WIDNES Vikings welcome Warrington Wolves to the Select Security Stadium with both coaches talking up the clubs’ rivalry. Vikings’ head coach Denis Betts says both players and fans know the importance of this ‘derby’, while Tony Smith expects supporters
LYMM High School pair Alex Mitchell and Mark Dixon have featured for England Under 18s in the European Championships in France this week. Scrum half Mitchell was a try scorer in a four-point loss to France in Toulouse on Tuesday, while Dixon was
WARRINGTON'S urban artist has struck again – at The Reef bar. The mystery artist, known only as Vike, has created a character called 'The Grim Reefer' to promote a stark warning against drink driving in Bridge Street. Vike said: "There's lots
LYMM Rugby Club’s under 17s colts are through to the Raging Bull Junior Cup Final on Sunday, April 26. They will face Glossop or Altrincham Kersal, who meet in the second semi final on Sunday, April 12. Lymm outgunned Blackburn 39-12 to progress
A DAUGHTER is seeking legal advice after her mum died from an asbestos-related cancer. Lesley Llewellyn is looking for ex-workmates and colleagues of her mum Joyce Hawley to help provide information about how her mum could have been exposed to
RESIDENTS across the town are being encouraged to head to their local swimming baths to take part in a charity challenge by a former Olympian.Sharron Davies is asking supporters to raise money for Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation by completing a mile-long
TONY Smith intends to put a smile on Warrington Wolves fans’ faces with a ‘derby’ win over rivals Widnes Vikings. Wolves have lost on their last two visits to the Select Security Stadium, but Smith says it is time to put that right on Thursday
FANS' favourite Bennie Westwood is on the hunt for a 'try tune' with Twitter coming to his aid. The Warrington Wolves player has been asked by the club to pick a song for when he scores a try and turned to Twitter for help. The forward was
A SALE Sharks player is backing a Birchwood children's charity as part of community funding scheme.Lock Nathan Hines has praised the work of Brainwave in Dewhurst Road which has links to the club.He spoke of his support for the charity at the Aviva Community
MP shows support for heritage and ecology trail AN MP has shown her support for plans to create a heritage and ecology trail in Woolston. Warrington North MP Helen Jones joined parish councillor Ian Johnson and members of the New Cut Heritage
ANGRY residents have been calling for answers after diggers started ripping down trees near the embankment at the back of Our Lady's Primary School in Latchford. Residents said they were upset to see developers move onto the site near Wash Lane
AN Appleton family are appealing for help to save the life of a young Filipino man who has a life-threatening facial tumour weighing more than 4lbs.John and Geri Rhodes heard about the plight of 17-year-old Roma through Facebook after several visits to
HOW ironic that the scrapping of Trans-Pennine trains via Warrington ‘to avoid weaving across the throat of Manchester Piccadilly station’ should be announced on the same day that the building of the Ordsall Chord raillink – to remove that very bottleneck
Liverpool Collegiate 2nd 3 Lymm 2nd 67 CHAMPIONS Lymm continue to maintain form ahead of their cup final next month. In their penultimate North West Standish Media Services Division One game, Richie McEvoy completed a hat-trick in the opening
AS the council’s executive board member for children and young people I want to echo Nick Bent’s warm welcome for Labour’s pledges to protect the education budget and to cut university tuition fees. Labour’s plan to cut tuition fees to £6,000 per
I WAS extremely saddened to hear of the death of the swan that was the victim of being hit by a car a few weeks ago. Thank you to Sophie Wilkinson for updating me via the letters page on March 17. I have now saved the emergency RSPCA number
Firwood Waterloo 2nd 72 Warrington 2nd 5 A COMPREHENSIVE trouncing by a strong and experienced Waterloo outfit effectively put paid to Warrington’s hopes of promotion. However, a very young Warrington side, which finished the game with only
Warrington 34 Carlisle 28 WARRINGTON turned round an interval deficit to clinch a thrilling victory in North One West. Sam Nichols' late try, in an unusual manner for Darren Abram's team, finally settled matters in this mid-table encounter.
4:36pm SPORT: Tony Smith intends to put a smile on Warrington Wolves fans’ faces with a ‘derby’ win over rivals Widnes Vikings. Read more here. 3:56pm POLITICS: Labour's
LABOUR'S shadow small business minister hopped into the chair of a town centre barbers as he launched his pledge to trim business rates for small companies in the party's first budget. Toby Perkins, joined Labour's candidate for Warrington South
JAKARTA is a relentless city.Noisy, humid, traffic in gridlock - the Indonesian capital, on the north-west island of Java, is like nowhere else.And now Garuda Indonesia, the country's national airline, is flying there direct from London (with a touch
THE town’s first University Technical College will open its doors to students in September 2016 after receiving backing from ministers. The future of the multi-million pound specialist college had been in doubt after the University of Chester pulled its
THIS was the scene after a pan was left on a kitchen stove in Cinnamon Brow. Crews were called at 7am this morning, Wednesday, to tackle the flames on Montrose Close and helped lead a woman to safety. It is not thought she was seriously hurt
MONOCHROME checks have stepped off the catwalks and into stores in the town centre...and it’s a look that will take you from the first cool days of spring into the warmth of summer. Head to Golden Square for an outfit that’s perfect for the races
THE team of officers at the Warrington town centre is a small yet busy policing unit. For what they lack in numbers, officers make up for in energy - as what evident when reporter Lauren Hirst went on patrol with PC Kerry Barber and PC Graham Davies
EWAN Phillips was just six when he was stage-struck.The Lymm High School pupil used to watch his big sister Eve at Little Stars stage school in Appleton and he wanted to be just like her.He said: "She was one of the first people to join Little Stars
AN 86-year-old governor of Warrington Hospital made the Prime Minister squirm after questioning him over the what will be done to limit the impact agencies are playing on the NHS. Alfred Clemo, who is also a treasurer at the Older People's Forum
THE post mortem examinations have taken place on two people found dead in a house in Bewsey on Monday evening. The death of a 53-year-old man and a 41-year-old woman is currently being treated as unexplained by officers, who discovered the bodies
A PENSIONER has become the victim of a scam after she had her purse stolen while she was out shopping at Aldi in Birchwood. The two male suspects allegedly distracted the victim while a female suspect stole the money from her handbag on March 25
WE know we have to get up pretty early to catch out our readers. So rather than rack our brains for an April Fool which involves sharks swimming under Bridge Foot or fossils found under Time Square, we thought instead we would compile some of our
Crosfields u16 30 Oldham St Annes u16 8 YOUNG Soap maintained their unbeaten start to the season and went top of the North West Counties Premier Division. Tries came from Danny Walker, two, Jordan Williams, Ben Dixon and Louis Wainwright, with
TUESDAY marked the end of an influential 40 years in social housing for the chief executive of Golden Gates Housing Trust (GGHT).Peter Mercer started his career in the industry when he joined Liverpool City Council in 1974 before a move to Warrington
