Santa’s preparing his Float and gearing up for his annual tour of Crewe and Nantwich!
As always, thousands of families will get a chance to visit him during the tour between December 3 and 18.
By Stephen Topping, local democracy reporter
The amount of rubble waste being dealt with at Cheshire East tips has fallen by 80% since a new charge was introduced.
Cheshire East Council launched a charge of £3.50 per bag for construction waste in January as part of wider changes to its recycling centres.
By Stephen Topping, local democracy reporter
The Government is set to invest more than £8 million on patching up Cheshire’s roads next year.
Cheshire East Council will receive £4,632,000 from the Department for Transport in 2019-20, while Cheshire West and Chester Council will receive £3,525,000.
Two people who died in a horror smash on the A530 near Nantwich have been named as John and Rosemary Patterson, from Nantwich.
The couple were travelling on Whitchurch Road in their black Citroen C4 when it was in collision with a DAF box van.
By Jonathan White
Simon Weston CBE unveiled the new crest of the new national memorial engine at Crewe Heritage Centre.
The Welsh Guardsman became a national hero after surviving an attack on his ship the ‘Sir Galahad’ during the Falklands War and overcoming his devastating burn injuries.
Cheshire East Council has launched an action plan to maximise the potential benefits of an enhanced HS2 hub station at Crewe.
Called the Crewe station hub area action plan, it aims to support the growth and regeneration opportunities for the town and wider South Cheshire region.
Thousands of people packed in to Nantwich town centre today to pay tribute to those who died in war on the centenary of Armistice Day.
Crowds watched a parade of cadets, veterans, emergency services and dignitaries which arrived at the town square from the Civic Hall.
This rare silver fox has been admitted to the RSPCA wildlife centre in Stapeley, Nantwich, after being found in a Cheshire garden.
The animal was roaming in a garden in Dunnocksfold Road, Alsager, shocking the homeowner.
Reaseheath College students in Nantwich commemorated the 100th anniversary of the World War One Armistice with poignant displays of what the significant anniversary means to them.
Activities across college culminated with a display of 1,400 crosses made by construction students and laid out by countryside students on the college’s main lawn to spell the words ‘Thank You’.
By Stephen Topping, local democracy reporter
North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) is £7 million short of the investment needed to bring its performance up to scratch, an independent consultant has said.
The NHS trust – which runs the ambulance service in Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside – has been working on a performance improvement plan since January 2018.
A bench to commemorate the end of World War One has been placed in Nantwich Cemetery.
Crewe Men in Sheds presented a similar bench to Orbitas Bereavement Services in July this year to be placed in Crewe Cemetery, in memory of those who lost their lives at the Manchester Arena.
A Memory Walk held along the Riverside in Nantwich helped raise almost £400 for Alzheimer’s Society.
The event was organised by the Home Instead Senior Care Crewe, and involved caregivers, office staff, friends and family, and Crewe & Nantwich MP Laura Smith.
Nantwich has scooped another Gold medal at this week’s North West in Bloom awards ceremony.
Delighted town councillors hailed the achievement and praised scores of volunteers and businesses involved.
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