By Jonathan White
Thousands of people turned in across Crewe and Nantwich to pay their respects on Remembrance Sunday.
Parades and services were held in both Crewe and Nantwich town centres as families remembered those who have fallen in conflict over the last 100 years.
Comedian and TV personality Alan Carr will play Crewe Lyceum Theatre during his UK tour in 2015.
The BAFTA and British Comedy Award winning comedian will be in South Cheshire on Saturday March 14.
Remembrance Day will take on a special poignancy for a governor at a primary school near Nantwich when three generations of his family mark the 100th anniversary of World War One.
Fred Wright, chair of the governors at Sound Primary, will remember the fallen, including his own uncle and nine other pupils from the small rural school.
A man from Shavington near Nantwich has been charged alongside 11 others after a series of dawn raids across Cheshire.
Two other men and a woman from Crewe weere also among the 12 people who appeared in court today (November 7) charged with conspiracy to supply controlled drugs.
A pensioner and former teacher who indecently assaulted boys at a school in South Cheshire in the 1970s, has been jailed.
Keith Cavendish-Coulson (pictured) pleaded guilty to 42 counts of indecent assault at Chester Crown Court and was today (November 6) sentenced to 6 years and 9 months.
Two South Cheshire friends are organising a charity “Moustache Bash” in aid St Luke’s Hospice.
Now Nick Hughes-Jones and Dan McGarry have issued a plea for the community to get behind them and snap up tickets for the event.
Pupils from a Nantwich school will be joining in The Last Post national initiative to honour those who died in World War One.
Malbank School and Sixth Form College will stage one of 200 community-led events between November 4 and 18 where the iconic ceremonial call will be played on different instruments.
Police are trying to trace a man from Nantwich in connection with a robbery and serious assault in Crewe.
Patrick Joesph O’Connor was last known to live at an address in King Place, Nantwich.
Nantwich retailers are teaming up to stage a one-off night of shopping to boost trade in the town.
Independent store and boutique owners are to hold “Fashion’s Night Out” in the town centre.
Councillors and villagers near Nantwich are celebrating after controversial plans for a huge slurry lagoon near homes and a school were withdrawn.
The massive lagoon was planned for land off Eastern Road between Shavington and Willaston, close to Shavington High School.
By Kirsty Rollings
Nantwich’s top eateries gathered for a celebration of the town’s Food and Drink Festival – and for the annual “Nantwich Foodies” awards.
Residence Bar and Restaurant on Mill Street hosted the awards night which unveiled the results in the public’s favourite places to drink and eat.
Nantwich’s ‘Hedgehog Champion’ has issued a plea to residents to check their bonfires before lighting them.
It follows a rise in the number of burn injuries suffered by hedgehogs that use bonfires as shelter.
A Nantwich film-maker has produced a one-off Halloween horror – with a serious message.
Ashley Dean’s The Toy Child is a psychological-horror short film exploring the tragic consequences of the breakdown of a family unit, and a battle between conscience and denial.
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