Aston & Wrenbury

Nantwich teenager turns Brine Leas project into a life-saver!

Nantwich teenager turns Brine Leas project into a life-saver!

A Nantwich teenager is doing a school project with a difference – to save lives.

Brine Leas Academy student Harrison Lunt is taking an Extended Project Qualification to fund more life-saving defibrillators for his fellow pupils and staff.

January 12, 2015
A530 Whitchurch Road in Aston to close for 10 days

A530 Whitchurch Road in Aston to close for 10 days

One of the busiest roads in and out of Nantwich is to close for 10 days so engineers can remove two manholes.

The A530 Whitchurch Road, in Aston, will be shut to all traffic when the project starts in February.

December 22, 2014
Charity seeks volunteers to be ‘lifelines’ in Nantwich villages

Charity seeks volunteers to be ‘lifelines’ in Nantwich villages

A charity has launched a recruitment drive to find volunteers to work in villages near Nantwich, including Wrenbury, Wybunbury, and Bunbury.

Cheshire Community Action wants new volunteers to work with a team of Community Agents.

December 17, 2014
Wrenbury Art group member’s painting features in major exhibition

Wrenbury Art group member’s painting features in major exhibition

An amateur painter from Nantwich has one of his works on display at a major exhibition.

Martin Bale, a member of Wrenbury Art Group, has seen his painting called “The Joy of Dolphins” accepted into this year’s Three Counties Art Exhibition at Keele University.

December 17, 2014
Round Table Santa’s Float set for busy Nantwich schedule

Round Table Santa’s Float set for busy Nantwich schedule

Father Christmas will be out and about as Santa’s Float visits Nantwich and surrounding villages over the next 10 days.

The Crewe & Nantwich Round Table Christmas Float will be visiting streets across South Cheshire to help raise money for local causes.

December 6, 2014
Thousands in Nantwich and Crewe attend Remembrance Sunday services

Thousands in Nantwich and Crewe attend Remembrance Sunday services

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.

November 9, 2014
Nantwich school governor’s special Remembrance Day tribute

Nantwich school governor’s special Remembrance Day tribute

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.

November 7, 2014
Wingate Centre in Wrenbury donated £1,600 from Sainsbury’s cheese!

Wingate Centre in Wrenbury donated £1,600 from Sainsbury’s cheese!

Staff at Wingate Children’s Centre in Wrenbury have cheesy smiles – thanks to Nantwich Sainsbury’s!

The Middlewich Road store has just donated all the proceeds from sales it made at its Nantwich Show stall.

October 29, 2014
Animal cruelty charges dropped against Nantwich abattoir owners

Animal cruelty charges dropped against Nantwich abattoir owners

Animal cruelty charges against directors of a Nantwich abattoir have been dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service due to insufficient evidence.

The decision comes just four weeks after a separate investigation into alleged horse passports irregularities at the same Red Lion abattoir was abandoned for the same reason.

October 27, 2014
Pub and bakery team up for new Farmers Market in Bunbury

Pub and bakery team up for new Farmers Market in Bunbury

A pub and bakery business are teaming up to hold regular Farmers Market and Craft Fairs in Bunbury, near Nantwich.

Tom Morrison, who runs Berry Fresh Bakery in Wrenbury, is helping to organise the event to be staged at the award-winning Yew Tree Inn in Bunbury.

October 26, 2014
Councillors unveil new lane for Wingate Children’s Centre in Wrenbury

Councillors unveil new lane for Wingate Children’s Centre in Wrenbury

A much-needed new approach lane to a Nantwich children’s centre has been unveiled.

Officials have opened the new road leading to The Wingate Centre in Wrenbury which puts an end to years of pot-hole problems for visitors and staff.

October 16, 2014
New Cheshire Wildlife Trust education centre opens near Nantwich

New Cheshire Wildlife Trust education centre opens near Nantwich

Dozens of guests joined the Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire David Briggs for the opening of a new wildlife trust education centre near Nantwich.

The £120,000 new Bickley Barn education centre, between Wrenbury and Malpas, is based in a converted 100-year-old diary milking barn.

September 9, 2014
Model railway club in Nantwich steams ahead by doubling members

Model railway club in Nantwich steams ahead by doubling members

A model railway club near Nantwich has doubled its membership – just six months after launching.

Wrenbury & District Model Railway Club now has 24 active members who meet every week in Village Hall, Wrenbury.

August 12, 2014