A Nantwich headteacher has hit out at the use of “punitive” fines for parents who take their children out of school for holidays.
Mary Hennessy Jones, head at Pear Tree Primary in Stapeley, spoke after a High Court ruling backed Isle of Wight parent Jon Platt for refusing to pay a £120 fine after he took his daughter out last year.
A teenage girl has been charged in relation to the assault of a 14-year-old boy from Nantwich.
The 15-year-old, from Crewe, was arrested on Sunday May 1 following an incident in a field off Wall Lane, near to Nantwich Pool, on Saturday April 30.
Young Nantwich artists and scribes were honoured at the town’s museum as winners of an art and handwriting competition.
A record 860 entries from nine local primary schools were received by organisers, Rotary Club of Nantwich.
Nantwich businesses are being urged to throw their weight behind Nantwich in Bloom as the town goes for gold in the national floral contest.
Britain in Bloom judges have named the town Best in the North West for the past two years and organisers of the local effort hope to make it a hat-trick this summer.
It’s hats off to bobbies on the beat in Nantwich – officers will now be wearing hard caps instead.
All Cheshire officers will now wear the unisex caps after a six-month trial in Northwich and Chester – the first force in the UK to make the chang
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A Nantwich pensioner has described the moment she thought she was going to die when a bus crashed into the glass shelter she was sitting in.
Terrified Lilian Shard, 78, was waiting at Nantwich bus station to go home to Faddiley when a double decker ploughed into the shelter.
Nantwich school pupils enjoyed a free day out at Chester Zoo – thanks to local Rotarians.
Youngsters at Nantwich Primary Academy, formerly Wyche Primary, took advantage of the Rotary Club of Nantwich’s sponsorship of the zoo’s ‘Living with Tigers’ programme.
More than 10,000 people poured into Nantwich to enjoy the carnival atmosphere of Reaseheath College’s Family Festival.
The action-packed festival, which offered hundreds of activities and displays, attracted visitors from several counties and caused a storm of appreciation on social media.
By Jonathan White
A Halloween fundraising event at a South Cheshire house helped raise more than £1,000 for the charity Marie Curie.
Richard and James Stack dressed up their garden on Holland Street, Crewe, into zones consisting of a spooky living room and a gravestone garden.
Friends, colleagues and dignitaries gathered in Nantwich to pay tribute to Cllr Arthur Moran who has served the town for 30 years.
Hundreds attended a special celebration for Cllr Moran at Nantwich Civic Hall.
Two elderly bus passengers had a lucky escape when a bus hit and destroyed a glass shelter they were in at Nantwich bus station.
The incident happened when a double decker bus was pulling in to the station on Beam Street.
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The family of an elderly dementia patient who walked out of Brookfield House care home in Nantwich, today revealed how two strangers came to her rescue.
Ben Mullock said his 81-year-old grandmother Sheila wandered out of the home on Shrewbridge Road unchallenged just hours after arriving there.
Firefighters tackled a fire at a timber yard in Wardle, Nantwich.
Crews from Nantwich, Crewe and Chester fought the fire which broke out in extraction pipes.
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