Crewe and Nantwich MP Edward Timpson has welcomed new figures which show crime has fallen in Cheshire over the last 12 months. Latest statistics from the Office for National Statistics show that since 2010, recorded crime in Cheshire has fallen by 16%.
Yobs have vandalised a village hall in Nantwich, causing hundreds of pounds in damage. The vandals struck at the new Stapeley community hall, next to Pear Tree Primary School, on Pear Tree Field.
A student and a landscape gardener from Nantwich are to star in a new BBC One series – as crime fighters! Laurence Towers and Amber-Louise Evans are among six new Cheshire Police recruits starring in the series, “First Time on the Front Line”.
Police chiefs have hailed this years’ Nantwich Jazz Festival a success after just seven arrests made during the five-day event. The number of arrests is a drop on previous years, which Cheshire Police say is down to planning, CCTV, and working with licensees.
Nantwich residents are warned to be vigilant after two homes were broken in the early hours today (April 12). The discoveries were made early this morning at addresses on London Road and St Joseph’s Way, in Nantwich.
Police targeted thieves and drug users in a day of action across Nantwich and other towns in East Cheshire. Five warrants were issued under the Misuse of Drugs Act at various properties in Nantwich, Crewe, Congleton, Macclesfield and Wilmslow.
A gang of men raided a village store near Nantwich and made off with a stash of alcohol and cigarettes. The raid happened at the Co-op store in Shropshire Street, Audlem, near Nantwich.
CCTV coverage in Nantwich has been given a major boost after a new agreement between police and council chiefs. A partnership review examining use of the 15 CCTV cameras in the town was carried out by Nantwich Police, Cheshire East Council and Nantwich Town Council.
Nantwich Police have issued a warning to revellers to “drink responsibly” during the Nantwich Jazz Festival this month. More officers will be drafted in to the town to cope with the huge crowds which flock to the festival over Easter weekend.
A Nantwich burglary victim who called police to his house was then arrested after forgetting to hide cannabis plants he was growing! Officers stumbled across the cannabis when they were called to Albert Street, Nantwich.
More than a third of all assaults with injury in Cheshire are domestic abuse cases, startling police figures show. Domestic abuse accounts for 8% of all recorded crime in Cheshire.
A South Cheshire man who fraudulently claimed more than £1,200 in benefits has been ordered by magistrates to repay the money. David Wainwright, 42, formerly of Shropshire Street, Audlem, pleaded guilty at South and East Cheshire Magistrates’ Court.
A man has been found dead in a house on London Road in Nantwich. Police have confirmed the death of a man in his 40s, but say there are no suspicious circumstances surrounding the incident.
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