BIRMINGHAM Royal Ballet's March season at the Liverpool Empire Theatre will feature a reprise of David Bintley's popular Far From the Madding Crowd. The production is complemented by a triple bill comprising Symphony in Three Movements, Grosse Fuge and
CHRYSTAL GAYLE, America's multi-million selling Grammy award winner, returns with a promotional single to coincide with her first major concert dates in the UK and Ireland for five years. The four track single includes two of her biggest hits, "Don't
KALTEK Automation of Warrington, which makes high tech control panels, has received the quality award ISO9001. The company achieved the award in just six months, with help from Business Link Warrington, and Warrington Borough Council. Pictured from the
INWARD, the Warrington based agency for investment into the north west, has voted to become part of the proposed new Regional Development Agency. The main board of INWARD has agreed to seek full integration, including staff and resources. John Conlan,
WARRINGTON Action for Homeless would like to say a special thank you to all the many individuals, churches, schools, community groups and commercial organisations who have supported us with finance, donations of food, blankets and clothing, etc. In addition
I REALLY sympathise with 'Arthur Ritis' (Guardian Letter, February 20) and others who wish to shop or do business in the diferent sectors of the town centre. It is difficult for the elderly, the disabled and parents with toddlers to make calls, for example
IT IS with deep dismay that I learn of proposals by the Ministry of Defence to open Burma Road at the rear of RAF Burtonwood and have it used as a means of egress for heavy goods vehicles leaving the site. Burma Road leads on to Malvern Close which is
WARRINGTON Professor Barbara Mawer is at the forefront of research in the battle against breast cancer. Her findings suggest that spending more time in the sun may help women to resist breast cancer. The sun helps to convert vitamin D in the body into
A MAJOR shock took place in the quarter-finals of the GUARDIAN Cup as Premier Division high flyers Halton Borough were wiped out by Division One leaders Winwick. Winwick, leading 4-0 at half-time, went on to win the tie 6-1. Carl Greenwood snatched a
WARRINGTON Amateur Boxing Club has been highly active and members have been doing very well so far this season. Andy Bretherton, Mark Jones, Frank Collins, Paul Hewitt and Jamie Lee have all turned in winning performances during recent weeks. Nick Hill
IT is the last day tomorrow, Saturday that members can fish Warrington Anglers' Association canal and stillwater fisheries as the self-imposed close season takes effect from Sunday. You can continue to fish all Warrington's river venues for coarse fish
Warrington Town 2 Holker Old Boys 3 AN injection of new blood into the side failed to revive Town's fortunes as they meekly surrendered to relegation strugglers Holker. New signings Billy Mathieson and Rob Hilton appeared in the starting line-up along
WARRINGTON Rowing Club's forward-looking youth policy has produced another exciting prospect for the future. Phil Dostal, of Stockton Heath, has been called up to the GB junior rowing squad after an impressive year. The 17-year-old partnered Richard Egington
SATURDAY saw the opening of Millbrook Trout Facility at Walton. Water keeper Tony Aster reports lively action with up to 50 fish caught by Lymm Angling Club members. Such catch rates can not be expected all the time, although all practical steps will
Angling Warrington Anglers' Association results: Women's Winter Series: 1, Lin Lawton, 5lbs 12ozs 0drms; 2, Pam Wyatt, 2-13-0; 3, Jean Powell, 2-12-0; 4, Ros Cummings 1-11-9. Warrington Winter League (Trent&Mersey): 1, Graham Stokes, 9-7-0; 2, John
Woolston Rovers 51 Shaw Cross Sharks 4 ROVERS produced an excellent second half performance to comfortably overcome their Yorkshire oponents in the BNFL National Cup third round at Bennett's Rec. They turned around leading 9-4 and a Mark Shephard try
AN exciting change in fortune has been welcomed by Woolston Rovers' Conference team coach Dave Elliott. The former Warrington Wolves player has been selected as assistant coach to the BARLA tour of Australia this summer and two of Woolston's star performers
SHERIA Lawrenson, one of the girls killed in a fatal car crash near Skipton in Yorkshire, was three months pregnant when she died. Her mum, Linda, of Winifred Street, who is devastated about her daughter's death, is now mourning the loss of what would
THE MOTHER of Bridge Street bombing victim Tim Parry is to take a giant leap towards a lasting peace - thousands of feet above the hills of Shropshire. Wendy Parry will join seven friends and colleagues for a sponsored parachute jump in April, just weeks
A RECEPTIONIST "turned a blind eye" as prostitutes had sex with customers at a Warrington massage parlour, a court heard on Wednesday. Helen Ryan, aged 35, had taken out the lease on the premises in Church Street but didn't control the activities of the
WHAT happens when you simply love Rhythm and Blues but have to travel miles to hear it played live ? Form your own club, of course. And that's just what Ray O'Hare of Clifton Street, Warrington, and his brother-in-law Dave Sawyer have done. The club will
SHAKESPEARE said the course of true love never runs smooth but add to this bombs, bullets and the odd terrorist and you may think things couldn't get any worse. Set against the backdrop of pre-ceasefire Belfast, The Boxer, now showing at UCI Cinemas,
TEN thousand schoolchildren from all parts of the north west and Merseyside will converge on the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Hall from Monday next week to take part in one of the biggest musical projects yet undertaken in Great Britain. The Liverpool
I think we now need to ask if we really need a new superstore in the centre of Warrington. We already have three in a half-mile radius so another is quite ridiculous. With this proposed superstore and petrol station on the site of Lockers, the traffic
YOUR piece on last week's Lymm page, concerning the purchase of additional land for football pitches at Lymm High school, is likely to mislead your readers into thinking that the cost of the land and the school's ability to finance the project are similarly
I WAS interested to read the article about water quality in the Gorse Covert area printed in a recent GUARDIAN. Apart from agreeing with everything that was said about the water quality I found it curious that North West Water claimed that there had been
WOMEN'S views on aspects of violence and safety in Warrington are not taken seriously enough, according to a recent survey. Sixty nine per cent of women who took part in the Agenda 21 Women's Forum survey thought that women's views on the whole issue
WOMEN who have invested in neutral shades in recent years can breathe a sigh of relief again this spring .... the colours are still around. These shades have to be the only ones in the spectrum which could last this long! Their survival lies in the low
If forthcoming, it will help to boost existing facilities including promotions, marketing and CCTV, as well as funding new developments. The money will double the borough council's current financial contribution to Warrington Now. New developments could
BOSTON ROB caused the big shock in the Warrington Sunday Soccer League Challenge Cup fourth round with their 4-0 win over Grange Valley. Goals from Alan Tyghe, Mike McVey, Chris Batty and John Geoghegan saw the first division underdogs through in style
Millom 36 Crosfields 4 AFTER a promising opening half Crosfields were out-gunned by accomplished Millom in this BARLA National Cup tie. Millom took a 6-0 lead but Crosfields bounced back and determined running from John Bannon saw him dummy his way over
Warrington 16 Aspull 19 WARRINGTON Rugby Union Club's dreams of appearing in their first Lancashire Trophy final were cruelly shattered by Aspull. In a tense and thrilling encounter they were not only knocked out of the competition but lost their long
YOUNG stars of the future have come and gone at Wilderspool. To be honest it happens at most clubs but we tend to remember the Warrington ones more so. Don't forget, Bobbie Goulding left Wigan and Paul Newlove left Bradford. Paul Sculthorpe, who will
COUNTRIES from the Eastern Block have been using sports psychology for decades. American grid iron teams have their own sports psychologists and so too do Australian Rules Football sides and Australian RL outfits too. In this country, sports psychology
WARRINGTON Wolves boss Darryl Van de Velde will only give his players until today to prove their fitness for Sunday's important Challenge Cup fifth round tie at holders St. Helens. Former Saints prop Adam Fogerty has definitely been ruled out with a thigh
UKAEA has sold the 72 acre Birchwood Technology Park at Risley for more than £20 million. The site has been bought by property development company MEPC from London. The company plans to redevelop the site into a mixed use business park and to improve
ORFORD twins who were born prematurely on different days are celebrating their first birthdays this week. Thomas and Rebecca Bates were born nine weeks prematurely - Thomas on February 27 and Rebecca on February 28. Thomas had a normal birth, although
COUNCIL tax bills, soon to be dropping through thousands of Warrington's letter boxes, are an average £20 lower than last year. The unprecedented cut of approximately four per cent coincides with the start of a new Warrington unitary council. At the same
BUILDING work has now begun on the new St Rocco's Hospice. The builders are on site digging the drains fo rthe £1.5 million, purpose-built hospice and will soon be ready to start laying the foundations. If all goes to plan, the building should be completed
THE countryside around Warrington was aglow with beacons last night, Thursday, as a curtain raiser to a mass march in London by rural campaigners. Lord Daresbury lit a beacon near the Daresbury Park hotel and at the other end of town, a bonfire was lit
