HALF a million pounds worth of proposed road safety improvements failed to win over councillors who threw out a major housing scheme. A traffic lights-controlled junction was earmarked for the A556 Chester Road as part of Russell Homes’ scheme
ORINOCO swapped Wimbledon Common for Northwich on Friday to join forces with town mayor Alison Gerrard and MP Graham Evans to help keep the town tidy. The famous Womble headed up a group of litter-pickers for a Big Jubilee Tidy-up of the town.
Late arrivals show squad strength HE didn’t intend to, but 1874 Northwich manager Ian Street named probably the strongest list of substitutes in the club’s short history for last night’s league encounter with Alsager. Leading scorer Matthew
THE leader of Cheshire East Council has told the Guardian the HS2 hub will bring ‘more money’ and ‘more jobs’ to the town. Clr Michael Jones said he wanted to give residents of the town ‘hope and aspirations’ for the future. “I really don’t
THE Crewe Liberal Club Open League was reduced to 50 teams when Division Five's Cheese Hall were expelled this week. The decision was made by the Emergency Management Committee for Cheese continually infringing league rules by failing to provide
RYAN Colclough intends to pay back Crewe Alexandra. After being cleared of an alleged race attack, the 19-year-old striker is looking to put his nightmare year behind him. Injuries have also played their part but now back in training, Colclough
POLICE shut a village road on Friday night as they were called to deal with hundreds of teenage partygoers for the second time in as many weeks. About 200 young people attended the party in Wincham, a similar number to those who converged on a
DAVID Cameron has said the HS2 hub in Crewe will have an “enormous impact” on the town after a report recommended that it should be home to the new station. Sir David Higgins issued his backing for the town in a report published on Monday.
HS2 campaigners say local people may have to wait until the autumn of 2015 to find out “where we stand in Cheshire.” That is the view of Mid Cheshire Against HS2, which was reacting to this week’s confirmation of Crewe being the preferred location
IAN Street believes 1874 Northwich will need to shoot more sharply if they are to stay in pursuit of runaway Premier Division leaders Runcorn Linnets. His side squeezed past Alsager Town by a single goal last night in a contest the manager feels
A GRANDMOTHER is appealing for help to find her four-year-old grandson's treasured teddy. The youngster lost his bear on a shopping trip in Crewe between 10.30am and 1.30pm on Sunday. The Winnie the Pooh is a small blanket bear and has the
THEY were never comfortable nor for the most part convincing but 1874 Northwich still won. Daley Woods’ unexpected return last week has brought with it decisive goals, including the one that separated the hosts from opponents that defended diligently
HARTFORD Civic Society is to complain to Cheshire West and Chester Council over its “apparent inept handling” of a planning application. The society opposed an application for landscaping, layout and scale details for 238 houses on land at Grange
President John Hill welcomed members and eight guests to the recent meeting of Warrington SC Inter Club which had a political theme “What I would do, if I ran the country”.Three members spoke on the hot topics of the day, Election looming.
Chairman Bev Langham opened the Vale Royal Group Autumn meeting. She introduced the speaker, Chris Knight, who took members on an amazing journey to realise his “Olympic dream”. Chris was one of 54,000 people who applied to take part in one of
Members of Winsford U3A held an Open Meeting at their October meeting. The visiting speaker gave a talk on the work of the Red Cross, which is part of a global voluntary network responding to conflicts, natural disasters and individual emergencies
Antrobus WI President, Margaret McDonald welcomed members and visitors to the October meeting of Antrobus WI. She announced that next year one lucky member would be able to attend the Annual General Meeting as Antrobus delegate, at the Albert Hall
Kathy Niblet was the guest speaker at the October meeting of the English Speaking Union. Kathy’s subject was “Moorcroft a Living Art Pottery since 1897”. She took members through the history of Moorcroft, accompanied by many slides of some of the
Members of Winsford WI were entertained at their October meeting by an informative talk and slide show with unusual sound effects, entitled Ghosts. They appear in Chester where witches were once bowled into the river in barrels; where lepers were buried
Middle-Wyches WI celebrated their 2nd birthday party in October inviting guests from neighbouring Institutes to a hot-pot supper prepared by members. County Chairman, Frances Woollam was on hand to cut the birthday cake, made by Elaine Mills and decorated
Families in Cheshire are paying a staggering £32m a year to meet the most basic costs of their children’s schooling, new research reveals today. Parents across the north west are forking out, on average, almost £800 per child each year for school
Families in Cheshire are paying a staggering £32m a year to meet the most basic costs of their children’s schooling, new research reveals today. Parents across the north west are forking out, on average, almost £800 per child each year for school
