A STAUNCH campaigner has cranked up his one-man protest against the Northwich GPs’ surgery he blames for his wife’s deteriorating health.
Ivan Blacka has camped outside Firdale Medical Centre with his growing collection of home-made placards “three or four times a week” since The Chronicle first reported his fight with the health authorities in early January.
BOSSES of one of the UK’s leading disabled sports centres have warned they could be forced to close if their £6m relocation plan isn’t given the go-ahead by planners.
Plans to move the Crewe-based Cheshire Academy of Integrated Sports and Arts look likely to be thrown out by the borough council tomorrow, despite a petition of more than 2,000 signatures and 340 letters in support.
LEIGHTON Hospital midwives are celebrating after winning one of the UK’s top midwifery awards.
Patricia Hann, Susan Atherton, Liz Thompson, Nicky Lewsley and Mandy Stenson work out of the Crewe hospital’s Maternity Unit.
The team of Children’s Centre midwives aims to improve access to health services and the quality of care for pregnant women across Cheshire.
RESIDENTS enjoyed a unique opportunity to see the latest life-saving technology at Sandbach Rugby Club.\n\nThe North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) held a manufacturers' exhibition at the Bradwall Road club where NWAS staff, patients and the public were invited to run the rule over the latest equipment and
THE major measles outbreak in South and Mid Cheshire during the last three months of 2008 accounted for the majority of cases of the disease confirmed in the North West, figures have revealed.\n\nThe figures published by the Health Protection Agency (HPA) showed that in the country as a whole, 1,348 cases were confirmed in 2008, up from 990 in 2007.