 3,000 birds was an accident, early investigations suggest.
The blaze ripped through one of the large barns at the farm next door to Alvaston Hall Hotel, off Peach Lane, Nantwich, on Sunday (April 19th).
A new photographic exhibition at Nantwich Museum will celebrate the design, character and heritage of Nantwich railway station’s Victorian footbridge.
Nantwich Museum is set to host ‘Across the Tracks: The Art of Nantwich Station Footbridge’, a temporary photographic exhibition running from June 9th-20th in the Community Gallery.
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