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ECLIPSE WARNING
DON'T be left in the dark! That's the warning from the Highways Agency this week to anyone planning to travel to Cornwall for the eclipse on August 11. Motorists are being urged to use the Highways Agency information line 0345 504030 and web site www.highways.gov.uk
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RACING INTO 2000
INTREPID runners are being challenged to run across the bridge - to celebrate the year 2000. A Run the Bridge Road Race is just one of a range of millennium events being suggested by Halton Council. Local community groups will be invited to take part
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VIKINGS VICTORIOUS
Widnes Vikings 9 Leigh Centurions 6 A CROWD of over 5,000, a nail-biting conclusion and an interception winner from Paul Mansson sent the Vikings fans home happy at the Auto Quest Stadium on Sunday. If fast flowing rugby and great handling moves are your
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MOTHER'S HANGING TRAGEDY
A MOTHER who had threatened suicide for almost as long as her son could remember finally "ended it all", an inquest heard at Warrington. Irene Rathbone was found hanging at home in Highfield Road after leaving numerous notes telling where she wanted to
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MISSING MUM PHONES HOME
A P0LICE appeal to find runaway mum Ann Hulstrom was called off this week after she rang to say she was safe. Her anxious family alerted detectives after she disappeared. Mother-of-three Ann Hulstrom, 41, of Gloucester Road, Farnworth, has not been seen
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TRANNY TRIUMPHANT
TRANSPORTER retained the Pavilions Cup for the second time in an exciting final watched by 365 spectators. An early goal from Gary Coady shook Burma, and just when it looked like the holders would comfortably hold on to their trophy, Dave Chesworth scored
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CENTRE ON RED ALERT
SMOULDERING floor tiles in the basement of the former Littlewoods store sparked off a red alert at Halton Lea. The shopping centre was immediately evacuated at 8am on Saturday and remained closed until 3pm when smoke had been cleared from all the malls
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WEEKEND BRIDGE TRAFFIC HOLD-UPS
PAINTING the Runcorn bridge is causing long tailbacks of traffic. Further delays are expected this weekend as workers will be using high pressure water jets to remove paint. This work started on July 19 and will take 16 weeks to complete. Contractors
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GUN MAN BLASTED BY COURT
N ELECTRICAL engineering student repeatedly fired a replica pistol from a car to "make himself feel big and hard," a court heard. But after his arrest by armed police was by chance, saw him discharging the weapon, David Hume admitted he had "been acting
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DARESBURY PARK TO WELCOME 300 JOBS
A TOP UK company is relocating its headquarters to Halton's flagship business location at Daresbury Park. Eutech, one of the country's leading asset management and operations consultants, will be the first business to open on the new site next summer,
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COLLEGE GAZUMPED
PLANS by Halton College to create a Runcorn campus have hit another snag. Just as the deal was about to be clinched to secure the vacant Vestric building, beside Asda, the college was gazumped. They had hoped to turn the offices into classrooms and learning
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IN addition to Gill Farrington's excellent story regarding our local champion swimmer Lillian Bell,
For many years the 6th Knutsford Scout Group was represented only by a small group of cub scouts led by Lillian Bell. There must be many young men now who owe their boyhood citizen's training to this sparkling lady. At the executive meeting of the 6th
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MUCH has been written about a new library and that strip of land containing the old folk's hut, but
Turfed out lock, stock and teapot at the end of last year, each group had to find alternative accommodation for their weekly meetings. Not cheap either, although my group of lively enthusiastic energetic mainly octegenarians were fortunate that Knutsford
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AUGUST IN THE GARDEN
WHEN I'm invited to someone's house I am often intrigued by the contents of my hosts' bookshelves. Inevitably the phrase, You can tell a man by his books, often passes through one's mind. For me, gardens are a bit like that. For instance if garden owners
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THE strangest things happen in politics when you least expect them.
I enjoy friendly relations with the Tories, but never expect them to go over the top. Last week I was walking into the Palace of Westminster through the main public entrance at St Stephen's, when I spied a phalanx of 40 Conservative MPs lined up on either
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THE town's millennium wood won't take root in Tatton Park until autumn 2000.
A mix-up over town council budgets means the 100 trees bought to celebrate the new millennium won't be planted for another year. But at a meeting last week, some town councillors branched away from their colleagues and said they didn't even fully agree
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NEIL Hamilton has shown America's king of television sleaze around the sights of London.
The former Tatton MP and his wife Christine introduced chat show host Jerry Springer to English customs during filming for a new 'upmarket' programme. "I haven't admitted on camera that I am a transexual or anything," said Mr Hamilton. "It wasn't like
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STAFF at Booths supermarket tried to save a woman after she had a heart attack in the store.
Crowds of shoppers watched as Andrew Wright, 20, and teenager Christopher Perrin tried to resuscitate the Knutsford pensioner. "They were absolutely superb and we're all very proud of them," said deputy manager Joanne McGarry. The trained first aiders
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PISTOL-WIELDING robbers terrorised a village sub-postmistress before emptying the safe.
The three men, clad in balaclavas, burst into Ashley Post Office on Monday afternoon while it was empty. One smashed the security glass with a hammer and the other two forced the sub-postmistress to lay on the floor at gunpoint. The sub-postmistress,
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EVERYTHING IN THE GARDEN'S LOVELY
GOOD neighbours John Murphy and Ann Whiteside are celebrating their success in this year's garden competition sponsored by Cosmopolitan Housing Association for its Halton residents. Mr Murphy and his family have lived in their Halton Lodge bungalow for
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WIDNES SHARE SPOILS
Widnes Cricket Club VISITING Oxton on Saturday last, desperate for maximum league points, Widnes brought in youngsters Andrew Kirby and Simon Tabb for their first XI debuts. Winning the toss Oxton elected to bat and Saunders and Cashin made a cautious
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VIKINGS CROWDS ON THE UP
SUNDAY'S crowd of 5,230 for the visit of Leigh was the biggest league crowd at Widnes since the switch to Summer rugby. The Vikings' average for the season is now 3,067 - a huge 40% increase on last year's attendance at the Auto Quest Stadium. Converted
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BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY
Halton District Cricket League Lt Commander T Wilkinson VC Cup BOHEMIANS deservedly won the Lt Commander T Wilkinson VC Cup by 62 runs against a below par Sutton All Stars at Widnes Cricket Club. Bohemians won the toss and decided to bat first. They amassed
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DON'T WORRY
OU have absolutely nothing to worry about! That's the reassuring message from Halton Council this week to Farnworth residents living near the proposed Upton Rocks site Q development. Chairman of the planning and transportation committee, councillor Rob
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STORE WARS CONTINUE
AMBITIOUS plans to build a giant Asda superstore in Widnes will face opposition from rival food giants. The Co-op and Morrisons have already lodged objections and are calling for a public inquiry. The Co-op fears the proposed new store - to be built in
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DOG WALKERS NEEDEDH
HAVE you got any spare time to walk a dog? The Cinnamon Trust is the national charity for elderly and terminally ill people and their pets - and they're appealing for help in Halton. They seek to keep owners and pet together for as long as possible with
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CON MEN ROB GEMS
TWO con men tricked their way into a house in Birchfield Road, Widnes, after asking for a drink. While one of the intruders distracted the householder, his accomplice sneaked into a bedroom and stole a large quantity of jewellery. Police once again remind
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GOLFERS' JOY
TWO local junior golfers are the toast of Cheshire after winning the Cheshire Union of Golf Clubs' Junior Team Championship. Juniors David Highton, and Karl Whitehead are both members at Sutton Hall Golf Club. David aged 16 has been playing golf for approximately
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ALBION RETAIN CUP
Runcorn Greenall Darts League ALBION made certain of retaining the Summer League Section One championship last Thursday night when a 15 dart game from P Melia helped his team to run out 7/2 winners against bottom of the table RNA. Second placed Dockside
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TAXI RANKS TO BE REVIEWED
TAXI ranks throughout Halton are to be reviewed. It follows a series of meetings involving councillors, officers and representatives of the taxi trade and extensive public consultation. A report is to be made to councillors which sets out the findings
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ICI ENERGY TAX ROW
ICI has welcomed an exemption on electrolysis in the climate change tax levy, announced this week by the Treasury. But the company says it still faces a huge tax bill of around £6 million. ICI is fighting Government plans for an energy tax, claiming it
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DRUG DEATH
A TROUBLED drug-user took an accidental overdose of methadone, an inquest heard. The court was told that Neil Whiting, 21, of Nigel Walk, Runcorn, had been deeply depressed before his death and struggling with off-and-on drug use. The night before he
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LIKE most Knutsford High School students, I spent many long hot summer (not) breaking my back in the
After 18 years I've worked my way around the world to return to Knutsford to find one particular leopard has not changed his spots. I am not saying farmers don't deserve it, they certainly do, but wouldn't it be a nice gesture to give Knutsford High School
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I UNDERSTAND Vivi's dilemma in trying to sell her business (last week's Knutsford Guardian, but if s
Vivi's shop could be turned into two retail units and give some retailers a chance. We need more shops not restaurants. Otherwise there will be nothing to come to Knutsford for soon. Don't let it become a night place because it will create a ghost town
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I AM writing in response to Ann Mills-McEwan's letter regarding the Royal Horticultural Society show
Something comes to the area bringing visitors to Knutsford who might not have visited the town this year, but next year they might book into an hotel and visit other local sites. It also provides local people with a weekend's employment in the shops,
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YOUR reporter Rob Cave last week wrote about the change of use of retail outlets in the town to rest
Since 1959 I have owned a greengrocery business in Princess Street, but over the years it has been necessary to diversify into an ever-increasing home-prepared food business. Initially this was obviously due to competition from supermarkets, out of town
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PETER Gillman's fascination with Mobberley hero George Mallory dates back many years.
The former Sunday Times journalist is now writing a book about Mallory and recently visited the village as part of his research. Last week he spoke to Knutsford Guardian reporter Andrew Moores about the characters made famous by the Mallory mystery and
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ERIC Jones wasn't too pleased with his tale of the one that got away.
The keen angler was in a punt in the middle of murky Booth's Mere on a cold day. "I pushed down the pole and off went my wedding ring," he said. "I seem to remember I had a silent breakfast with my wife the next day." It's the things that happen when
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MANCHESTER City Council this week denied that they planned to give the airport a free rein to expand
The council, which owns 55 per cent of Manchester Airport, said plans to give the 1,250 acre site special status wasn't a relaxation of planning rules. "To suggest that the proposed changes are part of rolling back the green belt and facilitating major
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A KNUTSFORD businessman is being held as a suspected ring leader of Spain's biggest ever drug smuggl
Giles Lomax was arrested last week along with 95 other suspects in a huge operation launched by the Civil Guard to stem imports of cannabis from North Africa. The smuggling operation is alleged to have been involved in smuggling 54 tons of hashish in
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SICK thugs who used a horse for target practice left him with an airgun pellet lodged in his face.
Family pet Logo now has a two-inch diameter hole in his nose after undergoing a two-and-a-half hour operation to remove the bullet. The six-year-old show horse was discovered by staff at Chapel House Farm, Ashley in agony from a bloody wound on his face
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MIDSUMMER madness led to a night of drink-related violence that stretched Knutsford police to the li
Fights broke on the Moor, in Longridge and Mobberley after closing time on Friday - giving the police a public order headache that lasted well into the small hours. Revellers taking advantage of the balmy weather didn't want to go home and tempers frayed
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A MINOR motorway crash and a stray hand led to the discovery of eight Afghanistani refugees in Knuts
An observant lorry driver stuck in a tailback on the M6 became suspicious when he spotted a hand dangling from the side of the lorry in front. As he crawled past police officers dealing with the bump, he told them about his bizarre sighting. When the