Politicians and business leaders across Cheshire have welcomed the launch of a competition to find the home of the new Great British Railways HQ and have backed Crewe to clinch the honour.
The town has been featured in the competition announcement video with broadcaster Michael Portillo championing.
By Liam Price
Nantwich Town secured a priceless win on the road with a 2-1 victory over play-off chasing Morpeth Town at Craik Park.
The hosts had not lost in 18 matches in all competitions, and not been defeated at home since September.
The Wingate Children’s Centre near Nantwich has benefited from a share of £65,000 donated to charities across the region.
The Equilibrium Foundation donated the money after successful year of fundraising to eight charities in Cheshire and Manchester.
Nantwich’s Community Orchard has been spruced up by Reaseheath College students and Nantwich in Bloom volunteers in readiness for spring.
Horticulture students and community volunteers teamed up for winter pruning the fruit trees in the orchard, which is on Nantwich Riverside near Shrewbridge Road.
By Claire Faulkner
Love Song written by Abi Morgan, directed by Gordon Hamlin is the latest production by Nantwich Players.
It is a beautifully poignant story showing the relationship of a couple spanning over 40 years, sharing the ups and downs as well as the beginning and ending.
Nantwich Museum has announced a new programme of its highly popular guided walks.
Options include a Riverside Walk, Nantwich Town Tour, Welsh Row Tour and a Lake and Woodland Tour.
St Luke’s Hospice staff and volunteers have raised a tree-mendous £40,000 from their Christmas Tree Collection scheme.
More than 60 volunteers teamed up between January 13-16 to collect 2,824 individual Christmas trees from people’s homes in return for donations for the Hospice.
Works to prepare for the delivery of a major highways scheme near Leighton Hospital is underway – with the main works set to start by summer.
The North West Crewe Package (NWCP) will see a series of highways and junction improvements made to ease congestion and improve access to the hospital, as well as new and existing housing developments.
Nantwich Players are about to open their new production Lovesong, by Abi Morgan.
It opens today (Friday February 4) and taking on the challenge of this play was pushing boundaries for any local amateur theatre company.
A popular nursery in Nantwich is celebrating its silver anniversary after clocking up 25 years.
Parklands Day Nursery, on First Dig Lane in Stapeley, looked very different 26 years ago with only two houses on site enjoying the spacious and beautiful grounds.
Canal & River Trust is on the hunt for more volunteers to help on its network of Cheshire waterways.
The charity is appealing for people to take up roles from traditional lock-keepers to wellbeing rangers on historic waterways across the county.
Two cats who were rehomed by the RSPCA in Stapeley as kittens, are unexpectedly back in the charity’s care again 10 years later.
Staff at Stapeley Grange Wildlife Centre and Cattery are looking for new homes for Heidi and Maddie after a change in circumstances meant their owner could no longer keep them.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East residents look set to see an increase of 4.43% in the amount they pay towards policing.
If the increase suggested by Police and Crime Commissioner John Dwyer is ratified by the police and crime panel on Friday (February 4) that will mean an extra £10 a year on the police precept for a band D council tax payer across the county.
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