By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East Council is working with the Home Office to offer places to live for Ukrainians seeking refuge following the invasion by Russia.
Council leader Sam Corcoran said the council has a “very good track record” of welcoming Syrian refugees, unaccompanied asylum seeking children and Afghan interpreters and their families and providing them with both temporary and permanent accommodation.
Stalking incidents in Cheshire have more than doubled in a year to more than 1,650, latest statistics reveal.
But new Stalking Protection Orders (SPOs) brought in 18 months ago have only been used 18 times by Cheshire Police, BBC Data Unit figures show.
A new scheme that works with perpetrators of domestic abuse to change their behaviour and protect families will be developed in Cheshire.
The scheme will be funded by the Home Office after Cheshire’s police and crime commissioner David Keane secured £233,000 in funding from their perpetrator programme fund.
Cheshire Police has been awarded more than £100,000 by the Home Office to purchase new Tasers.
The bid, submitted by police and crime commissioner (PCC) David Keane, will allow Cheshire Constabulary to buy 130 Tasers over the next 12 months.
A Nantwich town centre shop was raided and two men arrested by Home Office immigration officials.
The raid happened at the 1st Stop Newsagents on the corner of Beam Street and Manor Road.
Rescue volunteers from Cheshire are ready to fly out to Greece and help in the hunt for missing marathon runner John Lawton. The 62-year-old, from Alsager, has not been seen since Sunday April 8 when he disappeared while competing in the Taygetos Challenge 2012, near Kalamata.
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