The cost £2.7 billion—will take the government perilously close to its avowed borrowing limit (the Tories, not unreasonably, are calling Crewe the most expensive by-election in history).
The motorway from Birmingham to Liverpool and Manchester runs about 3 miles (5 km) east of Crewe.
Spark, she points out, worked in intelligence during the war, and in her memoir Curriculum Vitae, notes that even the trees were bugged in the PoW camps, as are the nunnery grounds in her Watergate novel, The Abbess of Crewe.
Souness spotted Jones while scouring a different player at a Crewe Alexandra match in the Fourth Division in 1991.
Chloe Smith's capture of the seat for the Conservatives, on a swing of 16.5%, is bang in line with what happened in Crewe and Nantwich in May 2008, when the Tories also ousted Labour on a monster swing, that time of 17.5%.
The closures are necessary as work continues on improvements in the Watford area and between Stafford and Crewe.
There were two crucial clashes at the bottom of League One as Walsall hosted Notts County and Crewe met Crawley, and perhaps it was understandable that neither match yielded a goal, but both home sides might regret spurned chances – Walsall's Jordan Cook twice hit the woodwork.
London Midland trains between London and Crewe were delayed as were Virgin's Trent Valley services.
Lee Clark, then in charge of Huddersfield Town, Peterborough Town's Darren Ferguson and Dario Gradi at Crewe Alexandra all decided against paying Halifax the £150k fee.
He also emphasised better links between northern cities, and quicker building in the north: a new station at Crewe, in Cheshire, could go up six years earlier than planned.
It was smaller than the swing to the Conservatives at Crewe and Nantwich, a similar mid-term by-election during the last parliament.UKIP's showing generated more interest than the national picture merited, much of it stirred-up by anti-EU Tories historically prone to suspending disbelief when it comes to that party's prospects.
