Talented Nantwich and Crewe students will be celebrating their achievements at an annual End of Year Show next week. South Cheshire College’s Creative and Applied Arts faculty is staging a Visual Arts and Media exhibition alongside dance, drama, song and more, on June 14.
Nantwich Library will be hosting a fun event on June 15 to help celebrate National Bookstart Week. Youngsters will be able to meet Bookstart Bear, who will make a guest appearance from 10.30am.
Stapeley Grange Wildlife Centre is staging a Cattery Fun Day and Dog Show on July 1. The centre, based on London Road, Nantwich, is preparing for one of its biggest days of the year with the open day.
By Jonathan White The rain didn’t dampen the Jubilee spirit as people turned out in their hundreds for the Willaston Jubilee and Rose Queen Fete. The event was staged on the Letty Spencer Playing Fields in Wybunbury Road, Willaston.
Youngsters on half-term holiday can join in the Royal fun with special workshops at Nantwich Museum. The Pillory Street venue will be running a range of activities on June 6 and 7 this week, inspired by the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations.
By Nicola Tooke The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee was celebrated at Richmond Village Nantwich when residents, guests and staff held a street party. More than 100 people dressed in red white, and blue with The Cat Radio and award-winning Foden’s Brass Band providing the music.
The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee is being celebrated at Nantwich Museum with an exhibition “Nantwich under the two Elizabeths” opening tomorrow (June 2). It’s one of the most ambitious exhibitions to be staged at the Pillory Street venue, occupying both galleries.
Hundreds of Nantwich children, teachers and parents crammed into the town square to mark the start of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations. They danced and sang to music, listened to speeches by dignitaries and watched as a special floral beacon was lit up.
Richmond Village in Nantwich is staging a traditional street party on Saturday June 2 as part of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations. It will be one of dozens of similar events throughout the town and surrounding villages over the next four five days.
Council chiefs warned thousands of Crewe and Nantwich residents to expect travel and business disruption when the Olympic Torch arrives in town. Major routes will be shut for more than two hours during peak morning as torchbearers run the Flame around Crewe town centre.
Two girls called Elizabeth from a Nantwich school will take centre stage for the lighting of a Queen’s Jubilee beacon in the town square. The youngsters, of Pear Tree Primary School in Stapeley, will light a candle that will be handed to the Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire, David Briggs, who will then light the official beacon.
By Jonathan White A beacon to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee will be lit at the top of the St Mary’s Church tower in Wistaston. The lighting will take place at 10.15pm on June 4 and should be visible over a wide area.
Leading autism campaigner Kevin Healey is to carry the Olympic in Crewe on May 31. Kevin, of Newcastle-under-Lyme, founded two autism charities in Staffordshire and set up UK Autism Radio UK.
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