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  • Lymm sides both win

    Lymm 2nd 20 Stockport 2nd 12. LYMM'S second team consolidated their mid-table position in the Miller Homes League Bateman BMW Premier Division after eventually securing victory in a close match against Stockport. The early pressure came from Lymm

  • Morris hat-trick hands Greenalls comfortable win

    Greenalls Padgate St Oswalds 5 Woodley FC 1. FERGUS Morris scored a hat-trick as Greenalls defeated a physical Woodley FC side in the Mid-Cheshire League First Division on Saturday. Greenalls produced a great performance, which also included two goals

  • Festive cash

    FUNDRAISERS from Newton and District Rotary Club raised more than £4,000 in the run up to Christmas. They toured the streets with Father Christmas in tow collecting money in Winwick, Croft, Birchwood, Gorse Covert, Oakwood and Culcheth Oganisers estimate

  • Scientists building links

    SCIENTISTS at Daresbury are helping build trade links and boost overseas business. The Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus has joined up with UK Trade and Investment's north west office to identify the problem factors stopping companies from developing

  • Agent faces theft charges

    NEW Warrington Wolves star Adrian Morley has allegedly lost more than £100,000 to his former sports agent and financial adviser. Nicholas Fowler appeared in court on Friday facing a total of 20 charges of theft and money laundering involving Mr Morley

  • Recycle your cards

    STAFF at Asda Cockhedge are calling on customers to do their bit for the environment and recycle their unwanted Christmas cards. All cards donated between December 27 and January 20 will be collected by the Salvation Army. The revenue generated by the

  • A Connexion is made ...

    A YOUNG person's advice body has been praised by head teachers across Cheshire. Connexions Cheshire and Warrington, which gives help and guidance to people aged 13 to 19, received positive feedback in research carried out by Manchester Metropolitan University

  • Crackdown on scourge of railways

    THE British Transport Police has launched a crackdown on the Christmas graffiti scourge on the railways. The force will be increasing security around rail depots and undertaking patrols of the network during the Christmas holiday period. The graffiti

  • Won't you guide my sleigh tonight?

    RUDOLPH is alive and well and visited Warrington during the festive period. Visitors to Warrington town centre were treated to a chance to meet live reindeer in the run-up to Christmas. Pictured is Elisa Fox, aged one.

  • A bridge too far?

    A CAMPAIGN has started to restore one of Warrington's most recognised features'. The aim is to get funding to fix the derelict Latchford High Railway Bridge. It has been closed for safety reasons since it stopped taking trains in 1985. Councillors

  • Building firms are fined over death fall

    FIVE building firms have been ordered to pay almost £150,000 after a worker fell to his death. David Moran, aged 31, from Manchester, had no demolition or construction qualifications for the cash-in-hand job at Chesford Grange, Woolston, where he was

  • Off licences hit by raiders

    TWO Orford off licences have been hit by armed raiders in three days. Two masked men stormed Booze Busters, in Norris Street, at 6.50pm on Boxing Day, wielding what was believed to be a black handgun. A spokesman for Warrington Police said: "They demanded

  • Lucy’s special Christmas celebrations

    IT was a very special Christmas this year for one of Warrington's oldest residents. Lucy Christmas Bennett celebrated her 100th birthday on Christmas Eve in the Old Rectory Nursing Home, Grappenhall. Miss Bennett, who was born in a house on Grafton

  • They must have thought I was a dead set lunatic

    MORE than 5,000 supporters memorably backed Wolves to the hilt at Odsal in October but one former player was making an even bigger racket on the other side of the world. Nat Wood - a fans' favourite for almost four years - was watching the crucial elimination