A family-run apiary in South Cheshire and a Nantwich gin company are proving a tasty team!
Crewe-based Buckley’s Bees, which cares for bees and produces honey, is providing this sweet ingredient for Three Wrens Gin and its new award-winning drink.
By Jonathan White
A charity auction in memory of a popular Crewe Vagrants hockey player helped to raise almost £2,000 for cancer.
Crewe Vagrants held a mixed Veterans Hockey Tournament and Charity Auction earlier this year in memory of Sarah Knight “Greenie”.
A hedgehog’s horrific death has prompted a warning from RSPCA in Nantwich about the dangers of carelessly discarding fishing tackle.
The juvenile hedgehog was taken to RSPCA Stapeley Grange Wildlife Centre on London Road after he was found entangled in a fishing line in a Nantwich garden by a member of the public on October 2.
Organisers of Nantwich Food Festival have been honoured with an award from the High Sheriff of Cheshire, Jeannie France-Hayhurst.
The special award to the entire Nantwich Food Festival Family was presented to recognise “their exceptional service to the community”.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East councillors have narrowly approved a new code of conduct despite opposition from nearly half the council because it doesn’t include a right of appeal against complaints.
Conservative councillors had called for the matter to be deferred, saying the working group set up to look into the new code hadn’t completed its work.
Cheshire East Council’s revised planning policy for the borough has been declared “sound” by an independent planning inspector.
The draft plan, known as the site allocation and development policy document (SADPD), outlines changes following various consultations with residents and local councils.
A Nantwich student has secured her first illustration deal for a children’s book while studying her A levels!
Amelia Hatt, a year 13 student at Malbank Sixth Form, has agreed the deal with Candy Jar Books.
Town centre roads in Nantwich were re-opened today after an 18-week closure to allow for footway improvement works.
But the planned re-surfacing of Beam Street, as pledged in the initial Cheshire East Council scheme, have so far not taken place.
South Cheshire employer Bakkavor has teamed up with Chance Changing Lives to provide meals for the community amid the cost-of-living crisis.
Bakkavor Pizza and Bread Crewe has provided around 6,500 flatbreads to four food redistribution partner charities – Chance Changing Lives, The Port Vale Hubb, The Salvation Army Stoke and Irons Foods Banks.
A Nantwich floral designer is coming up roses after being accepted as a full member of the exclusive Good Florist Guide.
Jacqui O is the latest to hit the gold standard of floristry joining the only merit-based guide in the world for florists.
Aldi bosses say they are looking to recruit to around 330 new jobs in Cheshire ahead of the festive period.
The supermarket chain – with stores in Nantwich and Crewe – says it is gearing up for its biggest-ever Christmas.
By Jonathan White
A Nantwich man has won an award for his hand-built scale-model of a ‘Crewe Tractor’.
Gerald Newbrook, 77, from Blakelow, has based his model on the Crewe Tractor which was originally made in Crewe Locomotive works in 1916 and 1917.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East Council has secured more than £150,000 from the government to install electric vehicle charging points in its towns.
Work is expected to start on installing the infrastructure in towns across the borough within the next few months.
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