It was chocolate heaven when more than 400 Easter eggs were delivered to youngsters across Nantwich and Crewe. Richmond Village and Sainsbury’s Nantwich staff played Easter bunny for children at The Wingate Centre, Leighton Hospital Children’s Ward and Crewe Women’s Refuge.
Roads around Nantwich were gridlocked for much of yesterday as the town’s Jazz Festival swung into its third day. A crash on the M6 motorway in the morning led to a closure between junctions 17 and 18 and thousands of vehicles using surrounding routes.
Budding bakers were crowned winners in a hotly-contested schools challenge run by Reaseheath College in Nantwich. Ten entries from 120 made it through to the final of the Year 9 Schools Bake Off Competition, held in the college’s specialist food centre in Nantwich.
The hunt is on to find the next Alan Sugar in a business start-up competition in Crewe and Nantwich. The idea, backed by South Cheshire Chamber of Commerce, targets 18-25 years olds living in a 10-mile radius of Crewe or Nantwich.
Police want to trace witnesses to an accident which left a pensioner seriously injured in Wistaston, near Nantwich. The accident happened on the A534 Crewe Road, where a blue Land Rover Discovery travelling from Nantwich area hit a pedestrian near to the junction with Laidon Avenue.
Nantwich Museum has been given a funding boost of £400 from Nantwich Rotary Club. The donation will help museum staff at the Pillory Street venue keep the facility running.
A motobility specialist from a Crewe and Nantwich car dealership has gone the extra mile – and delivered his 1,000th car. Matthew Wiltshire, who works for Gateway Peugeot Crewe, reached the impressive milestone after nine years with the company.
Peckforton Castle near Nantwich is a finalist in the Large Hotel of the Year category of the prestigious VisitEngland Awards for Excellence 2014. The venue now goes forward to the glittering awards ceremony on May 12 at Cheltenham Racecourse.
More than £5,000 has been raised for the Nantwich Town Mayor’s Charity, SSAFA. Money was raised at a number of events throughout the year, culminating in the Mayor’s charity dance at Nantwich Civic Hall, which collected more than £600.
Future business leaders at a Nantwich college have shown plenty of bottle to win the opening leg of a Young Enterprise competition. The students from Reaseheath College won with their quirky idea to recycle glass bottles by turning them into household items.
A Nantwich Town Council worker has ticked all the right boxes – after fixing the town’s Millennium Clock! The famous timepiece, in the Cocoa Yard between Pillory Street and Hospital Street, has baffled town leaders since it began stalling two years ago.
A Nantwich hypnotherapist is taking his message worldwide after featuring in the in-flight magazine for Etihad Airways. Edward Arran works from clinics in Cheshire and has Premiership footballers, TV celebrities, business professionals and mums to be among his clients.
A campaigner fighting housing developments in Nantwich fears the latest ruling by a planning inspector on Cheshire East’s 5-year supply is a “huge blow”. Pat Cullen, who heads the Protect Stapeley group, says residents have been “let down”.
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