By Jonathan White
The founder of the “Dabbers Dash” community event has been honoured with an unsung hero award.
Paul McIntyre received the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2024 Unsung Hero (North West) award from Richard Askam, Sports Presenter for BBC North West Tonight.
A gang has made off with £60,000 worth of items in a raid on Dagfields antiques store near Nantwich.
Police are appealing for information and witnesses following the high value burglary at the popular outlet off Crewe Road in Walgherton.
By Jonathan White
Nantwich came together for a fundraising “We Eat They Eat” event organised by Soul2soul Wellbeing to support aid efforts in Ukraine.
It was held at the Basmati Bangladeshi & Indian restaurant in Nantwich and featured a four-course meal, a fundraising auction, and a talk from Gary Fear, a volunteer aiding Ukraine.
A leading light of Nantwich’s theatrical scene celebrated her 100th birthday surrounded by family and friends.
Pat Hough, who served 36 years as President of Nantwich Players, puts her long life down to “no nibbling between meals, moderation in all things and a little bit of luck!”
Police are trying to trace a thug who shot a pet cat with an airgun in Wybunbury.
Officers say the attack happened yesterday (December 9) in the area of Howbeck Crescent in Wybunbury.
A new wine and deli bar being opened by the owner of St Martha restaurant in Nantwich is to be named “Edward’s” after her grandad!
Kelly Woodnutt wanted to honour her grandad Edward Jones by naming the new venue on Pillory Street after him.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East is jeopardising the financial stability of some town and parish councils by delaying telling them how much they will have to pay for local election costs, a councillor has said.
The decision to get the lower tier councils to stump up the costs for their local elections for the first time, was included in Cheshire East’s budget in February this year.
The clean up is underway after Storm Darragh left a trail of damage and flooding across South Cheshire this weekend.
A Flood Warning remains in place along the River Weaver in Nantwich, with levels up to 1.92m higher than normal, says the Environment Agency.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cash-strapped Cheshire East Council is looking to fill six top jobs and is prepared to pay more than £750,000 in total for the right people.
The advertisements for the top posts come at a time when the council, which is predicting a £20 million overspend at the end of this financial year, is slashing services.
A Cheshire East councillor has appealed for help after her Wybunbury home was burgled in broad daylight.
Cllr Janet Clowes, leader of the Conservatives in Cheshire East, said their garage was burgled today (December 5) between 11.05am and 2pm.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East Council has approved plans for 18 homes on the Doddington Estate near Nantwich with the ward councillor saying the revised application is an improvement on the first which was “shoddy and grossly incomplete”.
The 18-home scheme is the first of 12 applications which will be submitted for a total of 112 homes over the next decade on Doddington Estate land at Bridgemere.
A young Stapeley pupil has been chosen ahead of more than 270 entries to win MP Connor Naismith’s Christmas card competition.
Oliver Kostic, aged nine, a pupil at Stapeley Broad Lane primary school, will now see his design posted off to the Prime Minister as well as other MPs and dignitaries.
Generous Nantwich folk donated a ton of stuff at another successful “drop and go” donation event for the town’s Foodbank.
The annual event was run by the Food Festival volunteers at Brine Leas School in Nantwich.
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