Around 150 people were evacuated today after a large blaze ripped through a retirement home in Crewe.
No one is believed to have been hurt in the incident which happened at the residential complex on Rolls Avenue.
By Stephen Topping, local democracy reporter
Councillors have allowed 21 homes to be built in a patch of Nantwich countryside because the site is now surrounded by a major housing estate.
Cheshire East Council’s southern planning committee gave the green light for the development at Fields Farm, off Queens Drive, at today’s (August 7) meeting.
By Stephen Topping, local democracy reporter
The new chief executive at Leighton Hospital believes there must be a cash boost for its A&E – or it will stop being fit for purpose.
James Sumner, who began in the role at Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust last Monday, addressed his first board of directors meeting a week later.
By Stephen Topping, local democracy reporter
Urgent action is being demanded to prevent unauthorised traveller sites springing up at Barony Park in Nantwich – after it was hit by its 10th encampment this year.
By Stephen Topping, local democracy reporter
A much-needed recruitment drive for new nurses in Cheshire is beginning to bear fruit.
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is expecting to have welcomed 40 nurses from India by the end of the year – more than double the number it previously expected to hire.
By Stephen Topping, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East Cabinet councillors insist plans for a transit site at Cledford Hall are “not yet set in stone” and they will listen to what residents think.
Sue Goodwin, owner of the Tea Chest Café in Nantwich Market, has hung up her apron for the last time.
Sue has been running the café for more than 12 years.
By Stephen Topping, local democracy reporter
Disabled staff at Mid Cheshire Hospitals are more likely to be harassed or abused in work than their non-disabled colleagues, new figures have revealed.
Stapeley Grange RSPCA staff are appealing for washing liquid appeal after influx of
oiled birds into the Nantwich centre.
They need the liquid to treat up to 20 geese which were admitted after getting covered in dumped oil in a river canal.
One of Nantwich’s oldest pubs, The Black Lion, has closed down and staff made redundant, it has emerged.
By Stephen Topping, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East Council’s top finance officer insists the authority balanced risk with reward when deciding to buy Crewe’s B&Q for more than £20 million.
The chairman of Reaseheath College in Nantwich has been awarded an honorary graduate by Keele University.
David Pearson has more than 40 years’ experience of working in the NHS both locally and internationally.
Cheeses produced by apprentices and industry delegates at Reaseheath College won a haul of awards at Nantwich’s International Cheese Show, proving cheeses manufactured locally are among the best in the world.
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