By Jonathan White
South Cheshire continues to bask in hot weather for a few more days yet.
With temperatures around 25-26C, the region like many other parts of the UK has broken historical records for the sunniest spring since 1929, according to the Met Office.
A South Cheshire childminder has made use of time in lockdown – by writing and publishing a children’s book in aid of charity.
Hannah Malley, 23, has been unable to work due to the pandemic restrictions.
A town councillor has called for tighter restrictions on vehicles accessing Nantwich town centre amid damage to paved areas.
Cllr Carole Thomas says heavy delivery vehicles are causing damage to the pedestrianised town square, leading to more falls, trips and injuries to shoppers.
The busy A530 between Nantwich and Middlewich will close for up to four months from Monday for major railway bridge works.
Motorists are being warned of long delays to their journeys with diversion routes taking many around Crewe and back out if they want to get to Leighton Hospital.
Nantwich Market is to undergo a “phased” re-opening as lockdown restrictions ease, Nantwich Town Council was told.
Councillors and traders are hoping to be back in the market hall under Government plans to allow “non essential” shops to re-open in June.
A Nantwich resident is calling for reduced allotment opening hours to help limit disturbance to his family.
Andrew Spanton, who lives next to Brookfield Allotments, also told Nantwich Town Council he had been in a dispute over the use of bonfires on the site.
Cheshire East Council is joining other local authorities in pressing Government for additional funding to meet the rising costs of COVID-19.
It comes as the council revealed the impact of Coronavirus could already be £60 million.
Two Conservative MPs in Cheshire have spoken out about the Dominic Cummings saga which is splitting the party and angering the nation.
Kieran Mullan and Edward Timpson, MPs for Crewe & Nantwich and Eddisbury respectively, have responded after hundreds of constituents flooded their inboxes.
A councillor says he was “threatened” by angry men as took photos of an unauthorised encampment on The Vagrants in Willaston.
Cllr Allen Gage, Cheshire East for Willaston and Rope, said a number of men rounded on him when he was spotted taking pictures from a distance, one allegedly shouting “delete those, I’ll kill you”.
Nantwich residents are being urged to use the town’s police station helpdesk services now available again after lockdown measures were eased.
One of England’s few carnivorous plants has been re-introduced to Cheshire at a secret location.
The insect-eating Great Sundew (Drosera anglica), which was made extinct during World War One, was re-introduced last week, says Cheshire Wildlife Trust.
A three-year court injunction to stop unauthorised travellers accessing Barony Park in Nantwich was just weeks away before lockdown, we can reveal.
It emerged as the first unauthorised travellers of 2020 arrived on the park overnight (May 25).
Friends are staging a month-long fundraising campaign in support of a young Wistaston boy who is battling cancer for the second time in his life.
Georgy Capener was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer called Ewing Sarcoma two years ago.
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