News in Crewe

UNPAID carers in Crewe who do not live with the person they care for are to receive free personal protective equipment (PPE).

Cheshire East Council has linked up with Vivo Carers Choices and Cheshire Carers Hub to provide the PPE for those carers who do not live in the same household as the person they are caring for.

A CREWE motor dealership has received a top award for customer excellence for the fifth year running.

Gateway-based Crewe Audi again been awarded the 'CarGurus 2021 Top Rated Dealer Award for Excellence in Customer Experience', along with three other Swansway Group sites.

PLANS to convert a long-shuttered Crewe pub into flats are set to be refused because its owner failed to carry out a noise assessment.

The New Burton has lain empty for a number of years, adding to the dereliction of some of the upper part of Victoria Street. Plans to convert the first floor of the former public house into flats were previously approved, as was a plan to use the ground floor as a dental practice.

COMMUNITY radio station The Cat 107.9FM have presented their Local Legend monthly award to a motorbike dealership owner who set up a vaccination centre in his showroom.

The March Local Legend award was presented to Roger Morris, who received his Baked by Gill Cat Cake, Cat goodies and a Local Legend certificate from Cat MD Chris Cadman, presenter David Foulkes and sponsor Gill Clark of Baked by Gill.

A WATER course near a planned new Crewe housing development is being blighted by fly-tipping.

Parts of old motorbikes, prams, car tyres, shopping trolleys and other waste have been dumped into Leighton Brook, angering local residents, conservationists and walkers.

CREWE Nub News has launched a Readers' Letters page.

We want to hear your views about Crewe. What do you think of the town centre regeneration plans? Are local shops and businesses getting enough support? For example, does Crewe need free parking to help boost town centre trade now retail has reopened?

SUPERMARKET giant Lidl has launched a recruitment drive as work on its new Crewe store draws to completion.

The German discount chain is looking to hire a deputy store manager as well as customer assistants for the new outlet, which is part of a major retail and housing development off Mill Street and Lockitt Street.

Crewe-based Doula Melanie English helps support new mothers in south Cheshire during birth and afterwards. She is a qualified Doula, an expert in post-natal depression and birth trauma, and a volunteer for the charity Motherwell Cheshire.

A NEW food delivery service backed by the Co-op has launched in Crewe.

Zoom! 1hr Delivery have now launched their sub one-hour delivery service in Crewe.

A WOMAN who bombarded her sister with abusive messages has been placed on an electronic tag curfew for eight weeks.

Nicola Plant sent her sibling a string of offensive text messages and Facebook posts, South Cheshire Magistrates' Court heard.