By Jonathan White
A second annual charity football match took place at the home of Crewe Alexandra has helped raise more than £3,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support.
The first match, last May 2021, was organised by club announcer and lifelong fan Andrew Scoffin, to raise funds for The Christie.
Residents are being urged to air views on two new schemes for more direct links for walking and cycling between Crewe railway station and the town centre.
Cheshire East Council says it aims to improve pedestrian and cycle links to encourage an increase in “active travel”.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East Council spends more than £230,000 a week on taxis taking children to and from school.
Figures obtained by the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) through Freedom of Information (FOI) reveal the council pays for 887 children to go to school by taxi at an approximate cost of £231,959.67 per week.
Crewe Lyceum Theatre is hitting the high notes with a piano project designed to boost vibrancy of two of Cheshire East’s town centres after lockdown.
Five pianos – decorated by local artists and community groups – have been placed at key locations in Crewe and Macclesfield.
Talented students from partner colleges in Cheshire and Warrington have been battling it out in WorldSkills-style competitions designed to raise skill levels to meet employer needs.
The Cheshire Skills Competition is a new collaboration between Reaseheath College in Nantwich, Cheshire College South & West, Warrington & Vale Royal College and Macclesfield College.
Two more shows will wrap up another top season of comedy at The Very Best In Stand Up at Nantwich Civic Hall.
Returning to compere the next show on May 6 is Jonathan Mayor.
Dear Editor,
I used to have a butcher’s stall in Crewe Market Hall. It was a very busy market, inside and out.
Now Cheshire East have spent an unbelievable £3 MILLION to turn the Market Hall into a food and drinking hall.
Motorists could face major delays this week as scheduled and emergency works take place on two sections of the A530 between Nantwich and Middlewich.
A burst water main on the Middlewich Road stretch between the Alvaston roundabout and Colleys Lane has caused significant damage to the road today (April 24).
George & Dragon won 4-2 at The Lions in The Crewe Regional Sunday League.
Joe Duckworth scored a brace with other goals from Jay Ellis and Jack Hart.
Nantwich Town ended their Northern Premier League campaign with a fine away point at play-off chasing Bamber Bridge.
And the 1-1 scoreline ultimately ended the hosts’ chances of clinching a play-off spot, as the Dabbers finished the season in 13th place.
By Jonathan White
A memorial plaque has been unveiled in Wybunbury to honour pilot Richard Pryce Hughes on the 80th anniversary of his final operational flight.
A short commemorative film about Richard was also shown to the audience.
Shavington residents have won their battle to remain in the Shavington-cum-Gresty parish boundary.
The Corporate Policy Committee of Cheshire East Council rejected a plan to potentially transfer an area south of Newcastle Road into the parish of Wybunbury.
Nantwich town councillors are bloomin’ furious after Cheshire East Council said it was more than doubling the cost of watering its floral displays in the town.
ANSA, the environmental arm of CEC, landed Nantwich Town Council with a bill of more than £29,000 for 2022-23 for watering hanging baskets, tubs and planters.
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