An art thief who stole an 18th century icon from Chester Cathedral and replaced it with an angel figure, has been jailed.
Vasily Apilats, 61, from Edleston Road, Crewe, was jailed for nine months after previously being found guilty of stealing “The Raising of Lazarus” in Chester in August 2014.
Families across Nantwich and Crewe are facing a 4.99% hike in Cheshire East Council Tax bills, it has emerged.
The whopping rise comes as the authority revealed it has to find £100 million of savings by 2020.
Visually impaired people in Nantwich are being encouraged to apply for free specially adapted radios from a charity.
British Wireless for the Blind Fund (BWBF) provides the equipment to those with sight loss who meet its criteria.
A South Cheshire councillor and UKIP supporter wants ‘rigorous vetting’ similar to Donald Trump’s controversial US travel ban on seven Muslim countries.
Cllr Brian Silvester, from Willaston, believes it should be the UK’s top priority to “address the Islamist threat”.
A Nantwich children’s charity has received a funding boost from a local house builder.
Wingate Children’s Centre, in Wrenbury, which uses sport to help children with physical or learning disabilities, is offering improved gymnastics lessons.
The RSPCA wildlife centre in Nantwich is thanking supermarket customers for donating £5,000 worth of pet food in just 12 months.
Sainsbury’s, on Middlewich Road, has a drop-off point in the store for people to donate cat and dog food to Stapeley Grange Wildlife Centre & Cattery.
Two men had a miracle escape from this wreckage after a car ploughed off the A534 near Nantwich and into a tree.
But Cheshire Police issued a warning after the incident in Bulkeley after arresting the driver on suspicion of drink driving.
Nantwich Museum has achieved full accreditation under the Arts Council England scheme.
The scheme sets nationally agreed standards for UK museums.
Nantwich community projects are to benefit from £20,000 of funding to boost local health.
Ten community projects shared the pot from Cheshire East Council after an event at Nantwich Civic Hall saw groups pitch their ideas and receive a public vote.
Fire crews have warned families in Crewe and Nantwich after 12 fires involving tumble dryers in just three months in Cheshire.
Two fires happened in one day in the latest incidents, one in Crewe and one in Ellesmere Port, on January 17-18.
An inquest into the tragic death of a dementia sufferer who wandered out of a Nantwich care home, will take place before a jury in May.
Roy Tomlinson, 83, died on February 4 last year after going missing from Brookfield House care home on Shrewbridge Road.
Alvaston Hall Hotel in Nantwich has been closed after staff and guests were hit by a major sickness bug.
The luxury complex, off Middlewich Road, is now closed temporarily after dozens were struck down by sickness and diarrhoea.
South Cheshire College students have embarked on a moving visit to Auschwitz for the fifth year running.
Four students travelled to Poland to learn more about the horrors of World War II’s Holocaust through Nazi concentration camps.
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