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13 June 2013
A Holmes Chapel man’s entrepreneurial instinct has inspired the formation of a new niche car insurance company for you...
It has been full steam ahead for community group Friends Of Sandbach Station, which has put on extra speed during the past s...
A family friend is to take a 300ft plunge so that a disabled girl can lead a fuller life.Alicia Parks, (14), of Sandbach Heath was...
Members of six protest groups met a Government minister on Thursday to discuss concerns about the number of planning applications ...
The chairman of Sandbach’s Royal British Legion branch is hoping for a much better turnout at the annual armed forces day pa...
07 June 2013
Sandbach residents, councillors and a bookie are not in favour of William Hill’s plan for the town centre. The bookmaker ha...
06 June 2013
The building of a temporary pre-school on Middlewich Road in Holmes Chapel will not make the road’s “serious” tr...
A Holmes Chapel veteran attended a service in Liverpool last Sunday to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of The Battle o...
A poker player made the huge jump across the Pond from the Cricketer’s Arms pub in Sandbach to “the entertainment capi...
Marjorie Newton, chairman of The Royal British Legion (Sandbach Branch), invites people to the armed forces day parade and service...
The first steps have been taken towards having a commercial and industrial development on the Capricorn site off junction 17 in Sa...
A Sandbach food bank volunteer said there was more poverty in inner cities but “with the way things are going, we will proba...
A Moston Green teenager will have the honour of performing at London’s O2 Arena next month, after she qualified for the fina...
Sandbach Town Council has approved plans to renovate the Black Bear Inn, High Street. Applicant Punch Taverns has plans to work o...
31 May 2013
Fire crews from Sandbach’s fire station were unable to attend a fatal house fire in the town on Saturday, due to “insu...
30 May 2013
In the wake of even more houses being proposed for Sandbach, town and borough councillor Gill Merry has warned residents: “F...
Beware of allowing a small development to take place, it could pave the way for others to follow, warned David Lloyd Griffiths, de...
A Sandbach man has told of his pride after joining forces with the NHS to help it improve treatment and care. Doug MacArthur runs...
Having survived a malignant brain tumour more than 12 years ago, nurse Julie Kelsall-Jones was devastated when a routine scan reve...
Sandbach Fire Cadets were praised for being credits to their community last Tuesday. The unit held its annual presentation evenin...
24 May 2013
Cheshire East Council handed out over £36,000 to motorists last year as compensation for vehicle damage caused by poth...
23 May 2013
Senior teaching staff have responded furiously to “tripe” proposals to grade GCSE exams in numerical form instea...
It’s not often Sandbach plays host to a nationally acclaimed comedian from Canada, but that is exactly what is happening in ...
A stalwart of the Sandbach community has been named citizen of the year. Police Community Support Officer Spike Elliot, who has s...
Twemlow parish councillors have expressed concern at the length of time being taken to determine a controversial planning applicat...
Cheshire East Council has confirmed that it will not pay to restore the evening runs of a Sandbach bus service. The Arriva 37 and...
Cheshire Police are seeking witnesses following the death of a 20-year-old former Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School pupil on Satu...
A Wheelock man has confirmed the names of the 12 charities to which he will donate nearly £30,000. As reported in last week...
17 May 2013
Nearly 3,000 extra houses have been proposed for Sandbach as part of additional consultations for Cheshire East Council’s lo...
16 May 2013
Cheshire East Council “misled the public” over a planning application to change the use of some agricultural land, the...
A Sandbach weather presenter is already bracing herself for requests by her friends for personalised forecasts this summer. Since...
Members of Goostrey Footpaths Group, who were behind the new path that runs through Galey Wood, are pleased that it is already a h...
Work on the renovation of Elworth Park in Sandbach continued on Tuesday with the sly sculpting of a fox from a tree. The trunk wa...
The idea behind the formation of Wheelock Village Hall Fund Committee in the 1990s was to build a new meeting place or revamp the ...
An Indian restaurant has received official recognition from one of the country’s top food industry inspectors. Zest Restaur...
A series of events to reassure the public about the health of local hospitals has been organised in the wake of the Stafford Hospi...
Staff and pupils at Sandbach High School were such a shining example to their German partner school counterparts that they wanted ...
10 May 2013
A Sandbach councillor has criticised Cheshire East Council’s decision to approve the £1.6m expansion of Wheelock Prima...
09 May 2013
The planning process is a threat to democracy, claimed an objector to a building scheme for Abbeyfields in Sandbach. Last Tuesday...
03 May 2013
Traders at Sandbach’s outdoor market have threatened to leave for good after the first step was taken to move the mark...
02 May 2013
Under-16 cadets who train at Sandbach’s Koshido Ryu karate club, sent a small contingent to the Shukokai Karate Union Nation...
The new Town Mayor will be installed on Saturday at 3pm during Sandbach Town Council’s annual meeting at the town hall....
Hundreds of mourners paid their respects to ex-footballer Paul Ware at his funeral on Tuesday afternoon.Congleton-born Mr Ware, of...
Holmes Chapel Homing Society entered the Frome old bird race on Saturday. Twelve members entered 269 birds, which were liberated a...
A developer has applied to build five houses next to the Romping Donkey pub, on Roughwood Lane, Hassall Green, to finance th...
The visit of a House of Lords peer to Sandbach High School on Friday helped “demystify what goes on in the Lords&rdquo...
Sandbach MP Fiona Bruce has waded into the debate over Muller Property Group’s controversial Old Mill Quarter plans, l...
Plans for a marina with over 200 moorings on the Trent and Mersey Canal at Chells Hill, near Betchton, were approved last We...
Sandbach Town Mayor Coun Carolyn Lowe celebrated her last mayoral event on Sunday with a tap dancing and musical extravaganz...
A Moston Green teenager is one step away from performing at one of the world’s major music venues.Rhianna Davies, a ye...
Plans to expand Wheelock Primary School were finally approved by Cheshire East Council on Friday, despite concerns from some...
A decision on the building of 50 homes on greenfield land off Hawthorne Drive in Sandbach has been deferred by councillors, ...
The president of Elworth Cricket Club has described his delight after the club took a major step towards permanently securin...
Sandbach residents opposed to development on greenfield land in the town have been warned that whether they like it or not, ...
26 April 2013
A developer is so determined to build on greenfield land off Old Mill Road in Sandbach that two applications for the site wi...
25 April 2013
Tributes have been made to a Sandbach ex-footballer who died last Wednesday morning.Paul Ware, (42), who lived at Forge Fiel...
An untimely downpour of rain did not spoil the fun for thousands of people who lined the streets for Sandbach Transport Fest...
A new centre offering St Luke’s Hospice services is to open at a location “somewhere between Alsager and Sandbac...
Sandbach MP Fiona Bruce enjoyed the town’s Transport Festival, which took place on Saturday and Sunday.She said: &ldqu...
Sandbach Fire Station opened its doors to the public to coincide with the town’s annual transport festival.Firefighter...
A 60-year-old Church Lawton man ended a nine-year break from long distance running by taking part in Sunday’s London M...
Spring has arrived for people who care about Sandbach’s Brook Wood, after £5,030 was granted for its upkeep.At a meeti...
A Cheshire East councillor was told he could have brought his authority into disrepute over his “inept” handling of a ...
19 April 2013
A pothole survey undertaken by a national warranty specialist has revealed that Ches-hire is one of the worst places for the...