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  • Sex and the City (Cert 15) Cinema Review

    WHEN we said goodbye to Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte three years ago, a nation of women mourned. A small section of that nation packed into Manchester Printworks on Wednesday night for the hotly anticipated reunion of New York’s most fabulous

  • Kittens mauled to death by dogs

    A CAT lover has been left devastated after two Japanese akita type dogs savaged her tiny kittens in her back garden. Johanna Carpenter, aged 34, of Worcester Close in Great Sankey said the eight-week-old kittens ‘did not stand a chance’ after the two

  • Livin' for the city

    WITH the holiday season fast approaching, the Warrington Guardian has teamed up with the Golden Square to find the hottest looks on the high street. The town’s fresh faced models scaled the shops to find the perfect look for a chic city break style.

  • Santogold - Santogold (Album)

    THIS Brooklyn-based artist certainly has the image – all quirky hair and eccentric clothing – and the credible music connections such as MIA and Mark Ronson. But does she have the songs to back it up? The answer is a resounding yes! With tracks

  • Clarkson, Jeremy - Don't Stop Me Now

    JEREMY Clarkson knows there's more to life than cars. There is, after all, a whole world out there just waiting to be discovered. So, before he gets on to torque steer and active suspension, he'd like to take a little time to consider the bigger

  • Portishead - Three (Album)

    VAGUE Mexican mumblings seem a rather unusual way to usher in this aptly titled third studio album from Portishead after the band’s 11-year hiatus. As an undercurrent of rumbling drums roll in beneath sweeping strings on opening track Silence, it is

  • Astley, Rick - Greatest Hits (Album)

    THE pop icon from Newton-le-Willows is back with a series of his greatest hits for fans wanting a taste of the 1980’s. Rick Astley’s chart topper, Never Gonna Give You Up, opens the album, which consists of the memorable and the not-so-memorable

  • Doomsday (Cert 18) Cinema Review

    MANY directors like to use scenes in their movies to pay homage to the classics that have influenced them as a filmmaker. But, unless you are Quentin Tarantino, if you take this idea as the foundation of your story, it is bound to fold in on itself

  • Mosse, Kate - Sepulchre

    THE year is 1891 – young Léonie Vernier and her brother arrive in southwest France to stay with their aunt, whose mountain estate, the Domain, is famous in the region. But it soon becomes clear that their aunt — and the Domain — are not what Léonie

  • Shutter (Cert 15) Cinema Review

    THE digital camera bridges the divide between the living and dead in this American remake of the 2004 Thai horror-thriller Shutter. Fashion photographer Benjamin Shaw (Joshua Jackson) and his wife Jane (Rachael Taylor) travel to Japan, where

  • Mum to skydive in daughter's memory

    A BEREAVED mum is taking to the skies in memory of her beloved daughter on the third anniversary of her death. Trudi Feather died on July 26, 2005, aged 28, after suffering from type one diabetes for 20 years. This summer her mum, Liz

  • 30 bands, two stages, one day, it could only be ...

    THE cream of Warrington’s musical talent is coming to Palmyra Square today at Warrington Music Festival. Warrington Music Collective organised the first Warrington Music Festival, in Queen’s Gardens last July, as part of CultureFest 2007. Playing across

  • Junior rower to represent GB at world championships

    WARRINGTON Rowing Club’s Liv Oakes has earned a prestigious place in the Great Britain squad for the World Junior Rowing Championships. Oakes has been selected to represent her country in the double sculls event in the Austrian city of Linz between July

  • The show goes on for Jenny

    DRAMA is an important part of Jenny Radley’s life. But it took a dramatic turn when she was working on a play that runs this week to help raise money for St Rocco’s Hospice. The 74-year-old was diagnosed with breast cancer while casting the play Cheshire

  • Preparation starts to intensify for Olympian Egington

    THE intensity has picked up for Warrington’s Beijing-bound heavyweight rower Richard Egington in the second week of a training camp in Austria. He has been selected for Team GB’s men’s eight at the Olympic Games next month and the 18 days of training

  • Wood set for more games

    PAUL Wood is expected to play two more reserve games before returning to first-team action after scoring a try on his comeback from a shoulder injury on Saturday. Wood, who has played just six minutes for the first team in the past 11 months

  • PICTURES ADDED: Bradford win puts Wolves in fourth

    WOLVES moved up to fourth in Super League after coming from behind to clinch a 32-28 home win against play-off rivals Bradford on Friday night. Wolves trailed for 50 minutes of the Halliwell Jones Stadium tussle but came back strongly and were