A headteacher in Nantwich has warned that feeder school pupils may not be guaranteed a place in future because of pressure on admission numbers.
Andrew Cliffe, who runs Brine Leas Academy, is having to raise their normal year 7 entry figure of 215 to 240 – resulting in two extra classes.
Residents in Willaston are being urged to join the fight against new plans to build another 300 homes in the village.
Stretton Willaston Ltd has submitted the latest one – a bid to build 175 houses on land between Park Road and the railway line.
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.
Staff and students at Sound and District Primary are celebrating after SATS results put the school among the best in the country.
The school, on Whitchurch Road in Sound near Nantwich, is in the top 14% of all primary schools in Britain for all subjects.
By Jonathan White
Thousands poured into Nantwich to enjoy the Battle of Nantwich & Winter Fayre in the town centre and Mill Island.
And organisers The Holly Holy Day Society say the event, held in conjunction with the Sealed Knot society, was one of the most successful ever.
A councillor has blasted yet another planning application to build new homes on green fields in Willaston, Nantwich.
Wainhomes has submitted a proposal for a 120-home development on a site off Cheerbrook Road.
Residents and councillors in Shavington have won their fight to stop a 880-house development at Gresty Oaks.
Developers Himor Group had appealed to the Secretary of State after Cheshire East Council originally threw out the plan for the massive development bordering the A500, Gresty Road and Rope Lane.
Planners have recommended a controversial bid to turn former Hack Green RAF camp near Nantwich into a large-scale site for travelling families, is rejected.
The plan is to create nine large plots on the site off Coole Lane in Austerson, for showpeople families to live and store fairground equipment.
A nursery in Nantwich is celebrating summer – as Britain is about to be hit by freezing temperatures and snow storms!
Youngsters at Sounds Active Nursery have banished the winter blues by holding a summer-themed day to celebrate their new opening times.
Pupils at two Nantwich schools have designed award-winning posters aimed at alerting residents to dangers of doorstep crooks and strangers.
Youngsters at St Anne’s Catholic Primary and Stapeley Broad Lane Primary were recognised in a competition run by Cheshire East Council’s Trading Standards team.
Angry parents at a Nantwich primary school have slammed a two-year delay over a new car park which should resolve traffic dangers children face every day.
They say youngsters walking to and from Stapeley Broad Lane Primary are dicing with death along the busy A529 Audlem Road at peak drop-off and pick-up times.
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.
A pupil from Shavington High School has won The Cat Community Radio Station logo competition.
Emily Clarke, 13, from Willaston, will see her design represent the area’s first FM station for years to come.
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