News in Alsager

Alsager School was pleased to support a recent mass training programme for volunteer vaccinators being held at Staffordshire University.

St John's Ambulance have been running training sessions for volunteer vaccinators and as part of this, every candidate must complete CPR training.

The North Staffs Community Rail Partnership are "delighted" that EMR has reinstated the service for Alsager because it means so "much for the local community".

From 16 May 2021 East Midlands Railway (EMR) will reinstate their hourly service at Alsager Station.

A development that would "improve" water entering watercourses which would deal with increased wastewater due to increases in population in Alsager and its surrounding areas has been approved.

United Utilities applied for installation of infrastructure to facilitate improvements at the Alsager Wastewater Treatment Works on Hassall Road, Alsager, including a change of use of land to operational land.

Key stage two pupils from Alsager Highfields wrote original stories for residents at a retirement living development in the town to read as part of the school's World Book Day story writer competition.

Residents living at the McCarthy Stone development, The Oaks, selected the winners of the primary school's competition.

Developers who attempted to remove a planning condition compelling them to contribute more than £32,000 for primary education have withdrawn their application.

Pembroke Homes and Nicola Jane Beach gained outline permission to build 16 homes on land to the rear of 68, Close Lane, Alsager, in March 2018, when Cheshire East Council did not have a five-year housing land supply.

Residents have the opportunity to say thanks to their pets by entering them into the very-first 'cutest pet' competition, organised by Alsager Rotary.

Our pets have really helped us during lockdown and have never been fitter after all the extra walks.

A couple from Alsager recently featured on a classic car TV show where they bought a "bigger" motorbike and sidecar to accommodate their little dog Dexter.

Bangers and Cash is a TV programme about the Mathewson's family auction business in Yorkshire and their passion for classic cars.

A group which has expanded the number of volunteers they have from a dozen to around 200 in just 12 months due to Covid-19, has been recognised for its 'great and valuable service' to the Alsager community.

Liz Pinkney, founder and volunteer manager at Alsager Community Support (ACS), and the volunteers at ACS were recently presented with one of only five annual awards for volunteering by the High Sheriff of Cheshire, Nicolas Hopkinson MBE, DL.

Cheshire's Covid-19 vaccine roll-out "remains on track" to meet national deadlines, according to one senior NHS official.

That's according to Clare Watson, Accountable Officer of NHS Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), the body running the vaccine programme in the county.

A housing developer who is in daily contact with a couple from Alsager has claimed they will do 'everything' to resolve any flooding issues on the land they own.

Nub News recently reported that an Alsager couple who are currently staying in a holiday home having endured a flooding nightmare at their idyllic cottage for the last 16 months, are at their "wits end".