News in Congleton

Six Congleton fruit trees which have been ripped out the ground after only being planted on Saturday are safe and will be replanted.

Congleton Sustainability Group and Cheshire Wildlife Trust have formed a partnership that aims to plant more trees in Congleton.

We have compiled a list of jobs currently hiring in and around Congleton to give you a helping hand in your job hunt! --------------------SEND Practitioner- Congleton Simply Education are working with a wide variety of primary schools throughout the Cheshire area who are looking for Teaching Assistants who have SEN experience. We offer daily supply, short term, long term and permanent positions depending on what you are looking for. If this sounds like the role for you, then the key benefits for working with Simply Education are:

- Employment Benefits such as Holiday Pay, Sick Pay, Maternity/Paternity Pay, Retail Discounts, Health and Wellbeing support and guidance.

Congleton MP Fiona Bruce raised concerns of residents on the Loachbrook estate, Somerford, about outstanding works on the housing development for a second time in the House of Commons.

Bovis Homes built Loachbrook Meadows, on Sandbach Road, Somerford, and the first residents moved in around five years ago, but there are complaints that there is still much left to be done.

A Congleton Response Police Officer has seized an uninsured moped this afternoon after the vehicle failed to stop earlier in the day.

Plans to use a 200-year-old weir in Congleton to generate renewable energy have taken a massive step forward.

After nearly four years of detailed work Dane Valley Community Energy volunteers have announced the Congleton Hydro Community Share scheme is now open.

Cheshire East Council has provided latest advice to the borough's schools about the issue of pupils and staff returning from trips to Italy amid coronavirus concerns.

It follows the decisions by Sandbach High School and Brine Leas School to send pupils and staff home after they had returned from northern Italy.

Congleton residents have the chance to find out more about the planned highway changes for Padgbury Lane, at a public feedback session being held at the Quinta Primary School on Monday 2nd March from 6pm to 7.30pm.

The event has been organised by Congleton Town Council to give residents the chance to learn how Cheshire East Highways has adapted the proposed scheme for the road following the public consultation that was carried out between the 25th September and 27th October 2019.

A new website has launched to serve Congleton with hyper-local news and what's on - but without any annoying advertising.

Congleton - which can be found at the website address https://congleton.nub.news - is an online newspaper solely for Congleton and the surrounding area. We are hyper-local so our articles are about what's important for the town.

Congleton will celebrate the leap year with a Congleton Bonus Day on Saturday.

Over 20 shops and businesses in Congleton Town Centre are handing out raffle tickets to visitors who spend £5 or more in their shop on Saturday.

A Congleton road is set to be closed for 18 days as roadworks take place on the route.

Fol Hollow and Waggs Road will be shut from today and are due to reopen by Saturday March 14th.