Santa’s hectic schedule visiting Nantwich and Crewe has been unveiled – giving more youngsters than ever a chance to meet Father Christmas.
Crewe & Nantwich District Round Table have released his busy tour around the towns in the run up to the big day.
By Claire Faulkner
Local theatre company Curtain Call is getting in the festive spirit this week with its production of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas at Crewe Lyceum.
Directed by Joel Montague, this feel-good show is full of wonderful singing, exceptional choreography and has an amazing live orchestra.
A man was arrested by armed police in Nantwich today after reports an elderly woman was threatened with a knife.
The incident happened in the Queens Drive area of the town at around 2am today (November 9).
A tortoise found abandoned in the street is on the slow road to recovery at a Nantwich RSPCA centre.
The 11kg leopard tortoise is being treated at the RSPCA Stapeley Grange wildlife centre after being found in a Sandbach street by a member of the public.
A lorry smash on the M6 which closed it in both directions has sparked traffic chaos on South Cheshire’s major routes today.
An HGV crashed into the central reservation on the M6 northbound near junction 19 Knutsford.
Planners have approved a bid to turn the former Redsands children’s centre in Nantwich, into a specialised 71-bedroom dementia care village.
The buildings, in Willaston, will now have a new lease of life as a specialised centre of excellence in dementia care, with landscaped gardens and residential units.
Nantwich Concert Band is to stage its popular annual Christmas concert on Saturday December 9.
The performance will take place at Nantwich Methodist Church on Hospital Street from 7.30pm.
By Jonathan White
The annual ‘Holly Fair’ at Wells Green Methodist Church in Wistaston has helped to raise more than £1,800 for church funds.
In the entrance hall, there was a hamper made up of Fair Traded goods, sponsored by Wells Green Choir, and a stall of Traidcraft foods and Christmas gifts.
The family of Strictly Come Dancing star AJ Pritchard are urging local Nantwich fans to support the former Brine Leas pupil’s bid to win the BBC show.
AJ, 23, is dancing with celebrity partner Mollie King, of group The Saturdays.
A drum kit owned by Simple Minds drummer Mike Ogletree during the band’s heyday in the 1980s, is to be sold at a Nantwich auction.
The kit, which was used throughout 1982 during Simple Minds’ tours and recording sessions, will go under the hammer at fine art auctioneers Peter Wilson.
Nantwich Film Club is showing the critically acclaimed film called Lion on Monday November 13.
The film tells the story of Saroo, a little 5-year-old indian child who roams the streets with his older brother.
A serving Cheshire police officer has been charged with raping a 13-year-old girl in Crewe.
Ian Naude, 29, of Market Drayton, has been charged with rape and appeared at South Cheshire Magistrates Court yesterday (November 6).
Youngsters in Nantwich are being given the chance to turn on the town’s Christmas Lights later this month.
Nantwich Town Council is staging a competition with one lucky winner joining town Mayor Cllr Penny Butterill for the big switch-on.
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