Nantwich Museum has acquired a Tudor treasure found by a metal detector near the town, thanks to generous donors. The Pillory Street venue managed to raise the £220 to secure the Tudor cast silver-gilt dress hook.
Police want to trace two drivers who may be key witnesses to the road accident near Nantwich which killed cyclist Stewart Gandy. Mr Gandy (pictured) was in collision with a lorry as he rode his bike along the A530 Whitchurch Road in Baddington.
The family of a cyclist who died in a collision near Nantwich, told how he had only just taken up cycling again after retirement. Stewart Roy Gandy, 65, from Wistaston, died after colliding with a lorry on the A530 Whitchurch Road at Baddington Bridge, Aston.
A cyclist killed in a collision with a lorry on the A530 near Nantwich has been named as Stewart Gandy. The 65-year-old, from Wistaston, was cycling towards Whitchurch near Aston when the crash happened.
The A530 between Nantwich and Burleydam has been named UK’s fifth most dangerous road, a new report has highlighted. The eight-mile stretch of single carriageway saw 23 fatal or serious crashes between 2007 and 2011, according to latest 5-year figures.
A man suffered serious hand injuries after being trapped in farm machinery at Sound, near Nantwich. Fire crews from Nantwich and Audlem were called out to help cut the victim free from a tractor at premises on Whitchurch Road, Broomhall.
Schools across Nantwich and surrounding villages will be hit by the national teachers strike this week. Several primary schools in the town are having to close some year group classes on Thursday (June 27), while others remain open.
Nantwich primary children missed more than 16,300 school sessions between them in 2011-12, figures reveal. But attendance has improved in all but two primary schools in the area in the last three years, according to statistics.
Nantwich youngsters were rewarded for their creative side after impressing in a local art competition. Children from schools across the town entered the competition run by Nantwich Museum, on Pillory Street.
The two secondary schools in Nantwich have been closed because of the weather today (March 22). Headteachers at Brine Leas High School and Malbank School and Sixth Form College both decided to close for the day.
Scores of protesters gathered in Nantwich town centre to demonstrate against a local abattoir at the centre of an investigation into abuse of horses. The Red Lion Abattoir, at Sound Heath near Wrenbury, is being probed by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) and the RSPCA.
Rural areas of Nantwich will get superfast broadband after the Government earmarked £3.24 million for Cheshire. The move has been welcomed by politicians who say it will help Crewe and Nantwich deliver jobs and boost growth.
Nantwich primary schools are celebrating sporting success after winning through to the final of the Sportshall Athletics Competition. Teams of year 5 and 6 pupils from Crewe and Nantwich schools battled it out in a series of heats.
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