People in Cheshire who have firearms are being urged to hand them in to police as part of a two-week surrender.
The firearms amnesty, from May 12-29, means all guns can be handed over anonymously at police stations throughout Cheshire.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East paid out more than £160 million in Covid-related support – and £37,000 has been identified as going to fraudsters.
Councils across the country fell victim to fraudulent claims related to the pandemic as they dealt with millions of pounds of government grants.
Former world darts champion Ted Hankey has been jailed after he admitted sexually assaulting a woman in Cheshire.
Hankey appeared at Chester Crown Court today (May 12) where he was sentenced to two years in prison.
A man who killed his victim after beating him with a baseball bat at their Audlem home has today been jailed for eight years and six months.
Daniel Griffiths was sentenced at Chester Crown Court after being convicted last week of manslaughter of Andrew Guy.
Detectives investigating a large barn fire near Leighton Hospital are appealing for information from members of the public.
The barn, located on an old farm near the hospital grounds, was deliberately set alight at around 6pm on Saturday May 7.
A man from Audlem has been found guilty of killing a man he believed was chatting up his partner.
Daniel Griffiths (pictured) repeatedly beat Andrew Guy with a baseball bat shortly after he had sent his partner the text message ‘on way babe, 10 mins’.
Cheshire Police have arrested dozens of suspected paedophiles in a month-long campaign targeting those who view indecent and abusive images of children online
Cheshire Police is the first force in North West to start using GPS technology to help prevent re-offending.
It has started using Electronic Monitoring Services (EMS) tags for serial offenders who are released from prison.
Detectives are hunting an attacker who seriously assaulted another man in Nantwich town centre during the Jazz Festival.
They are calling for witnesses and video footage after the 22-year-old victim, from Crewe, was left with a fractured jaw.
Shop owners in Nantwich are appealing for witnesses after their frontage was smashed in by vandals.
The damage was done to the Gas Flame Centre store on Pillory Street, in Nantwich.
A man who seriously assaulted a vulnerable man in his own home in Crewe has been jailed.
John Healey, 43, of no fixed address but of Crewe, had been staying at the victim’s address when on October 5 last year between 2pm and 3pm, he came down stairs and punched the victim, who suffers with severe COPD, four times to the face before he blacked out.
Former World Darts champion Ted Hankey has been charged by Cheshire Police with the sexual assault of a woman.
The charge relates to an incident that occurred in Cheshire in September 2021.
A man who stole high-valued GPS navigation systems from tractors at a South Cheshire farm, has been jailed for more than two years.
Mantas Dvareckas, 25, was sentenced to two and a half years imprisonment at Chester Crown Court on Friday (March 18). He had plead guilty.
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