Decibellas Women’s Choir of Tarporley hosted a concert with Llangollen Male Voice Choir, to raise funds for St Luke’s Cheshire Hospice.
The men’s motto “Cyfeillgarwch drwy Gan” (“friendship through song”), formed the theme with both choirs performing pieces from repertoires and joining for a rousing finale.
By Kirsty Rollings
Voters in Willaston and Rope Ward made a bold statement with their appointment of first time candidate Sarah Pochin.
Conservative candidate Pochin took the seat from outspoken UKIP candidate Brian Silvester in a comfortable victory in the Cheshire East Council elections.
By Jonathan White
Bunbury Church Fete took place within the grounds of Beeston Castle on Bank Holiday Monday.
The annual event was moved to earlier in the year for more favourable weather.
Bunbury Watermill will be open with a difference during the National Mills Open Weekend May 9-10.
South Cheshire Amateur Radio Society (SCARS) will be setting up a temporary short-wave radio station, call sign GB4BM.
A well-known ice cream maker in Cheshire has been fined for safety failings after a worker’s finger was cut off by a fruit feeder machine.
Tattenhall Dairy Products Ltd, which operates at Cheshire Farm Ice Cream, was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive after the incident at Drumlan Hall Farm in August 2013.
Families in Stapeley are being urged to attend a ‘drop-in’ session to help form the parish’s first Neighbourhood Plan.
Hundreds of households across Stapeley have received a questionnaire asking for their views on how the area should develop in the next few years.
A village school near Nantwich has been placed in “special measures” by Ofsted amid concerns of pupil safety and behaviour.
The move, which has shocked staff and governors at Bunbury Aldersey C of E Primary, relates to safeguarding and pupil behaviour issues.
Eddisbury Conservative MP Stephen O’Brien is to step down and take up a top job at the United Nations.
Mr O’Brien, who has represented the constituency which includes many villages around Nantwich since 1999, will be in charge of humanitarian affairs and emergency relief at the UN.
Villagers and councillors in Willaston have welcomed re-surfacing plans on two key roads.
Wistaston Road and Wybunbury Road, two main routes through the village, will undergo work to repair potholes and uneven surfaces.
A founder member of the Bunbury Watermill Trust has been honoured for his part in saving the historic venue.
Ernest Croley was presented with a framed painting of the mill by trustees and volunteers in recognition of his time as a founder member and chairman of the trust.
Cheshire Community Action has been awarded £218,000 over three years to provide more Community Agents for rural villages around Nantwich.
The Community Agent schemes aims to help those who don’t live near a town centre and find it hard to access services or the internet.
Two South Cheshire friends have been putting their best foot forward organising the ‘Striding the Sandstone sponsored walk.
David Rowlands and Roy Williamson are staging the event in March to raise money for Crewe and Nantwich Cancer Research UK committee.
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.
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