IT almost appears that every time you turn a street corner, a new block of apartments is being built. Converted older buildings, high-rise or simply traditional blocks, apartment living seems the way forward. And as the Warrington Guardian has found
FIVE cars were torched on Davies Way car park in Lymm on Saturday sparking fears of more widespread vandalism. Fire crews were called at 10pm after the recycling bins on the village car park were set ablaze. They are treating it as suspicious. The area
FORMER Brookside star Dean Sullivan has teamed up with mental health charity Making Space in becoming its first celebrity supporter. Best known as Jimmy Corkhill, he now presents ITV's My North West and will front the Warrington based charity. Elaine
JO Jingles is 10 years old and a special birthday party is planned. Fran Harrop, who runs the pre-school music and movement classes for children aged six months to five years across Warrington, is inviting youngsters and parents to Gulliver's on August
A PIONEER for deaf people across Warrington has died, aged 70. Alan Barlow was well known throughout the borough and was instrumental in the refurbishment of Warrington Deaf Centre an achievement crowned by its re-opening in 2004 by the Countess of
NEIGHBOURS locked in a bitter land battle can call a cease-fire after a controversial extension was passed. Alan Wright, of Comberton House, Appleton, ended the planning feud when borough councillors gave the go-ahead for his single storey extension.
URBAN Splash got a lukewarm reception last month over ideas for flats at Bewsey Old Hall. But the date may have been symbolic of a change in the market: the arch apartment builders and regenerators of cities like Manchester putting forward plans in provincial
HAVE you been inspired to be a hero? Now's your chance to give something back to the community by becoming a firefighter. Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service has launched a new recruitment campaign and it is looking for people from Warrington to sign up
IF you like your furniture to be fake, cramped, and potentially hazardous, call in to the council office in Palmyra Square. Trading standards officers have put a sofa they seized from a trader on display in reception to warn people who might be tempted
IT took eight weeks of work and involved five miles of curtains. Now the team say they never want to see a pair of curtains again. Because a group of mature students at Warrington Collegiate have completed a marathon effort to make the curtains for
RESIDENTS clubbed together to pay £5,000 for their road to be resurfaced just in time for a horse-drawn wedding carriage. People from 10 houses in Victoria Avenue, Great Sankey, employed a private contractor to do the work because the borough council
