THE COUNCIL has reopened 60 per cent of footpaths across the town following a detailed risk assessment under new MAFF guidance. The paths were closed as part of the precautions to prevent the transmission of foot-and-mouth disease in to Warrington. The
By JOEL SAWYER A CALL to arms has been made to parents in Appleton to make sure their children are not responsible for a spate of teenage terrorism on a retirement home. Residents of Woodside Court, Dudlows Green Road, have been suffering at the hands
WARRINGTON Domestic Violence Forum has received funding of £102,000 to enable it to re-open its Support Centre, which closed in December through lack of cash. The life-line has come from the Warrington Health Partnership. Kirsty Herriman, counselling
TWO masked men armed with a knife robbed the Spar Shop on Knutsford Road in Latchford on Wednesday. The two men went into the shop at 7pm and threatened a female cashier demanding cash. They took cash, cigarettes and phone cards before fleeing. The first
By JULIA RAVENSCROFT A MUCH-LOVED boss whose family have run a garden machinery business for the past three generations has retired after 42 years. Peter Dutton, of Duttons Mowerworld, on Old Chester Road, Daresbury, had a surprise retirement party thrown
A PERMANENT tribute to a Warrington man who was brutally killed in a Samurai sword attack was unveiled this week. During a simple ceremony at Gloucestershire County Council's Shire Hall reception, a plaque was unveiled which will forever pay tribute to
WARRINGTON Hospital's league of friends are set to open a charity shop in the new main entrance. A weekly lottery has also been launched. Tickets are 50p each with an estimated jackpot of £200 a week as well as a consolation prize. The lottery is run
YOUNG people from 22 different countries have gathered at the peace centre for the first time to train for courses which will battle racism. 52 people aged between 16 and 25 who take part in the Children's International Summer Village courses gathered
POLICE are warning people about the dangers of GHB after two men were discovered in a parked car on Longford Street on Saturday night. They were in a distressed state, and officers believe they had taken the substance, which is used as an anaesthetic,
POLICE launched a massive search in Lymm on Friday night through to Saturday afternoon in a bid to find three youngsters who went missing from a nearby residential school. The three 12-year-olds, Ryan Regan, Thomas Fredrickson and Analise Clarke left
By JULIA RAVENSCROFT A BRAVE Culcheth man fought off a masked raider who was attempting to get into his house despite being sprayed with shattered glass and CS gas. The 44-year-old man, who lives in the Twiss Green Lane area, was returning from work at
