More than 2,100 tickets have been issued to Cheshire motorists caught using mobile phones while driving.
Latest figures were unveiled as Cheshire Police joined other forces across the UK in a campaign to target phone use by drivers.
Police in Nantwich are warning town centre traders after counterfeit notes were used in shops.
Reports suggest counterfeit £20 notes were used at several locations.
Police are probing two house burglaries which happened on Audlem Road in Nantwich.
Officers received two separate reports of break-ins in the early hours of the morning yesterday (November 8).
An organised crime gang responsible for the large scale supply of Class A drugs in South Cheshire, has been jailed for 19 years.
David Probin, 28, Christopher Flowers, 28, James Entwistle, 26, Shannon O’Neill, 20, Joseph Cottle, 21, and Bernard Dutton, 55, were jailed after being charged with conspiracy to Supply Class A Drugs.
Violent crime in Cheshire has risen by 18%, according to latest figures.
The Office of National Statistics says recorded crimes in Cheshire has increased in the past 12 months by 0.1%, the equivalent of 72 crimes.
Police are hunting a thug who smashed a window of an historic Nantwich building – and left part of his hand behind!
The incident happened at The Cat bar and restaurant, on Welsh Row, when the offender smashed his fist through one of the leaded windows.
Cheshire Police has improved its use of ‘Stop and Search’ after failing to comply with several features of the scheme.
Her Majesty’s Inspector of Constabulary carried out a revisit inspection into Cheshire’s “Best Use of Stop and Search” (BUSS) Scheme.
Police chiefs claim South Cheshire’s streets are now a safer place after a crime gang involved in supplying Class A drugs was jailed for nearly 35 years.
Nine men and one woman were all arrested following a series of dawn raids across South Cheshire, Manchester and Staffordshire in 2014.
Police are targeting South Cheshire drivers who breach the ‘fatal four’ causes of collisions in a week-long operation.
The “Fatal Four” campaign, between September 12-18, will target drivers who drink and drug drive, drive at excessive speed, do not wear seatbelts or misuse technology while driving.
This yob was caught on camera vandalising a Nantwich church, sparking a police investigation.
Local residents say there have been a number of incidents in the past few weeks of vandals targeting the Methodist Chapel in Hospital Street.
Police have named the man allegedly murdered in a Crewe alleyway as Stephen John O’Brien.
Mr O’Brien, 51, from Crewe, was found with a stab wound in the chest in an alleyway off Edleston Road.
Two men have been charged with the murder of a man in Crewe.
The 51-year-old victim, from Crewe, died on Wednesday (August 31) after suffering stab wounds in the chest.
Detectives in Crewe have arrested a man on suspicion of murder after a man who was found unconscious in an alleyway died in hospital.
The 51-year-old local victim, who has not been named, was found in an alley off Edleston Road at 9.30pm last night (August 31).
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