News in Alsager

Following a successful inspection, an Alsager bar has been selected as a local Covid-19 vaccination centre.

The SMASH Care Community group, which helps coordinate community healthcare across the local area (Sandbach, Middlewich, Alsager, Scholar Green and Haslington), is working together with Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group and Cheshire East Council to deliver the Covid-19 vaccination to their patients.

Now that we've left 2020 behind, we are looking forward to what the new year will hopefully bring after the latest lockdown.

We can't wait to continue to spread the good word of our community and report on the stories that matter to you in 2021.

All care home residents in Alsager should receive their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine by the end of January, a local health group has said.

The SMASH Care Community group, which helps coordinate community healthcare across the local area (Sandbach, Middlewich, Alsager, Scholar Green and Haslington), is expected to get its first batches of the vaccines on Thursday (7 January).

Cheshire East Council has responded to the prime minister's announcement of tougher Covid-19 restrictions, by recognising that the lockdown is needed as a national response to the rapid spread of the virus.

These new measures mean that schools and colleges across Cheshire East are now closed to most pupils, except for vulnerable children and children of critical workers and are unlikely to reopen until after the February half term at the earliest.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson addressed the nation laying out new national lockdown plans.

In an address to the nation at 8pm on Monday evening, the PM set out 'further steps' - after existing tiers currently in place have failed to prevent the spread of coronavirus that has been driven by a new variant.

Philip Williams, an Alsager town and Cheshire East councillor, took over from Peter Hirst as chair of the Congleton Constituency Liberal Democrats on New Years Day.

This follows the election of new executive officers at the party's Congleton Constituency AGM on 27 November.

The Alsager Rotary presidential 'baton' has now been handed over to me (Lynn Spooner) until the end of June 2022.

A long way off I know but as Kate Jepson and I agreed, it was in the club's best interest that we do eighteen months each due to the unusual circumstances that we found ourselves in at the end of March this year.

An Alsager-based GP practice will start Covid-19 vaccinations within the next fortnight.

Health chiefs are not naming the practice until they start providing jabs, but say its inclusion is part of a "significant expansion" in the roll out of the coronavirus vaccine across Cheshire.

COUNCIL planning chiefs have launched an investigation into a raft of complaints from residents about an Alsager trading estate.

Cheshire East Council says it is in discussion with the owner at Excalibur Industrial Trading Estate about the number of CCTV cameras installed on site. It is also looking into light pollution issues after residents complained their homes were being illuminated by the glare of floodlights.

POLICE are warning people to keep their New Year's Eve celebrations in Alsager firmly at home after the move to tier four restrictions.

To prevent the spread of coronavirus, Cheshire Police say it vital that residents stay at home and don't mix with other households, except where there are exemptions such as childcare and 'bubbles'.