By Charlotte Tonry: More than 450 jobs at Cheshire Police could be axed amid plans to save £36 million in the next four years.

The force says £11 million of savings need to be made in the 2011-12 financial year alone.

Four men from Stoke-on-Trent have been arrested after raids by counter-terrorism officers across the country.

They were among 12 people held on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism in the UK.

The two 26-year-old men, a 25-year-old and a 19-year-old were arrested in raids at around 5am this morning.

By Chris Jacobsen and Ella Darlington: Police have called for calm after an arson attack on a mosque in Stoke-on-Trent.

Fire broke out on the ground floor of the building on Regent Road, Hanley, this morning (December 3) and officers have confirmed that they are treating the blaze as suspicious.

Acting Imam Shoaib Mohammed told StaffsLive that the community had been urged not to panic.

By Joe Finnerty: Police have released CCTV footage of two men they want to speak to about the theft of bikes from Newcastle-under-Lyme College.

Two bikes were taken from the Knutton Lane site at around 10.30am on November 22.

By Ted Woodward: Seven people have been arrested during the latest Carnage bar crawl in Hanley.

The event, organised by national firm Carnage UK, involved hundreds of Keele and Staffordshire University students on a pub crawl around six city nightspots.

By Rufaro Fielding: A schoolgirl was indecently assaulted as she walked through Hanley’s Festival Park.

The 15-year-old girl was approached from behind by a man who touched her trousers before running off.

By Stefanie Keeling: Fire chiefs have confirmed a two-year-old boy has died after a house fire in Cheshire.

Firefighters were called out to a terraced property in Myrtle Street, in Crewe, at around 9am today (November 21).

By James Drakeford: Eight bikes used by Bucknall Hospital to help patients battling mental health issues have been stolen.

The hospital’s Early Intervention team used the mountain bikes with young people suffering psychosis to get them to engage in normal activities.

By Beth Hepple & Emma Glanfield: A neighbour saw a hooded youth fleeing from a Shelton house just seconds before it went up in flames in a suspected arson attack.

Three students were lucky to escape alive after their house on Leek Road was set on fire.

By Emma Glanfield, Beth Hepple and Ted Woodward: Police are appealing for witnesses to a house fire in Stoke-on-Trent.

The blaze at Leek Road in Shelton happened at around 7am yesterday (November 8) and saw three students rescued by firefighters.

And Staffordshire Police have confirmed that the fire is being treated as “unexplained”.