“ALL good things must come to an end” is the common expression. This trip certainly has been one of those and I felt a strong sense of sadness as I woke up for my final few hours in Tenerife. No sleeping through alarms this time, I was up at
A PRIMARY school which was named as the best in the town by The Sunday Times is set to be hit hardest by funding cuts according to a teaching union. And Warrington North MP Helen Jones said the lack of money for education in Warrington is an 'outrageous
A CAT charity is making a special appeal for a temporary home for one of their ‘long stayers’ to free up pen spaces for more cats in need. Cats Protection’s Warrington Adoption Centre in Padgate is looking for a suitable foster home for Chamomile
ERIC J Smith managed to wangle a couple of days off work and what better way to enjoy them than a few sessions on Cicely Mill Pool. On Monday, he fished a maggot feeder on both rods and was soon into his first fish. Half a dozen skimmers to 12ozs
WOOLSTON Rovers and Crosfields will bounce into the new season on the back of a ‘derby’ day at Monks Sports Club. The clubs’ open-age sides will go head to head on Saturday, February 25, with the North West Counties League teams meeting at 12.15pm
THE town’s top secondary schools have been revealed after the Department of Education published league tables based on pupils' progress. Lymm High School topped the table for Warrington, closely followed by Bridgewater High and Culcheth High.
MARK Brennan makes the switch to the men’s game as the new head of coaching for Crosfields’ National Conference League side. The 29-year-old takes over promoted Soap following Tony Benson’s return to his native New Zealand. Brennan, a programme
WARRINGTON Borough Council is set to write off around £660,000 in unpaid council tax and other debts. The authority's audit and corporate governance committee will note the decision for the debt, which has become 'unrecoverable', to be written
PRICELESS jewellery has been stolen from a house in Winwick. Police have released pictures of the stolen items following the burglary on December 27 between 5pm and 7pm at a house in Hollins Lane in Winwick while the occupants were out. DC
INCREDIBLE John Nicholls says the silver medal he won at the Northern Indoor Athletics Championships on Saturday is proof he is on track for the bigger goal. Stockton Heath shot putter Nicholls put himself on the podium after competing against
CHESHIRE Wire Green’s developing under 14s squad are continuing to progress. They twice fought back at home to National Basketball League North West One high flyers Stockport Falcons on Saturday before slipping to a 73-59 loss. Their spirit
MORE than 50 leading technology innovators have joined a new networking platform at The Base. BaseConnect, which operates from the Dallam Lane site, is aiming to bring figures from 'ambitious, high-growth' companies together to share ideas, experiences
A £19.3 million plan to solve the town's traffic 'blight' through the construction of a 'much-needed' bridge across the Mersey has edged closer. Maro Developments Ltd has submitted a planning application for the demolition of the DriveTime golf
MANAGER Darren Davies is as emphatic as the scoreline in his reaction to Rylands’ thumping win at the weekend. Captain Kris Bell hit the net five times in a 10-0 hammering of Styal FC at Gorsey Lane. “By some way, this was our best display
I AM writing on behalf of the committee of Camsley Grange Riding for the Disabled Group to thank the Warrington Guardian for the grant of £1,150 and for your coverage of our charity (Warrington Guardian, January 5). As a small volunteer-run charity
WARRINGTON Round Table would like to thank all those who contributed to our Santa sleigh collections in south Warrington in the run up to Christmas 2016. The warm-hearted and generous response of the people living in this part of the town has yet
WARRINGTON Town are aiming to have new blood in their ranks on Saturday. Manager Paul Carden is working to attract fresh legs ahead of the home clash with bottom side Skelmersdale, in order to offset current injury and suspension issues. No
RECENTLY in Locking Stumps, Trefoil, Violet, Campion and Bracken Closes were resurfaced. I phoned the council to enquire what the cost and reasons were for the work. They said they would respond by email, but never did. Through a freedom of
I AGREE with Mr Wilson (Warrington Guardian, January 12) regarding the road systems in Warrington and a major rethink needs to take place to get the best of the rubbish system we all currently endure. I have noticed a ridiculous amount of tailbacks
IF I were to say to you that proportional representation should be an issue right at the top of British politics, what would your reply be? I expect many reading this will say surely that top of the agenda should be matters like the state of the
REPORTS that Warrington Borough Council is to purchase a 33 per cent share in a new bank is somewhat interesting. As a public body the council can borrow money at historically low interest rates at present so the temptation to take advantage must
INVESTIGATIONS continue after a car came off the M62 leaving a woman in a critical condition. Merseyside Police’s roads policing unit are issuing a second appeal for information following the crash yesterday, Wednesday, on the westbound motorway
THERE is only a tiny ‘waiting’ area for motorists who are picking up friends and family from Bank Quay station – most is reserved, as it should be, for disabled and taxis. I recently had a call from my daughter to collect her from the station.
A PUBLIC letter to Cllr Hans Mundry, executive member of transport at Warrington Borough Council. Surely the time has come to stand up to whoever is responsible for the ridiculous and damaging parking charges (Warrington Guardian, January 12).
What's happening? On April 1, changes to car tax will come into effect. Why? George Osborne announced the changes in the 2015 budget, in response to falling car tax revenue due to more cars qualifying for the low-emission exemption.
CHESHIRE Fire has become a trailblazer for equal rights after being named the eighth best employer in the UK for minority staff.In 2016, the organisation was ranked 13th in LGBT charity Stonewall’s top 100 but this year it has jumped into the top 10 and
HE may well have redeemed himself at Euro 96 but all those years of hurt may well have come flooding back for England legend Stuart Pearce in Tenerife this week. The former Nottingham Forest player has joined the Warrington Wolves team at their
A police officer who fatally shot an unarmed man thought his colleagues were in 'extreme danger' at the time, a public inquiry has heard. Anthony Grainger, 36, from Bolton, was shot by an officer through the windscreen of a stolen Audi in a car
THE Wolves players woke up to the fourth day of their pre-season training camp in Tenerife. After a recovery swim this morning, the lads have been enjoying the rest of the day off to recuperate after a tough three days so far. Some of the lads
THE NORTH West Ambulance Service has been ordered to improve by healthcare regulators. NWAS has been rated as requiring improvement by the Care Quality Commission following an unannounced inspection, which took place in May and June last year.
THE Common Market. It’s a phrase looking likely to be a thing of the past very soon, for us in the UK at least. It was first established in 1957 under the Treaty of Rome when the European Economic Community was set up. Britain joined on
WARRINGTON Hospital’s A&E department was placed on red alert for a four-day period during the first week of 2017. The hospital trust declared an emergency OPEL 3 alert on each day between Thursday, January 5, and Sunday, January 8, according
A 35-YEAR-OLD woman is inviting residents to a Stockton Heath fundraiser ahead of her first marathon. Vikki Watt, from Lymm, is stepping up to take on the London Marathon on April 23 and is bidding to raise £1,800 for Asthma UK. To help smash
HEALTH and safety fears are preventing Warrington RUFC from returning to an abandoned Appleton site which has left some residents living next to an 'impenetrable jungle'. Last April the club, which previously played its home fixtures at the ground
A CONTROVERSIAL system in place to 'reduce car park abuse' at Morrisons has been approved by planning chiefs. Customers hit out in January 2015 after the supermarket chain's store, on Greenalls Avenue, introduced measures restricting parking to
