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Crewe manager David Artell believes complacency is the biggest threat to their promotion ambitions.

They're second in the League Two table with 16 games left to play and Artell added: "We've got to make sure that we just keep churning out results, whether they're come- from-behind wins or go-ahead wins."

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Crewe play Oldham on Saturday and Artell said he didn't think the players were suffering from pressure at this time.

Bin lorries in Crewe and other parts of Cheshire are going to be converted to use hyrdogen fuel.

Cheshire East Council has been given £1m to pay for the move and will also set up the first green hydrogen fuelling facility in the North West of England.

Thieves stole £6,000 from pay and display ticket machines in Crewe and Nantwich during December and January.

Cheshire Police said 13 car parks had been targeted, including Lyceum Square and Railway Street in Crewe.

The repairs are likely to cost about £10,000.

A police incident is blocking rail lines between Crewe and Liverpool Lime Street.

Trains are subject to delay and cancellation until about 14:00 said National Rail Enquiries.

Buses have been requested to run between Crewe and Liverpool South parkway.

The former Crewe and Nantwich MP Laura Smith is hoping to become a Cheshire East borough councillor.

She has been confirmed as Labour's candidate for the Crewe South ward by-election next month.

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The former teacher lost her parliamentary seat in the December general election after two years as MP.

Prospective candidates had until 16:00 today to register their nomination. The full list of candidates will appear on the Cheshire East Council website.

A BBC investigation has found that thousands of patients who've had strokes, heart attacks and fits are being made to wait over an hour for an ambulance.

Across the North West, 84,548 out of 1,044,119 calls led to waits of more than an hour. That's a higher proportion than in many other English regions that responded to a request for their data. Only the East Midlands and South West were higher.

BBC News obtained the data under the Freedom of Information Act covering the period from the start of 2018 to September 2019.

The North West Ambulance Service has been invited to respond.

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Cheshire East Council is going to wait another 12 months before scrapping its cabinet and replacing it with a number of decision-making committees.

The idea was a manifesto promise from the Independent Group before it entered a coalition with Labour after last year's local elections. Councillors had voted to introduce the change in May.

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Councillor Brendan Murphy, leader of the Real Independent Group, said he understood there would be some disappointment, but more work needed to be done to ensure " a robust process is fully in place".

A signal fault has blocked rail lines between Crewe and Stoke-on-Trent.

Delays are expected until 10:00, said Network Rail.

Not a single knife was found in a sweep of Crewe yesterday, carried out by volunteers and the police.

It took place in the Gresty Brook area and was organised in response to concerns about levels of violence in the town, with 450 reports of violent crime in the last year.

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Crewe Police tweeted to say "it was great to see so many people working together in the fight against knife crime."

The police and volunteers are carrying out searches for hidden knives on the streets of Crewe this afternoon.

Last year 450 violent crimes were reported in south Crewe and Cheshire Police said it has carried out seven stop-and-search operations to try and deter people from carrying weapons.

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The police force said it was looking at other ways of reducing the number of knives on the street, including intercepting knives that are ordered online.

The government is being urged not to cancel HS2 by the MP for Crewe and Nantwich.

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If it is approved, phase two of the high-speed rail project will connect Birmingham with Leeds and Manchester, via Crewe.

Today, the Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has said a decision on its future will be made next month.

BBC Radio Stoke understands Dr Keiran Mullan is behind a letter from 40 MPs pushing for HS2 to go ahead, despite the overall project's expected £106bn price tag.

The congestion on the West Coast Main Line means that journeys are jam-packed, if there's a problem on one part of the railway it causes knock on effects locally and so I know residents want to see that investment locally in a new railway line to free up capacity."

Passengers using trains between Crewe and Derby are being warned to expect delays of up to 20 minutes until midday.

National Rail Enquiries said a power cut had hit the signalling system between the stations and, while it has been restored, services are facing disruption.

A woman's died a day after she was hit by a lorry.

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The 37-year-old, from Sandbach, was struck by the vehicle on Tuesday on the Haslington Bypass near Crewe Green roundabout, Crewe, Cheshire Police said.

She suffered serious injuries and died on Wednesday at the Royal Stoke University Hospital.

A few of the early headlines on Stoke-on-Trent Live today:

• Stoke-on-Trent parking charges to increase on 30 car parks and in 50 streets
• Teen girl seriously injured and two more hurt as BMW smashes into traffic lights
• Warning to parents as white van man approaches young girls with cakes after school

A woman's in a critical condition after being hit by a lorry.

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It happened on the Haslington Bypass near the Crewe Green roundabout, Crewe, in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

Police said the pedestrian in her 30s suffered serious injuries and remains at the Royal Stoke University Hospital.

Officers said they were keen to hear from witnesses, particularly anyone with dashcam footage.

Cheshire East councillors could vote today to ban badger-culling on land it owns, including rented farms.

The culls have been taking place for the last two-and-a-half years as part of an annual government programme to try to eradicate tuberculosis in cows.

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Under council proposals, badgers on its land would be vaccinated instead.

The National Farmers Union said the plan was worrying as the cull was working.

A pedestrian is being treated for serious injuries after being hit by a vehicle in Crewe earlier.

She was struck on Haslington bypass near Crewe Green roundabout just before 02:00.

The A534 was closed for around four hours for collision investigation work.

Officers are asking for any witnesses to get in touch.

More than £3m has been spent on an emergency services base in Cumbria, that still stands half-built when it should should have been finished two years ago, BBC Cumbria has established.

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Work on the base for the police, fire and ambulance services in Ulverston, called the Blue Light Hub, was held up by a contractual dispute.

Cumbria County Council has refused to release details of any pay-out to its former contractor.

The authority says it's now got a new builder in place and hopes soon to say more about when work will re-start.

A 19th Century mansion has been left badly damaged after a large fire, according to photos released by Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service.

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At its height, dozens of firefighters battled the blaze on Sunday evening at Tilstone House on Nantwich Road in Tarporley, near Nantwich.

The fire service said the fire swept across all three floors of the former stately home, which is now used as a wedding venue.

By 15:30, just one fire engine was still at the house.

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