The star of Channel 4’s Coach Trip Brendan Sheerin is the latest big name signed up for Crewe Lyceum’s panto later this year. Sheering will play “King Brendan” in Jack and the Beanstalk alongside Strictly Come Dancing and Emmerdale star Lisa Riley.
A team of ghost hunters will descend on a well-known Nantwich venue to carry out a paranormal investigation. Cheshire Ghost Hunters, led by medium Derek Acorah, will be visiting Hack Green Nuclear Bunker for the overnight event on March 21.
More top names are being lined up for the Nantwich Jazz, Blues and Music Festival next month. Organisers have pulled out the stops to lay on what they hope will be the biggest five-day music festival Nantwich has witnessed.
By Joy Cassidy Blue Boy is a tale of a young Hindu boy in America, trying to find his way through the confusion and turmoil of puberty as he transcends from boyhood to adulthood. A fairly straightforward and common synopsis, right?
Art fans in South Cheshire have been lapping up an exhibition near Nantwich featuring works from world famous artists. The “School of Paris” exhibition has featured works from Picasso, Renoir, Chagall, Matisse, and Dali among others.
Nantwich Museum has won a Heritage Lottery Fund grant to fund an exhibition recalling the early years of the Great War. The exhibition, called “Nantwich and the Great War”, looks at the impact of war on a market town.
By Claire Faulkner “Have you heard the story of the Johnstone twins?” No? Well this week is your chance to see an outstanding production of Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers at The Lyceum in Crewe.
Nantwich St Mary’s Church will host the North West ‘s premier performance of St John Passion in April. The performance, by renowned composer Bob Chilcott, will take place on Sunday April 6 (Passion Sunday) at 7.30pm.
Bosses at Nantwich-based The Cat Community Radio Station spoke of their joy today at securing a five-year FM licence from Ofcom. It means the station, based out of Frederick House in Nantwich, will now be able to broadcast on air rather than internet-only.
Ex Strictly Come Dancing star Lisa Riley will lead the 2014 pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk, Crewe Lyceum bosses revealed. Riley became a household name as Mandy Dingle in Emmerdale, and won awards including ‘Most Popular Newcomer’, ‘Funniest Person in Soap’ and ‘Most Popular Young Achiever’.
School half-term workshops are taking place at Nantwich Museum this week. The “Lets Draw” workshops will explore a number of different styles and techniques, will be held on Wednesday and Thursday February 19 and 20.
A Lucie Rie vase bought from the famed studio potter over tea and cake, could sell for up to £1,500 in a Nantwich auction. The vase is one of many items due under the hammer at Peter Wilson auctioneers on Market Street.
A new Novella Creative Writers Workshop is to be staged at Crewe Library on Tuesday February 18. Crewe Library will be hosting the workshop run by Robert Graham between 10.30am-12pm.
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