The funeral for Michael “Flash” Meakin will take place in Nantwich on May 13, it has been confirmed.
His death sparked an outpouring of tributes to a man known around the town for the last 60 years collecting and recycling tin cans and scrap metal.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
A proposal to merge Cheshire East Council’s bereavement and cemetery company with its waste collection firm has been dumped.
CEC has reviewed its wholly owned companies, also known as ASDVs (alternative service delivery vehicles).
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
An advisory panel has been set up to look at future cemetery provision in Cheshire East after a councillor branded the existing strategy “callous” and “ludicrous”.
Cheshire East reviewed the strategy in 2018 and a long term proposal was that families would have to bury loved ones in Crewe or Macclesfield as other local cemeteries became full.
Work to improve a South Cheshire cemetery which had caused upset among bereaved families, has been completed.
The project at Meadowbrook Cemetery in Crewe aimed to improve access to an area for cremated remains.
An MP has called for an investigation after grieving families found treasured mementoes “piled up” at gravesides and soil strewn across plots at a South Cheshire cemetery.
A heartbroken Nantwich couple have hit out at vandals who trampled on and damaged their son’s grave in Whitehouse Lane cemetery.
Police are probing the incident, which also saw damage to other graves in the cemetery.
Police have vowed to step up patrols around Nantwich Cemetery as more thefts have emerged of treasured items from gravesides.
The mum of tragic Elle Morris has told her two lanterns were stolen from Elle’s grave at the Whitehouse Lane site.
Grieving families have hit out at thieves after graveside ornaments were stolen in Nantwich Cemetery.
Two families have come forward to highlight their losses – and there are fears many more graves have been targeted.
A bench to commemorate the end of World War One has been placed in Nantwich Cemetery.
Crewe Men in Sheds presented a similar bench to Orbitas Bereavement Services in July this year to be placed in Crewe Cemetery, in memory of those who lost their lives at the Manchester Arena.
Thieves stole the handbag of a pensioner while she visited a relative’s grave in Crewe, police have revealed.
The 72-year-old victim, from Hough near Shavington, had parked her car on Badger Avenue to visit the grave at Crewe Cemetery.
Grieving Nantwich families are being warned after graveside thieves targeted the town’s Whitehouse Lane cemetery.
A vase and flowers were stolen from the grave of one woman’s stepdad, leaving her mum devastated.
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