Cheshire Fire Service bosses have dropped prosecutions against four organisations connected with the massive blaze which destroyed the Beechmere retirement village in Crewe.
The trial into alleged breaches of fire safety regulations by four companies involved in the design, risk assessment, management and maintenance of Beechmere began yesterday (May 6) at Chester Crown Court.
Cheshire fire crews are tackling a large blaze in Delamere Forest.
The ongoing incident has seen roads around the forest closed, including at Station Road.
A Nantwich man has been jailed for trying to strangle and threatening his former partner with a weapon.
Jacob Rose, of no fixed abode in Nantwich, was sentenced to four years in prison at Chester Crown Court.
A woman suffered a terrifying car-jacking incident as she waited at a junction in Nantwich.
The victim, 53, was driving along Beam Street and stopped at the Barony Road traffic lights when a gang of men approached her vehicle and tried to get in her car.
Two men have been arrested after witnesses spotted “prowlers” and a suspected break-in taking place in Nantwich earlier today.
Cheshire Police say patrol officers from Crewe were sent out to the Highfields area near the Barony in Nantwich.
Fire crews were called to tackle a flat fire in Nantwich which was sparked by a pan being left on a hob.
The incident happened in a second floor apartment on Tyldesley Way in Nantwich.
A 42-year-old man has been jailed for controlling and coercive behaviour towards a former partner from Willaston, Nantwich.
Ben Carr, of Freemen Street, Stafford, was jailed for 30 months after appearing at Chester Crown Court.
Nantwich fire crews were called out to tackle a large blaze involving trees and rubbish.
The service said the fire, which had been started intentionally, had been left unattended.
By Jonathan White
A section of Shropshire Union Canal in Nantwich is to be temporarily closed to walkers to allow for structural investigations.
The towpath will be closed and moorings suspended along the affected section for up to six weeks, the Canal & River Trust notice says.
A van driver failed to stop after colliding with a motorcyclist on a busy road near Nantwich.
Cheshire Police are appealing for witnesses and possible footage of the incident on the A51 London Road in Walgherton.
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The RSPCA have issued an appeal after a dog’s badly decomposed body was found stuffed in a duffle bag by a Cheshire lake.
The body was taken to RSPCA Stapeley Grange in Nantwich and they say there are “suspicious circumstances” around the dog’s death.
Morrisons supermarket in Nantwich was evacuated today after a fire broke out to the rear of the store.
A witness said it’s believed the fire broke out in the bakery area of the store.
Fire crews were called to tackle a blaze involving hay bales off Hearns Lane in Chorley, near Nantwich.
The fire broke out at around 1.30pm yesterday (April 4).
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