News in Crewe

HIGH speed links from Crewe to Manchester Airport and Manchester are part of the the latest phase of HS2 to be unveiled to Parliament.

The Bill for the Crewe–Manchester extension of the HS2 network, known as Phase 2b Western Leg, was submitted to Parliament today (Monday).

A SWEET emporium in Crewe is offering a discount to NHS workers.

Adel Berry, who runs Truly Scrumtious in Hightown, says she wants to mark her appreciation for the work health service workers are doing under the increased pressure of the Omicron variant.

PLANS to redevelop the former Bella Italia restaurant on Crewe's Grand Junction Retail Park are too much for councillors to stomach.

They say the scheme to subdivide the empty restaurant into two units to attract new tenants will hit town centre trade, particularly the new food outlets that have set up in the Market Hall since it reopened following a £3 million revamp.

A PART of Crewe has been included in a protective zone designated by animal health officials after an outbreak of avian flu on a poultry farm at Warmingham.

Cheshire East Council has issued a warning to local residents and landowners about avian influenza outbreaks and what to look out for.

POLICE caught out a drug dealer after raids on his homes in Winsford and Crewe.

Shane Preece, 43, was sentenced to six years and nine months at Chester Crown Court yesterday (Thursday) after pleading guilty at an earlier hearing to drugs and money laundering offences.

TWO Cheshire East councillors have asked to see credit and debit card statements for council spending above £500 after being told some details would not be posted on the website.

The council publishes all details of expenditure of more than £500, except that spent on purchase cards.

NEIGHBOURHOOD police officers are conducting knife sweeps in key locations around Crewe as part of a week of action.

They are also targeting anti-social behaviour and handing property-marking kits as well as bleed kits to mark Neighbourhood Policing Week.

A CREWE teenager found guilty of murdering a man on a Winsford estate was branded a "young thug who had been causing devastation over the last few years".

A jury at Chester Crown Court took more than 11 hours to unanimously find the 17-year-old guilty of the murder of Keagan Crimes on October 11, 2020.

A VACCINATION centre based at a Crewe motorbike dealership is set to celebrate a year of administering life-saving jabs.

Crewe Honda Centre threw open its doors on January 23 last year after owner Roger Morris offered his premises to the NHS while he undertook a renovation.

CREWE and Nantwich MP Kieran Mullan is understood to be among a group of 20 Conservative MPs about to submit "no confidence letters" in Boris Johnson.

He is reported to have attended meetings this week of the group, who are ready to join the rebellion against the PM over the fall-out from the Downing Street parties scandal. Their actions have been dubbed the "Pork Pie Plot" because Alice Kearns, MP for Melton Mowbray renowned for its savoury pies, has been identified as the leader.