A former student Cheshire police officer has been jailed for 25 years for raping a teenage girl in Crewe just after he clocked off duty.
Ian Naude was today (December 13) sentenced to 30 years (25 years custodial and five years on licence) following a hearing at Liverpool Crown Court.
Richmond Village Nantwich teamed up with one of the country’s newest Rotary Clubs for a “Who’s wine is it anyway” night and raised £1,800 for Nantwich Foodbank.
Wyche-Malbank Nantwich Rotary Club was formed in the summer, after being founded by two members of staff from the retirement village, Lynne Griffin and Nicola Jackson.
By Stephen Topping, local democracy reporter
Residents are calling on police and the fire service to make sure their new home does not cause traffic and parking problems.
Plans are in the pipeline for the existing fire station, in Macon Way, to be knocked down and replaced by a new station for both firefighters and the police – who are set to move from Civic Centre.
South Cheshire bar firm Beer Dock is raffling off a signed guitar of the late Pete Shelley, to raise funds for local Foodbanks.
Sam McGarrigle, who runs Beer Dock with shops in Crewe and Nantwich, remembered he had the guitar stored away after Buzzcocks frontman Shelley died aged 63 last week.
A man had to be cut free from wreckage after an accident on the busy A51 in Nantwich.
The accident happened on the stretch of road near to the Alvaston roundabout at around 5.30pm last night (December 11)
Big-hearted Nantwich methodist Richard Fox swapped his birthday gifts for donations – and raised £660 for the dementia appeal.
Richard, a member of Nantwich Broad Lane Methodist Chapel, decided to ask his friends and family to donate to the “Everybody Knows Somebody – dementia appeal” instead of buying him birthday presents.
Pupils in Nantwich cooked up a great idea to raise funds for charity when they staged their own Great British Bake Off contest!
Young bakers at Highfields Academy wowed judges with a stunning array of painstakingly decorated cakes and biscuits.
Four teenage boys from Crewe who brought misery to the lives of residents have been punished for their actions.
The 15-year-old ringleader of the group, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has been sentenced to four months at a youth detention and training centre.
By Stephen Topping, local democracy reporter
Independent councillors in Cheshire East are stepping up the fight to change the way the local authority is run.
Thousands of residents have already signed a petition launched by the group, which includes long-serving Nantwich North and West Cllr Arthur Moran.
By Jonathan White
Cheeky garden gnomes in Wistaston who were targeted by vandals, have made a triumphant return to the village.
Residents were furious when popular pensioner Laurence Perry had 25 of his gnomes smashed or stolen from his Westfield Drive garden and land at the front of his property.
A landmark international deal has been signed to open a new health science campus on the Manchester Metropolitan University site in Crewe.
The facility on the 40-acre Crewe campus currently used by MMU will host UK and international students from September 2019, offering degrees in Biomedical Sciences and Podiatry.
By Stephen Topping, local democracy reporter
Councils have handed over £2.9 million to help health services run smoothly in mid and south Cheshire this winter.
NHS Vale Royal and South Cheshire clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), the bodies which buy healthcare in the area, have received the cash as part of a £240 million pot made available by the Government in October for adult social care services.
Nantwich Town councillors have vowed to fight Cheshire East Council’s plans to increase car park charges in the town.
They say that Nantwich – and neighbouring Crewe – are being treated unfairly with some of the highest parking charges in the borough.
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