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A LYMM restaurant owner has launched a £50,000 crowdfunding campaign to create a new cookbook. Olivier Troalen runs La Boheme in the village and is on a mission to revive the public’s love of French home cooked food. He hopes a Taste of Home

FANS of John Bishop have the chance to see the comedy star in an intimate venue as part of a series of warm-ups for his new tour. The Liverpudlian comic and former Royal Variety Performance host will be at the Parr Hall on November 24 in preparation

A PRIMARY school teacher in Stretton is aiming to complete her first marathon in aid of Make A Wish. Rachel Hazeldine teaches at St Matthew's CE Primary School and will be fulfilling her dream of running the London Marathon in April. The 27-year-old

IT'S a day spent with the Duke of Sussex that Jodie Cunningham will never forget. The women's rugby league star from Warrington laughed and joked with 'Prince Harry' on the Buckingham Palace lawns before he led the way in making today's 2021 Rugby

BEN Currie is enjoying an altogether different experience of Warrington Wolves’ pre-season training camp this year. When The Wire travelled to Portugal 12 months ago, Currie made the trip but trained largely on his own as he recovered from a second

ANYONE who shops online regularly will know the feeling of trying something on for the first time and realising it looks nothing like it did on the model.  But leading online fashion retailer ASOS is taking steps to remedy this problem by showing

DEPUTY council leader Cllr Cathy Mitchell is calling for plans to release green belt land in Burtonwood for housing to be scrapped – if an application for 300 properties at Omega is passed. More than 7,000 homes have been earmarked for green belt

ENGLAND'S path through the 2021 Rugby League World Cup has been plotted after the draw was made today. Alongside them in Group A for the tournament on home soil are Samoa, France and tournament newcomers Greece England will face Samoa in the

NEW Labour MP Charlotte Nichols hailed Warrington as the ‘town of the year’ as she delivered a passionate maiden speech in Parliament. Ms Nichols, who secured the Warrington North seat in the general election, also wished Speaker of the House of

ONGOING from the Big Clean Up in the Warrington Guardian which started in March last year. I have continued to pick up plastic bottles, cans and glass bottles where possible, mostly around the Penketh and Great Sankey area, from March 25 until

WARRINGTON Youth Club has received more than £9,000 as part of a scheme to support women and girls facing a range of challenges. The money has been awarded by Cheshire Community Foundation from the Tampon Tax Community Fund to tackle issues such

 A FEW weeks ago, I was walking in Legh Street on my way to the medical centre when I saw a traffic warden putting a ticket on a vehicle. I shouted to him that what he was doing was illegal, it didn’t stop him, he attached the ticket and ran away

 ONCE again the terrestrial TV channels have been woefully poor with lots of repeats and to be quite honest rubbish programmes. The BBC expect us to pay £154 a year for this rubbish. In June this year they are removing the concession for pensioners

I HAVE been making several trips to Stockton Heath tip in recent weeks. Since Christmas we have had lots of rubbish to get rid of and recycling to do. And none of those journeys (and I must have been at least six times) have I been able to

COULD you please tell me which pub was on the corner of the old potato market and the old fire station to the left looking from back of old market in the 1950/1960. I think it was the Blue Back but maybe I am wrong. JOAN POTTER Warrington

I COULDN’T agree more with your columnist on January 2, discussing whether we will be better off or not when we get Brexit done. The three questions posed by Fly in the Ointment are exactly the ones my partner has been asking his Brexiteer friends

 LIKE many, I saw membership of the EU as symbolic of a better future rather than being a vassal state kowtowing to an increasingly bizarre United States. Frictionless tariff and free trade both within the EU and outside such as with Japan meant

I AND many more motorists are disgusted with the thoughtless cyclists whom have no consideration for their own safety or of others. I am referring to the many who ride their bikes at night with no lights and dark clothing. Some unbelievably

POLICE are hunting a man in connection with a sexual assault. Melad Mustaffa-Ali, from Warrington, is wanted in connection with an incident in the town on Sunday, October 6. The 34-year-old is also known as Mustaffa Ali, Ali Mustafa and Ali

WITH regards to the traffic problems at the Station Road/ Knutsford Road junction (Warrington Guardian, January 9). We have great difficulty crossing Station Road at the above junction on foot due to the traffic turning in and out at all times

I AM not sure the location of a new hospital matters. I think what matters is that patients, families and staff can park when they get there. At the moment, it is like Wacky Races, trying to dive into a spot when you see one. A properly

I AM horrified at the suggestion that Warrington’s proposed new hospital should be located in the town centre. This is an absolutely ludicrous idea and I wonder if our new MPs know how utterly horrendous it is to get around the town by car, not

 I HAVE to say the suggestion of a new hospital at Cockhedge is an entirely sensible one (Warrington Guardian, page 6). The current site is large, but I can’t see how you would build a new hospital and run the existing one. If you take New

EIGHT men have been arrested and charged after a series of armed robberies at convenience stores across Warrington. Shops in Orford, Woolston, Grappenhall and Lymm were targeted over the space of three months in 2019. The first incident came

A HOUSE being occupied by prostitutes in Orford has been closed down by police. The address on Forshaw Street had caused 'numerous' issues with neighbours with reports of anti-social behaviour, disorder and noise complaints after the tenants moved

ASDA said it will close its in-store meat and fish counters and replace them with something completely different. The spaces left by these closing sections will be used for 'ready-to-eat' counters - and Asda has revealed it plans to sell 'food

SCOTT Brown’s loan spell with Warrington Town looks set to be extended. The veteran midfielder has been highly impressive since arriving on a one-month deal from National League outfit Harrogate Town on Christmas Eve to fill the void left by the

A THREE-vehicle crash caused major delays after blocking Winwick Road last night, Wednesday. Cheshire Police attended the incident but there were no reports of any injuries. A spokesperson for the force said they were called at 6.34pm. The

DRUGS gang boss Anthony Cullen planned to flee to Portugal before he was arrested, a court has heard. The 32-year-old, from Padgate, was the ‘controller and director’ of a cocaine racket that personally earned him hundreds of thousands of pounds

A FORMER Warrington Wolves forward who is helping to fight the Australian bushfires has spoken of the devastation caused by the five-month disaster. Trent Waterhouse, who made 82 appearances for the Wire, returned to his homeland in 2014. He

AN inquest has heard details of the final moments of a pensioner who died after being hit by a car outside Warrington Hospital. Francis Melia, from Orford, was crossing Lovely Lane on his way to an appointment at the hospital when he was run over