News in Congleton

A number of Congleton organisations and groups were given a financial boost after councillors agreed to support numerous grant applications.

At Thursday's Congleton Town Council meeting of Finance and Policy Committee, councillors considered several grant applications.

A permanent Christmas tree to mark the celebration of life that will be illuminated annually and planted near the cenotaph has received financial support from Congleton Town Council.

At last Thursday's Congleton Town Council meeting of Finance and Policy Committee, councillors discussed a £500 grant application from Congleton Rotary, which would go towards the cost of the 'Tree of Light'.

GREEN belt in Cheshire East will be protected after land allocated for housing was removed from the borough council's Local Plan.

After the planning blueprint was approved in 2017 the authority has been working on its second part, known as the site allocations and development policies document (SADPD)

Cheshire East will make a decision on the borough's Christmas Lights Switch-On events at the "appropriate time".

To mark the start of the 2019 festivities, Congleton's popular annual event was held on 23rd November and the town centre was brimming with Christmas cheer as residents came out in their thousands.

After much discussion, councillors agreed to contribute £140 towards a Gawsworth project due to over a quarter of the group's current members living in the Congleton area.

The 1st Gawsworth Girls Brigade applied for a £250 grant, which would allow them to provide individual packs to each member to enable social distancing on return to physical group attendance.

Cheshire Police say their wanted week of action was a "great success" with suspects being locked up for a range of offences.

From Monday 7 September, officers and staff from local policing units, the Special Constabulary and specialist departments from across the force concentrated their efforts and combined their expertise to track down people suspected of committing crimes in the county.

Residents and businesses across Cheshire are being urged to only get a Covid-19 test if they have symptoms of the virus.

There has been a huge increase in the number of people seeking a test for coronavirus, partly due to the return of schools and the testing of international travellers. This has put a strain on the laboratories which process the tests.

It looks unlikely that Cheshire East will be deploying any covid-secure marshals to help residents social distance in the borough's town centres for the time being.

When asked if the authority planned to bring in any marshals, a CEC spokesperson told the LDRS: "The prime minister announced last week that Covid-secure marshals will be introduced in towns and city centres in England to help ensure social distancing rules are followed.

Astbury Mere Care Home have introduced a new activity for their residents twice a month drawing on their tender memories from childhood and a shared fondness for all things sweet.

Every other Friday, the care home's leisure and wellness team have been visiting residents in their rooms with an ice cream trolley as part of 'Ice Cream Fridays'.

Emergency services attended a two-vehicle collision involving a van and a car in Congleton.

At 12pm today (14 September), Cheshire Police were called to a two-vehicle collision on Galloway Green, Congleton, at its junction with Macclesfield Road.