PERFORMANCE company Uninvited Guests visit Alsager Arts Centre on Thursday, February 27 to perform their latest piece - Offline. Founded in 1998, Uninvited Guests make performance and multimedia work which combines high-tech with low tech. The company
I BACK George Osborne and Tony Blair in their support for America's determination to disarm and depose Saddam, by war if necessary, with or without UN approval. Appeasers allowed time for Hitler to blitzkrieg his way through Europe. This time it would
AN ENTERPRISING community caf has won a £4,000 lottery grant. The Kitchen Invaders project, developed to promote healthy eating, has received the cash from the National Lottery's Awards for All programme. It means the Widnes initiative, run by a pioneering
A WIDNES karate kid has been celebrating her success after finishing runner up in a national contest, writes Craig McIntosh. Kay Jacks, aged 12, just missed out in claiming top place in the SKU National Kata Championships on Sunday, February 9. The Sts
ATTENDING school every day and arriving on time is the key message of a pioneering new initiative. A Good Start is the name of an innovative book distributed to pupils at 15 Runcorn schools. It is has been specially designed to reduce the number of children
POP-UP Polly was tickled pink to help launch Britain's latest digital TV channel, BBC 3. She is the only female clown chosen from more than 100 applicants to appear in a pioneering docu soap. TV cameras followed her every move as she joined four male
YOUNG people in Winsford are being encouraged to come forward to tackle problems like anti-social behaviour, drug abuse, graffiti and vandalism. Cheshire Crimebeat wants to see youngsters channel their enthusiasm into setting up their own schemes to improve
WE have been contacted by Cherryl of Liverpool, who has a tale of a haunted house she used to own. Cherryl said: "For seven years I owned a property in Knowsley Village, Liverpool. It was an old coach house aged nearly 200 yrs old. "It was in disrepair
A LASER scanning system is to be used to help save the last remaining salt works in the country. Northwich is home to the Lion Salt Works and a project by The Lion Salt Works Trust to regenerate the site is currently being undertaken. A £22,000 grant
AN ambitious inventor from Bewsey looks set to take the golfing world by storm with his latest creation. Steven Gerard-Hayden, aged 42, of Gerrard Avenue, is hoping to get a worldwide patent on his Exten-tee extendable golf tee, which he claims is the
POLICE are to recall a bygone age when bobbies rode bikes on the beat -- but this time they will be pedalling high-tech cycles in a bid to beat criminals. Officers serving districts around the Risley area of Warrington are wheeling out state-of-the-art
POLICE and firefighters waited anxiously for nearly two hours as a woman threatened to jump into the River Mersey after a Valentine's Day night out. In sub-zero temperatures last Friday, emergency services looked on as the 28-year-old woman perched on
TWO men were last week jailed for robbing an assistant at a petrol station in Knutsford. Adrian Lyttle, 28, was sentenced to eight years for the attack on the Esso garage in Toft Road more than five months ago. His co-accused, Kevin Tomlinson, 35, was
TATTON MP George Osborne is taking to the streets to stop England being carved up into regions. Next week he will tell students at Liverpool's John Moores University why creating a North West Regional Assembly would be a shameful waste of money. "There
TRADERS in King Street last week blamed road works for a significant drop in business. Barry Dunne, who runs the Casa Pilinca restaurant, said regular customers were staying away as workmen resurfaced the road. "We're well down at lunch-time when it's
FOOTBALL fans stuck in match-day tailbacks on the A556 beeped their horns on Saturday in support of a new motorway being built through Knutsford's countryside. Many Manchester United and Arsenal supporters said it was about time that the Government invested
POLICE are investigating a massage parlour used by men seeking sex. Officers plan to use information supplied by the Knutsford Guardian. During an undercover investigation, a Guardian reporter was offered sex five times by a Swedish blonde in a room above
WHILE trying to take a positive view on most of the opinions expressed in your letters' page I feel I have to respond to Mary Gracie who seems to miss the point. In her letter she compares shopping in King Street to a more pleasant experience shopping
Altrincham and District Amateur League Division One Wellgreen FC 0 Knutsford FC A 0 THIS tough draw was a fair result against a team fighting for survival at the lower end of the table. Although there were no goals to show for their troubles, there was
WIDNES Vikings this week brought to an end weeks of speculation by calling off their ambitious chase for cross-code star Henry Paul. The club, who had been accused of making the bid as a publicity stunt, announced yesterday (Tuesday) it would not be following
A UNIQUE Lymm gardening business that provides fuchsias across Europe has been given the backing of councillors. Walton Nurseries, based in Cherry Lane in Lymm, is a new business that is devoted to the cultivation of fuchsias and owner Ray Walton applied
LINNETS captain, Mike Tomlinson, last week saw his dream come true when he pulled on an England shirt for the first time. The 22-year-old, who was a late call up to Paul Fairclough's National Game XI squad, made an impressive debut in the red, white and
SAINTS have no time to lick their wounds sustained in the Sydney Roosters defeat - because heading to town on Friday night are a Bradford Bulls side with one word on their lips...revenge! The Bulls are still sore at being pipped in last year's Grand Final
Mr M Williams seems to have misunderstood or misread the article relating to older drivers. We, in fact, said we do not want to see anyone being stopped from driving or even banned when they reach a certain age, but to have more stringent tests when you
a true glass act A SCIENTIFIC glassblower is jetting off to Germany and America after scooping a prestigious scholarship. Philip Murray, 22, has won a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship, awarded as a living tribute to Sir Winston Churchill. It means
A FORMER pizza delivery man conned Halton Council in an elaborate multi-million pound scam, a court has heard. In less than 12 months, Stephen Atkinson, went from ferrying fast food to making fraudulent grant applications as a council Economic Development
CRIMES surrounding issues of race, sexuality and prejudice will not be tolerated - that's the message from the Halton Hate Crime Panel. The panel is made up of members of the community safety team, Cheshire police, the Citizens' Advice Bureau and Halton
A FORMER Halton bobby has struck oil after being made a security big wig at a major US energy firm. Mike Benson served as a police constable in Runcorn until 1988 but is now vice-president of security at the Apache Corporation, in Houston. He said: "My
BRIDGE Street is to be opened up to taxis and cyclists despite objections from Warrington Taxi Drivers Association who said that it is a disaster waiting to happen. The association said that private hire cabs are indistinguishable from normal cars and
THE NEW town centre shuttle bus has been praised by shoppers and staff at a local business complex and will now go on an initial one-year trial. A bus linking the town's two railway stations to the centre of town was one of the biggest requests at last
DIRECTORS of a company which failed with debts of more than £400,000 have been banned from holding management posts for five years. An investigation by the Insolvency Service into the Manchester-based contract negotiation firm Renshaw Birch resulted in
A CHARTERED surveyor last week tore a strip off Cheshire County Council for seemingly making Knutsford's pavements even narrower. Robert Newton, 53, claimed contractors, who are currently resurfacing King Street, had left some parts of the footpath unusable
A 27-year-old man died in an horrific car crash last week. Scott Blake, of Mobberley, was killed when his Jaguar XJR left the road and hit a tree. "It looked as though his car had completely split in two," said one resident who saw the crash scene. The
ARMED with earplugs and a healthy disrespect for modern music, I settled down to watch The Brit Awards, hosted by the patron saint of foghorns, Ms McCall. Does that woman have no home to go to? Not only is she omnipresent on our screens, but she also
YOU ASK for readers' comments on plans for a regional assembly in the North West. If the performance of the existing NWRA in respect of motorway planning is anything to go by, it will be a disaster. I understand that no decision on the MIDMAN recommendations
Padgate St Oswalds 0 Knutsford 4 KNUTSFORD FC showed no sympathy for struggling Padgate on Saturday. The Reds inflicted a 4-0 defeat on the team who have dropped to second bottom in the league. The win put them level on points and goal difference with
TWO women had to be rescued from the fire escape of a town centre gym on Wednesday night after being locked in the changing rooms. The women, aged 21 and 28, were in the showers at Fresh Start Fitness, on Barbauld Street, when all the lights went out.
TROOPS have returned to a former army transit camp - just as the latest battle over the site looks to have subsided. With the temperature touching minus five degrees last weekend, members of the East Cheshire and South Manchester Air Training Corps went
WIDNES Vikings this week have confirmed the signing of Aussie second row forward, Simon Finnegan. The 21-year-old, who was born in Warrington and holds a British passport, has been on trial with Neil Kelly's Widnes pack during the close season. The coaches
SPRIGHTLY Ethel Parr loves to swim, still drives and is looking forward to starting a new life - at the tender age of 87! She always enjoys a challenge and gained a degree - on her 70th birthday! She has lived in the town all her life and is now moving
Horror virgin, Gore Verbinski (Mousehunt, The Mexican), resurrects a Japanese cult movie and gives it the Hollywood makeover in this Blair Witchesque scream fest. In predictable teen movie fashion, it centres around an urban myth about a bizarre video
