News in Crewe

CREWE Photographic Society is looking for new members as it celebrates its 75th season this year.

The Society has planned a superb programme of talks and demonstrations, starting on September 16 with an introductory evening online.

LEARNING disability nurses, clinical support workers and care staff are quitting their jobs because they can earn more working in supermarkets or in pubs.

Cheshire East Council is now experiencing "some real workforce pressures" in the healthcare sector, top bosses told members of the authority's scrutiny committee this week.

SOUTH Cheshire Chamber of Commerce has paid tribute to its category sponsors in this year's Business Awards as the deadline for entries fast approaches.

The Chamber will honour the crème de la crème of local business at a ceremony staged at Reaseheath College on November 19 backed by an array of high-profile sponsors, some new and others who have supported the search for entrepreneurial talent for many years.

THE pandemic has had an impact on the jobs market, but despite these difficult times there are still some great job opportunities available in the Crewe area.

We have many of them listed in the Crewe Nub News Jobs section, which we bring to you in partnership with KPI Recruiting Ltd.

A BABY needed hospital treatment after a collision between three vehicles in Willaston.

Paramedics and fire crews attended the scene at Cheerbrook Road yesterday, just after 9am.

A TRIP from Crewe on a luxury train has been postponed because the organisers can't find a working steam engine to pull it.

Princess Elizabeth, built at the town's railway works in 1933, should have hauled the Northern Belle over the Settle-Carlisle line this Saturday (September 11).

TENNIS players were encouraged to wear white attire at a presentation day in memory of a long-serving league secretary from Wistaston.

The annual Slazenger South and Mid Cheshire Tennis League's event was renamed the 'John White Presentation Day' in honour of its former secretary, who passed away last July, aged 80.

AN appeal has been launched to restore Crewe Carnival to its "rightful" place in the town's calendar.

A Facebook page entitled 'The Peoples Carnival Of Crewe' is hoping to revive the spirit of the popular town festival which petered out a decade ago.

SUPERMARKET giant Asda has revealed it is opening a convenience store at Basford West in Crewe.

It will be based at the Euro Garages outlet at Crewe Commercial Park off Jack Mills Way and is among 28 locations earmarked by Asda for petrol station convenience stores this year.

CHESHIRE East Council is owed a whopping £23m in unpaid council tax.

Figures obtained by the Local Democracy Reporting Service from a Freedom of Information Request reveal £23,248,962 is still owed.