News in Crewe

THE restart of the Crewe Regional Sunday League season has been put back despite grassroots sports return today.

Fixtures pencilled in from next Sunday, April 4 face being rescheduled from April 11, although the entire league programme may be shelved completely after long-serving league secretary Dave Cooper suffered a health scare and a clutch of clubs indicated they do not want to play on until June.

CREWE Heritage Centre has announced its reopening date.

The town centre museum and railway experience is to throw open its gates again on Saturday, July 3.

VOTERS in Crewe West will be going to the polls on Thursday, May 6.

The seat has been vacant after the death of Labour councillor Brian Roberts last February.

FOOTBALLING stars have shown their support to Crewe Alex Academy goalkeeper Ashton Hulme after the youngster underwent major surgery in his battle against bone cancer.

Ashton, 12, is recovering after he had a leg amputated last week as part of his treatment for osteosarcoma.

MORE coronavirus restrictions are to be lifted on Monday (March 29) as part of the government's roadmap out of lockdown.

Here's what's changing:

A CREWE-based college has carried out 10,000 asymptomatic coronavirus tests on students and staff.

Cheshire College conducted the lateral flow device tests over a two-week period after students returned to their studies on March 8.

RESIDENTS and staff at a Crewe care home joined in with the National Day of Reflection with an evening of singing and fireworks.

They marked the national event by joining together on portals and balconies at Belong Crewe in Brookhouse Drive.

CREWE town councillors have stuck with tradition in their choice of a new logo for the authority.

As part of the adoption of the Crewe Town Brand principles, the councillors were charged with settling on a new design to help freshen up the image of the council.

HERE at Crewe Nub News we aim to support our community, promoting shops, businesses, charities, clubs and sports groups.

We will be profiling some of these businesses and organisations regularly in a feature called 'Up Close in Crewe'.

THE Football Association was blamed for failing to "keep children safe" in the long-awaited report into child sexual abuse in the sport, which examined paedophile coach Barry Bennell's relationship with Crewe Alex.

Among barrister Clive Sheldon's 710-page 'Independent Review into Child Sexual Abuse in Football 1970-2005', which was published today, is the conclusion that football's governing body was "too slow" to enact sufficient child protection measures after 1995 when incidents of abuse fell into the courts, including Bennell's guilty plea in a U.S court to a charge of sexually abusing a child he had taken on a football tour.