News in Crewe

A SCHOOL choir joined dignitaries to switch on Crewe's Tree of Light.

The annual ceremony returned to Crewe Crematorium after last year's cancellation to offer residents an opportunity to remember loved ones over the Christmas period.

PARAMEDICS treated a woman for smoke inhalation after a house fire in Crewe yesterday (Sunday).

Two fire engines from Crewe attended the kitchen fire at a property in Fairburn Avenue after 3pm.

IT is the news that in the run up to Christmas none of us wanted to hear.

A new variant of Coronavirus is circulating that has the government medical experts and scientists concerned.

CHESHIRE East Council is forecasting a £2.2m overspend at the end of the financial year, which is 0.7 per cent of its annual budget.

A report to last Thursday's meeting of the corporate policy committee stated: "With robust action it is expected that the out turn position will return in line with budget by the end of the year.

SHOPPERS are being encouraged to visit Crewe with a dazzling array of displays and activities in the run up to Christmas.

A family-friendly festive programme of activity, which has been programmed by Crewe Town Council, is taking place across Crewe town centre in the run up to Christmas.

A MAN who abused a gay landlord at a Crewe pub has been told to stay out of the premises for a year.

Gareth Barth was handed a 12-month exclusion order from the Cheshire Inn on Nantwich Road at a hearing at South Cheshire Magistrates' Court which heard how he directed a homophobic slur at Carl McDowell and then asked him "why don't you date women?"

A CYCLIST needed a hip replacement after he fell off his bike after being pursued down a bridlepath by an angry Crewe motorist, a court heard.

Road rage victim, Lee Henshaw, was sprawled on the ground when pensioner Arthur Ashley got out of his black Audi and shouted at him "you got what you f...ing deserved, look at my wing mirror".

POLICE investigating a disturbance at a social club after which men from Crewe were arrested have released CCTV images of another two men they want to talk to.

Officers were called to Rudheath Social Club on Middlewich Road in Northwich in the early hours of Sunday morning (12.15am), November 7.

PEOPLE in Crewe die 13 years before those in more affluent parts of Cheshire East borough so the town deserves the investment it is now getting following years of neglect, claims a councillor .

Crewe has been awarded a total of £37m in government funding through two separate schemes – the Future High Streets Fund and Towns Fund, the latter deal was signed off today (Thursday).

ENGINEERS have been called in to repair damage to two of the main displays in Crewe's festive Lumen lights display.

The weekend's severe weather has hit Aqualux, a lighting installation made of 48 water containers sited in Lyceum Square, and the Moon Folk projectors in Memorial Square.