News in Crewe

A DEDICATED tennis coach from Wistaston who helped thousands of youngsters and club regulars develop their skills has been remembered.

Alan Jones, who passed away on July 17 aged 88, was a familiar face at Wistaston Jubilee Tennis Club and Nantwich Tennis Club.

UNVACCINATED Cheshire East staff who take time off work to self-isolate as a close contact of a Covid-19 case won't be classed as being off sick.

People who are double jabbed or aged under 18 are now no longer being legally required to self-isolate if they are identified as a close contact of a positive Covid-19 case. Instead they are encouraged to get a PCR test.

INTREPID cyclists are set to complete a route from Land's End to John O'Groats to raise money for a Crewe-based epilepsy charity.

The cycling team, who have already surpassed their fundraising target for the Jon Shaw Foundation, stopped off in Crewe last Thursday on their 10-day mission.

CREWE Lifestyle Centre is hosting a Festival of Fitness open day where non-members can try out a range of activities free of charge.

The open day, on August 21, will include free fitness classes including Zumba, Les Mills Body Balance and Body Attack, as well as personal training tasters and free gym sessions.

A FORMER office block in Crewe could be converted into flats.

An application has been submitted to Cheshire East Council for permission to convert the top floors of the former offices at Regency Court in High Street into 12 apartments.

A NEW bar in Crewe aims to tap into the expanding market for the craft beer drinker - as well as lovers of artisan gins and fine wines.

A grand opening night is being planned for Ebenezer's on Nantwich Road, where business partners Lee Garner and Steve Shoebridge have spent recent weeks refurbishing the former premises of BeerDock.

A DEVELOPER has amended plans to build 151 homes on a site in Crewe after the application was deferred by a council's strategic planning board.

David Wilson Homes and the Duchy of Lancaster are now asking for permission to build 149 homes on the greenfield site off Sydney Road.

STUDENTS at Cheshire College's Crewe Campus are celebrating a pass rate of 100 per cent.

As 250 learners collected their results from Danebank Avenue complex today, college chiefs hailed an "astonishing" achievement and praised them for their "extreme resilience and adaptability" during the restrictions imposed on their learning by the pandemic.

RESIDENTS and businesses in Haslington produced over 80 scarecrows for the village's first Scarecrow Trail.

Many were on topical themes, including the pandemic and the Tokyo Olympics (see picture gallery above) and are still on display in the village (as well as in Winterley), although the trail was held between July 31 and August 6.

HERE at Crewe Nub News we aim to support our community, promoting shops, businesses, charities, clubs and sports groups.

We profile some of these businesses and organisations regularly in a feature called UP CLOSE IN CREWE.