News in Crewe

CREWE photographer Peter Robinson took his camera out to Weston village to capture some of the stunning images at the #StarlitGarden.

The popular lights show at Carters Green Farm in Jack Lane has raised nearly £125,000 for The Donna Louise Hospice and is up and running for Christmas 2020.

A COMMUNITY group from Haslington are laying on a Christmas Wizard of Oz trail with the backing of celebrities.

Haslington Volunteer Group wants to bring some festive cheer to the village with a socially-distanced themed event.

CREWE conjured up an impressive comeback on their return to Cheshire League action after a four-week lockdown break.

Liam O'Reilly's side were trailing 3-0 at the interval against Lostock Gralam, but a change of ends at the Cumberland Arena saw a different outlook as they rammed in five goals to clinch a 5-3 win.

AN NHS Clinical Commissioning Group with a base in South Cheshire faces being merged again into a super health body straddling Merseyside.

Cheshire CCG was only formed in April this year from the merger of four Cheshire-based CCGs, including South Cheshire CCG and East Cheshire CCG with the larger body retaining offices in Nantwich and Macclesfield.

POLICE and fire officers in Cheshire have issued a tough message as they launch their Christmas drink/drive campaign.

They are urging the public to stop and think before travelling on the roads after having a drink this Christmas.

In February of this year, all of us were being made aware of a dreadful virus, firstly named Corona, and how it was affecting people in various parts of the world but none of us realized that we weren't prepared for such a situation either internationally or locally.

But each day we were hearing how more people were becoming ill and unfortunately, some losing their life to what became know as Covid-19.

DAVIES - CHRISTINE ANN passed away peacefully, aged 73 years, on November 25th, 2020 after a short illness, surrounded by the love of her family.

A Celebration of Life Service will be held at Crewe Crematorium Chapel on Monday, December 7 followed by burial in the cemetery.

FOLLOWING the announcement that both Cheshire East and Cheshire West councils will be placed in Tier Two at the end of lockdown, it's natural to assume that means the county will have a Tier Two Christmas.

However, the announcement was also accompanied by a promise from Health Secretary Matt Hancock that each area's position will be reviewed in a fortnight, so there is scope for boroughs to move up and down the system.

CREWE councillors say they are working with Bentley Motors to "minimise" problems caused by the luxury car maker closing off parts of Pyms Lane and Sunnybank Road.

Sections of the two roads were shut off permanently last week, heralding Bentley's enclosure of its growing campus on the west side of Crewe.

RAIL passengers travelling from Crewe to London are to benefit from big fair reductions after Avanti West Coast began trialling Friday as "off-peak" days.

The rail firm -which took over Virgin Trains' franchise on the West Coast Mainline last December - has removed Friday morning peak restrictions on long-distance journeys to and from London Euston starting from today (November 20).