Community leaders are calling on Nantwich residents to back plans to reintroduce a direct bus service between the town and Leighton Hospital.
Cheshire East proposals include restructuring the existing 70, 72 and 73 bus services between Nantwich, Wrenbury and Audlem, and cutting sections to make possible a new direct link to Leighton Hospital.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Head teachers impacted by Cheshire East Council’s decision to scrap its school meals service should consider a not-for-profit model such as one which operates in Liverpool, a Crewe councillor said.
The council’s loss-making catering service is due to close next April, leaving 87 schools looking for alternative providers.
Cheshire East Council has elected its new mayor for the borough.
Councillor Marilyn Houston, who represents Crewe West, was handed the chain of office by outgoing mayor Rod Fletcher as part of the ceremony in the Tenants’ Hall at Tatton Park.
A number of Nantwich residents have united to devise a plan to safeguard the River Weaver in the town.
“The Weaver Steering Group” has been formed at the initiative of town councillor Anna Burton and will report to Nantwich Town Council.
A damning Ofsted report has rated Cheshire East Council’s children’s services “inadequate” and “requiring improvement” across a range of problems.
The report follows an inspection carried out between February 26 and March 8 this year.
Cheshire East Council could be discriminating against older people with its plans to make all but one car parks in Nantwich cashless.
That was the claim made at Nantwich Town Council, as they discussed CEC’s bid to make all car parks cashless apart from Snow Hill.
Dan Price has today taken office and started his four-year term as Cheshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC).
Mr Price won a three-horse race to be elected as the new PCC last week, bagging an annual salary of around £78,000.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Nantwich nightclub The Studio has been given permission to extend its opening hours on Fridays and Saturdays to 4.30am despite objections from some nearby residents.
The Studio, on Castle Street, currently has permission to open until 3.30am Monday to Saturday and until 2.30am on Sundays.
Rural bus services around Nantwich could be cut under new plans unveiled by Cheshire East Council.
But a direct service from the town to Leighton Hospital looks set to be reinstated if the proposals go ahead.
New mobile household waste recycling centres (HWRCs) are being considered by Cheshire East Council amid plans to revamp its service.
The staffed mobile centres would visit “public spaces” once a month around the borough.
Labour candidate Dan Price has won the election to become Cheshire’s next Police and Crime Commissioner.
Mr Price, a former Warrington councillor, won 48.1% of the votes, polling 86,279.
The completion of the long-running and often criticised road infrastructure works around Leighton Hospital will not be finished until at least July.
Cheshire East Council confirmed today that the North West Crewe Package highways scheme is in the final stages of works.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cash-strapped Cheshire East Council could be looking to close four of its libraries to cut costs, campaigners fear.
It is feared that the libraries at Alderley Edge, Bollington, Disley and Handforth are all under threat of closure from next year.
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