By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
A new primary school scheduled to open in Shavington in two years will be delayed by 12 months because a developer has gone into administration.
The 210-place primary school earmarked for Basford East was due to open in September 2025.
A Shavington Leisure Centre member is taking on a gruelling 400-mile walking fundraiser for charity.
Martin Cresswell, 58, is to walk the “Grand Traverse des Alps (GR5)” from Lake Genève to Nice.
Shavington schoolboy Alfie Simcox is compiling another fundraising trucking calendar to help raise money for charity.
The 10-year-old has had a passion for lorries all his life as most of his family are truck drivers.
The Victorian former schoolhouse and youth centre in Shavington has been put up for auction despite a two-year campaign by local councillors and MP Kieran Mullan to save it.
The building has stood vacant for over two years but efforts to retain it as a community asset have failed.
Crewe & Nantwich MP Kieran Mullan has slammed Cheshire East Council and its new Shavington councillor for failing to save the former youth club venue in the village.
The authority looks set to sell off the building on Main Road despite a two-year campaign to save the facility.
Shavington Drama Group returns to the stage this July at the Players Theatre in Nantwich with “The Hound of the Baskervilles”.
The classic Arthur Conan Doyle story has been adapted by Tim Churchill and Catherine O’Reilly.
Renowned jazz duo Ian Millar and Dominic Spencer are heading to Shavington for a live gig as part of a UK tour.
The saxophone and piano duo, from Scotland, will be performing at Shavington Village Hall on Main Road on Saturday June 17.
By Jonathan White
Shavington Village Festival Committee have organised a ‘Coronation Concert’ on Sunday May 7 from 4pm-7pm at St Mark’s Church on Main Road.
The concert will celebrate the Best of British history and culture through music and will include songs to commemorate the Coronation of King Charles III.
A young girl from Shavington is proving a national super-saver after making it to the England U13s ice hockey side – aged just nine!
Now the race is on to raise enough funds for Violet Lennon to represent her country abroad this summer.
Dozens of firefighters battled a serious house blaze in Shavington last night and in the early hours of today (April 30).
The fire broke out in a house on Crewe Road at around 7pm last night.
A lorry-mad youngster from Shavington has helped raise more than £2,000 with his calendar of pictures showing his favourite trucks.
Alfie Simcox has been taking photos of trucks for a few years and decided to put the 2023 calendar together in late 2022.
Work is due to start on a new 84-home development at Shavington after Anwyl Homes acquired an eight-acre site.
Located off Newcastle Road, Shavington, the site has planning permission for 59 private sale homes and 25 new affordable homes.
Safety concerns about the entrance to a park in Shavington have been resolved thanks to a local councillor’s ward budget.
Residents had highlighted fears around the pathway leading to the park on Needhams Grange estate off Crewe Road.
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