By Ethan Davies, local democracy reporter
Talks are ongoing between Cheshire East Council and the government over expanding community Covid-19 testing in the borough.
Professor Rod Thomson, public health consultant for CEC, revealed that the authority has ‘an expression of interest with the Department for Health and Social Care to allow those individuals who have to leave home for work’ more access to community testing.
Nantwich Show for 2021 has been cancelled because of the Covid pandemic, organisers have announced.
It’s the third consecutive year the Show, one of the biggest events in the town’s calendar, has had to be called off.
The annual Battle of Nantwich & Winter Fayre and Civil War author event in Nantwich and battlefield tour in Acton were all cancelled this year due to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Computer businesses in Nantwich and Crewe are helping children connect with online school learning by repairing donated laptops.
The Laptop Shop, on Hospital Street, and Nantwich Computer Consultant Nic Bunting are taking in donated devices so they can be fixed on passed on to youngsters without them.
A former Cheshire Gymnastics coach has been jailed for 15 years for abusing and raping an 11-year-old girl.
Ashley Wilson, 32, was coach at the Northwich-based organisation where he once held the position of Welfare Officer, with a responsibility for its centres at Holmes Chapel and South Cheshire.
Nurses from St Luke’s Day Hospice are moving services online to support even more people in Cheshire.
With face-to-face appointments cancelled by Covid, Day Hospice nurses and complementary therapists are offering support to patients from diagnosis who are living with a life limiting illness, through new virtual services.
By Hannah Youds
The education system has been hugely disrupted during the pandemic, with the majority of teaching now being carried out through online learning.
But what about those people who face the issue of not being able to attend music lessons?
MPs in Cheshire have welcomed a police recruitment drive which they say has resulted in an “additional” 91 police officers on the streets.
It comes as Cheshire’s PCC David Keane also this week approved a 2021-22 budget to recruit another 88 officers by raising the policing precept of Council Tax by £1.25 per month for Band D property holders.
Dear Editor,
Cheshire Police are advertising for yet another new Chief Constable.
The salary is £156,693 per year. Which is nearly as much as the Prime Minister is paid for doing TWO jobs, PM and MP.
By Hannah Youds
A Nantwich author and a children’s boutique owner have teamed up to provide parents with virtual storytelling sessions.
Sarah Mellor and Mandy Platt have teamed up for National Storytelling Week as well as Place2be’s children’s mental health week.
By Jonathan White
Wistaston Scouts have launched their latest Remembrance Day display appeal – and need more plastic bottle ends!
For the past two years, the Wistaston Scout Group has displayed its impressive 24ft long Remembrance Day poppy cascade in the village.
Crewe Photographic Society has launched a ‘Lockdown League’ as part of a new series of meetings taking place online for 2021.
Members log into Zoom meetings each Thursday evening to share their expertise, enjoy presentations from guest speakers and take part in a three-stage digital image competition.
By Jonathan White
A fundraising 2021 calendar for Queens Park in Crewe has raised an impressive £3,600.
The calendar was put together by members of the ‘Queens Park Crewe – The People’s Park’ Facebook group.
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