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Apartments plan 'may save garden'
COUNCILLORS are warning walled garden campaigners they may have to compromise with developers or face the historic landmark disappearing altogether. Site owners Jenning Holdings have submitted plans to build a two-storey apartment block and private garden
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Food for thought with healthy diet
THE Government has announced that junk food will be banned from all the vending machines and meals in English schools within a year. Education Secretary Ruth Kelly announced the ban from next September at the Labour Party conference on Thursday. Ministers
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Works cause disruptions
on Liverpool routes ENGINEERING works are causing ongoing disruption on the railway to Liverpool. Replacement services will be in operation in both directions between Liverpool Lime Street and Hunts Cross until Saturday, October 8.
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Maxine scores high in handling complaints
PITY poor Maxine Myers. She is the complaints manager for Transpennine Express, whose trains run through Warrington Central. The good news is, Maxine has just won an award for being the best complaints handler of the year. The bad news is, her company
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Business
is booming BUSINESS travel is booming between Birmingham and Warrington says Virgin Trains. The company claims passengers figures have gone up by 225 per cent over the past three years. It operates the CrossCountry services that runs from Glasgow to Birmingham
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Campus open day
POTENTIAL students considering studies for 2006 will be attending an open day at the Warrington campus of the University of Chester on Saturday, October 15. The Warrington campus specialises in business, computer science, sports, health and social care
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Gulliver's opens its doors for annual charity weekend
WARRINGTON theme park, Gulliver's, will be opening its doors this weekend, October 8 and 9, for an annual charity event. Each year, the weekend gives charities from Warrington the chance to raise funds for their causes by giving them theme park tickets
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Heroin couriers are jailed
DRUG couriers who were stopped with hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of heroin on a Warrington motorway have been jailed. Hassan Yol, aged 39, of Chigwell, Essex, and Thomas Keating, aged 25, of Park View in Huyton, Liverpool, were described by Judge
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Police hunt intruder scared off by owners
POLICE are on the hunt for a would-be thief who tried to enter a property but was deterred by its owners. The attempted burglary happened at approximately 4.30am on Wednesday, August 31, at a home on Ashwood Avenue, Padgate. The occupants were woken up
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Food for thought with healthy diet
THE Government has announced that junk food will be banned from all the vending machines and meals in English schools within a year. Education Secretary Ruth Kelly announced the ban from next September at the Labour Party conference on Thursday. Ministers
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Food for thought with healthy diet
THE Government has announced that junk food will be banned from all the vending machines and meals in English schools within a year. Education Secretary Ruth Kelly announced the ban from next September at the Labour Party conference on Thursday. Ministers
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Don't let rapists get away with it
A LEADING South Cheshire police officer is urging more rape victims to come forward after describing the number of successful prosecutions for serious sexual offences as "disappointing". DCI Geraint Jones said police and their partner agencies handle
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Sue lands job with Guide Dogs
THE owner of the Guide Dog of the Year has had more good news. Sue Jones has got a job working for The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association - the same body that has just named her dog Vaughn the best guide dog of the year. Sue, 44, from Kingsmews, in
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Gang of six appear on cocaine charges
SIX men have appeared in court charged with conspiracy to supply cocaine following a police raid. The group were arrested last Thursday following raids on an industrial premises in Warrington. The six were charged with conspiracy to supply class A drugs
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SCREWDRIVER ATTACK
A 20-YEAR-OLD was attacked with a screwdriver in Great Sankey leaving him with cuts that needed 13 stitches. The victim was walking home along Hood Lane at 4am on Sunday, September 25, when he was attacked by three men a short distance from the junction
