Parents have scored a major victory in a battle to restore bus services for sixth form students in Audlem travelling to schools in Nantwich.
Our story earlier this week and parental pressure on Cheshire East Council has prompted swift action after we revealed up to 30 post-16 students were left stranded with no way to get to school.
By Jonathan White
Several local churches are using online social media to broadcast live services during the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic.
The churches are each using Facebook Live to allow parishioners to view live streams of the services that cannot currently be attended.
A new rail timetable for Sunday services in Nantwich will come in to effect this weekend, says the Crewe and Shrewsbury Passenger Association (CASPA).
New Transport for Wales timetables do not impact on weekday services, but Sunday services are completely altered.
By Stephen Topping, local democracy reporter
Councillors are calling for Cheshire East’s bus service to be improved – less than two years after council chiefs swung the axe on some subsidised routes.
Cheshire East Council stopped funding evening subsidised bus services and some weekend services from April 2018 in a move that saved the authority £1 million.
Householders in Nantwich and Crewe face a further 2.99% rise on the Council Tax bills from April, it has been agreed.
Cheshire East Council says the rise is needed to help fund more frontline services.
By Stephen Topping, local democracy reporter
Health chiefs are spending almost twice as much on mental health services for youngsters in some parts of Cheshire than others, according to new figures.
Data presented to the Cheshire East health and wellbeing board shows for 2018-19, the NHS Eastern Cheshire clinical commissioning group (CCG) has spent £2.9 million on child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS).
By Stephen Topping
Ofsted inspectors have criticised Cheshire East Council for “serious weaknesses” in its services for youngsters with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND).
Now the authority has to provide a ‘Written Statement’ to Ofsted to outline how it intends to improve.
Hundreds of rail travellers in Nantwich and Crewe have been left stranded after Arriva Trains Wales pulled services because they “ran out of trains”.
It’s believed rail chiefs have been told that a number of trains were potentially ‘damaged’ by running over a faulty set of points in Wales overnight.
Council Tax is set to rise by 5.99% this April – a higher increase than was proposed by Cheshire East Council just three months ago.
The authority’s Cabinet approved the move yesterday, claiming it is needed to “protect frontline services”.
Some evening bus services running in Crewe, Sandbach, Macclesfield, Middlewich and Congleton are being retained.
All subsidised evening services in Cheshire East were due to be axed in a bid to save £1.5 million in costs.
Sunday and evening bus services in Crewe and Nantwich look set to be scrapped by Cheshire East Council after it reviewed its plans following consultation.
But Saturday services will be maintained as the authority prepares to press ahead with cuts to its subsidised bus services.
Nantwich bus users are being urged to air their views as Cheshire East plans a radical overhaul of its supported routes which could impact on hundreds of people.
The 10-week borough-wide consultation into proposed changes to subsidised bus services, including the ‘Little Bus’ flexible transport service, comes to an end on July 26.
A radical plan to axe all subsidised evening and Sunday bus services, is being considered by Cheshire East Council.
The proposal, which will now go out for a 10-week consultation, is designed to save the authority more than £1.5 million.
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