A haul of 65,000 illegal cigarettes has been found dumped in a lane in South Cheshire.
Cheshire East Council’s trading standards team wants the public to help track down those who dumped the haul in a field off Clay Lane, Crewe.
An organised crime gang from Crewe and Wistaston involved in the supply of cocaine has been jailed for almost 65 years.
The 13 men were members of a gang who had been flooding the streets of Crewe with the drug.
A 19-year-old was attacked by a gang of up to eight men dressed in hoodies in Nantwich town centre.
The victim had his phone stolen in the incident on Bowers Row, as he walked towards High Street.
A 19-year-old Crewe man was jailed for life today for stabbing his South Cheshire victim to death through the heart.
Oliver Dabbs was found guilty of the murder of Stephen O’Brien, 51, following a 14-day trial at Chester Crown Court.
More than 2,400 motorists have been caught by Cheshire Police driving while using a mobile phone so far in 2016-17.
The startling figures were released on the day penalties issued for such an offence double in severity.
A swan was found on a South Cheshire canal peppered with shotgun and airgun pellets, the RSPCA has revealed.
The swan was found by a member of the public at Middlewich Canal and taken to the RSPCA’s Stapeley Grange wildlife centre in Nantwich.
Armed robbers threatened staff with crowbars and stole cash and cigarettes in a raid on the Co-op store in Shavington earlier today.
Two men pulled up at the store on Rope Lane in a red car, police believe.
Nantwich Police are winning the battle to reduce town centre crime at night.
In the past 12-18 months, the police have seen a drop in the number of arrests.
More than 100 Cheshire drivers were nabbed using their mobile phones illegally during a week-long police crackdown.
Cheshire Police Roads Policing Team took part in a national operation targeting motorists breaking the law by driving while using a handheld mobile device.
RSPCA officers are hunting owners of a dog they left for dead and bleeding tied up to a road sign in Crewe
A woman spotted the large Dogue de Bordeaux abandoned in Birchall Walk.
Police are hunting an arsonist suspected of torching the popular Snugburys Peter Rabbit statue in Nantwich.
The 38ft-straw sculpture was set ablaze in the field next to Snugburys overlooking the A51 at Hurleston last night (February 2).
An art thief who stole an 18th century icon from Chester Cathedral and replaced it with an angel figure, has been jailed.
Vasily Apilats, 61, from Edleston Road, Crewe, was jailed for nine months after previously being found guilty of stealing “The Raising of Lazarus” in Chester in August 2014.
A new Cheshire Police pup to be trained as the latest canine crime-fighter has been named Axel by the public.
The force asked residents to vote for a name for the furry felon-catcher.
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