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A Wistaston man has been charged in relation to a road rage incident with a taxi driver, police have confirmed.
The incident involved a Citroën car and a taxi driver on Middlewich Road in Crewe on Friday (October 6).
A new taxi marshal scheme in Nantwich has been hailed a big success after running over the Christmas and New Year period.
The initiative was supported by Alpha Omega Securities Ltd in Crewe and the owners of Nakatchas nightclub on Welsh Row in Nantwich.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East Council is paying £3,000 more per pupil than most equivalent councils to transport some children to school each year.
This includes paying on average £71 for a 10-mile taxi journey or £118 for a 20-mile journey – way above the expected £21 or £41 costs respectively.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Proposed taxi fare increases in Cheshire East could force people to walk home from late night shifts posing a risk to their safety, two councillors said.
The new maximum fares suggested for Hackney carriages will be advertised publicly and consulted on, Cheshire East’s licensing committee decided on Monday.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Taxi drivers are in short supply across Crewe and Nantwich after nearly 150 quit when their trade was badly affected by the pandemic.
Kim Evans, licensing team leader at Cheshire East Council, said this was a regional and national issue and London was down by about 4,000 drivers.
Detectives are appealing for witnesses and video footage after a man was seriously assaulted in Nantwich.
The 22-year-old victim was involved in a dispute with two other men while waiting for a taxi outside Home Bargains on Beam Street.
A man found in a taxi in Willaston near Nantwich with £900 worth of Class A drugs in his underpants, has been jailed.
Lee Marr, 29, from Liverpool, appeared at Chester Crown Court where he was jailed for more than five years after pleading guilty to possession with intent to supply Class A drugs.
A man has been charged with drugs offences following a proactive drugs operation in Willaston, Nantwich, say Cheshire Police.
Lee Marr, 29, from Liverpool, was arrested at 2pm yesterday (July 31) after officers from Crewe Local Policing Unit stopped a taxi on Wistaston Road.
By Stephen Topping
Cheshire East councillors are urging the Government to close a loophole allowing cross-border taxi hiring in an effort to protect children.
New legislation in 2015 made cross-border taxi hiring easier, so vehicles licensed by other councils can lawfully work in Nantwich and Crewe without meeting Cheshire East Council’s requirements.
A Nantwich taxi driver helped to capture an unlicensed operator by catching him in the act on his dashcam footage.
Javeed Iqbal was plying for trade on a Hackney Carriage stand in Swine Market, Nantwich.
Police have issued a CCTV image of a man wanted in connection with criminal damage at Nantwich Civic Hall.
Officers are probing an incident which led to £1,500 worth of damage caused at the Civic Hall on Market Street.
A “taxi marshal” could be employed to crackdown on late-night problems around Nantwich’s taxi rank, police have suggested.
Nantwich officers are hoping to copy a scheme used in Chester and Newcastle-under-Lyme.
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