By Jonathan White
Nantwich man Gerald Newbrook has won an inaugural award for the replica World War 1 Boy Scout Ambulance that he built.
Gerald, aged 77 and from Blakelow, displayed his vehicle at the annual Smallwood Vintage Rally.
More than 1,500 ambulance workers have voted to strike across Cheshire and the North West.
Paramedics, emergency care assistants, call handlers and other staff are now set to walk out in the region.
Employees of North West Ambulance Service are set to vote on taking industrial action over pay and working conditions.
The vote has been actioned by the GMB Union who announced it has launched a formal industrial action ballot.
A 11-year-old girl has been taken to hospital following a collision with a car on a busy Nantwich road.
The incident happened on Waterlode close to Nantwich Leisure Centre at around 3.30pm.
Two new public-access defibrillators have been installed in Nantwich.
Nantwich Ambulance First Responders helped fit the Community Public Access Defibrillators (CPADs).
Ambulance bosses say they are confident the closure of the busy A530 Middlewich Road to Leighton Hospital will not endanger patients in an emergency.
It comes after one resident revealed how a paramedic warned him that “people in Audlem will die” because of the time it is taking ambulances to get to Leighton.
Ambulance staff covering Cheshire lost more than 33,000 working days to Long Covid, new figures show.
And some staff have suffered absences lasting more than 12 months, according to a Freedom of Information request to North West Ambulance Service Trust.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire’s emergency health and care system is under huge pressure and a plan is being drawn up to help cope with the coming winter as hospital targets are missed.
And bosses say A&E at hospitals like Leighton are failing to meet ambulance handover times due to lack of community care for patients who could be discharged.
Chief Officers from Cheshire’s three emergency services have voiced their concerns at the rising number of people being killed on the county’s roads.
Forty-six people died in road traffic collisions in Cheshire in 2018, and this year so far 22 people have died – more than one a week.
A new non-emergency ambulance contract for Cheshire will see more staff based locally and boosting standards of care, say health chiefs.
NHS commissioners have awarded a five-year contract to West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS).
Nantwich’s two Ambulance First Responders have won a national 2017 Community Hero award.
Gavin Palin and Max Kelly were stunned to discover they had been nominated – and even more so when organisers called to say they had won.
Nantwich’s two Ambulance First Responders have been shortlisted in the national 2017 Community Hero awards.
Gavin Palin and Max Kelly were stunned when they discovered they had been nominated for the award.
A motorcyclist was injured after she crashed at Cheerbrook roundabout on the A500 Nantwich Bypass.
The victim, 27, from the Wirral, was initially treated at the scene by a passerby who was a trained lifeguard.
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