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  • I've not even bought a Christmas card

    "ARE you all done for Christmas?" said the friendly assistant at Sainsbury's. I had only popped out in my lunch hour to buy a few necessities and, while yes, I did find myself straying, buying a tin of chocs and a rather lovely Christmas pud 'laced with

  • Death knell for Woolston High School

    PROPOSALS to close Woolston Community High School are ploughing ahead despite stalwart opposition from campaigners to save the school. A report to be delivered at Monday's executive board is likely to sound the death knell for the school. This comes

  • Win a memories calendar

    A CALENDAR that harks back to the town's yesteryears is on sale in Warrington Market. The 2008 Memories Calendar for Warrington features pictures of the town's prominent sites from years gone by. Included in the collection are pictures of Bridge Street

  • Reserves team to face City

    LIVERPOOL have named their team to face Manchester City in the Barclays Premier Reserve League (North) at the Regional Athletics Centre in Manchester tonight, Tuesday, at 7pm. Team: Peter Gulacsi, Stephen Darby (Captain), Emiliano Insua, Mikel San Jose

  • Don't invite thieves

    MOTORISTS leaving valuable items on view in parked cars are inviting thieves to break in, say police. In the past few weeks CD players, laptops and sat navs have been taken from cars in Grappenhall, Thelwall, and Lymm. Police strongly advise all drivers

  • Marvin the monkey and the Tooth Fairy

    EMILY'S tooth came out at the weekend. After weeks of hanging by a thread, the peggy fell out on Friday night. There were tears from Emily -- she was going to miss wobbling it, she said. It had become her new toy. We were spending the weekend with

  • UPDATED: Jungle Jay finishes third

    UPDATED: Former 5ive star Jason Brown has finished third in the jungle! The former Wilderspool pop star was one of the stars in this year's I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! He completed four bush tucker trials and said afterwards: "It's been absolutely

  • Litterbugs targeted this Christmas

    THERE will be no Christmas cheer for litter louts in Warrington. Warrington Borough Council's environmental enforcement unit will be running a high profile presence in the town centre, Stockton Heath, Lymm and Latchford areas warning people against the

  • Who's got all the pies?

    HAVE your been baking up a storm in the run up to Christmas? Well there is still time to enter your mince pie recipe into our Xmas Factor mince pie competition. The competition has already drawn interest from The Mince Pie Club, a nationwide appreciation

  • Hey! Teacher! Leave those worms alone!

    WATCHING your teacher eat live bugs must sound like a dream come true for some youngsters. But pupils at Sir Thomas Boteler CE High School got to see just that as members of staff went head to head in their very own bushtucker trial. Live meal worms

  • HEROES: John Bevan

    WE'RE reflecting on the career of John Bevan in the fifth of our series about Warrington rugby league heroes. Click here for details.