News in Sandbach

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 the long term proposal was that, as local cemeteries became full, families would be expected to bury their loved ones in Crewe or Macclesfield.

A MAN charged with a drugs offence after a cocaine seizure near Sandbach has appeared in court.

Thomas Conway, of no current fixed address from Crewe, appeared at Chester Magistrates' Court on Friday accused of possession with intent to supply cocaine.

Police are appealing for information to help find a missing 72-year-old man from near Sandbach.

And they are asking people to check their sheds and any outbuildings in a bid to track the man down who has been missing since Friday.

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Crowds turned out to cheer The Tour of Britain as it passed through Cheshire East and near Sandbach today for stage five of the cycle race.

It is the first time the race has come through Cheshire East since 2016 when the borough hosted the whole stage from start to finish.

Crowds turned out to cheer The Tour of Britain as it passed through Cheshire East and near Sandbach today for stage five of the cycle race.

It is the first time the race has come through Cheshire East since 2016 when the borough hosted the whole stage from start to finish.

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According to a councillor, Cheshire East is owed a whopping £23m in unpaid council tax.

Figures obtained by the Local Democracy Reporting Service from a Freedom of Information Request (FOI) reveal £23,248,962 is still owed, including those from households in Sandbach.

Firefighters used breathing apparatus to tackle a fire on the first floor of a house in Ettiley Heath today.

Six fire engines from Crewe. Middlewich, Holmes Chapel, Congleton, Stockton Heath, Nantwich and an aerial appliance from Lymm were called to the blaze in Coleridge Close at 11.45 am.