A man is due in court today after a 20-hour stand-off with police on a canal boat in Nantwich.
The drama began at 2am on Friday (August 1) and forced police to close the canal and towpath until an arrest was made just before 10pm that day.
Fire crews were called out to tackle a blaze involving wooden pallets at a property in Acton near Nantwich last night (August 2).
The incident happened at around 11pm at a property on Drake Lane and crews from Nantwich attended.
Canal boaters have been taking refuge on Welsh Row tonight as an ongoing armed police incident by Nantwich Aqueduct continues.
Reports from eye witnesses suggest there is a man with a firearm on board one of the barges moored on the Shropshire Union Canal close to Nantwich Marina.
Police, divers and fire crews are responding to an emergency at Nantwich Aqueduct this morning.
Witnesses describe seeing police closing the aqueduct, close to Malbank School, to boaters and pedestrians during the incident at around 9am.
Fire crews were called to tackle a large bonfire which had been left unattended at a property in Nantwich.
The incident happened at around 9.45pm on Tuesday night (July 29) on Middlewich Road, Nantwich.
A vehicle fire spread and caused damage to a garage and neighbouring property in Nantwich.
The blaze broke out at around 2am yesterday (July 26) on Turnham Green Drive, on the Kingsbourne estate in Nantwich.
By Jonathan White
Two workmen from Severn Trent capped a major water eruption on the A530 Park Road in Nantwich today (July 25).
The leak had sent jets of water blasting 30ft water into the air.
Fire crews from Nantwich and Crewe tackled a shed blaze at a property on Weaver Road in Nantwich.
The fire broke out shortly before 8pm on Monday (July 21).
A driver was seriously injured after his car crashed into a tree on the A49 at Ridley, near Nantwich, late last night (July 20).
Fire crews had to cut the trapped motorist free at around 11.10pm and paramedics attended to give treatment before taking them to hospital.
A village football club has been targeted by vandals who damaged equipment after breaking into a training ground in Nantwich.
Angry volunteers for Wrenbury-based Aspire FC discovered the damage on Friday night at the training facility based at Malbank High School.
A man has been arrested after a crime spree across Cheshire and North wales, including a burglary in Nantwich.
A property was broken into in the Stapeley area on July 15. The house was burgled and a vehicle stolen from the driveway.
Police want witnesses to a three-vehicle smash on the A51 near Nantwich which left three people in hospital, one with serious injuries.
The incident happened on the busy Chester Road at Hurleston, close to the turn-off for Snugburys just after 2pm yesterday (July 9).
A major road between Nantwich and Chester was closed today after a serious collision, believed to have involved two cars and an ambulance.
Four people were injured in the accident which happened on the A51 Chester Road close to Snugburys ice cream farm in Hurleston.
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