News in Alsager

A water company is carrying out a full repair on a leaky sewer in Alsager which has previously resulted in wastewater and excrement pouring from a manhole cover.

United Utilities' engineers have been on Talke Road, Alsager, near the Brook Villas Sheltered Accommodation, carrying out "immediate works to end unplanned interruption of supply or service" to residents.

Alsager Community Support Centre are now able to offer a "limited number" of lateral flow Covid-19 tests at the Alsager Civic.

The tests are strictly for people who have no Covid-19 symptoms and are available by appointment only, with results provided within 30 minutes.

The SMASH Primary Care Network (PCN) will only have one Covid-19 vaccination clinic this week which will be at the Middlewich site.

However, the PCN is expected to have a batch of Pfizer at Middlewich and both Pfizer and AstraZeneca at Alsager, so they are hoping to run three clinics at Middlewich and four at Alsager.

Plans for a temporary remote compound at land opposite Alsager's existing water treatment plan, which includes 10m of hedgerow being removed to construct a temporary access to the site, has been approved.

The application site is comprised of part of a field opposite the Alsager Wastewater Treatment Works on Hassall Road, Alsager.

A water company has claimed that excrement and wastewater poured from a manhole cover in Alsager because the sewer was damaged by a "third party".

United Utilities' engineers were sent to Talke Road, Alsager, last night (Monday) following reports of raw sewage flooding out of a manhole cover and onto the pavement.

MOTORISTS are being warned to stay clear of the M6 in South Cheshire after two collisions this afternoon.

Both northbound and southbound carriageways have been shut between junctions 18 (Middlewich/Holmes Chapel) down to junction 16 (Crewe/Stoke-on-Trent), following collisions, one of which has seen a van driver rushed to hospital and the other a fuel tanker spill its load.

Police are appealing for information following a suspicious incident in Alsager.

At around 6pm on 15 February a 16-year-old girl was walking onto Audley Road from the alleyway at the top of Meadow Croft when she became aware of a man behind her.

A primary school in Alsager has supported the mental health and well-being of their pupils during the Covid-19 pandemic through digital technology.

Excalibur Primary School signed up to Discovery Education Health and Relationships – a digital PSHE programme which helps students to learn about mental health and how to deal with change.

A HEALTH chief has hailed the "heroic effort" to protect Cheshire's most vulnerable residents from coronavirus and signalled the determination to drive a reduction in health inequalities via the vaccine roll-out.

All over 70s, frontline health and care staff, older care home residents and people classed as clinically extremely vulnerable have now been offered a Covid-19 vaccination – less than 10 weeks after Mona Thomas, 92, became the first person to receive a Covid-19 vaccination in Cheshire.

As we approach the February half term, a time when many of us would usually have been looking forward to a short-break away, the impact on the industry and the economy from the loss of tourism again comes into sharp focus.

Millions of jobs and local economies depend on tourism right across the country and businesses have lost many months of vital trading.