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  • Charity helps opticians with rare disease

    A WARRINGTON charity is supplying opticians and GPs in the town with a video to help improve diagnosis of a rare muscle weakness disease. Myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune disease, which affects all voluntary muscles in the body. It has no known cure

  • New GP service to treat violent patients

    A NEW secure GP service has been launched in Warrington to treat potentially violent patients whose behaviour compromises the safety of staff and other patients. The scheme ensures that patients who are violent or potentially violent receive medical treatment

  • Woman's death treated as suspicious

    POLICE in Warrington are treating the death of a 50-year-old woman in Penketh as suspicious. The woman was found dead at her Grange Drive home last Monday. A man was arrested in connection with the death but has been bailed pending further police inquiries

  • HANGING BY A THREAD

    LABOUR has narrowly held on to its control of Warrington Town Hall despite a strong showing from the Liberal Democrats at Thursday's local elections. Labour has retained control of the Town Hall despite their majority being reduced to just three, with

  • Osborne blasts postal fiasco

    TORY MP George Osborne this week called for a return of the ballot box in time for this autumn's referendum on the creation of a North West Regional Assembly. The 33-year-old Tatton MP said postal voting - trailed in the region for the first time this

  • Long and costly trip to cast a vote

    A woman had to travel almost 15 miles to collect her ballot paper so she could take part in this week's European elections. Freda Woolcock had to drive to Macclesfield Town Hall, pay to park and show her passport after her postal voting forms went missing