Cycling fans in Nantwich and Crewe will get to see the Tour of Britain pass through their town for the first time.
Cheshire East has secured a stage in the 2016 premier cycling event in September.
By Kirsty Rollings
Children’s Centres including one in Nantwich, look set to close after Cheshire East Council budget proposals were approved today.
Labour councillors lost a proposal to use £500,000 of government funding to keep the children’s centres open after an hour long debate.
A primary headteacher who has led her Nantwich school since it opened has announced her retirement.
Mary Hennessy Jones took over at Pear Tree Primary in Stapeley when it was built and opened on the Cronkinson development nearly 13 years ago.
Kier Construction has handed over the new £15million Lifestyle Centre in Crewe to owners Cheshire East Council.
A giant golden key was presented to Councillor Janet Clowes, Cabinet member for health and wellbeing, by Kier project manager Wayne Blair.
Police chiefs in Cheshire have bought 16 state-of-the-art speed enforcement devices to target rogue drivers in the county.
The devices are some of the most advanced compact all-in-one digital video cameras available.
Campaigners say a new study shows the wrong type of housing is being planned or built in parts of Nantwich.
An extensive report, focusing on Stapeley and Batherton, shows only 77 of 630 houses planned or built since 2010 will suit future needs of residents.
Planners have passed proposals to turn a listed Nantwich pub into houses, despite objections from councillors and residents.
The Star Inn, on Chester Road in Acton, will be converted into three residential units after Cheshire East Council approved the scheme.
Cub and beaver scouts from the 1st South West Cheshire District celebrated their 100th birthday with a cake made by Nantwich bakery students.
The celebration was doubly special for the Crewe-based group, one of the oldest in the country, as it’s also the centenary of the cub scout movement nationwide.
A unique football trophy won by Stoke United ladies in Barcelona in 1923 and lost for decades, has been snapped up at a Nantwich auction.
Now the trophy will go on permanent public display at the National Football Museum following the sale at Nantwich auctioneers Peter Wilson.
Thousands of drivers are being warned of a four-day closure of the A500 between Nantwich and the M6.
The single carriageway stretch between Meremoor roundabout at Weston and junction 16 of the motorway is set to close between 7pm and 5am next week.
RSPCA staff in Nantwich are looking for homes for three long-stay cats which they fear are being overlooked – because of their colour!
Black cats Tilly and Bernard, and black and white feline Jester, have lost out to their more colourful, younger counterparts.
Nantwich Litter Group volunteers are planning a right royal Clean for the Queen day next month.
Volunteers will fan out across the town for an hour of litter picking on March 5 after they meet at 10am in the town square.
By Jonathan White
A South Cheshire student’s Christmas lights show helped raise more than £10,000 in memory of his sister who died on New Year’s Eve.
Graham Witter, 21, set up hundreds of Christmas lights where he lives at Carters Green Cottage in Weston to raise money for the hospice which cared for his late sister Jessica.
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