CONGLETON Town went down to defeat on Saturday to a late winner for the second week in a row. The Bears were one up at home to third-placed Salford City until 15 minutes from the end. The visitors snatched all three points with the winner nine minutes
POLICE are trying to trace the driver of a car that caused £17,000 of damage when it careered into vehicles on display in a garage forecourt in Knypersley. The Renault Clio left Tunstall Road at 2am on Saturday, colliding with four cars parked at Park
NEW heads of service will need the vision, creativity and enthusiasm to bring about real change. The above is part of the job description for posts forming part of the new management team at Congleton Borough Council. The new posts come with salaries
ANNA Shatwell's prize-winning art work is to showcase a new-look shopping centre. Anna, aged six, won a competition to design a flag for the revamped West Heath Retail shopping centre in Congleton. She is a pupil at Quinta Primary School in Congleton,
CONGLETON Carnival organisers are breaking with tradition by switching the route of the popular procession. The carnival has become synonymous with a parade of colourful floats winding their way through the town centre. However the 2006 procession will
A YOUNG arsonist who torched a Nantwich primary school - and embarked on an offending spree across Cheshire - has been caged for six months. Youngsters at Highfields Primary, in Cumberland Avenue, were left distraught last November after their playhouse
Regarding the proposed Omega development, we are constantly told in your newspaper how vital it is to Warrington. Is this really true? Do we want to see more of our countryside destroyed and the traffic jams getting even worse? And for what? Are there
It was reported in last week's Guardian that the Government was giving a reduced settlement of benefits to Warrington Borough Council. This will inevitably cause rises in council tax. This is another typical 'stealth tax' from Gordon Brown. The blame
A new season is upon us but you would not think so from Sunday's performance - a friendly, I don't think so. There are no friendlies when people spend money to go and enjoy a good game only to be served up with more of the same over many past seasons.
The Rotary Club of Irlam would like to thank the people of Hollins Green and Glazebrook for their kind donations during our tour of the district in December with the Rotary Christmas float. We collected a total of £353 touring the streets of Rixton on
As a result of realigning the distribution network (their words not mine), staff were selected on a criteria as to whether they were offered a job or not. As some were not successful, this resulted in them being made redundant. What has not been mentioned
I have to confess to being utterly appalled with the Morrisons' attitude. It's attitude toward the Safeway staff and the depot. In my opinion, we have been seen as the company lepers and have been ignored. I also believe that if it hadn't been for the
A TOTS group is moving up in the world, thanks to a dazzling Ofsted report. Fresh from a 'good' government education inspection, Preston Brook Playgroup has been given the go-ahead to become a pre-school. The report indicated children were making good
EVERY Tuesday and Thursday in term time St Augustine's Primary School holds a parent and toddler session for parents and carers of Westy children under the age of five. The sessions run from 1.30pm to 3.30pm on a Tuesday and from 2pm to 3pm on a Thursday
WESTY Sure Start would like to hear your views and opinions on the Children's Centre. Help the team plan for the future on Tuesday, January 24, at 9.30am at the Westy Sure Start Children's Centre. Childcare is available, call 570870 to pre-book. For more
YOUNG Westy actors shot to stardom when they performed Cinderella With a Twist to a packed house on six nights. The Shooting Stars theatre group, which meets every Monday at St Margaret's Community Centre, Westy, put on the pantomime for the community
TWO entrances to Bewsey Park are to be sealed off as part of a crackdown on anti-social behaviour. Councillors say the move, given approval by Warrington Borough Council last week, will stop criminals and anti-social youths using the numerous park entrances
TEENAGERS are to be given their own corner in Knutsford Library. Librarian Jackie Heaton said it was an attempt to shed the stuffy image of libraries and entice back a lost generation. But they will be expected to follow the usual rule - and keep quiet
CLASSES which help teach youngsters under seven to learn through the use of music and movement run in Lymm. For more information about the Kindermusik educational programme, call Jane Fay at Lymm High School on 754762.
nod to wear the crown? THE new Lymm May queen and rose queen for 2006 will be selected next month. And organisers are looking for nominees to crown this year's winners. The selection event takes place on Monday, February 13, at Lymm Village Hall on Pepper
ANGRY Morrisons workers say they were kept in the dark before being made redundant. Most of the workforce left last week and hundreds more are set to follow. Around 750 workers are to lose their jobs at the Woolston and Winwick depots combined. Staff
centre will improve safety THE Government minister charged with overseeing the introduction of the regional fire control centre in Warrington and eight other locations across the country, says it will improve public safety. Warrington Borough Council
PUNCTUALITY may never have been his strong point, but as the face of a new Royal Mail collectors' stamp it's hoped the white rabbit will ensure your post gets to its destination on time. Probably the best known character from Alice in Wonderland, apart
DRUG dealers, drink drivers, yobs and burglars have all felt the long arm of the law thanks to Cheshire Police's crackdown on crime campaign. An average 2,500 people were arrested in each of the three months leading up to Christmas, with 2,874 alone being
BIDDULPH Vics manager Terry Greer is creating a new-look side in a bid to climb away from the drop zone. The Vics are fourth from bottom, and without a win in their last six games. Greer has signed midfielders Arron Hevingham, Dominic Ward and Dale Melling
ALSAGER Town are breathing down the necks of Skelmersdale after closing the gap with the leaders to two points. Alsager earned only a point on Saturday at Cammell Laird, but Skelmersdale lost 2-0 at home to Glossop. Alsager have two games in hand on the
HOSPITAL campaign leader Mike Smith is asking Congleton people to make sure their voice is heard. Mr Smith and his fellow campaigners collected 15,196 signatures for a petition calling on health bosses to retain services at Macclesfield Hospital. They
A SCHOOLBOY, who lost an eye in an incident with an air rifle last month, has spoken of his determination to continue to pursue his dream of becoming a mechanic. Michael Litherland, aged 15, is recovering at his Congleton home from surgery to remove his
A GOOD Samaritan was blinded in one eye after being hit with a bottle during a vicious attack by three youths in Biddulph on Saturday night. Gordon Myatt, aged 41, is currently in North Staffordshire Hospital having undergone surgery for horrific eye
Helen Cartwright's Straight Talking (Guardian, January 5) made my blood boil with rage. So she loves nothing but going to the shops any time day or night. Has she ever given any thought to the people who work these long hours in the retail trade? They
May I take this opportunity to express my thanks to all those involved in making Barry Johnson's (ex Crosfields ARLFC) testimonial an outstanding success. Credit must go to all the former and present ARL players from every club in the area. Thanks to
I despair at the amount of new homes being built, especially around the town centre. I dread to think of the amount of houses the land around Battersby Lane will have where pedestrians cannot cross the road and motorists are not moving, it's chaos. The
I AM writing in response to last week's article concerning grave plots at Fox Covert Cemetery. I agree wholeheartedly with the comments made last week by Stewart Bamford. When a family member buys a grave plot, it is up to them and them alone to put whatever
I would like to clarify a couple of points raised in your article "Patients can choose private operations", published on page 14 of last week's Warrington Guardian. At the moment patients in Warrington will only be given a choice of having planned operations
In retrospect, working for Safeway was excellent. As soon as Morrisons took over, it went rapidly downhill. Asset-stripping the Safeway network and selling off a huge amount of stores and sites, (Asda, Tesco and others were not allowed to take over Safeway
I'M still working at the Safeway/Morrisons site at Winwick Quay. After the way Morrisons has treated staff at the Winwick and Woolston depot, I certainly would not work for them in the future. I think most of us were pretty glad that we all retained our
Our contracts were terminated and, as from the January 9, we were made redundant. Over the past 18 months or so, working for Sir Ken Morrison has been the worst of my working career. It has been badly organised by both the union and the company. I only
no choice I WAS one of those people, a driver, who was made redundant, so my last shift was Friday, January 6. We have been treated so poorly by the Morrisons chain that they would not confirm until January 4 that most of us were actually being made redundant
GREEN protesters gathered in Sandbach last week to make their feelings known on radical plans for the M6. The Highways Agency held a meeting in the town to set out proposals for either the widening of the motorway or the building of a new toll road through
WESTY Families Group meets on Wednesday, January 25, from 9.30am to 11.30am at St Margaret's Community Centre. For details, call Ann Brown or Dave Petley on 637611.
REFRESHMENTS will be served after the 8.30am service at St Anselm's RC Church, Dallam and after the 11.30am service at Sacred Heart RC Church, Whitecross. Call in for a cup of something and a chat.
THE GOVERNMENT last week promised to consider helping former Ilford managers who fear they may lose out on their pensions following the company's collapse. All 12 retired before the Mobberley-based firm went into receivership 18 months ago. Last week
A JEWELLER headed off another robbery last week after spotting two suspects outside his shop. Gerald Fearnside alerted police on Thursday after the men peered through his window at thousands of pounds worth of stock. "You just know by how they view the
A WARM and welcoming school with exceptionally high standards was the verdict of inspectors at Ravenbank Primary School. The school was given the highest grade possible in each of five performance categories by Ofsted. Head teacher Avril Topping was praised
VILLAGERS are being confronted with piles of rubbish when they go to recycle their waste in Lymm. And councillors and recyclers alike are saying they have had enough of the area around Davies Way car park in the centre of the village looking like a "shambles
TOWN Hall bosses are set to clash over how many holidays bin men should be allowed to take over Christmas. Collections were stopped for two weeks across much of the town during this year's festivities prompting queues at tips and recycling sites. Now
PC Kevin Brinkman died while he and two other Cheshire officers were visiting one of the most devastated areas of Phuket. The Stockton Heath officer, was the rear seat passenger in a minibus on Takua Pa Road in the Khao Lak region when the driver, PC
THE fiance of a Warrington police officer is to sue Cheshire Police after he died helping in the relief effort following the Asian tsunami. PC Kevin Brinkman, an officer in Stockton Heath, died in March last year when the minibus he and two other Cheshire
POLICE have hailed a campaign clamping down on drink-drivers a success across Cheshire. National figures released by the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) show that out of 6,060 drivers breathalysed in December, 225 tested positive. The total
