A couple who blamed a child for causing a major fire and evacuation in a block of flats in Nantwich have today been jailed.
Daniel and Charlotte Wollaston were jailed for three years and two years respectively for the blaze which happened last December on Laurel Place, Nantwich.
A couple from Nantwich have been found guilty of arson with intent to endanger life after starting a fire in their Kingsbourne apartment at Christmas last year.
Daniel and Charlotte Wollaston were also found guilty of perverting the course of justice after a trial at Chester Crown Court.
A fourth blaze at the former Tilstone House wedding mansion near Alpraham closed the busy A51 earlier today.
Fire engines from Tarporley, Nantwich, Chester, Winsford and Crewe and the aerial ladder platform from Chester, plus relief crews from Malpas and Crewe have all been at the scene since 11.30pm last night (Feb 4).
Two people have been charged with arson following a fire at an apartment block in Nantwich.
Daniel Wollaston, 31, and Charlotte Wollaston, 36, of Laurel Place, Henhull, were arrested on Saturday (December 14).
A man has been arrested on suspicion of arson in connection with the apartment blaze in Nantwich earlier today.
As we reported earlier, families had to be evacuated as flames raged through the second storey apartment on Laurel Hill, off Reaseheath Way, at around 8.45am today.
Police have arrested three more people on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life following the huge blaze in a disused building in Crewe.
Some families are still unable to return home in the Catherine Street area of Crewe because of the size and severity of the fire on Friday.
A 12-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life following the huge fire which ripped through a building in Crewe.
The massive blaze has destroyed the former Printers building on Catherine Street, off Nantwich Road.
A 31-year-old woman from Shavington who made over 160 hoax calls to police and set fire to a flat in Crewe has been jailed.
Polly Swindail, of Sable Road, Shavington, appeared at Chester Crown Court today (Friday 26 July) where she was sentenced to 12 months in prison.
Detectives investigating a large barn fire near Leighton Hospital are appealing for information from members of the public.
The barn, located on an old farm near the hospital grounds, was deliberately set alight at around 6pm on Saturday May 7.
A 24-year-old Nantwich man has been charged with arson with intent to endanger life following a house fire in Crewe.
Tarren Mingins, of Cronkinson Oak, Nantwich, was arrested at around 10.40am yesterday (Wednesday April 15).
Detectives are hunting two men who attacked and set a car on fire in a Nantwich street.
Police are appealing for information and CCTV footage after the incident in Whitlow Avenue, Nantwich.
A car fire in Willaston near Nantwich is being treated as suspicious, fire chiefs confirmed.
The blaze broke out on Green Lane in Willaston at around 10.30pm last night (July 4).
Arsonists used gas canisters to torch the back of a property in the village of Ridley, near Nantwich, detectives say.
Police have launched an appeal for witnesses to the arson at a house on Wrexham Road in Ridley.
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