News in Sandbach

Suspected criminals are to be shown the yellow card in Cheshire with a clear message – you're not welcome here!

The new Op Yellow Card initiative allows Police who suspect someone is carrying out criminal activity to issue them with a warning card.

Cheshire East is to begin talks with council staff and unions about new working practices in a bid to cut costs.

But an Alsager councillor has urged caution saying other issues such as the correct working environment and efficient IT need to be considered.

Middlewich residents are to stage two peaceful protests against Cheshire East Council's 'neglect' of their town, claiming it is fast becoming the 'dumping ground' in the borough.

About 70 people packed into the public meeting at the Turnpike on Warmingham Lane last night to 'fight for Middlewich' and discuss how best to hold the council to account.

Bradford-based Morrisons has opened a Morrisons Daily in Sandbach.

The store, in Sandbec Way, is one of 300 MCColl's convenience stores to be changed into the Morrisons Daily format.

Car parking charges look set to be introduced in Middlewich, Sandbach, Alsager and other Cheshire East towns which are free at the moment.

Sunday charging is also on the cards, with Cheshire East planning to introduce a flat £1 rate for stays longer than an hour across all council-owned paying car parks in the borough on Sundays and Bank Holidays.

RESIDENTS of the former Beechmere care home say they feel "abandoned" although a contractor has now been appointed for the £26 million rebuild of the complex which was destroyed by fire two years ago.

Your Housing Group (YHG) says a change in ownership has delayed construction work at the site in Rolls Avenue, where some of the residents would like to return.

Police have revealed that a missing 72-year-old man from near Sandbach has been found.

Lewis Gwilym Owen, known as Gwilym, went missing at around 5.10pm from his Holmes Chapel home at around 5.10pm on Friday.

CHESHIRE'S emergency health and care system is under huge pressure and a plan is being drawn up to help cope with the winter months as hospital targets are missed.

Dr Andrew Wilson, vice chair of the Cheshire East health and wellbeing board, and a GP at Sandbach's Ashfields Primary Care Centre, says health care leaders and council chiefs in the borough are planning for a surge in flu and respiratory viruses when winter hits to add to the problems of Covid-19.

CHESHIRE'S emergency health and care system is under huge pressure and a plan is being drawn up to help cope with the winter months as hospital targets are missed.

Dr Andrew Wilson, vice chair of the Cheshire East health and wellbeing board, and a GP at Sandbach's Ashfields Primary Care Centre says health care leaders and council chiefs in the borough are planning for a surge in flu and respiratory viruses when winter hits to add to the problems of Covid-19.

Motorists on the M6 northbound near Sandbach are still facing long delays a week after a HGV lorry driver collided with a railway bridge and died.

Queuing traffic has remained a daily occurrence since the accident last Tuesday due repairs to the bridge meaning the closure of lanes.