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The Swettenham Arms www.danesidetheatre.co.uk

The Scouts and Guides of Congleton present

Saturday 26th November to Saturday 3rd December

Nightly at 7.15 p.m. Matinee on Saturday, 3rd December at 2.15 pm.

Daneside Theatre, Congleton

Tickets from Congleton T.I.C. 01260 271095 or phone 01260 299264

SEATS AVAILABLE ALL PERFORMANCES

SATURDAY, 10th DECEMBER

7.30 p.m.

BRASS and CAROLS

Presented by Rotary Club of Congleton Dane Tickets: Congleton Tourist Information Centre 01260 271095

(all proceeds going to local charities)

FILM AT THE DANESIDE SUNDAY, 11th DECEMBER at 7.00 p.m.

TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY

Director: Tomas Alfredson

Stars: Gary Oldman, Colin Firth and Tom Hardy In the 1970s during the Cold War, the head of British Intelligence, Control, believed one of four senior figures in the service was a Russian, a mole, and an operation in Hungary was an attempt to identify him, but it goes wrong. Smiley, forced into retirement by the departure of Control, is asked by a senior government figure to investigate. Smiley considers that the failure of the Hungary operation and the continuing success of Operation Witchcraft

(a source of Soviet Intelligenece) confirms a mole and his task is to find him. Smiley obtains information that eventually leads him to the agent at the heart of the Hungary fiasco. He then puts together the pieces of the puzzle to identify the mole.

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BOSTOCKSSat.26thNov.YorkChristmasMarkets(B)............................................................£15.25Sun.27thNov.BakewellChristmasMarket(B).......................................................£11.50Thurs.1stDec.BirminghamChristmasMarket&CraftsFair(B)............................£15.25Sat.3rdDec.BlackpoolChristmasShopping(B).................................................£13.75Sun.4thDec.LiverpoolChristmasMarketsorCityCentreShopping..................£12.50Wed.7thDec.TraffordCentre(B).............................................................................£9.75Sat.10thDec.ChesterChristmasMarketsorCityCentreShopping(B)..............£12.00Sun.11thDec.TraffordCentre(B).............................................................................£9.75Sat.17thDec.BoltonShoppingorMarket(B)........................................................£11.50Tues.27thDec.Bournemouth(B)-4days.............................................................£159.00Wed.28thDec."Cinderella"ManchesterOperaHouse(B)Mat..............................£37.75Sat.31stDec.NewYearinLondon(B)-3days..................................................£189.00Thurs.5thJan.ManchesterOperaHouse"LordoftheDance"(B)........................£51.00Sat.7thJan."Scrooge"ManchesterLowry-Matinee.........................................£49.50Sat.14thJan."Panto'sonStrike"PaddyMcGuiness,ManchesterOperaHouse(B)Eve.................................................£41.00Fri.20thJan."StrictlyComeDancing"BirminghamNIA(B)Eve.........................£68.00Sun.5thFeb."StrictlyComeDancing"LiverpoolEcho(B)Mat............................£66.50Fri.10thFeb."Happy&Glorious"ManchesterBridgewaterHall(B)Eve............£44.50Feb-MarchVariousdates"Oliver"ManchesterPalace(B).............................from£56.00Thurs.22ndMar."CalendarGirls"ManchesterOperaHouse(B)Mat.......................£35.00Wed.18thApril"MidnightTango"ManchesterOperaHouse(B)OAPMat............£28.00AprilVariousdates"ThePhantomoftheOpera"ManchesterPalace(B).......from£61.00Wed.20thJune"IDreamedaDream"ManchesterPalace(B)OAPM..................£27.50*AdmissionExtra(B)FeedercoachfromandtoBiddulph:ChildPricesavailable.

Spragg Street Garage, Congleton. Tel: 01260 273108

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Thriller Night! Michael Jackson Tribute Friday 23rd December

Sensational act featuring ‘Thriller’,

‘Billie Jean’, and ‘Beat It’ with festive lighting and superb atmosphere in the Lovell Suite. The perfect party night for friends and work colleagues. Book now - limited tickets available! £25.00 pp including Christmas Buffet.

New Year’s Eve Luxury Gala Dinner

Enjoy canapés and a glass of bubbly on arrival. After a decadent 3 course dinner followed by coffee, you can welcome 2012 in in style and razzle dazzle the night away until the early hours at our fantastic festive disco. All for just £65 pp!

Festive Dining & Parties

Our delicious Christmas Fayre Menu,

atmosphere will be available for your enjoyment throughout the festive period -

3 delicious courses for just £27.50 pp!

Call 01477 571284 Email info@swettenhamarms.co.uk Swettenham Village, Near Congleton, Cheshire, CW12 2LF

THE COACH & HORSES

(Fair House) Timbersbrook. Tel. 01260 273019 Come and enjoy a friendly atmosphere and Log Fires WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY EVENINGS

A full menu plus freshly cooked specials As from 1st December - Sample our Christmas Menu at £15.95 for three courses or £10.95 for two courses

Served lunchtime Tuesday to Sunday 12.00 - 2.30.

Also on Wednesday and Thursday evenings. PARTIES CAN BE CATERED AT LUNCHTIME

AND EVENINGS

Saturday Night is still our ever popular Pie Night

With a selection of ten different pies with chips or mash, peas or mushy peas and gravy at only £5.00 per person. For bookings please telephone either Jon or Margaret on 01260 273019 Also visit our website www.thefairhouse.co.uk

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Call 01625 427558

St. Stephen’s Christmas Fair SATURDAY, 3rd DECEMBER, 2011

CONGLETON TOWN HALL

10.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m. CAROLS FROM RODE HALL SILVER BAND GRAND RAFFLE, PRIZE TOMBOLA,CAKES, BOTTLE STALL,

JEWELLERY, TOILETRIES, SOFT TOYS, TOMBOLA NEARLY NEW STALL, WHITE ELEPHANT, BOOKS, ETC

With ideas for Christmas Gifts

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H O L I D A Y S

C O A C H M A R Q U E

HOLIDAYS

Saturday, 10th December Lincoln and York Week-end, Forest Pines Hotel, HB - 2 days................................................................................... £82.00 Friday, 23rd December Brighton at Christmas, Barcelo Old Ship Hotel, HB - 5 days................................................................................. £439.00 Saturday, 24th December Christmas in Jersey, Monterey Hotel, HB - 4 days............... £599.00 Tuesday, 27th December Harrogate Twixmas, Cairn Hotel, HB - 4 days ..................... £169.00 Friday, 30th December Medieval Middle England New Year, Walton Hotel, HB - 4 days................................................................................. £329.00 Saturday, 7th January London Sales Week-end, Holiday Inn, Elstree, HB - 2 days.. £79.00 Saturday, 14th January York Week-end, Burn Hall Hotel, HB - 2 days........................ £69.00 Friday, 27th January Delightful Dorset, Sherbourne Hotel, HB - 3 days .................. £99.00

Featured Holidays

Friday, 23rd December Enjoy Christmas in a beautiful 4* hotel on the seafront in Brighton. With fabulous entertainment throughout your trip you're sure to have a marvellous time. Old Ship Hotel, HB - 5 days ..................................................... £439.00

Our full holiday programme is available at www.bakersholidays.com

AWAYDAYS

Book and pay for your day trip two or more weeks in advance and receive a 10% discount from the coach fare. Cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer or Trips Saturday, 26th November Bristol Christmas Market...................................... 2 for £34.00.. £17.50 Tuesday, 29th November Lancashire Mills - Oswaldtwistle & Boundary Mills................ £12.50 Friday, 2nd December *Shugborough Candlelit Christmas Evening ............................. £19.50 Saturday, 3rd December Lincoln Christmas Market .................................... 2 for £34.00.. £17.50 Saturday, 3rd December Worcester Christmas Market ................................ 2 for £28.00.. £14.50 Sunday, 4th December Leeds Christkindel Market and City Centre........ 2 for £26.00.. £14.00 Friday, 9th December Evening Trafford Centre .................................................................£9.50 Saturday, 10th December Warwick Castle at Christmas - A Royal Week-end Upstairs and Downstairs Secrets and Scandals .......................... £23.00

Featured Awayday

Saturday, 17th December *"Scrooge" at the Lowry with Tommy Steele............................ £52.00

Child prices available on request.

*Admission Included. **Admission not included. #Bakers Quick Getaway.

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TO BOOK CALL FREE ON - 0800 298 0 498

The Bleeding Wolf

Public House and Restaurant, Scholar Green, Cheshire. Tel: 01782 782272 Traditional and Speciality Fayre served Lunch and Evening, all day Saturday and Sunday

TRADITIONAL SUNDAY CARVERY

12.00 noon till 3.00 p.m. Full Menus also served.

EVERY TUESDAY

NATIONALITY STEAK EVENING

WEDNESDAY LUNCH TIME SENIOR CITIZENS’ SPECIAL MENU

Quiz this Sunday, 8.30 p.m. With new Play Your Cards Right round

Randy - Motown Singer On Saturday, 10th December - Free Admission GIFT VOUCHERS NOW AVAILABLE We are able to cater for all of your corporate/private functions P8051h iddulphMethodis tC hu r c h

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Christmas Fayre

Saturday, 3rd December

9.30 a.m. - 1.00 p.m. Toys, Bric-a-Brac, Crafts

Refreshments and Home-made produce

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Christmas starts here!

Mossley School Parent Teachers Association

Registered Charity Number 1042267

CHRISTMAS FAIR Grand Prize Draw Santa’s Grotto Sweets Face Painting Football Game

Lucky Dip Tombola & Bottle Stall Cakes Jewellery Chocolate Fountain

Barbecue Lots of Gift Stalls Bar

Opened at 6.00 p.m. on Friday, 2nd December in the School Hall

Free Admission

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More Public Notices — page 73 Standing firm against bid for homes before health centre plans

By Chris Young The NHS needs to guarantee that a health centre will be built in Scholar Green before the development of a housing estate.

But a spokesman for housing developers Gladedale, has revealed that plans for the health centre have not even been drawn up yet.

To remove this condition will remove this guarantee. We could end up with houses but no new health centre. Residents were promised they would get a health centre first, and there is a more pressing need for a health centre than houses.”

Alison Freeman, representing Gladedale, tried to re-assure the committee that the health centre was still going to be built, saying: “We don’t want to break away from the health centre at all. We will retain the land for the health centre for perpetuity. This is not an application to remove the medical centre.”

The latest twist in the ongoing saga of the health centre plans, which would replace the existing doctor’s surgery on Cinderhill Lane, were discussed by Cheshire East Council’s Southern Planning Committee on Wednesday.

In 2009, Congleton Borough Council gave lanning permission for the surgery and 56 houses on a site off Portland Drive, on the condition that the health centre was completed before the houses were occupied.

However, NHS funding was delayed, leaving the project in limbo. This summer Gladedale asked the council if the condition linking the houses to the health centre could be removed.

The Planning Committee didn’t agree and deferred a decision because it wanted more information about when money would be available to actually uild the health centre. A group of Scholar Green residents have since praised the committee for not bowing to developers.

Odd Rode Coun Rhoda Bailey spoke against the latest application at Wednesday’s meeting.

She said: “Congleton Borough Council imposed this condition to guarantee delivery.

She said that although NHS funding had finally been secured, paperwork will take six months to complete, and it could take another year after that before work actually started.

She said Gladedale needed to move ahead with the houses, but the current condition did not allow that. “The condition says we have to submit details of materials the health centre will be built from before we can build the houses, but it hasn’t even been designed yet.”

When Coun Simon McGrory asked why it was so important the houses are built now, Mrs Freeman responded: “We feel now is the time to get them built and occupied. Gladedale needs to make a living. They are a company that has suffered badly during the recession.”

Planning officer David Malcolm, who worked for Congleton Borough Council when the approval was made, said the conditions were imposed because of public objections to the housing. He said a lot had change since that approval was granted, and the council now needed more houses built, adding: “To get any developer building on a site is encouraging.”

Coun Janet Clowes said: “I am extremely concerned about this. I can fully understand why residents want the health centre built first.

“The fact that the developers want to keep land for the health centre in perpetuity is laudable.”

Coun Michael Jones said: “We have to be very careful here.

People in the village didn’t want the houses. What message are we sending to people in terms of developers going ahead and having any conditions they don’t want removed later? It is a very difficult situation.”

Coun Andrew Thwaite was on the committee that approved the plan in 2009. He said: “Without the medical centre, we wouldn’t have approved this plan. The medical centre was key to the site, but that was when we had a surplus of housing.”

Coun McGrory added: “I feel disappointed and let down for the people of Scholar Green that this health centre may not now happen for them.”

Coun Clowes added: “If the NHS can’t provide evidence that the funding is coming, then this application can’t go ahead.”

Coun David Marren asked Mr Malcolm: “Stepping into the shoes of the residents, the application is for houses and a health centre, and now the health centre might never be built. Can you assure us this situation can’t possible take place?”

Mr Malcolm responded: “No, I can’t assure you that. There is the commitment from developers, and we all want a health centre there. We want what residents want, but we as a planning committee can’t fund a health centre.”

Coun Clowes put forward a motion to defer the decision until more information on funding was available from the primary care trust. The rest of the committee agreed, and a decision will now be made at a future meeting.

Following the meeting, the Scholar Green Greenfield Association issued a statement saying: “Residents had feared the council would give way to the housing developer’s demands but are pleased that councillors have insisted on a cast iron guarantee the health centre would be delivered before any houses were occupied.

“We question whether the PCT are in a position to provide such a guarantee. In October 2008 they stated that construction would commence ‘early in the new year’. Since then they have issued numerous start dates all of which have failed to materialise.”

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CHRONICLE FEATURE

Repeat prescriptions can now be delivered

The Prescription Centre is a new and innovative service for ordering repeat prescriptions throughout Congleton, Biddulph, Scholar Green and surrounding rural areas without leaving home.

Established by Congleton businessman and long-term pharmacist Steve Bell, The Prescription Centre brings a fast and reliable prescription service to the community, providing a free ordering, collection and delivery service from the GP surgeries in the area.

Mr Bell explained: “I have been a pharmacist in the town for more than seven years and have seen how important healthcare provision is to the local community.

“This new service will make obtaining your repeat prescriptions much more convenient in the future.”

Customers can order their prescriptions online or by phone and arrange a prescription delivery that fits their schedule.

Whether customers work full time and struggle to get to a chemist or cannot travel into the town centre, The Prescription Centre will order the prescription and tailor delivery to each person’s needs.

Clients can also collect prescriptions from the pharmacy at a time to suit them and access a wide variety of free NHS services.

“As we are part of an established community pharmacy, we offer free healthcare advice,” added Mr Bell.

“If customers need to discuss medication or feel under the weather, a pharmacist is always contactable for advice throughout the day.”

For further information or to order a prescription, call Mossley Pharmacy on 01260 275177 or go online to mossleypharmacy.co.uk thePRESCRIPTIONcentre 01260275177

ONLINE REPEAT PRESCRIPTION SERVICE

Order your repeat prescriptions online. Its easy to to do and you can also get text & email reminders.

FREE DELIVERY SERVICE

surgeries covered • Congleton • Biddulph • Scholar Green www.mossleypharmacy.co.uk Mossley Pharmacy.18 Biddulph Rd, Mossley, Congleton, Cheshire CW12 3LG. TEL: 01260 275177

Children’s services perform well: Ofsted

Cheshire East Council’s children’s services department is “performing well” according to a new report from Ofsted.

In its annual assessment, the national watchdog said the council had managed to sustain the good performance it achieved in 2010.

It added: “The large majority of settings and institutions are good or better and the very large majority of provision helps children and young people to learn and stay safe.”

The annual assessment derives from a four-point scale. Local authorities are judged to e performing poorly (1), performing adequately (2), performing well (3), or performing excellently (4).

A recent full inspection of safeguarding and services for looked-after children, judged oth areas to be adequate. The report identified a number of strengths:

through the education system;

● for young people staying in education or training, the large majority of provision was good or outstanding;

● the overall effectiveness of special school provision continued to be strong;

● the large majority of services for looked after children were good.

There were areas where Ofsted thought improvements could be made.

These involved focusing on young people from low-income families, tackling persistent absence from secondary schools and improving certain areas of safeguarding procedures.

Coun Hilda Gaddum, Cabinet member with responsibility for children, said: “I am delighted that Ofsted has recognised the good work that is being carried out to help ensure the best possible outcomes for children and young people in Cheshire East.

● a high proportion of nurseries, primary schools and secondary schools were judged good or outstanding;

● strong academic performance continued for most children and young people as they moved

“We are aware that certain areas can be improved upon and this is where we will be concentrating our efforts going forward.”

For more information, go to ofsted.gov.uk

Car owner fined

Matthew John Kelly, (41), of 1, Jasmine Crescent, Newchapel, has been fined £100 for a technical motoring offence.

Kelly was not present but had pleaded guilty to a charge that on 16th January he was the registered keeper of a Vauxhall car and failed to deliver to the secretary of state that part of the registration document containing the required particulars relating to the notification of transfer of the vehicle to a person who was not a vehicle trader.

He was ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £15 and costs of £60 when the case was dealt with by North Staffordshire Magistrates’ Court on 10th November.

R, he’s so lucky

A mystery Lotto Plus5 winner, known only as Mr R from Cheshire, has scooped a £250,000 top prize without ever touching a ticket.

He matched all six on 1st November by playing through one of the interactive channels — national-lottery.co.uk or Play by Text.