By Stephen Topping
A South Cheshire farm is set to become home to a wedding venue after councillors granted planning permission, despite objections.
The Charlesworth family, which has been farming at the Grange Farm in Marbury near Wrenbury for 35 years, has been given the go-ahead to use its site as a wedding venue to provide additional income.
A large number of birds have died in a fire at a farm in Tarporley, fire chiefs have said.
The blaze happened at a farm on Peckforton Hall Lane and involved two large wooden sheds, each about five metres by three metres.
A Quad Bike has been stolen from a farm on Wrinehill Road in Wybunbury, say police.
The exact time of the theft is not known but it happened before 8am on Monday May 21.
Breakfast giant Mornflake teamed up with farm owners in welcoming Danish teachers to a healthy eating event near Nantwich.
The visitors were in Cheshire as part of the Food For Life initiative.
By Jonathan White
The fund-raising Weston Christmas Light Display has been unveiled in spectacular style.
Graham Witter’s amazing display at Carters Green Farm on Jack Lane will help raise funds for the Donna Louise Children’s Hospice, which cared for his sister before she died.
Cheshire Wildlife Trust will throw open its farm gates to the public in June.
The trust’s 210-acre Bickley Hall Farm site will take part in LEAF’s (Linking Environment and Farming) national Open Farm Sunday event on June 5.
A Nantwich farm store is hoping to net a bigger audience – by launching an online sausage shop!
Bosses at Cheerbrook, on Newcastle Road, want to make their award-winning bangers available for home delivery all over the UK.
A South Cheshire farming company has been fined £50,000 after a young dad was killed when a 1.5 tonne concrete panel fell on him. Sean Bennett was helping to build a new cowshed at Yew Tree Farm, off the A530 Nantwich Road near Middlewich, when tragedy struck.
A cattle farmer near Nantwich has been convicted in court of breaching TB regulations. Anthony Kirkham, of Ridley Farm, Bunbury, was given a four-month custodial sentence, suspended for two years.
A new farm shop selling locally grown and produced food has been opened at Reaseheath College in Nantwich. The shop was unveiled by award-winning Master Chef Brian Mellor during the Nantwich college’s Family Festival.
A record 2,500 visitors flocked to Reaseheath College in Nantwich to enjoy the lambing and zoo weekend. Excited youngsters like Francesca Forbes, Katy Wakeman, Cameron Forbes (pictured) were among hundreds keen to experience the live lambing event.
A fire which destroyed seven tonnes of hay in a field in Nantwich could have been started deliberately. Crews from Nantwich were called to a report of hay bales on fire at Fields Farm, close to the railway line off Queen’s Drive.
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