By Belinda Ryan
Cheshire Police are using new live streaming and location tracking software during emergency calls to help safeguard women in danger.
If a woman, or anyone in need of emergency help, dials 999 a call handler can use the GoodSAM software to text a message to the caller.
Detectives are appealing for witnesses and video footage following an aggravated burglary in Nantwich.
Two men knocked at the door of an address on Newbold Way at around 10pm on Friday March 11.
Nantwich Police say they are investigating several reports of a man acting suspiciously near to parked cars.
The incidents happened in the Birchin Lane area of the town.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
A Cheshire East councillor is urging residents to take part in a consultation about plans to close police helpdesks in 11 towns, including Nantwich.
Cheshire Police wants to close helpdesks at stations in Nantwich as well as Knutsford, Winsford, Chester Town Hall, Ellesmere Port, Stockton Heath, Penketh, Runcorn, Congleton and Wilmslow.
A man has been charged by police investigating a fatal collision on Haymoor Green Lane at Blakelow, near Nantwich.
Mark Taylor, 38, of Railway Street, Crewe was arrested and subsequently charged with assault, causing death by dangerous driving, causing serious injury by dangerous driving, causing death while driving without a licence and causing death by driving without insurance.
A woman and teenage boy were injured and their pet killed after a horrific dog attack in a street in Crewe.
Police say a man has been arrested after the incident which happened on Richmond Road and involved a Bullmastiff type dog.
Cheshire Police are proposing to close 11 helpdesks at stations around the county, including one in Nantwich.
They say the helpdesks – open five days a week – are “seldom used” as more people contact police in different ways
A 74-year-old man from Crewe has been jailed for 12 years after being found guilty of a string of sex offences against victims under the age of 13.
David Palin was sentenced at Chester Crown Court following a week-long trial.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire’s police commissioner could cut the number of PCSOs by slashing £1.3m off that part of the budget and using the cash to fund other police officers.
PCC John Dwyer stressed there would be no redundancies and losses would be through “natural wastage”.
A jail term passed down to a motorist with 37 driving convictions who left his passenger to die following a crash in South Cheshire has been slammed.
Liam Foster (pictured) of Smallbrook Walk, Crewe, was sentenced to 42 months at Chester Crown Court.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East residents look set to see an increase of 4.43% in the amount they pay towards policing.
If the increase suggested by Police and Crime Commissioner John Dwyer is ratified by the police and crime panel on Friday (February 4) that will mean an extra £10 a year on the police precept for a band D council tax payer across the county.
A man has been arrested on suspicion of rape after an alleged assault on a teenage girl in Nantwich.
Police say they were called to reports of alleged sexual assault at 5.15am on Sunday (January 30).
A man has been arrested after an investigation into alleged “stalking” of women walking through Crewe town centre.
A 35-year-old is being questioned by police following an arrested in the town yesterday (January 25).
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