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WHO are these people who continue to attack Viv Allinson?
Would they like to be in her position of having to pay extortionate rates and rents? I think not. Having just closed my shop door after 30 years trading I can only say Knutsford is a difficult town to trade in and the past few years have also been a struggle
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AFTER the recent years of farming disasters, such as BSE, it is indeed sad to see that the pig secto
It seems that soon the land use aspects of the Cheshire countryside will be merely left to the rich pickings of speculators. Conned by the Tories in their 18 years in office and now conned by the same policies via New Labour. J E WILLETT Eastgate Road
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VIVIENNE Allinson really should put her business acumen to good use by lecturing on an MBA course.
How to market your goods? Put a sign in the window indicating that customers are not welcome to browse in the shop. How to sell your business? Tell the press and anyone else who will listen that no one wants to buy the goods you want to sell - indeed,
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PAT Cooke was one of the nicest people I have ever known.
I met her when her husband Brian was in hospital and I took her daily to see him. She had a wonderful outlook on life, a brilliant sense of humour and an infectious laugh. She was a woman who saw only the beauty in this world and anyone who met her was
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I AM writing in response to the article on Viv Allinson ('Get me out of here' Knutsford Guardian Aug
I have been reading with great interest Ms Allinson's battle with Macclesfield Borough Council over the past 12 months or so. I do not feel the picture she is painting is an altogether accurate one. I feel that the desperation expressed by Ms Allinson
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A REPORT released last month revealed that 382% more girls were jailed in 1998 than six years earlie
CLAIMS that women get a rough deal from Britain's justice system don't shock Joy Mawby. She says she's seen it at first hand as a visitor at Styal Prison. "Some of the girls in Styal are so young and I think they get tougher sentences than boys because
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Knutsford Bowling League 56th Annual Competition for the
Emmett Charity Cup THE FINAL day's play in the Emmett Charity Cup will be played on Bank Holiday Monday at Mere Parish Club, Chester Road, Tabley, at 10.30 am. Converted for the new archive on 13 March 2001. Some images and formatting may have been lost
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THE search for a boy who discovered stone-age flints in Tatton Park 17 years ago has ended.
Staff at Tatton have found Tom Sprott living in Leeds after an appeal in the Knutsford Guardian. On Monday Mr Sprott told how he had discovered the 10,000-year-old flints in December 1982 while digging a tunnel with his brother on the banks of Tatton
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A GROUP of political activists have hired a bus - to hold a meeting.
Members of the Tatton Group plan to park the 25-seater coach in a lay-by near Knutsford next week - and hope villagers will hop on board to back their 'keep the pound' campaign. "We want people to have the chance to say whether they want to save the pound
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KNUTSFORD roads felt the strain again yesterday (Tuesday) after a crash closed the motorway.
The northbound carriageway of the M6 was completely blocked after two lorries collided just before 11.30am. It was more than four hours before the road was cleared of masses of metal shavings that had spilled out of one of the lorries near junction 19
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RICHARD Scott (right) lost his application for costs against the council - despite winning his appea
The local landowner had asked for the council to pay his fees, but the inspector dealt with the two issues separately. To receive damages Mr Scott, of Pear Tree Farm, would have had to prove that the council's decision had been unfair and that he was
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I WAS shocked to read your article in last week's Knutsford Guardian regarding the death of Pat Cook
The first time I met her - several years ago - was in a pub called The Crown in Goostrey, where I was working at the time. Mrs Cooke and her husband Brian used to come in now and then for lunch and we got chatting. She told me she was an artist and that
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ON A regular basis I report to Manchester Airport what I consider to be deviations from the designat
Two recent replies have confirmed aircraft were off track. In the first instance their noise reading equipment had been rendered inoperative by livestock. The latest reply stated that there had been a loss of data for three days due to technical problems
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QUESTION: What does the famous old actor Claude Rains have in common with George Osborne, the prospe
Answer: They have both played The Invisible Man. Since his adoption - a year ago- we have scarcely heard from or seen Mr Osborne. His game plan seems to be that if you don't do anything, you can't be criticised for anything. Perhaps he is so busy concocting
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I REFER to the article in last week's Knutsford Guardian regarding the sudden arrival of Lawrenson's
Unfortunately, I think that Lawrenson's will be disappointed if they would like to be accepted on Hollow Lane. Apart from our concern due to the unfortunate destruction of many of the trees surrounding the site, local residents are alarmed at the prospect
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I AM the first to acknowledge the lovely tribute to Pat in last week's Knutsford Guardian.
No one deserved it more. She had such consideration for people and yet took no credit for her thoughtfulness. The morning after my mother's pension was stolen, there was a box of 'goodies' on my doorstep for her. When it was approaching my husband's 50th
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THE secret's out.
Pop star Robbie Williams seems to like Knutsford after all - if the lyrics to a track on his new album mean anything. Yesterday Nerys Mooney, who owns The Belle Epoque in King Street, said she wasn't surprised. "He was always charming when he came to
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VISITORS to Knutsford Library expect to be told to keep the noise down.
But soon workers at the bustling sand quarries around the town could be expected to tone it down even more. For they claim the Government is planning to announce new regulations that will mean working in virtual silence. "They are absolutely crazy," said
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IT was a gamble, but it set a new trend in Knutsford.
For the first time staff at Clarissima's in King Street decided to cut men's hair in their women's salon. The decision proved a success and paved the way for unisex salons. "The ladies who used to come in were always asking: 'Could you just trim my husband's
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KNUTSFORD farmers are being forced to take on second jobs to make ends meet.
The farmers blame fewer Government subsidies and tough competition from abroad. "The Government is not giving us help and our exports are worth half what they were four years ago," said farmer Anthony Clarkson. "We have no other choice but to do other
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Knutsford Veterans Bowling League
Thursday August 17: Bulls Head A 148 v Crosstown A 130, Conservative B 117 v Legh Arms B 131, Crosstown B 133 v Railway 138, Drovers 87 v Conservative A 155, Knutsford Private B 154 v Bulls Head B 142, Legh Arms A 152 v Knutsford Private A 138 P W D L
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TOFT 134 all out, Didsbury 164 for 9 declared
TOFT fully expected to consolidate their position in the league top four against lowly-placed Didsbury on Saturday. But their early season's performance at Didsbury should have cautioned their optimism. The visitors won the toss and elected to bat but
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Radbroke Hall 1st 44, Langley 1st 87
RADBROKE Hall 1st XI just about blew their chances of success in the Shammah Nicholls Cheshire Alliance Division One after a disastrous defeat at home to Langley on Saturday. Having bowled out the opposition for just 87 (Neil Almond 3 for 11, Keith Hughes
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MOBBERLEY 1st 206 for 7, Sale 1st 269 for 5
AT LAST the sun shone on the Church Lane ground. Mobberley skipper Simon Burgess knew it would be an important toss to win. Having lost the previous three his luck had to change, and it did, and so on on a damp wicket Sale were asked to bat. Latif and
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KNUTSFORD 1, Grove United 1
KNUTSFORD kicked off their Mid-Cheshire League at Stockport on Saturday and picked up almost where they left off last May - with a draw. It was too many games drawn last season, though, that denied the Reds the runner-up position Saturday's result though
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DOCTORS thought the tiny baby boy had a cataract.
But a specialist diagnosed a rare eye cancer and when surgeons operated they found 18 tumours in two-year-old Theo Hayeck's eye. Since then he has lost his right eye and had nine months of chemotherapy. But the new treatment leaves him blind for several
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DRIVERS got stuck in a jam when a water main burst and sent tons of mud cascading from a bridge on t
A motorist is believed to have called police from his mobile phone after he spotted the soil seeping on to the northbound carriageway. "When we got there it was a bit worse than we thought and it got even worse after that," said motorway police Inspector
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LAWYERS met yesterday (Tuesday) to confirm final details before work starts on Knutsford's library.
Matt McCloskey, of developers Property Solutions, spoke to the Knutsford Guardian on his mobile as he made his way to the meeting at Mere Golf and Country Club. He was due to be updated on the scheme after a holiday and promised town residents it would
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A CAR trying to overtake a van, hit a gas valve, crashed through a hedge and landed in a garden.
Firemen arrived at the scene of the crash to find gas had been leaking from the fractured valve for about 20 minutes. "A lot of gas had escaped," said a spokesman for Knutsford Fire Brigade. It is believed two cars had collided on Friday morning as they
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THE battle for Tatton hotted up this week when Labour unveiled their candidate to fight for Neil Ham
Steve Conquest, 41, a Manchester City councillor, believes he can follow in Martin Bell's footsteps and cause another upset in Tatton - once regarded as the fifth safest Tory seat in Britain. "In 1997 the people of Tatton showed they are a thinking electorate
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DEVELOPERS this week unveiled new plans for the former Kilrie children's home in Knutsford.
Seddon Homes - blocked from building by councillors in April - have submitted revised proposals for the site in Northwich Road. But this week neighbours claimed nothing had changed. "The way the houses are going to be built will mean the owners will be
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A KNUTSFORD mother may be evicted from her home because of a suspected council blunder.
Helen Wilson was told she was entitled to Government benefits, including rent for her Southfields home. But this week it seemed that one council department had forgotten to pay the other since November. "It is morally wrong that this should be able to
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POLICE combed the town centre on Sunday night after a man exposed himself to a teenage girl.
The 17-year-old, who has not been named by police, was walking to a friend's house in Conway Close when the pervert struck. Police said the man, who was carrying a silver video camera, may have filmed her reaction. The incident happened at 6.30pm near
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POLICE insiders this week confirmed that arsonists destroyed part of a Knutsford restaurant.
They said a door at Ciao Italia had been forced open and the kitchen set on fire. "I can confirm that there are signs of a forced entry to the back door," said DC Lowe, the officer in charge of the investigation. "But at present the fire is still being