News in Congleton

Tomorrow will be a bonus day for all with it being a leap year, but especially for those who visit Congleton Town Centre.

To mark the leap year and the end of the Fiver Fest Fortnight, many shops and businesses in Congleton are participating in the first Congleton Bonus Day.

Residents have the opportunity to meet Congleton Town councillors to discuss issues of concern tomorrow.

Liberal Democrat councillors Robert Hemsley and Suzy Firkin met and spoke to residents about a range of topics at the first of the Congleton town councillor surgeries, held on 25th January.

Congleton residents and businesses have been encouraged to plant trees with just a month of this year's planting season remaining.

Cheshire East Council has announced that more than 6,000 trees are planned to be planted across the borough during this planting season (ending March 2020).

Congleton Unplugged is back with a bang and kicks off tomorrow at the Congleton Cricket Club.

The seventh annual music festival is back for three weekends and brings music events for everyone.

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.