News in Crewe

A CREWE-BASED insurance firm has been thanked for helping out one of South Cheshire's non-league football clubs stay afloat during the pandemic.

The County Group is a long-standing sponsor of Nantwich Town, which has resumed some of its activities in line with the easing of restrictions, although competitive first team football is off until next season after the decision to null and void the current Northern Premier League season.

CREWE-BASED housing association The Guinness Partnership is offering a helping hand so a local domestic abuse charity can expand its services.

The housing provider is working with My CWA (formally Cheshire Without Abuse) to help its residents, and other people in Cheshire, who are experiencing domestic abuse.

A CARE company says it expects to create between 50 and 60 jobs when it opens a new home in Shavington.

Anavo says an 18-month building programme will start later this year on the care complex off Gresty Road/Jack Mills Way after Cheshire East planners gave permission for the project last month.

CREWE is to trial a dual use Covid-19 testing site, which will be the first of its kind in the country.

From next Tuesday (April 6) the existing walk-through Covid-19 testing site in Chester Street will allow residents to use a pre-booked service for both asymptomatic and symptomatic testing at different times during the day.

CHESHIRE College has launched a range of fully-funded flexible study programmes to mark the introduction of the National Skills Fund.

The government is investing £2.5 billion into the fund to help adults gain valuable knowledge required by employers to enter key sectors.

COVID meant Crewe's players were left high and dry before the promotion run-in last year.

But by the time they beat lowly Stevenage on March 7 to go top of League Two they had done enough to ultimately secure an automatic promotion spot later decided by points per game after the season was halted.

A GROUP of poets from Crewe aren't clowning around with the release of their second album.

Fall in Green are Mark Sheeky and Deborah Edgeley, a duo specialising in experimental poetry, who for their latest album, Apocalypse of Clowns, have branched out from accompanying pianist work to multi-instrumentation.

ENTERPRISING young people are being sought to take part in a Young Trader Market to mark the reopening of Crewe Market Hall.

The hall is set to throw open its doors again on May 17 after a £3 million revamp of the Grade II listed building, which has seen an expansive glass frontage installed looking out onto Earle Street and new stalls built inside.

CREWE and Nantwich Conservative Association are under fire after claiming £10,000 in Covid business cash.

The grant to the local constituency party's association was revealed after the Huffington Post online news site submitted a Freedom of Information Request.

THE restart of the Crewe Regional Sunday League season has been put back despite grassroots sports return today.

Fixtures pencilled in from next Sunday, April 4 face being rescheduled from April 11, although the entire league programme may be shelved completely after long-serving league secretary Dave Cooper suffered a health scare and a clutch of clubs indicated they do not want to play on until June.