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  • Driver freed from wreckage

    A MAN had to be freed by the emergency services when he was left trapped under the cab of his HGV on Friday. The ambulance service, firefighters and the police were called to the M6 South East link road to Lymm just before 7am after reports that a lorry

  • Robberies buck the trend

    ROBBERIES have soared by more than 150 per cent across the country - but Warrington is bucking the trend. According to new statistics by crime watchdog DEFRA, robbery against a person has rocketed by 152 per cent over the past 10 years. But Cheshire Police

  • Man, 20, attacked

    A MAN was reportedly seriously assaulted in Rylands Street, in the town centre, at around 3.25am on Sunday. The 20-year-old was treated by paramedics and taken to Warrington Hospital with serious injuries.

  • Man found dead in alleyway

    TOUCHING tributes have been left for a father who was found dead in an alleyway at the back of his home. Kevin Syers was found at around 7am on Saturday, December 10 at the back of his terraced home in Eastford Road in Walton, near the junction with Morley

  • Money laundering gang jailed

    THE sleepy village of Burtonwood was home to a money laundering plant run by a gang from across the UK. A three-year investigation concluded on Thursday after the last member of the gang, Jason Main, aged 33, from Glasgow, was sentenced to two years in

  • Boy, 14, is given Asbo

    A 14-YEAR-OLD tearaway has been given an anti-social behaviour order for terrorising the community. Warrington Magistrates' Court imposed a two-year order on Andrew Tickle, of Vulcan Close, for persistently causing trouble in Padgate. He pleaded guilty

  • Mum tells revellers of loss - to stop another tragedy

    THE heartbreaking image of a mum saying goodbye to her brain dead son following a booze-fuelled attack has hit home in Warrington. Since speaking to the Warrington Guardian about the tragic death of their only child, Dale Whitfield, Sharon Orr and John

  • All's fare in love and marriage

    AGE is no barrier to true love, just ask Mark and Pam Wells, who tied the knot at Warrington register office on Saturday. Mark, aged 34, a minibus driver, met 61-year-old Pam when she was a passenger on his bus on her way to a dinner dance. He was instantly

  • I got you babe

    CHRISTMAS 2005 promises to be extra special for Lisa and David Hankey. This time last year, their four-month-old baby boy, Bradley, was undergoing massive surgery to correct a hole in his heart. He came out of the intensive care unit at Alder Hey Hospital