Fire crews tackled two fires in bins within an hour of each other overnight, one inside the grounds of a Nantwich primary school.
It’s not confirmed whether the two incidents in early hours of Saturday are linked.
Dear Editor,
Last week, Cheshire East’s Waste Collection Service, ANSA announced the difficulties they were experiencing in maintaining bin collections due to Covid-related staff sickness and staff shortages – a situation repeated across the country.
This week, I received a positive CPR test and am self-isolating.
A young orphaned otter cub found in a bin is now being nursed back to health by RSPCA staff in Nantwich.
RSPCA inspectors were called to rescue the cub which was found on Christmas Eve suffering from hypothermia.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Garden waste bins will not be collected anywhere in Cheshire East until next Monday at the earliest because of staff shortages.
And black and grey bin collections which were missed in some areas last week should be collected by the end of Wednesday January 5, staffing levels permitting.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Bin collections are being missed in parts of Cheshire East as the council revealed it is still struggling to recruit drivers and has five vacancies to fill.
Ansa, CEC’s wholly-owned company responsible for waste collection, has taken to social media to apologise for missed collections due to driver shortages.
Cheshire East Council has announced its 2021 Christmas bin collection schedule.
Ansa – Cheshire East Council’s wholly-owned environmental services company – will be placing information stickers on black bins of households whose normal collections fall on bank holidays.
Fire crews were called to tackle a blaze in the back of a bin lorry in Acton, Nantwich.
The fire broke out at around 12.30pm today (August 9) when the lorry was on Swanley Lane, Acton.
Dear Editor,
How many of us are putting our food waste into the green waste bins?
How much of our food waste is making its way to the new composter facility at Leighton?
By Ethan Davies, local democracy reporter
Missed bin collections in Cheshire East almost trebled last year.
A Freedom of Information request to the council showed 21,340 collections were missed in 2019-20, compared to 7,182 the year before.
Bin collection days in Crewe and Nantwich are set to change from November, Cheshire East Council has announced.
They say stickers will be fixed to bins during collections over the next few weeks to give notice of changes from November 4.
Staff at a Starbucks store in South Cheshire were shocked to find a kitten dumped in a bin outside their coffee shop.
The seven-week-old black kitten was found by an employee as he went to put a bag of rubbish in an industrial bin at the back of the store in Holmes Chapel Road, Middlewich.
Two commercial bins were set on fire at a Nantwich business park.
The fires were started at lunchtime today outside commercial premises on Beam Heath Way, off Middlewich Road. (July 15).
Fire crews believe vandals set a bin ablaze in a busy area of Nantwich town centre. The blaze happened on Swine Market, with one crew from nearby Beam Street station tackling the incident.
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