NANTWICH Town stand just one game away from a possible visit to Wembley after a superb 1-0 victory at Hucknall Town in the FA Cup second qualifying round. They now face a trip to St Albans City a week on Saturday and if they can get past that stern test
THE three league gap between Crewe and Nantwich RUFC and and their visiting opposition was evident as Altrincham dished out a 55-0 beating in the Intermediate Cup on Saturday. Altrincham opened the scoring after three minutes as their winger outpaced
CREWE CC were condemned to relegation by a 26 run home defeat at the hands of Elworth in Saturday's final game of the season. With Indian professional Subbarto Banerjee and Australian all rounder Paul Milne both returning home, Crewe were severely weakened
THE Alex unveiled their two new signings on Monday as Trinidad and Tobago goalkeeper Clayton Ince made his arrival official and defender Anthony Charles joined the ranks. Ince, aged 27, will have to wait a month before putting himself in contention for
A FULL structural survey is to be carried out on Crewe Baths at an estimated cost of £10,000. A visual condition survey had originally been authorised but additional specialist work has now been commissioned. The work will include concrete tests to both
FAMILY and friends descended on Sandbach last week to celebrate the 100th birthday of Cissie Simmonite. Mrs Simmonite was born in Mow Cop and still has many family members in that area with others in Biddulph and Sandbach. She went into service in Macclesfield
CREWE soldier Kevin Edge has been helping to save lives by teaching children about a very different type of road safety. While in Britain school pupils would learn about crossing the road, in Kosovo the children face a very different danger. Thousands
PUPIL Stuart Bloor was the recipient of a special lightweight wheelchair from the Bobbies on Bikes charity, on Wednesday. Borough Mayor Chris Thorley made the presentation at the White Lion in Warmingham. Eleven-year-old Stuart has Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus
THREE former councillors have been awarded the borough's top honour for their service to the community. Roy Billington, Les Cooper and Honorary Freeman James Golding, who all retired from the council in May, were admitted to the Roll of Honorary Aldermen
JEANETTE Boyd has her boots and rucksack at the ready as she prepares for a visit to Nepal to help some of the local people. Jeanette, from Elworth, is setting off to Nepal in November as part of a Himalayan Hands project run by the International Nepal
FORMER member of Wistaston's Young Drama Group, Nicholas Franklin, is now one of the top set designers in the country. At the weekend he paid a return visit to the village group to talk about his work. As a keen 16 year old Nicholas helped with annual
GROUPS across Crewe and Nantwich have been boosted by the latest millennium grants. Three borough-based groups have scooped almost £13,000 from the Millennium Festival Awards for All funding programme. The funding is part of £603,000 awarded to 180 community
CREWE scooped a blooming lovely top prize last week and the chance to represent the area in a national final. Crewe was voted Best Large Town in the north west at an awards ceremony in Chester on Friday. The town has won the title on more than 20 occasions
RESIDENTS at Crewe's YMCA are building a workshop at the Gresty Road headquarters in a bid to extend their training facilities. Currently residents can take part in courses on basic living skills, catering, computing and building and allied trades, which
FUND-RAISERS in Crewe are hoping to transform a patch of land into a new garden for people with disabilities. The garden would be developed in the grounds surrounding the Hilary Centre in Salisbury Avenue over the next two years. But to succeed in their
A CAMPAIGN to cut the county's primary school truancy rates by 20 per cent was launched at Underwood West Infant School in Crewe on Monday. An average of 240 youngsters are absent from Cheshire's primary schools each day and the council's education welfare
SANDBACH residents are to be surveyed over the next few weeks to assess current and future housing needs in the borough. The Congleton borough-wide survey will help the council decide on the type, quantity and location of housing in the area. An independant
A FORMER railway station could be transformed into an Indian restaurant after standing empty for a number of years. Nantwich Station has not been used by the railway for many years and was last used as a bookstore. Plans have been put forward to revamp
AUDLEM residents are considering taking their long running fight, to stop HGVs thundering through the village, to Downing Street. Villagers have been trying to convince highways officials to declassify the A525 from a primary trunk road a number of years
TWO men were jailed last week after carrying out a bungled armed robbery at a Nantwich dairy. Dennis O'Neil, aged 31, and Christopher Jones, aged 30, were armed with a replica pistol and metal bar for their attack on Eddie Shone and Sons at Moss Farm,
SPORTS fans in Nantwich should have first class facilities to be proud of thanks to a National Lottery grant. Sport England has awarded Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council £421,330 to build a new Barony Park Sports Complex. The money will be used to provide
SUPPORTERS of a new super school for Crewe face a race against time as anger and opposition continue to mount. Labour and Lib Dem county councillors on the Education Committee joined forces to vote through the closure of Ruskin and Kings Grove and the
Crewe Alex - 2 Swindon Town - 1 SHAUN Smith fired home a penalty ten minutes from time to secure Crewe's first home league win of the season after they threatened to throw it away with a sloppy second half display against Swindon. Both teams pressed forward
EIGHTEEN women braved last Sunday's stormy weather to complete an 18 to 20 mile sponsored bike ride to raise funds for the Queen Charlotte's Appeal. Organiser Elaine Shaw was delighted with everyone's efforts to finish the course, from Winterley to Nantwich
VOLUNTARY organisations now have a new guide to advise them on types of grants available. The borough council is trying to stop groups missing out on cash and has published a leaflet to help local groups looking for financial help. They will be available
WORKERS were this week coming to terms with news that Foden Trucks is to move production from Sandbach. Some 265 employees will be affected by the transfer, to Leyland in Lancashire, with 150 retaining their jobs in commercial operations and product development
MEMBERS of Acton Operatic Society dropped in to say "Hello Miss Forster" last week to mark a Crewe businesswoman's retirement. Alice Brydson, aged 86, has been a milliner for 69 years and is known as Miss Forster as she runs the AM Forster hat shop in
WORK is set to begin next week to improve an accident blackspot near Nantwich. A major programme of improvements will be carried out on the A51 at the junction with Welshman's Lane from Monday September 27. The work will include widening the road for
AN INSPECTOR called on a school in Nantwich this week to congratulate staff and pupils on their hard work. Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools, Chris Woodhead, visited Malbank School and Sixth Form Centre on Monday morning. He was passing on his
A NANTWICH sub-postmistress helped herself to more than £10,000 and spent it on clothes, holidays and a new kitchen after discovering her husband was having an affair with her best friend. Maureen Hill, aged 54, who ran The Barony sub-post office, was
THE third phase of the revamp of Crewe's Market Centre has been unveiled with plans for a new building on an existing car park. The structure would be built on the area between the former Normid Building and the junction of West Street with Vernon Way
CHEESE, wine, honey and a brass band are just a few of the attractions at next week's first Farmers' Market at Nantwich. More than 200 local food companies have been invited to take part in the event, at Reaseheath College, on Saturday, September 25.
