One of the longest serving members of staff at St Luke’s Hospice is retiring after 30 years of dedicated service.
Dr Kate Smith has spent decades improving end of life care for people in Crewe and Nantwich area and has touched the lives of hundreds of families during her career.
By Stephen Topping
From rescuing oxygen-starved fish in the River Weaver to a freshwater jellyfish in the Shropshire Union Canal – the Environment Agency has been pretty busy this summer.
Tucked away on an industrial estate in Winsford, the team is working around the clock to keep Cheshire’s waterways safe for wildlife.
A man has been arrested after a broad daylight street brawl in Nantwich town centre, police confirm.
The incident happened on Waterlode, close to the swimming baths and Harrisons bar at the junction with Welsh Row and High Street.
A motorcyclist has died in a collision on Main Road in Worleston, Nantwich.
Officers from the roads policing unit are appealing for witnesses to the collision between a car and a motorcyclist on the B5074.
By Jonathan White
Charity pals Roy Price and Ian Jones are set to push their fund-raising wheelbarrow up Snowdon!
Roy, 51, and Ian, 46, both from Crewe, pushed their 100kg wheelbarrow to a staggering £2,700 when they walked 14-mile from Crewe to Nantwich and back.
By Stephen Topping
The number of patients waiting more than 18 weeks for treatment at Leighton Hospital or Victoria Infirmary has almost quadrupled in 12 months.
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which owns and runs both sites, has revealed that 1,011 patients were waiting longer than 18 weeks for treatment following referrals to its hospitals in June 2018 – compared to just 271 in June 201
Town councillors in Nantwich say CCTV is effective in the town after five teenagers were caught on camera vandalising flowers and plants.
Nantwich Police officers were able to identify and trace the youths from the CCTV images catching them in the act in the town square and Pepper Street.
By Stephen Topping
Hundreds of Leighton Hospital patients are still failing to be seen within four hours at A&E as it deals with more people than last summer.
Figures shown at a Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust board meeting revealed patients waited to be seen at A&E on 1,473 occasions in June – compared to 437 times in the same month last year.
Four people have appeared at Crewe Magistrates charged in connection with a £20 million drugs haul found in vehicle on the M6 in Cheshire.
Three men and one woman, all from Warrington area, have been remanded in custody to appear at Chester Crown Court on August 31.
A former kickboxing champion has unveiled plans for a star-studded charity boxing night at Nantwich Civic Hall raising cash for causes close to his heart.
It will be a big night for South Cheshire businessman Ken Lawton who is returning to the ring almost 30 years since he won the British Light Heavyweight Kickboxing Championship.
A massive haul of Class A drugs worth around £20 million has been seized in Cheshire, police have revealed.
Officers stopped two vehicles between Junction 19 and 20 on the M6 northbound in Cheshire.
Visitors to Nantwich Lake may have encountered a more unusual inhabitant in recent days.
For this little terrapin is now resident at the popular beauty spot among the ducks, swans and fish.
Primary pupils in Crewe and Nantwich have helped Cheshire East achieve improved end of key stage results in 2018.
From the end of the Early Years Foundation Stage through to the end of Key Stage 2, schools across the borough have produced outcomes where 18 out of the 21 national indicators have improved in 2018 compared to last year.
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