FATHER Christmas will be visiting Nantwich between December 7 and 18 aboard the local Rotary Club's Christmas float.

Santa will make his annual visit to the streets of Nantwich of the festive period, covering more than 3,000 flats and houses.

The Rotary's evening collections for local good causes will start at 6pm.

The schedule includes Queen's Drive on December 7, Manor Road on December 8, Wellington Road on December 9, Shrewbridge Road on December 10, Cronkinson East on December 14, Cronkinson West on December 15 and Kingsley Fields on December 16.

Daytime collections will take place from 9.30am to 5.30pm except on Thursday December 17, when it runs from 10am to 3pm.

These will take place at Sainsbury's on December 10 and 11, on Nantwich Square on December 17 and at Morrisons on December 18.

More than £5,000 was raised last year, shared between the Paediatric Unit at Leighton Hospital, the Guy Harvey Youth Club, the Nantwich branch of Cancer Research UK, Hope house Children's Hospice and the Bowel Cancer Unit at Leighton Hospital.