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.
The Mayor of Nantwich has praised local police officers and their approach to preventing crime in the town.
It comes after Cllr David Marren joined them on patrol for a day and witnessed underlying issues Nantwich faces, including drug dealing, theft, anti-social behaviour and isolation.
Police have launched an investigation into suspected illegal fox hunting near Nantwich after a fox was found dead.
Officers say they received reports of a fox being killed at a hunt on land at Hack Green, near Nantwich, at around 3pm today (February 5).
A South Cheshire woman who deliberately ran over two other women as part of a revenge attack has been jailed.
Kim Venables, of Elizabeth Street, Crewe, was sentenced to nine years and nine months in prison at Chester Crown Court yesterday (February 4).
A teenage girl was arrested after Cheshire Police scrambled a helicopter during a car chase in Nantwich.
Officers were called after reports of a vehicle taken from an address in South Cheshire at around 12.48pm yesterday (February 3).
A gun has been found by a man walking his dog in Crewe, say police.
The handgun was hidden in an alleyway between McNeill Avenue and Barnabas Avenue.
New generation safety cameras are being installed at junctions in Cheshire to reduce the number and severity of collisions in the county.
The roadside cameras detect vehicles that go through red lights as well as those that break the speed limit at junctions.
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