A South Cheshire parish council has added a splash of colour to Leighton Hospital entrance after donating a rainbow bench.
Minshull Vernon & District Parish Council commissioned the bench to be displayed as a way of saying “thank you” to local NHS staff and key workers for their work during the coronavirus pandemic.
Villagers in Shavington and Weston have been bringing smiles to people’s faces by brightening up their windows during cold winter months.
In an idea led by All Saints’ and St Mark’s churches, villagers have put up ‘Hearts of Hope’ in their windows.
Angry parish councillors near Nantwich are clubbing together to call on highways chiefs to stop leaving rural areas “cut off” by flooded roads.
Villagers in the Wrenbury, Newhall, Sound and Marbury areas say council bosses have left them stranded by failing to empty gullies and clear the floods.
Two men including one from Church Minshull have been charged after a large quantity of cannabis was seized in Crewe
Police say they stopped a vehicle in Lime Tree Avenue and seized cannabis at around 6pm on Wednesday (February 3).
By Ethan Davies, local democracy reporter
A development consisting of 100% affordable housing in Shavington has been refused planning permission by Cheshire East councillors.
The plans, which would have seen 40 homes built on land off Newcastle Road, were recommended for refusal by CEC planners.
By Jonathan White
Wistaston Scouts have launched their latest Remembrance Day display appeal – and need more plastic bottle ends!
For the past two years, the Wistaston Scout Group has displayed its impressive 24ft long Remembrance Day poppy cascade in the village.
Nantwich officers have warned parents of teenagers to keep them at home in lockdown after Cheshire Police issued more than 300 fines in January.
They say parents of children caught breaking lockdown rules could be fined, after complaints in the Stapeley area of groups of youths hanging around, some involved in anti-social behaviour.
By Hannah Youds
The Weston Lights Christmas Display could return in 2021, organiser Graham Witter hinted.
Graham has helped raise another staggering £25,450 from the latest event, which was re-organised as a “Starlit Garden drive thru” amid Covid pandemic restrictions.
A major breach of Shropshire Union Canal at Beeston near Nantwich was caused by heavy rains and floods from Storm Christoph.
These images from canal users show the extent of the breach which has closed the canal and towpath at Lock 10, Wharton’s Lock and Lock 11, Beeston Iron Lock.
Police are appealing for witnesses following an attempted robbery in Church Minshull when a man was attacked with a metal bar.
The victim was working in his tool sales van in a layby when he was approached by a man carrying a metal bar at about 4.40pm on Monday (January 18).
By Jonathan White
Kind-hearted Wistaston resident Nadiah Mckeown is supporting vulnerable members of the community during the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic.
Nadiah set up a Facebook group as an isolation help group in March last year prior to the first national lockdown.
Villagers in Bunbury, Wrenbury and Audlem are to benefit from nearly £1.3m Rural Mobility Fund to improve links to the south west of Nantwich.
Cheshire East Council says the Government funding will boost public transport service where it is currently very limited.
A Nantwich woman lost an incredible 21 stone after a doctor warned her she would not survive to see her daughter start school.
Now Michelle Bufton wants to help others when she launches a weight loss club in Wybunbury later this month.
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