News in Sandbach

A new group has been formed to help return Sandbach Cemetery to its former glory and ensure it flies the flag for the town.

Sandbach Partnership has initiated the setting up of the Friends of Sandbach Cemetery group which held its inaugural meeting yesterday.

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Police have reissued their appeal for witnesses to a serious accident involving a time trial cyclist in a village near Sandbach at the weekend.

Darren Maironis, aged 48 and from Tyldesley, Greater Manchester, died on Sunday following a collision between a van and a cyclist on Chelford Road near to the junction of Bridge Lane in Goostrey.

Top rugby player, Ewan Ashman, delighted pupils at his former school when he spent the day sharing his sporting talent, talking about his life and opening the school's new top-of-the-range gym.

Ewan, who plays for Sale Sharks and has represented Scotland several times, is currently part of Scotland's 37 man squad ahead of their summer series and attended Sandbach School in his youth which has a long history of sport.

Leader of Cheshire East Council, Sam Corcoran is urging all Sandbach residents to get fully vaccinated on the first day restrictions lift.

He says the overall infection rate in Cheshire East is now 350 per 100,000 and there is a huge variation in the infection rate with the biggest figures in the 20 – 24 age group.

Patients attending Sandbach's Ashfields Primary Care Centre are being reminded they still need to wear masks and social distancing rules will still apply.

They say: "Although the Government has confirmed the lifting of restrictions from today, Ashfields PCC will NOT be changing its policy on wearing masks, and will continue to keep social distancing in the waiting area.

Recycling your soft plastics in Sandbach couldn't be easier – just collect them up and go along to Middlewich Road Co-op!

Until now, householders in the town had to throw away items such as plastic film lids on yoghurt pots, soft fruit punnets, plastic crisp packets, pasta bags and chocolate or biscuit wrappers in their black bin.

Police are appealing for witnesses after a cyclist died following a collision not far from Sandbach at the weekend.

Shortly before 4pm on Saturday police received reports of a serious collision between a van and a cyclist on Chelford Road near to the junction of Bridge Lane in Goostrey.

A Sandbach teacher has won Teacher of the Year and one of his students "Best Innovation" award in a prestigious science, technology and engineering competition set up by TV presenter Maggie Philbin.

Dan Massey, Technology Curriculum lead at Sandbach High School and Sixth Form College and pupil 17 year-old Amelia Paton scooped the awards in this year's TeenTech competition which attracted 14,000 entries.