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  • Guy runs for the love of Karen...

    THE love of a good woman spurred a newly-wed husband into running for charity. Guy Ransbottyn, aged 53, of Trinity Green, Mersey Street, completed the Manchester 10km run for Cancer Research UK after discovering his wife Karen had contracted the life-threatening

  • KARATE: Teams take gold in British event

    TWO North West Karate Academy teams won gold at the British Youth Championships in Sheffield at the weekend. Natalie Charlton, Amy Cook and Becky McLorie were victorious in the 14 to 15-year-old girls' team kata event, which involved a display of patterned

  • £900,000 wasted on prescriptions

    NOT far off a million pounds was wasted by Warrington PCT through inefficient drug prescriptions, the National Audit Office has claimed. The NAO studied spending in Warrington and across the country and found more than £300m of £1.5bn expenditure was

  • Rise in addicts seeking help

    A RECORD number of people in Cheshire are receiving treatment for drug use. New figures from the Cheshire Drug and Alcohol Team (DAAT) show that 130 extra people joined drug treatment programmes during 2006/07. Waiting times for treatment dropped from

  • Christian group for blind

    THE next meeting of a Christian group for blind people takes place today at Bold Street Methodist Church. The group has four blind and two partially sighted members who meet every month. The meeting starts at 11am in the Doncaster Chapel. Everyone

  • Bonser bonanza

    STOCKTON Heath Women's Bowls Club's Welsby Merit Main was won by H Bonser. She beat I Titchard in the final, while the losing semi finalists were J Latham and A Newsholme.

  • First-half show gives Warrington win over St Helens

    St Helens Service Area u15 18 Warrington Service Area u15 22. A STRONG first-half performance gave Warrington victory at St Helens. Jordan Burke, Mike Reid, Adam Yates-Dutton and Connor Wright all scored, with Jamie Howard adding three goals to make

  • Three wins needed

    CHRIS Leikvoll reckons Wolves need to win all of their next three games if they are to get their season back on track. Wolves sit ninth in Super League after Saturday's home defeat to Harlequins and now face a daunting trio of fixtures. Two matches

  • GOLF: Holmes Trophy

    WARRINGTON Golf Club's inaugural Holmes Trophy will be held on Monday. The mixed 18-hole greensome medal event has been named after committed club members Jim and Elizabeth Holmes.

  • Wolves relishing tough fixtures

    PAUL Cullen says Wolves are relishing the challenge of back-to-back matches against Super League's top two. Wolves have slipped to ninth in the table and now take on leaders St Helens on Monday and second-placed Leeds on Friday before facing Saints again

  • St Helens preview stats

    Last meeting: Wolves 12 Saints 48, March 9, 2007. Lee Briers and Henry Fa'afili crossed, with Briers landing two goals. Home record versus Saints in Super League: Played 16, won 1, drawn 2, lost 13, points scored 380, points conceded 529. Coach: Daniel