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CREWE'S new Market Hall enjoyed a great opening day with traders and customers giving a firm thumbs up to the change in emphasis at the Earle Street venue.

Covid restrictions are currently limiting capacity to table seating, but traders and market chiefs want people to come in and stick around to sample the food hall, browse the retail and sit down for a chat with friends and family.

A GYMGOER has made the most of lockdown easing to lose weight by completing a 30-day fitness challenge at Crewe Lifestyle Centre.

Crewe Lifestyle Centre, run by Everybody Sport and Recreation, opened its doors for swim and gym sessions last month, and on Monday the new roadmap changes meant indoor exercise classes have been able to start up again.

A WOMAN needed hospital treatment after a washing machine fire at a property in Sherborne Road.

Fire crews attended the incident at 21.37pm last night and although the fire was out when they arrived, one of the occupiers was suffering from the effects of smoke inhalation.

CREWE town councillors met up with each other in council business for the first time in over a year.

The authority's annual meeting was moved to the Salvation Army's Prince Albert Street hall after the government's statutes allowing council's to conduct business virtually during the pandemic expired.

TRADERS say they are delighted with the chance to be part of Crewe Market Hall's new direction.

The Earle Street venue reopened today (Wednesday) after a £3 million revamp by Cheshire East Council and under new operators who are focusing on a food hall model to complement retail outlets as well as live music and community events.

FIREFIGHTERS were called out to tackle a blazing car in Crewe this morning (Wednesday).

One crew attended the incident on Macon Way just after 11am, near to their own fire station, where a car was well alight.

BUILDING work on an estate of "affordable" homes in Crewe has begun.

Contractors for the Guinness Partnership are undertaking preparatory work for 21 properties at the Moore Park Gardens development at Sydney Road.

CREWE'S historic Christ Church is to be transformed into a hi-tech digital centre as part of a £14.1 million government windfall confirmed today.

The redundant place of worship in Prince Albert Street will benefit from £3.1m of the Future High Streets Fund to turn it into a digital technology work space to encourage new and early stage tech businesses to set up in the town.