News in Crewe

A CREWE company has thrown its weight behind an awards scheme set up to celebrate the kindness of schoolchildren.

The Be Kind Awards have been founded by Sandbach High School teacher Sarah Gregory to recognise acts of kindness carried out by children across the nation.

A CHARITY football match organised by Crewe Alex stadium announcer Andy Scoffin has already raised more than £4,500 for The Christie.

The Gresty Road fundraiser, played behind-closed-doors on Sunday evening, featured teams split into those donning home and away Crewe Alex kits. Players paid up to £25 each to play in teams captained by Andy's sons, Ashley and Warren.

RESIDENTIAL streets in Crewe are being targeted for a tidy-up as part of a pilot scheme.

The Cheshire East Council initiative, in partnership with Crewe Town Council, aims to spruce up 26 streets and their alleyways, which have been blighted by poor waste management, including bin contamination and fly-tipping.

A MAN who threw his Staffordshire bull terrier up in the air and kicked her in a Crewe street has been banned from keeping animals for five years.

Jordan Odom picked the dog, called Angel, up its scruff and then threw her up in the air, before calling the animal back where he repeated the process twice more and kicked her, South Cheshire Magistrates' Court was told.

A MAN faces motoring charges in connection with a Crewe road traffic collision in which a cyclist died.

Agnieszka Pocztowska passed away after sustaining serious injuries when her bike was in collision with a car on Hungerford Road on September 14 last year.

NEW businesses moving into a long-neglected Crewe town centre street have called for action to tackle grot spots that could harm their trade.

They say investment is needed to revamp High Street, where the street scene has suffered from a high proportion of boarded up properties and demolitions.

FIRE crews put out a blaze which engulfed a barn at Leighton last night.

Two engines from Crewe Fire Station attended the fire at agricultural premises on Middlewich Road.

A FUNDRAISING effort to take a girl with incurable brain cancer on a dream trip to Disneyland has reached £15,000.

Crewe schoolgirl Acacia Surridge-Hill, six, was sadly diagnosed with a brain tumour last September, after doctors first thought she had Bell's Palsy.

BORIS Johnson confirmed the lockdown easing permitted from next Monday in an address to the nation this evening (Monday).

From May 17 you will be able to have friends to your house and drink inside a pub, rather than outdoors, as part of the changes announced by the PM.

TESCO Pharmacy in Crewe is set to become a Covid vaccination centre.

Five new pharmacy-led vaccination services have been confirmed by Cheshire health chiefs to support the next phase of the county's vaccine roll-out.