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Cheshire Archive

• Groundbreaking steps to creating a new campus

  LEADING figures at Warrington Collegiate performed the official sod cutting ceremony to mark the start of the college's new £27 million campus. read more

• Making music for tsunami aid effort

  MUSICIANS are uniting to raise funds for the hundreds of thousands of people affected by the tsunami. read more

• Folk favourite Vin returns

  FOLK singer songwriter Vin Garbutt makes his annual visit to Biddulph Folk Club next Thursday, January 27. read more

• Trying to stop a riverbank favourite from disappearing

  A NANTWICH-based ecology group has given its backing to Government plans to protect an endangered species in the Cheshire countryside. read more

• Town mourns artist

  FRIENDS of lifelong artist and music lover Frank Randall have reacted with shock to news of his death following a road accident. read more

• Teenage girl was indecently attacked

  POLICE are appealing for witnesses to an attack in which a teenage girl was indecently assaulted in Biddulph. read more

• Igloo is an ice way to keep warm

  ARCHIE Thomson and Ella Barratt, aged three, are pictured keeping warm in an indoor igloo. read more

• Brenda and Jean seek support for widows group

  WIDOWS Jean Watson and Brenda Wright are hoping to set up a social group for women who have lost their husbands. read more

• Public set police after nuisance youths - again

  ALSAGER police officers will be targeting nuisance youths once again in response to continuing public concern. read more

• Residents oppose Phone mast at Alsager Town's ground

  ALSAGER residents are opposing a new bid to install a 65-feet high mobile phone mast on their doorsteps. read more

• BOY racers in Biddulph are being warned their mini motorbikes will be seized if they continue to rid

  Police have received an increase in complaints about youths using the 'mini-motos', which can travel at up to 40mph. read more

• Bears go down at the death

  FOUR new players made their debuts for Congleton Town on Saturday as the Bears made it five defeats in a row. read more

• Town bounce back

  ALSAGER Town bounced back from last weekend's stalemate with Stone to produce an excellent victory on Saturday. read more

• Vics produce superb show against highfliers

  BIDDULPH Vics pulled off one of the results of the season on Saturday against seventh-placed Barwell. read more

• Liberal Democrats score double win

  WINSFORD has two new representatives on Vale Royal Borough Council after yesterday's by-elections in the Verdin and Swanlow wards. read more

• Schools slump in the league tables

  SIX of Crewe's schools are languishing in the bottom third of Cheshire's league table following dismal performances in last year's GCSE and A-level exams. read more

• Body found at old gas works not suspicious

  DETECTIVES have revealed they are not treating the death of a man in Orford as suspicious. read more

• Terence and Elsie celebrate a diamond day to remember

  TWO grandparents from Warrington will be celebrating their diamond wedding anniversary this Saturday, January 22. read more

• A community suffers from a breakdown in communication

  CAMPAIGNING residents say that they are horrified to discover that controversial plans to erect a mobile phone mast on a church tower in Orford have been passed without their knowledge. read more

• Walk away the calories

  A CALORIE-crunching walk heads off from Victoria Park, in Knutsford Road on Wednesday, February 2, at 1.30pm. read more

On this day: Cheshire Archive