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Nebulisers needed
HALTON Rapid Response Respiratory Team is appealing for people with unused nebulisers to get in touch. Nebulisers vapourise drugs for patients with respiratory problems. The team estimate around 4,500 of them, worth £115 each, are in the community but
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Pet owners - be vigilant
PDSA saw nearly 2,500 cases of animals that had swallowed inanimate objects in 2003. With this in mind, vets from Britain's leading veterinary charity are advising pet owners to be even more vigilant after the festive season - as some of the most familiar
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Pro-fox hunters mark MP's cards
PRO-FOX hunting campaigners have singled 53 MPs for special attention - including Weaver Vale's Mike Hall. The Countryside Alliance has published a set of playing cards depicting the top MPs who are in favour of a complete ban on hunting wild animals
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Moulton village bids to upgrade playing field
PLANNING permission to update Moulton's playing field facilities is being sought by the parish council. The field off Main Road is to have separate play areas for toddlers and juniors, a multi-games area and teenage shelters installed around the football
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New Year honours for four special people
IT was a special festive season for four people in the Northwich area, who received awards in the New Year's Honours List. Hilda Wilson, who retired as headteacher at Charles Darwin Primary School last year, received an OBE for services to education.
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Spend, spend, spend
THOUSANDS of pounds of council cash is being pumped into Warrington's neighbourhoods as part of a massive investment in the borough. The third round of community schemes to benefit from funding from Warrington Borough Council's environmental improvement
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Knifeman steals cash in raid on off-licence
DETECTIVES are hunting a knifeman who threatened a woman in an off-licence before escaping with money from the till. The raid occurred at 4.50pm, on New Year's Day, at the Bargain Booze store, in Mersey Street. The man threatened the shop assistant with
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Jade brews poetic gem!
A TWELVE-year-old's poem about her mum is to be splashed across half a million packs of tea after she won a national competition. Jade Flannery, from Clock Face beat thousands of other hopefuls to have her work printed on Tetley Tea packets. Mum Chris
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Trust meeting
THE next meeting of the board of Halton Primary Care Trust will take place at 9.30am today (Wednesday) January 7. The venue for the meeting is the Trust HQ, Victoria House, Holloway, Runcorn WA7 4TH. Members of staff and the public are welcome to attend
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OBE Helen dispels WI's 'knitting' image
SHE'S rescued Tony Blair from hecklers and appeared in the smash movie hit Calendar Girls. Now, the incoming president of Whitley Women's Institute has been awarded an OBE in the New Year's honours list. Helen Carey, aged 62, and former chairman of the
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One in four 999 calls is for non-emergency
AMBULANCE bosses are appealing to the public to use the service only in an emergency, to avoid putting lives at risk. Mersey Regional Ambulance Service, which covers Warrington, received more than 20,000 calls during November, and it is believed that
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Trio seek sponsors for special project
THREE St Helens women are appealing to local businesses to help sponsor their placements on a ten-week trek to the forests of Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Eighteen-year-old Lucie Mawdsley, Kate Jones and Jamie Derbyshire, all residents of Arena Housing Association's
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G'day! Pub wins role in star soap
A COUPLE of ex-pats, whose antipodean adventure began more than 23 years ago, are about to feature in the storyline of Australia's most famous soap since Prisoner Cell Block H. Mal and Aileen Leather, who are both 46 and originally from Parr are the proud
