Fly-tipping has cost taxpayers in Cheshire East more than £860,000 over the past eight years, alarming statistics revealed today.
Overall costs of clearing all incidents of fly-tipping in the borough totalled £863,818, figures obtained in a BBC Shared Data Unit investigation show.
Police are hunting fly-tippers who dumped this massive pile of rubbish by the side of the A51 Nantwich bypass.
It’s the latest in a number of incidents as people attempt to avoid waste removal and waste recycling centres.
Police officers across Cheshire are to be specially trained on how to support victims of sexual violence.
Every frontline officer will soon receive training amid complaints from some victims of “inappropriate” and “insensitive” responses.
By Aran Dhillon
Residents across Cheshire are set to pay an extra £10 a year on average to fund policing.
It comes after it emerged that the “burden” of funding is shifting from central Government to taxpayers in the area.
Four people have been arrested in raids across Shavington, Crewe and Alsager in a week-long police crackdown on drugs and organised crime.
Drugs warrants were carried out by officers from the Crewe Local Policing Unit (LPU), targeting those who are causing significant harm to Cheshire communities.
Three masked men raided a Wistaston store worker during an armed raid.
The incident happened at the Bargain Booze store on King’s Drive at around 7.30pm last night (February 4).
Thieves are targeting car park ticket machines in Nantwich and Crewe, Cheshire East Council has warned.
It comes after a recent spate of thefts in which £15,000 has been stolen from pay-and-display machines across the borough.
Two teenage boys, aged 14 and 16, from Crewe have been charged following an alleged attack in the town.
A 54-year-old man from Crewe suffered a puncture wound as a result of the alleged assault in Somerville Street shortly before 3.45pm on Friday (January 31).
A thug has smashed the stunning “creation window” at St Mary’s Church in Nantwich.
The vandal threw a beer bottle at the window from the outside, damaging a section on the right-side of the window (pictured).
A milkman has been attacked and stabbed by teen thugs as he delivered his milk in Tarporley.
The victim was on his morning round for Briscoe’s Dairy this morning when he was attacked.
A jury has failed to reach a verdict in a trial of two men charged with the manslaughter over the death of devoted Audlem dad Adam Lovatt.
Samuel Thorpe, 24, of Annions Lane, Wybunbury, and Nicholas Hill, 36, of Moorsfield Avenue, Audlem were tried at Liverpool Crown Court.
A man who viciously attacked his friend who he had been staying with in Crewe, has been jailed for eight years.
Sylvester Aksamit, 40, had been living with the victim in the Mount Pleasant area of the town for months when he launched the assault.
Cheshire Police have appointed a new Assistant Chief Constable after Jenny Sims joined the force.
She will oversee the Operations Portfolio – which includes local policing and partnerships, uniformed operations, roads policing and the force control centre.
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