Police have vowed to step up patrols around Nantwich Cemetery as more thefts have emerged of treasured items from gravesides.
The mum of tragic Elle Morris has told her two lanterns were stolen from Elle’s grave at the Whitehouse Lane site.
Grieving families have hit out at thieves after graveside ornaments were stolen in Nantwich Cemetery.
Two families have come forward to highlight their losses – and there are fears many more graves have been targeted.
Police are investigating a series of distraction thefts at supermarkets in Nantwich, Crewe and other parts of Cheshire.
The thieves have targeted older shoppers at supermarkets in Nantwich, Crewe, Northwich, and Congleton on March 19 and 20.
Armed police have arrested a 16-year-old and seized a knife and mask after an incident in Nantwich.
The armed policing unit was called after reports of youths intimidating others in the Salt Meadows area of town.
Police in Crewe have been given more powers to stop and search anyone they suspect of carrying a weapon.
It follows concerns raised by the community in the wake of knife-related incidents in the town.
Two men were seen carrying a safe down the street, just minutes after a burglary at a house in Wistaston Green in Crewe, detectives said.
A house was broken into on Bramhall Road when no one was at home at around 10.05am on Monday (March 11) and a safe containing a quantity of jewellery was stolen.
Cheshire Police are working with partners as part of the national Operation Sceptre campaign to tackle knife crime.
It is a week of action that runs from March 11 to 17 and aims to reduce the impact of knife crime in communities.
A married couple who conned Cheshire victims out of thousands in a kitchen scam, have been sentenced in court for multiple fraud offences.
Kevin Cairns, 45, and Gillian Cairns, 46, pretended to run kitchen and furniture companies and duped victims from Cheshire and America into paying large sums of money for work that was never carried out.
By Stephen Topping, local democracy reporter
Attempts to make sure hunts in Cheshire are planned and conducted lawfully have been labelled a “ridiculous waste of money” by pro-hunting campaigners.
The Countryside Alliance has accused David Keane, Cheshire Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC), of having an ‘obsession with hunting’ and called on him to spend his force’s resources on tackling “real crime” instead.
A Crewe man known locally as “Spider” has been handed a criminal behaviour order after being convicted of a string of offences.
Paul Whyte, of no fixed abode, was handed the three-year banning order at South Cheshire Magistrates Court, forbidding him from large areas of the town.
By Stephen Topping
Police chiefs are hoping to improve public safety and build up trust by improving the way they monitor hunts in Cheshire.
Huntsmen and saboteurs sat row-by-row at Cheshire Police’s Clemonds Hey headquarters in Winsford to hear David Keane, the county’s police and crime commissioner, grill newly-appointed Chief Constable Darren Martland on how the force deals with hunt-related incidents.
Detectives have released CCTV images of a man they want to speak to in connection with a burglary in Nantwich.
A man entered a house on Welsh Row and stole a laptop and a wallet at around 3.15pm on Saturday February 16.
An armed robber who terrified staff at the Game store in Crewe has been jailed.
Matthew Hurst, of no fixed address but from Crewe, was sentenced to four years in prison at Chester Crown Court.
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