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  • Morley to be fit for pre-season

    ADRIAN Morley should be available for Wolves' pre-season after having a wrist operation this week. Morley had been expected to have surgery after the Tri-Nations, ruling him out for several weeks and making him doubtful for the first few games of Super

  • Recycle your plastics

    PEOPLE are being urged to use their plastics wisely... by recycling plastic bottles. The two main recycling centres in Runcorn and Widnes are now able to offer a service to recycle plastic bottles. Recycling a single bottle can conserve enough energy

  • MPs welcome hospital plans

    AN AMBITIOUS £15m vision, with acute medical cases going to Warrington Hospital and routine day surgery to Halton Hospital has been welcomed by the borough's two MPs. New and improved services will give patients a better deal, they believe, but warn health

  • Green future for Halton?

    THE claim made by the leader of Halton's Liberal Democrats in the World is true. This is no such thing as a safe Labour seat any more. Halton Council's deputy leader, Rob Polhill, thinks his party is immune to changing political landscape of Britain.

  • Cut back on unnecessary expense at council

    SOME of the letters in the Widnes and Runcorn World in recent months are spot on for why we have to pay increased council tax every year. It is not just the money received from the Government or the type of taxation; the underlying problem is a range

  • MPs welcome hospital plans

    AN AMBITIOUS £15m vision, with acute medical cases going to Warrington Hospital and routine day surgery to Halton Hospital has been welcomed by the borough's two MPs. New and improved services will give patients a better deal, they believe, but warn health

  • Enjoy art inspired by the town itself

    NANTWICH Museum chairman Robert Stones has praised the town's artistic young talent which is currently on display at the venue. The exhibition features paintings, drawings, textiles and photographs produced mainly by young people, who responded to the

  • Recycle your plastics

    PEOPLE are being urged to use their plastics wisely... by recycling plastic bottles. The two main recycling centres in Runcorn and Widnes are now able to offer a service to recycle plastic bottles. Recycling a single bottle can conserve enough energy

  • Hero's donation

    A PRECIOUS cabinet given to a courageous Runcorn war hero Thomas Alfred Jones has been donated to Halton Council. The engraved table top piece of furniture, with two drawers and glass doors, was presented to Private Jones by scholars and friends of Ellesmere

  • What is happening to Widnes?

    I WENT to the chip shop near The Coterie on Friday. There was a gang of about five lads, about 17 years old, hanging around outside. One of them was blocking the doorway so I said 'excuse me' and as he moved aside, they all laughed. Then, as I was waiting

  • Informative fun day

    A FAMILY fun day has been organised for the residents of Orford this Sunday. The Orford Neighbourhood Project will be holding the event, which will also double up as an information day. There will be a balloon race, tombola and officials from both

  • Missing man found after appeal

    A MISSING man has been found following a high profile police appeal. John Bulliman was reunited with his family on Tuesday after officers handed out leaflets at Poplars 2000 service station in Lymm the last place the man had been spotted. He called

  • Captain Kady wins the day!

    AT the break of dawn, a Warrington Army officer was the first woman home in an unusual fun run. Captain Kady Chatman, aged 25, won the fun run at Basra Air Station, Iraq, in an event to raise money for St Dunstan's charity for blind ex-service people

  • Keeping large numbers of vacant places 'not an option'

    THE numbers of secondary school pupils in Warrington are set to fall by 11 per cent in the next decade according to new figures. Warrington Borough Council says the projected decline has led to the current review of high school provision. Clr Sheila

  • Disabled pensioner was conned by teenager

    A TEENAGE girl has admitted conning her way into an elderly disabled man's home in a bid to burgle the property. Kathlenn McCann and a friend appeared at the door of the deaf 80-year-old pensioner's house in Fairfield at 9.45pm on December 12 last year

  • Johnny, the junkyard artist

    WARRINGTON Museum is housing a new exhibition a series of kinetic sculptures made of metal scraps from the depths of the junkyard. Johnny White, the artist behind the show, specialises in surreal moving sculptures, risqu in nature. The show stars a

  • New graffiti clean-up well worth support

    A NEW graffiti team will hit the streets later this month to help clean up our town. Warrington Borough Council is vowing to clean up as much graffiti as it can on public or private property during the next three months. And they need your help. We

  • Things are looking good in Malawi

    A WARRINGTON optician has just returned from a poverty stricken part of the globe as part of an aid mission to help deliver the gift of sight. Steven Adcott, aged 50, of Warrington Specsavers, visited Malawi as part of a trip organised by Vision Aid,

  • Daring duo show their true metal in Iron Man

    WARRINGTON'S very own men of iron have returned victorious from the world's ultimate sporting event with wads of cash for the town's favourite charity. Fergus Wiseman, aged 36 from Appleton and Neil Harrison, aged 43 from Stockton Heath travelled to

  • Blitz on graffiti needs your help

    A BLITZ of graffiti that needs cleaning up will take place during the next three months. Warrington Borough Council is launching the clean-up campaign and they need your help. Bosses have decided to fund a two-strong team who will be out and about

  • Political fall-out over bin controversy

    THE Labour Party is waging an orchestrated campaign' over the bin dispute, the man in charge has said. Clr Brian Axcell, the borough council's environment chief, spoke out following demands for his resignation from the Labour leader of Birchwood Town