Householders in Nantwich and Crewe face a further 2.99% rise on the Council Tax bills from April, it has been agreed.
Cheshire East Council says the rise is needed to help fund more frontline services.
By Stephen Topping
Crewe and Nantwich MP Laura Smith, a former teacher, has spoken up on the “urgent need” for extra education funding.
Ms Smith, who used to teach at a school in Winsford, was elected in 2017’s General Election after playing a leading role in the fairer schools funding for Cheshire East campaign.
A cat who went missing from her family home five years ago has now been reunited with her owner thanks to RSPCA staff in Nantwich.
Lucy, a black and white short haired cat, went missing from her home in Crewe in 2014.
Police have launched an investigation into suspected illegal fox hunting near Nantwich after a fox was found dead.
Officers say they received reports of a fox being killed at a hunt on land at Hack Green, near Nantwich, at around 3pm today (February 5).
A South Cheshire woman who deliberately ran over two other women as part of a revenge attack has been jailed.
Kim Venables, of Elizabeth Street, Crewe, was sentenced to nine years and nine months in prison at Chester Crown Court yesterday (February 4).
By Stephen Topping, local democracy reporter
Officers in charge of buying healthcare across the borough have spoken out against the ‘scale of savings proposed’ in Cheshire East Council’s next budget.
The local authority ran its pre-budget consultation for 2019-20 last autumn, and revised proposals will be put before councillors later this month to be signed off.
A man had to be cut free from his car today after a smash off the A51 near Nantwich closed the road.
The incident happened at around 11.45am and involved one vehicle on the busy route close to Reaseheath College.
A teenage girl was arrested after Cheshire Police scrambled a helicopter during a car chase in Nantwich.
Officers were called after reports of a vehicle taken from an address in South Cheshire at around 12.48pm yesterday (February 3).
By Stephen Topping
An ambulance service has been handed extra funding to provide non-emergency transport for South Cheshire patients – less than a year after it agreed to end its original contract.
South Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group will be one of six in Cheshire, Warrington and the Wirral to benefit after a new five-year contract to West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS), which begins on April 1.
By Jonathan White
Highfields Academy in Nantwich hosted their second annual Chinese New Year Fireworks event at their school on Cumberland Avenue.
A line of firecrackers was lit prior to the fireworks to “ward off evil spirits”.
A gun has been found by a man walking his dog in Crewe, say police.
The handgun was hidden in an alleyway between McNeill Avenue and Barnabas Avenue.
A five-person delegation from Dzierzoniow in Poland visited Nantwich to formalise the Friendship Agreement between the two towns.
The agreement was first put in place by the demised Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council back in 2005.
New generation safety cameras are being installed at junctions in Cheshire to reduce the number and severity of collisions in the county.
The roadside cameras detect vehicles that go through red lights as well as those that break the speed limit at junctions.
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