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Crewe blog (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Here’s a follow-up to last weekend’s unusual goings-on at Crewe Station. The BodyCartography Project (USA) and Cheshire Dance joined together to redefine and explore what many consider to be one of the UK’s iconic railway stations. Put simply, a dazzling array of dance, film and music was staged across the station’s platforms. Impressive stuff, albeit a tad highbrow depending on your outlook. The
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Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
WILLASTON eased through the Umbro Cheshire County FA Amateur Cup first round with a scintillating display of attacking football at Crewe outfit Bentley.
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Crewe blog (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
Last Wednesday a group of around 20 local businesses met at the Crewe Arms Hotel. They were there to listen to the CNBC Mayor Brian Silvester talk about how council services will be affected from next April when Cheshire East assumes overall control. The Federation of Small Businesses is the largest organisation of its kind in the country, representing small and medium sized businesses and the self...
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Crewe blog (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
. For once we're not talking about whether Crewe's train station will move to Basford. Instead, there's something very different going on across the platforms and stairways later this week (25 – 29 September). The Station/Stationary project has been commissioned through the Cheshire’s Year of Gardens Spaces Programme, which is also linked via the various transport gateways to Liverpool’s Capital of...
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Crewe blog (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
On Saturday morning I waltzed over to the footy pitches behind the Peacock pub/hotel. The miniature railway fellas ( South Cheshire Model Engineering Society ) were hard at it running their dinky locos, while just over the hedge there was a serious grudge match being played out between the Motley Crewe and Port Vale supporters' teams. I only caught the first half ( there were beers to be had over Gresty...
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Crewe blog (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
Cheshire East has its new logo and I reckon most will be happy with it. Comments the other month saw many Crewe blog reader prefer the wheatsheaf option and that's the one that will adorn signs and documents across our slice of the county. In fact, the new local authority's badge depicts a wheatsheaf bending under an east wind. An impressive 2,000 questionnaires were completed online to help make the...
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Crewe blog (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Here's something that you might have heard on local radio last week. OTT gas and electric prices for the people of Stoke. Well, it's happening here in Crewe as well to people who use pre-pay meters. As a result, South Cheshire based social landlord Wulvern Housing is calling on everyone to back a campaign that aims to stop energy firms ripping off their poorest customers. Rob Allen, Director of Partnerships...
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ConservativeHome's YourPlatform (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
Eveleigh Moore-Dutton is the former parliamentary candidate for Crewe and Nantwich, a former candidate for the European Parliament and is the Executive Member for Transport and Highways on Cheshire County Council. She is also a director of a small earthmoving...
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Ciara Leeming (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
A couple of weeks back I met up with Edward Timpson, new MP for Crewe and Nantwich (Cheshire) for a feature for the Big Issue in the North. Much was made during the by-election campaign earlier this year about Timpson's privileged roots - Labour Party activists waged a toe-curling battle against him clad in top hats and tails. It backfired spectacularly and the Tory overturned a huge Labour
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Crewe blog (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
Here's a reminder about the three logos that were released by Cheshire East. Your feedback is required before a design in picked from "Hills & Water", "Wheatsheaf" and "Rising Sun". Focus groups run by Cheshire County Council have been held in Macclesfield, Congleton and Crewe to find out the views of residents, and everyone is invited to take part in the quick online questionnaire. . Councillor Dave...
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Crewe blog (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
If you thought that the local political scene would quieten down now that the by-election and Cheshire East stuff has passed, well, your wrong. The local Labour Party has started the process to select a new candidate to fight Edward Timpson for the Crewe & Nantwich seat at the next general election. David Williams ( pictured ) has decided to throw his hat into the ring. “I am committed to winning back...
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Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk - Golf (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
ARTHUR Robinson (Ashton-on-Mersey) won the Cheshire Golf Union’s Handicap Trophy at Vicars Cross with a 69 nett after a card play-off with Steve Whittall (Crewe).
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Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 31/07/2008
BORN in South Africa, she moved to England with her family when she was two years old. She was raised in Bunbury, Cheshire, and took up gymnastics at the age of seven at Crewe & Nantwich GC. Tweddle represented Great Britain under-12s before switching clubs in 1997 to work with City of Liverpool coach Amanda Kirby.
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Crewe blog (Free subscription) | 26/07/2008
If you fancy something a little different there’s a new sports club in Crewe & Nantwich and they’re looking for players. Korfball - a fast, friendly, non-contact team ball game for men and women – is up and running and based at South Cheshire College. In fact, the club trains on Tuesday nights from 7:30 to 8:45 at the college on Dane Bank Avenue ( outdoors in Summer, indoors over Winter). The rules...
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Crewe blog (Free subscription) | 25/07/2008
It's the big footy kick-off for the Alex on 9th August, but a day later Wulvern Housing will stage a knockout tournament with some cracking team prizes. They have teamed up with Crewe Athletic Football Club & Cheshire & Border Counties Football League to present a fantastic family football celebration. The event on Sunday August 10th 2008 will be held at the Cumberland Sports Arena, Crewe. The football...
