News in Crewe

POLICE are hunting two men who tried to rob a walker on a country pathway next to Middlewich Road near Crewe.

The 21-year-old was confronted by the duo, one of whom pointed a knife at him before the other punched him to the floor in the early hours of Tuesday morning (June 22).

A NURSERY company has revealed plans to open up a new children's centre in Crewe.

Little Angels will be opening its doors to children aged from 0 to five in September at premises on the Apollo Buckingham Health Science Campus in Crewe Green Road.

CREWE councillors have called for the government to lift the ban on remote council meetings.

They claim their health is under threat if they are forced to carry on meeting in person while coronavirus infection rates rise.

A FORMER councillor who served Shavington over two decades has died.

David Brickhill passed away on June 11, aged 83, at Hollymere House Care Home in Haslington.

CREWE Heritage Centre has confirmed it is delaying reopening in the aftermath of the government's brake on lockdown easing.

Trustees at the town centre museum and railway experience had planned to throw open the gates again on Saturday, July 3.

THE president of a Crewe-based rail charity was on board a Pendolino train as it narrowly missed out on setting the record for the quickest journey between London and Glasgow.

Peter Waterman, a long-standing enthusiast of all things rail as well as one of the country's most famed record producers, was representing the Railway Benefit Fund on the Royal Scot as it set off from London Euston yesterday morning (Thursday).

A learner at Cheshire's largest Further Education College has featured on national television and regional radio to discuss the impact having a guide dog has made since losing his sight.

Part-time learner at Cheshire College, Scott Bailey, featured on ITV's This Morning and BBC Radio Stoke to talk about how his life has transformed since being matched with his guide dog, including going back into education to retrain.

A TEAM of solicitors from Poole Alcock in Crewe are pulling on their trainers for St Luke's Hospice's Midnight Walk.

The 10-mile round trip, which starts and finishes at Reaseheath College, takes in Nantwich Road which means the all-female team will be walking past their offices.

CREWE'S Lyceum Theatre will provide a homecoming for talented Tom Seals when he hits the road with his debut UK theatre tour later this year.

The 45s Tour will see Tom, who is Crewe born and bred, travel to venues across England and Scotland as he entertains audiences with a variety of genres from blues and jazz to swing and soul in his much-celebrated boogie-woogie style.

DEVELOPERS have been told more work must be done on plans for a controversial 151-home estate at Sydney before they get the green light.

Proposals by David Wilson Homes and the Duchy of Lancaster to build the housing on a triangle of land off Sydney Road next to the Crewe Green roundabout sparked protest from hundreds of residents in Crewe and Haslington.