A Wistaston family spent a day with Manchester scientists at the forefront of research into diabetes.
Emma Horne, 15, was invited to St Mary’s Hospital after she helped raise £5,000 for Diabetes UK in her role as Wistaston Rose Queen.
By Jonathan White
Fourteen teams battled it out over six rounds of ten questions in the Wistaston Memorial Hall annual quiz for the Fred Lorimer trophy.
The quiz setters were Peter and Christina Wainwright who organised their fifth quiz at the hall on Church Lane in Wistaston.
By Jonathan White
A fundraising evening of film entertainment by Crewe Movie Makers took place at Wistaston Memorial Hall.
Members of Crewe Movie Makers presented a showreel of 20 individual movies which members had filmed and edited.
By Jonathan White
Wells Green Methodist Church has celebrated its 50th anniversary in their church building.
The church, on Brookland Avenue in Wistaston, opened in 1967.
Police are investigating allegations into Cheshire East Council’s air quality data and a public funds grant made to Berkeley Academy in Wistaston, the authority confirmed today.
Recent reports revealed air quality data between 2012 and 2014 was ‘deliberately and systematically manipulated’ to suggest it was better than it actually was at around 40 of its testing sites, including in Nantwich and Crewe.
By Jonathan White
Wistaston’s ducks made a comeback after their original race was called off – because of wet weather!
Hundreds of villagers were back out in force this weekend for the re-scheduled event, and had a quacking time at the Joey the Swan recreation ground.
Cheeky mooning gnomes who have been entertaining Wistaston folk for two months have finally been removed by party-pooper highway chiefs.
Pensioner Laurence Perry’s two bare-bottomed garden characters hit the headlines when they caused a village rumpus back in July.
Big-hearted gas engineers teamed up to help bring Wistaston’s Scout hut in from the cold!
Around 20 heating engineers former a group called Heroes of Heat, which installs heating systems for free for charities in need.
Burglars smashed through a roof of the Premier Store in Wistaston and stole thousands of pounds in cigarettes.
Detectives are appealing for information after offenders targeted the convenience store on Kings Drive.
The popular Wistaston Duck Race and Children’s Model Boat Race is set to take place on Saturday September 9.
Hundreds of villagers are expected to line up along the stream at Joey the Swan recreation ground.
Defiant pensioner Laurence Perry’s mooning gnomes are still enjoying the limelight in Wistaston – despite threats from highways chiefs to have them removed.
Laurence has moved one of the gnomes a few feet from the roadside at Westfield Drive/Park Drive junction into the flower border.
Retiring Wistaston Rose Queen Emma Horne has presented a cheque to Diabetes UK for more than £5,000.
Emma, 15, who was crowned Rose Queen in June 2016, raised an amazing £5,121 through various activities over the past 12 months.
Gardening fans across the UK have launched a campaign to save Wistaston’s mooning gnomes after the village rumpus hit national headlines.
Thousands of readers have clamoured for a Cheshire East Council climb-down after it demanded gardener Laurence Perry remove his two gnomes baring their bottoms
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