THE Amazon fulfilment centre in Great Sankey is celebrating National Learning at Work Week this week, by urging staff at the site to sign up for a programme that offers funded, nationally-recognised training courses aimed at developing their career
IT looked like it was going to be a long road back to fitness after Kevin Brown suffered a season-ending injury at the start of the year. But fans have been delighted to see the Warrington Wolves star is officially on the road to recovery.
THERE is currently a road closure in place on the A49 Winwick Road , northbound due to BT works. Traffic is down to one lane near the junction for Long Lane. This is causing severe delays and traffic is queuing back to the Cockhedge roundabout
ONE of the biggest junior football events in the north west will take place at Eagle JFC in July. The annual Eagle JFC Tournament will be held at Penketh High School over the weekend of July 20-21 and see more than 1,000 children from across the
HUNDREDS of pounds have been raised for Warrington Foodbank in reaction to the annual increase in foodbank usage. Warrington Housing Association (WHA) has raised more than £900 in support of the foodbank, marking the third year in a row the charity
TOWN Hall chiefs look set to approve the demolition of New Town House and Quattro after council staff move out of the building next year. Up to 1,200 employees based at offices in the town centre building, The Base, Rylands Street, Museum Street
GREENALLS PSO will aim to bring some silverware back to Warrington on Saturday. They will contest the Cheshire Football League President’s Cup final against fellow Premier Division side Middlewich Town. The match takes place at Knutsford FC’s
WARRINGTON Wolves owner Simon Moran made an appearance in this week's Sunday Times Rich List. The music mogul was 756th in the list of the UK's richest 1,000 people. The 53-year-old owner of music promotion firm SJM is worth £157 million according
WARRINGTON Wolves fans hoping to make the trip to Hull KR have been warned of a complete motorway closure on their way home from the game. Highways England will be carrying out repair work on the westbound carriageway of the M62 over a full weekend
MEN and women in Warrington are being encouraged to get a free health check with the arrival of a mobile liver screening roadshow. The British Liver Trust's 'Love Your Liver' roadshow is in Warrington on Tuesday, May 21 to raise awareness of liver
WARRINGTON children are enjoying a taste of duathlon. Lymm High School was the stage for the inaugural event in a new series that attracted nearly 100 primary school kids, who took part in run-bike-run races and a fun run. Jack Marwood, Elizabeth
Crosfields 22 Shaw Cross Sharks 12 A “QUICKER and most astute” second-half display helped Crosfields fight back and avoid a third straight defeat on Saturday. Trailing 12-0 at the break, Soap ran in four tries without reply to ensure the absence
FANS of a cheeky Nando's can now get their fix thousands of feet in the air as Jet2 became the first UK airline to serve food from the Afro-Portuguese eatery. Launching just in time for Summer, Jet2 has added to their in-flight menu Nando’s PERi–PERi
Woolston Rovers 36 Oldham St Annes 14 NOT even playing more than half of the match with 12 men could stop Woolston Rovers from extending their winning run on Saturday. Josh Sudlow saw red for dissent before half time at Monk Sports Club with
GREAT Sankey High School’s highly-rated winger Luke Daley, said to be similar in style to a young Ryan Giggs or Leroy Sane, is to leave Port Vale after achieving a professional contract with Huddersfield Town. Liverpool and Southampton also made
Latchford Albion 24 Haresfinch 28 A TRY with the game’s final play meant Latchford Albion were cruelly denied the chance to record back-to-back wins. Haresfinch seized upon an error from the hosts to score the winner, with the referee signalling
CAMPAIGNERS are keeping the pressure on Peel Ports to carry out a much-needed £1.5 million paint job on the town’s swing bridges. The three sites – which cross the Manchester Ship Canal – are situated on Chester Road, London Road and Knutsford
TWO women are wanted by police after hundreds of pounds worth of goods were stolen from a town centre store. Coats valued at £300 were taken from Go Outdoors on Wilson Patten Street on Monday, March 4. And officers have now issued CCTV footage
DRIVERS who run over a cat will be forced to report it to police under a new law being considered in Parliament. The ‘Cats Bill’ will require anyone who hits a cat ‘resulting in injury or death’ to stop immediately and give information to the police
ADAM Roylance led from the front as Grappenhall picked up their first win of the season on Saturday. The skipper’s left-arm spin claimed five Marple wickets as Grappers dismissed their hosts for just 109 to seal a 33-run victory, with overseas player
A SERVICE in Warrington helping residents to quit smoking has been named the second best in England. SmokeFree Warrington, part of LiveWire’s lifestyles team, had the second highest proportion of successful quitters in four weeks at 77 per cent
FOUR fixed penalty notices were handed out to drivers for parking on pavements around Chapelford. Two were issued on Denver Drive, one on Arizona Crescent and one on Boston Boulevard. This was due to the cars blocking footpaths. Parking
ITV has been urged to end broadcasts of the Jeremy Kyle Show for good after the apparent suicide of a man who failed a lie-detector test on the programme. The confrontational talk show was pulled off the air indefinitely by the broadcaster following
A MAN has been arrested and charged after allegedly throwing paving slabs at police officers in Orford. Cheshire Police were called to Sandalwood Close at around 2am on Sunday, May 12, after reports of a disturbance at a house. Officers arrested
DARYL Clark won a landslide victory in our Guardian readers' man of the match poll from Sunday's Challenge Cup victory over Wigan Warriors. The hooker earned a massive 76 per cent of the vote for his superb display, which included an excellent
THE date for Warrington Wolves' Challenge Cup quarter final trip to Hull KR has been confirmed. The Wire will travel to KCOM Craven Park on Friday, May 31, with the game kicking off at 7.35pm. Sky Sports have selected the game for live television
WHEN I was growing up, I had more aunts and uncles than I could reasonably count (that’s what you get when your mum and dad both came from Catholic families of Irish descent). They say the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree and in my family’s
TWO readers have been in touch to voice their views on changes to the road set-up of a road in Grappenhall. I REFER to my previous letters regarding the north /south divide regarding how residents living in the southern area of warrington are treated
STEVEN Broomhead has been named in the top 10 of the north west power list. The chief executive of Warrington Borough Council is 10th in a list of the 25 most influential politicians, public figures and academic leaders published by Insider.
GOLD medal-winning Olympian Jason Kenny has opened a new cycling shop near to the town centre. Ron Spencer Cycles was officially reopened on Saturday, May 11, following its move to Crossley Street. The store was previously a fixture on Orford
A COMEDIAN from Burtonwood is only one step away from the live Britain’s Got Talent semi-finals after impressing the panel of celebrity judges. Jason Mannion, who goes under the stage name of El Baldiniho, performed a routine of hilarious puns
A POPULAR sports bar and social club is set to be turned into an embroidery shop. Roosters on Liverpool Road is set to be extended and converted into a new base for Touchline UK, an embroiderers which plans to move to the site from its current
