Ministers have agreed to delay the second of HS2 between Crewe and Birmingham amid soaring costs for the controversial high speed railway.
Transport Secretary Mark Harper said they will now prioritise the opening section, which means the completion and opening of Phase 2a to Crewe could be delayed by up to two years.
Cheshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner dropped in on Jabbin Dabber boxing club in Nantwich to find out how the Community Action Fund grant had been spent.
Owners Simon and Claire Jones were awarded the funds to create a safe space for local young people to keep active.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Plans for a purpose-built history centre to house the Cheshire archives on the site of the old Crewe Library have been recommended for approval.
The proposals are part of a Cheshire-wide project, ‘Cheshire’s Archives: a story shared’, which is being funded by Cheshire East Council, Cheshire West and Chester Council, and the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
Stagecoach says it will run the Chester to Crewe via Nantwich bus service amid Arriva’s plan to end the route.
Arriva announced last week it was set to close its Winsford and Macclesfield depots and stop running a range of bus routes, including the 84.
The North West Academies Trust has been appointed as the sponsor for the new 210-pupil primary school in Nantwich.
The one form entry primary school, due to open in autumn 2024 subject to planning approval, will be on the Kingsbourne development where there will eventually be 1,100 new homes.
More than 90% of parent and carers in Cheshire East have received their first secondary school preference choice, the council says.
Around 5,200 applications were received, an increase from just over 5,000 in 2022, from parents whose children will be moving up to secondary school in September 2023.
These amazing photographs show the last time Coronation celebrations took place in Nantwich – 70 years ago!
Now aged 92, Reg “Derrick” Oakes was in his 20s when he was involved in Queen Elizabeth’s Coronation in 1953.
Thousands of visitors enjoyed a Springtime experience at Reaseheath College’s Lambing and Zoo Weekend in Nantwich, making it the most successful yet.
The sell-out event, which is being repeated this coming weekend (March 11-12), attracted 2,500 visitors each day.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
The Health and Safety Executive has been called in to investigate how workers botched a felling attempt and sent a tree crashing across a busy Crewe road.
The two were caught on video chopping down the tree, which then crashed across West Street, blocking the road and narrowly missing a passing car.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East Council is owed more than £7 million by residents and companies who haven’t settled their debts after being invoiced more than six months ago.
Figures in a report to next week’s meeting of the finance sub-committee reveal the majority of this – £5.7m – relates to adult social care sundry debt.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Residents whose properties are damaged by Cheshire East trees are left at the mercy of the council’s insurers who then stonewall them, a councillor has claimed.
Councillor Les Gilbert (Con) asked the highways committee to defer adopting its new policy for highway tree maintenance and inspections.
Game and wildlife students at Reaseheath College in Nantwich have joined a project to build and install nesting tubes for mallard ducks.
The mallard, once the UK’s commonest wild duck, has seen its numbers drop over recent years and it is now on the Birds of Conservation Concern Amber list if concern for the species.
Three men and a teenager have been arrested by police in two separate drugs raids at properties in Crewe, Cheshire Police said.
A 29-year-old man was arrested by officers and a quantity of illegal drugs seized in the latest raid on Billington Road, at around 12am yesterday (March 2).
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