News in Alsager

Homeowners at McCarthy and Stone's The Oaks Retirement Living development in Alsager recently received stories from the upper and lower Key Stage 2 pupils from a local primary school.

Residents from The Oaks enjoyed receiving stories from pupils at Alsager Highfields Community Primary School as part of a short story competition.

An organiser of an unattended memorial held in Alsager at the weekend to highlight the issue of murder and violence towards women was "incredibly moved" by the number of messages and tributes.

Across Saturday and Sunday, women as part of permitted outdoor recreation placed ribbons, flowers and pebbles on or near the railings at Milton Park.

A reserved matters application for 16 houses in Alsager has been submitted by an applicant who wanted to build 750 houses on White Moss Quarry.

Lee Dawkin, of Renew Land Developments Limited, has submitted a reserved matters application relating to the outline residential development for 16 dwellings at land adjacent to 68, Close Lane, Alsager.

Alsager Highfields Primary School gratefully received a kind donation of laptop devices from Asda supermarkets.

The Alsager branch nominated Highfields to receive these devices (including headphones, data and wireless internet connection) in a national 'Laptops for Schools' programme Asda was running in partnership with Dell and Vodafone.

Virgin Media has connected 2,500 homes in Alsager to its ultrafast broadband network which will bring the UK's 'fastest' widely available speeds to the area.

As part of its 'Project Lightning' network expansion programme, Virgin Media is expanding its ultrafast broadband network across the UK, bringing average top speeds of more than 600Mbps to residents and small businesses.

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

At around 3.15pm yesterday, (Thursday, 18th March) a 12-year-old boy was walking along a track just off Lodge Road and Sandbach Road North when he was approached by a man.

A resident is planning on covering 220 miles around Alsager during March through a combination of running and walking to raise money for a charity that helps young people battle mental health.

Emily Jackson decided to set herself a goal to lose weight after being at her "all time heaviest", but she wanted to raise money in the process and donate to Visyon.

A popular wine bar in Alsager town centre has submitted licensing plans to play music and sell alcohol for an extra hour on Sunday nights.

Fifty Five Degrees, on Crewe Road, Alsager, has submitted a request to Cheshire East Council for a variation to their premises licence.

Officers are currently investigating a report of a man approaching a 12-year-old boy as he walked home from Alsager School on Hassall Road.

An Alsager Police spokesperson said: "While our enquiries continue, we're encouraging parents and children to be extra vigilant.

Congleton Constituency Conservatives Association (CCCA) have welcomed the decision by East Midlands Railway (EMR) to reinstate hourly train services in Alsager.

Following the announcement that services for Alsager would be reduced, residents, Alsager Town Council and Congleton Constituency's MP campaigned for the service to be reintroduced – applying pressure on East Midlands Trains.