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  • Open day to give residents sneak peak of revamped salt works

    FOLLOWING extensive restoration work the Lion Salt Works will be opening next week as part of the Heritage Open Days – with residents able to get a sneak peak of the site before it is officially reopened next year.The historic open-pan salt making

  • Famed Irish folk singer to perform in Winsford

    IRISH folk singer and Daniel O’Donnell cohort, Mary Duff, will perform in Winsford next week. Mary will be joined by her band at the Winsford Academy in Grange Lane on Saturday, September 13. Starting at 7.30pm, the show also features a performance

  • All change for school dinners

    YOUNG diners are tucking into the school dinners they have always wanted with the start of the new academic year. A new range of lunch menus have been introduced in west Cheshire this year containing dishes that have been voted for by pupils.

  • African warrior troupe to visit Middlewich

    AN African warrior troupe is set to visit Middlewich for the first time to help raise money for their village in Kenya. The Osiligi Maasai Warrior Troupe will give a performance of African song and dance in Middlewich Town Hall on Thursday,

  • Man jailed for persistent begging in Northwich

    A NORTHWICH has been imprisoned for persistent begging in the town centre. Jamie Tomlinson, of no fixed abode, was sentenced to 17 weeks in custody at Chester Magistrates Court on Wednesday, August 27. Police said the 22-year-old had targeted

  • Call for re-think on 'light-blocking' trees in Winsford

    A WINSFORD resident is appealing to the council to re-think their position on large trees that he says are blocking light to homes. James Wilding says a row of conifers behind his home are costing him a fortune and rendering his garden a boggy

  • St Joseph's playgroup back for September

    KIDS can enjoy playtime at new sessions for parents and children in Winsford. The Mother and Toddler Group is open on Fridays at St Joseph’s, starting on September 26. Parents are welcome to bring their children aged 0 months to 4-years-old

  • Police hunt missing occupant of fire-gutted Crewe home

    POLICE investigating a fire at a property in Maw Lane Crewe are trying to trace to the occupant, Lloyd Turner. At 1.28am on Monday, September 1 2014, police were called to Brook House Farm in Maw Lane, to a report of a fire. Firefighters extinguished

  • Fire investigation underway after large house blaze

    FIREFIGHTERS have been fighting a large house blaze this morning, Monday September 1 in Haslington, Crewe. Two fire engines from Crewe and one each from Sandbach, Nantwich, Middlewich and Malpas were called to the incident in Maw Green Road at