More than 100 motorway driving offences were spotted in Cheshire and the North West during a police crackdown. The North West Motorway Police Group held a day action targeting drivers on Cheshire’s M6, M56, M62 and other routes.
Burglars broke into a house on a Nantwich estate and then made off with two cars parked on the driveway. The offenders struck at a property on Chater Drive, on the Pear Tree Fields estate in Stapeley.
Police are hunting arsonists who torched three cars close to the centre of Nantwich. The fires happened in two separate incidents in the Beam Street and Birchin Lane areas of the town.
A gang of Eastern European armed robbers tied and beat an 80-year-old granddad before stealing antiques and paintings worth more than £100,000. The victim suffered a brutal seven-hour ordeal in his own home on the Cheshire/Staffordshire border.
Nantwich Town councillors are reviewing how effective the town’s CCTV cameras are in tackling crime and disorder. The council is set to take over the running of the 15 cameras from Cheshire East.
A man has been charged in connection with a series of knifepoint robberies across South Cheshire. Nicholas Andrew Overton, 35, was arrested in Crewe by Cheshire Police investigating three incidents.
A man has been charged with a burglary and attempted burglary of houses in Nantwich. John Joseph McNally, 39, was charged after the incidents took place on Manor Road North.
An operation to crackdown on rogue drivers in Cheshire East has been hailed a success by Cheshire Police. Operation Contender was run by Specials to help raise public awareness of traffic offences across the county.
Police are hunting a man who threatened shop staff with a gun during a South Cheshire attempted robbery. Three terrified female employees agreed to hand over money but the robber ran out empty-handed, say police.
A homeowner from Willaston, Nantwich is among those facing court action in a crackdown on unsightly empty properties. The warning from Cheshire East Council comes after a Crewe man was convicted in court for allowing an empty home to become dilapidated.
Nantwich Police have launched a campaign to crackdown on rogue road users in rural areas of the district. Operation Arion is focusing on key countryside routes during the summer months, using Automatic Number Plate Recognition technology.
Police want witnesses to an alleged racial attack on a driver at a busy junction on Nantwich Road. The incident, being treated as a racially aggravated assault, happened at the junction with Ruskin Road in Crewe.
Cheshire is a safer place to live with a reduction of 4% in all recorded crime, according to the British Crime Survey. The figures, which compare April 2012-March 2013 with April 2011-March 2012, show there are over 2,547 fewer victims of crime.
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