By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East is to reconsider its borough-wide cemetery strategy after claims the plans are “at best thoughtless and at worst inhumane”.
The council reviewed the strategy in 2018 and a long term proposal was that families would have to bury loved ones in Crewe or Macclesfield as other local cemeteries became full.
By Belinda Ryan
More people will need Cheshire East’s emergency assistance scheme to support their families once the £20 universal credit uplift ends, a councillor has said.
The scheme provides rent deposits, furniture, white goods and emergency food to vulnerable people facing immediate hardship following a crisis or disaster or to prevent homelessness and to keep families together.
Nantwich Town councillors have rejected a new Cheshire East Council draft policy on how it will transfer its assets in future.
In the past, the town council has taken over CEC assets such as the Civic Hall, indoor market and public toilets.
Police chiefs defended their handling of the impact of the M6 crash this week which left thousands of drivers stranded for up to 12 hours on the motorway in soaring temperatures.
The incident, which resulted in the death of an HGV driver, happened northbound between junctions 17 and 18 when a lorry collided with a railway bridge.
A 57-year-old man from Nantwich who sexually abused four people has been jailed for 22 years with two further years on prison licence.
Anthony Hulme, of London Road, physically and sexually assaulted two men and two women over a number of years when they were children.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Learning disability nurses, clinical support workers and care staff are quitting their jobs in Cheshire East because they can earn more working in supermarkets or in pubs.
And Cheshire East is now experiencing “real workforce pressures” in the healthcare sector, bosses told members of Cheshire East Council’s scrutiny committee.
A baby was taken to hospital ” as a precaution” after a three-vehicle crash in Willaston near Nantwich.
The accident happened on Cheerbrook Road yesterday (September 7) at around 9am.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cash-strapped Cheshire East Council is owed a staggering £23.25 million in council tax, new figures have shown.
The figure, obtained under FOI by Local Democracy Reporting Service, accounts for the years since the local authority was founded in 2009 to the end of the last financial year in April 2021.
Despicable thieves have swiped a popular module of a Minion from a Nantwich family’s front garden.
Rob Cooper made “Kevin” the flower planter about four years ago from an old scrap gas bottle.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Car parking income in Cheshire East was down by more than £3 million last year compared to the previous year because of the pandemic.
Cheshire East suspended parking charges between March 27 and June 15 last year because of Covid-19.
A man has been seriously injured after falling from the roof of a pub in Nantwich, police confirmed.
The incident happened at The Leopard pub on London Road in Nantwich at around 6pm last night (September 1).
A bid to run youth club sessions at weekends in Nantwich could help cut down on anti-social behaviour in the town.
That’s the view of Crewe & Nantwich MP Dr Kieran Mullan, who has backed members of Guy Harvey Youth Club in their bid to increase the number of evenings it opens.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East Council saved more than £920,000 on staff mileage claims in 2020/21 because of the Covid pandemic.
Figures released by the council in a report to the corporate policy committee reveal mileage claimed by staff in the 2020 calendar year was down by 41% compared to 2019, with over 1.2 million fewer miles being claimed.
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