By Jonathan White
Scores of teams battled it out at the 36th World Worm Charming Championships in Willaston, near Nantwich.
The championships saw participants in each of the 144 plots battling for 30 minutes to collect as many worms as possible from a 3×3 metre piece of land.
The Wingate Children’s Centre in Wrenbury has received a massive funding boost of more than £12,000 from Sainsbury’s Nantwich.
A cheque for £12,495 was presented to the centre at the end of its period as the supermarket’s chosen charity.
Thousands of pupils and parents gathered at the Barony Park in Nantwich for another successful Town Sports event.
More than 30 primary schools across Crewe and Nantwich took part in the competition, now one of the highlights on the yearly calendar.
A campaign to save and relocate Nantwich Signal Box has been boosted by a potential new site.
Bosses at Nantwich Marina have now come forward with a proposal to move the structure to their site near Nantwich Aqueduct, off the A534 Acton Road.
Historic Doddington Hall near Nantwich could be turned into a luxury 5-star hotel by owners, the Delves-Broughton family.
Plans submitted to Cheshire East include restoring and converting the grade 1 listed hall off the A51 into a 120-room hotel, creating 60 new jobs.
Customers at Salvation Army Trading Company Ltd’s (SATCoL) charity shop in Nantwich have helped raise £3,625 in a month.
It comes after shoppers agreed to Gift Aid their donations in SATCol stores around the region in May.
A Nantwich car park will soon be home to electric vehicle charging points.
It comes after Cheshire East Council secured a government grant to provide recharging points for road users.
Housing provider Wulvern is to close its office in Nantwich because of a drop in numbers using it.
The organisation has announced it is to close two town centre offices, one in Crewe and the one in Nantwich, from July 24.
A have-a-go hero chased down three teenage yobs he caught burgling a Nantwich care home for people suffering dementia.
Furious Greg Tudor was stunned when he saw the crooks leaping over the boundary wall of Clarendon Court care home, in Stapeley, carrying a stolen TV set.
Wyche Primary School is to be renamed as Nantwich Primary Academy.
The new name is part of the re-branding of the Manor Road school after a failed Ofsted report 12 months ago.
The new Miss Cheshire Natasha Hemmings has been promoting her bid to be crowned Miss England.
Natasha, from Wychwood Park near Nantwich, was in Crewe Tesco to raise awareness of her charity BWP and bag packing to raise money ahead of the Miss England Finals.
The Overwater Wheelyboat is due to launch on The Shropshire Union Canal this week.
The boat, to operate from the Overwater Marina near Nantwich, will provide free trips to disabled children and adults.
Nantwich Museum manager Kate Dobson has turned the venue ‘green’ by slashing energy bills and eliminating waste.
That was the key message at the annual general meeting of Nantwich Museum Trust Ltd, on Pillory Street.
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