Recap on a great year

As 2014 draws to a close, AudlemOnline is planning a series of stories over the coming days featuring the pick of the stories over this past year.

Today, we feature January and February 2014. At the end of the series, we will take a look at 2015 and what might lie ahead. As always, there's much to excite with major projects which might come to fruition and, of course, challenges too.

But first, a glance backwards.:

January 2014

• Ian Jones talked at the History Society of Memories of Audlem on 9th January
• A popular series of Life classes got underway at Adderley hosted by Heidi Browne who did not allow her UK Open Mic commitments – see below – to get in the way
• There was talk of a Hankelow to Audlem pavement, talk that seems to have died over the past year
• First news of high speed fibre cables being installed in Audlem was published although it was to be almost a year before we could announce its arrival
• AWEG (Audlem Wildlife & Ecology Group) holds a dinner and thanks its founder Greville Watts
• Dinah Andrew's book on Lord Combermere, not the pub but the man, featured at Audlem History Society January meeting
• Local singer Heidi Browne wins National UK Open Mic competition final at NEC ahead of over 10,000 other contestants and her album 'Lost in Grey' is praised
• Inaugural Model Railway Club meeting in Wrenbury
• On January 20th, Audlem FC won a match
• Last days at Hoc's Fat Pigeon, the wholefoods and popular shop on Cheshire Street
• 5As Panto Red Riding Hood starts its 5 performance run, the 20th season for 5As – 'Panto memories' recalling the pantos over the years published on AudlemOnline by Lesley Davenport
• Audlem Voices launch their new website

February 2014

• Audlem Parish Council agree to support Heathfield Road residents opposing the development off Heathfield – this was the second of three applications by Hockenhull Developments
• New website for Audlem Probus launched
• Deer spotted on the A529 near Hankelow
• APHEx first funding success in their bid to build an annexe on the Public Hall
• Local personality Billy Gibbons appears on TV's Tipping Point programme – with mixed success!
• New parent governors appointed at Audlem St James' school
• Near miss as large tree falls in the garden of a house on Woore Road
• Cheshire East's new Head of Communities, Stephanie Cordon, visits Audlem
• Uplifting Tale of Heroism story on AudlemOnline update – announced it was to be in exhibition in Stockport later in the year – see December 23rd 2014 for further update on the exhibition
• Dorothy Flude, the Mayor, visited ADCA Day Club at Hankelow
• Brownie's celebrate their 100th anniversary
• 'Pharaoh to Freedom' production at Methodist Church
• Ill-fated Cheshire East Local Plan going through what were hoped to be the final approvals – Cheshire East are still hard at work trying to get it approved
• New book by local resident Henry Wheeler, called 'Dad's Time'
• 'Stella's Cellar' at the Scout & Guide Hall gets a makeover
• Dates in May for Gladman Inquiry are announced – it was eventually a 7day Inquiry – and we still await the result seven months on!

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