POLICE are appealing for witnesses after an elderly cyclist was badly injured after colliding with a pedestrian outside Bank Quay train station. PC Graham Davies, of Warrington Town Centre NPU, says he wants information to determine the circumstances
A WARRINGTON police officer is set to feature on a new BBC show, tracking volunteers from training to first days on the beat. Beccy Purcell, who is from the town, has been followed by television cameras since being accepted as a special constable
FIREFIGHTERS in the town will be walking out next weekend as a row over pensions continues. The Fire Brigades Union has announced industrial action will take place Friday, May 2 from 12 to 5pm, Saturday May 3 between 2pm and 2am and Sunday May
TRIBUTES have been paid to the former secretary of the Warrington District Rugby League Association after she lost her brave battle with cancer last night, Wednesday. Hilary Steel, who was awarded an MBE in 2009, stepped down from the role in October
THE X Factor team will spend longer searching for a star in Warrington. A spokesman for the music talent show has announced that the first stage of audition times, taking place in Warrington tomorrow, have been extended. The audition process
A PENKETH mum has been praising the work of health visitors in the town after they helped her get her son diagnosed with a severe reflux. Natalie Owen said her son Lewis still weighed 7lb aged seven-weeks-old and was constantly crying before his
A LITTER pick, organised by parish councillor Sue Gordon, will take place on May 10 at 10.30am. Residents are asked to meet at Winwick Leisure Centre to help tackle the growing litter problem in the area. People are reminded to dress appropriately
REHEARSALS are under way for the next production by the Burtonwood Amateur Music and Drama Society. The satirical musical Bye Bye Birdie will be performed at St Michael's Parish Hall from Thursday, August 21, to Saturday, August 23. The story
PARENTS ignoring parking restrictions outside Burtonwood Primary School could receive a warning notice in a bid to deter the problem from escalating further. Parking issues on Green Lane have been a cause of concern for many years. Cheshire
POLICE have warned motorists not to leave valuables on display following a spate of thefts from vehicles in Westbrook, Callands and Gemini Retail Park. CSO Steven Grady said: “Most vehicle crime is opportunistic and therefore preventable. “
RESIDENTS from Westvale Care Home in Old Hall took a trip down memory lane when a couple of Warrington Wolves players dropped in to talk about their old sporting heroes. Paul Wood and James Laithwaite visited the care home on Old Hall Road to talk
TAKE a trip back to the 80s at the Burtonwood Community Centre on Saturday, May 10. The centre is hosting a Smash Hits of the 80s night featuring Paul Hand and DJ Chris Wood. Tickets priced £3 each are on sale now. For more information
Less than 10 per cent of residents cast their vote as Labour claim parish seat THE two candidates, who stood in the Winwick by-election on April 10, have blamed the parish council for failing to publicise the vote with more than 90 per cent of
THE police and Birchwood Town Council are holding a joint surgery at Encounter Cafe in Birchwood Shopping Centre on Saturday, May 3, from 1pm to 2pm.
A NUCLEAR energy specialist has joined the business community at Birchwood Park. Areva has relocated staff working in its consultancy section to offices in Bridgewater Place.
PLANS have been approved for a new café at Birchwood Park. Warrington Borough Council passed the scheme for Bridgewater Place Coffee Shop on April 15, with the condition that work begins within three years.
WARRINGTON Light Opera will be poking fun at Oscar Wilde for their latest production at Culcheth High School. The amateur operatic society have teamed up with Manchester Opera Orchestra to present Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience on April 30 and
OFFICE workers swapped suits and ties for trainers and sweat bands to raise funds for Warrington Youth Club. It was part of a Birchwood company’s celebrations to mark 10 years in business. Twenty staff from Procurement for Housing (PfH) and
A FASHION show in Culcheth raised more than £500 for Breakthrough Breast Cancer. Models of all ages, including Keely Bulmer, aged eight, and Lily Porter, aged seven, pictured, strutted their stuff on Pink Cow Boutique’s catwalk at The Common Room
Teen faces gruelling trek to remote village A CULCHETH High School pupil is flying to Nepal to help build a school for youngsters in the village of Thulodhunga. Birchwood fire cadet Poppy Noden, aged 14, is part of a team of 20 young people
CULCHETH and Glazebury Parish Council’s next meeting is on Tuesday, May 13. The meeting is at Culcheth Day Centre in Jackson Avenue at 7.30pm and members of the public are welcome to attend.
CELEBRATE Dawn Chorus Day with Risley Moss wildlife. Enjoy the morning song of woodland and mossland birds during a walk with the rangers at the nature reserve between 5am and 6.30am on May 4. To book a free place call 824339.
STAFF at Asda in Birchwood had 70 inches of hair lopped off between them in aid of The Little Princess Trust. Ten women had seven inches cut off their pony tail while store manager Richard O’Mahony, four male colleagues and three customers also
AFTER serving cupcakes to One Direction, comedian Russell Brand and Little Mix, a Chapelford cupcake company have now made another new celebrity friend. Matt Blakey, who runs the Custom Cupcake Company with wife Kelly, headed to the airport this
TONY Smith has praised the work player-coach Paul Cooke has done at Doncaster ahead of their Challenge Cup visit to Wolves. “He’s done really well,” said Smith. “A struggling club at that level, they’re now fighting with the big boys so he’s done
BIRCHWOOD Lions collected almost £500 in five hours towards nursing care for cancer patients. Volunteers have thanked the community for their great response to charity Marie Curie’s Great Daffodil Appeal. Lions Club president Walter Pridden
COULD you offer a Walton scheme help with its new wildlife zone? The Walton Lea Project is creating a new pond area and is in need of donations of pond or marginal plants to help fill the area. Call 860143.
TAKE a walk around Walton’s trees on a guided walk this Sunday. Malcolm Elridge, from the Friends of Walton Estate, will lead the walk which runs from 10.30am to 12.30pm. Meet in the coffee shop at the heritage yard.
ENJOY an evening of music at Walton Hall on Wednesday. The Friends of Walton Hall Music group will host Linos Piano Trio for an evening of classical standards. The trio, formally called Lakeside Piano Trio, features Prach Boondiskulchok on
A BRICKLAYER was honoured by his own trade in a special ceremony. Ashley Terron, from Appleton, was invited to London for an event run by the Worshipful Company of Tylers and Bricklayers. It came on the back of the 21-year-old’s success after
FROM shop girl to style hero, Megan Bass is on the way to scooping up the title of Britain’s most stylish shopper but she needs her home town to get behind her in a bid to be crowned the winner. The 21-year-old, from Orford Avenue, has won the
Charity needs your help to get adapted cycle scheme off the ground with cash win A WALTON charity is urging people to go online to help it win £25,000 in funding for a new project. The Walton Lea Partnership needs people to vote for it to recieve
On Friday 16th May, friends in the North West will be swapping a night out on the town for a Night In with their favourite people – all in the name of Macmillan Cancer Support. Night In is great fun and so simple. Whether it’s a girly night
A BOWLING club in Stockton Heath is celebrating after getting the cash to buy its own defibrillator. Stockton Heath Seniors Bowling Club, based in Alexandra Park, were supported in the bid by Warrington Borough Council’s south neighbourhood team
OFFICERS from Warrington Central Neighbourhood Unit will hold a community meeting for residents in Fairfield and Howley tomorrow, Friday. The session takes place at the Fairfield and Howley Neighbourhood Project, on Fairfield Street, from 9.30am
WANT to lose weight for summer? Livewire’s weight management sessions are held at Westy Children’s Centre, on Tinsley Street on Mondays from noon to 1pm.
COULD you help to bring a community centre’s computer equipment up to date? St Margaret’s Community Hub, on Lindley Avenue, is looking for help to bring its computer room up to the standard of the rest of the building. The centre is looking
A SCHEME to extend Alban Retail Park in Dallam could change. Developers Derwent Construction Ltd has put forward a new scheme which would see the creation of two new shop units on part of the former Fiat factory site. The site already has approval
SIR Thomas Boteler High School has announced its Big Bible Event. The four-day interactive experience will allow children to take part in a ‘journey with Jesus’ and learn what it means to be a ‘disciple of Jesus’. Activities available will
BEWSEY Lodge Primary school has won a set of sports kits through a competition run by the Co-operative multi-sport programme. Throughout 2013 The Co-operative worked with its community partner The Warrington Wolves Charitable Foundation to engage children
YOUNGSTERS from a Latchford school turned their classrooms into hospital wards for the day. Pupils at Our Lady’s Catholic Primary School, on Wash Lane, held a doctors and nurses dress up day to help raise money for Alder Hey Children’s Hospital
EACH month we will be highlighting the work of a charity making a difference in the town. In our final week with maternity bereavement cause Harry and Co we look to the future. WHEN Kate Tinker suffered the heartbreaking loss of her son Harry
Groups helping the old and young have already benefited from scheme COMMUNITY projects across Latchford have been given help thanks to a grant scheme. Latchford East has been chosen as a Big Local Area – one of 150 across the country – which
RESURFACING work is soon to take place on Davies Way car park in Lymm. Clr Sheila Woodyatt said the road is in such a poor state of repair with pot holes that action must be taken.
LYMM’S new mobile speed sign has made its debut on the roads of the village. The electronic sign, which shows drivers their speed in a bid to slow them down, has been put up in Rushgreen Road already and will be regularly moved.
THE Big Sing choir in Lymm will perform at this year’s Lymm Festival in June. The choir is a Gareth Malone-style scratch group which encourages all ages and ability to sing together. They will perform as part of a night called These Are the
GET into the swing of things with a taster day for women at Lymm Golf Club. The free event takes place on Sunday from 1.30pm to 4pm with putting and a short session on the driving range from the club pro. All standards are welcome and equipment
CHILDREN at Lymm High School have been getting ready for their exams – by going to study sessions during the Easter holidays. Extra revision sessions were put on by teachers before GCSEs and A-levels.
A PLASTERER from Lymm joined forces with two friends to complete a 192-mile Coast to Coast walk and cycle to raise money for the NSPCC. Paul Greaves, aged 44, completed his challenge along with his old school friend Andy Walker and another friend
A FAMILY race night to help Scouts fund a trip to the World Jamboree in Japan takes place in Lymm next month. Held at Oughtrington Community Centre on May 10 from 7.30pm, entry is free, but bring your own refreshments. There will be prizes
AN historic dinosaur’s footprint is soon to get a new home in Lymm. The footprint is of a dinosaur found in the village and has been kept in the village’s primary schools. But parish councillors decided it should be on public display, and a
AN action plan has been penned to help boost trade in Lymm. Lymm Traders held a meeting last month to see how they can improve the number of people visiting the village and encourage people to shop in Lymm. Concerns have been voiced that since
LYMM Rugby Club’s Crouchley Lane ground will host the Raging Bull Colts League Junior Finals on Sunday. The Junior Shield kicks off the day with Orrell v Tarleton at 11am, followed by Bolton v Wilmslow in the Junior Plate at 12.30. Caldy face
EVEN as an adult, seeing all of the famous characters from CBeebies live on stage was fascinating. But for my four-year-old in his first ever trip to the theatre, it was almost overwhelming. As the show began, he stared open-mouthed, in awe
A PAIR of Warrington Water Polo Club players represented Great Britain at the Slowianka Cup in Gorzow, Poland. Tom Hadley and James Williams recently returned from the tournament, which acts as preparation for the European Championship Qualifying
AFTER spending three decades working as a teacher, Anne Marie Fittock loves her job as much as she did when she first stepped foot into the classroom more than 30 years ago. The St Joseph’s Primary School teacher, from Great Sankey, was hailed
A HAT-TRICK from Warrington Water Polo’s Hazel Musgrove fired England to a Commonwealth Water Polo Championships gold medal in Aberdeen. Despite a dominant performance from England, they had to avoid some last minute pressure to beat Canada 10-
LAWRENCE Bellamy is associate dean at the University of Chester's Padgate campus. Here he talks International Festival of Business in his latest column. THE International Festival of Business 2014 will be held in and around Liverpool during
ORGANISERS of an event that saw vegetable lovers attempt to eat the most Brussels sprouts in a minute ever recorded have claimed the world record tumbled in Warrington on Saturday. Orford Hotel, Gorsey Lane, hosted the Guiness World Record attempt
HER passion was folk music, until the final moments she lost her battle with cancer. That is the story of Maggie Goodall, a popular singer in Warrington, who organised and performed at weekly folk music clubs at various pubs across the town.
A WARRINGTON company has revealed a 60 per cent increase in business in the first three months of 2014. X-Press Legal Services Group, a leading national supplier of property-related search documents for solicitors and conveyancers, is “ growing
THANKS to David Cameron and George Osborne, Warrington is getting £3 million to make it easier to see our GPs. More than seven million patients across the country are set to benefit from pilot schemes to improve GP access, funded by the Prime Minister
WOOLSTON Rovers A are in action on Thursday evening when they travel to Leigh Miners Rangers A in the North West Men’s League Trophy quarter final. Kick off is 7.30pm at Twist Lane, Leigh and coach Chris Ball will be hoping that they will put in
MEET the fan carrying the entire Warrington Wolves squad on her back. Season ticket holder Amanda Atkin has been showing off her latest tattoo featuring every players’ autograph and said she will not stop getting them until her body is filled up
POLICE in Warrington are warning against the dangers of stalking as part of a nationwide initiative. National Stalking Awareness Day, takes place today, Thursday. It focuses on stalking in the workplace, as the National Stalking Helpline says
IN fairness I was happy enough with two decent halves to begin with – but as Good Friday melted into Easter Saturday quarters were where it was at. And after (literally) soaking up the atmosphere of Warrington’s rejuvenated cultural corner for
IIT’S an awkward fact that the UK has a high quality university system but is relatively poor (at least compared to France and Germany) at providing for those who choose not to go to University. Apprenticeships should be the answer to this problem
FRACKING tests are to be carried out in Glazebury, it has been confirmed this morning. TESLA Exploration International Ltd wrote to Warrington Borough Council last week to tell the Town Hall of the intention to carry out 'three dimensional seismic
THE former owner of an Indian restaurant in Cuerdley who employed illegal immigrants has been fined for breaching vital fire safety regulations. Mohammed Abdul Hannan Miah, aged 31, of Howgill Crescent, Oldham, flaunted numerous mandatory measures
A BUSINESS woman from Paddington is in the finals to win £10,000 in business support. Nicola Kelly was forced into bankruptcy when she faced mounting mortgage debts following a relationship break up. But now she could be working alongside Warrington
GRAPPENHALL Ex-Servicemen’s Club will host Cheshire versus Warwick in the British Crown Green Women’s Bowls Association County Championship on Sunday, 2pm start.
TWO of the town’s top clubs have entered the new Super Cup. St Oswalds and King and Queen have joined a competition that has been reintroduced this year and comprises of teams from all over the country playing a format of four home and four away
WARRINGTON Wolves’ strongest available side will line up against Doncaster on Sunday with boss Tony Smith refusing to underestimate Championship opposition. Smith will not use the competition as a chance to rest players and has ruled out handing
THE owner of Orford Farm has announced the former fetish sex club is to be redeveloped into a retirement home. Allan Doig wants to build 33, one bedroom, apartments for people aged over 60 at the site on School Road. He said: “I want to knock
