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Greenalls decision deferred
The vote on the Greenalls housing scheme was deferred by the planning committee tonight, Wednesday. (Why not start a debate on this story in our forum? Click here go visit them.) Councillors voted unanimously to put off the scheme in favour of a more
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Town beat Wakefield
Wakefield FC 1 Warrington Town 2. TOWN recorded their first win in nine games in their important match against fellow relegation strugglers Wakefield on Saturday. Ian Street's side took the lead in the 39th minute when Graeme Mitchell found the net
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Schoolboys miss out on Goodison shot
WARRINGTON Schoolboys' under 11s soccer team bounced back from their exit from the Barnet Shield House Cup by defeating Blackpool 3-1 on Saturday. The Barnet Shield House Cup holders missed out on a third consecutive final appearance at Everton's Goodison
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Appeal for witnesses
DID anyone travelling on Sankey Way towards Warrington town centre on Wednesday, March 7, at about 9.45am, witness a road rage incident which ended in a minor collision? The vehicles involved were a silver/green people carrier and a silver Rover 600
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Woody on life in the Wolves dressing room
PAUL Wood writes about the St Helens and Harlequins matches and preparations for Sunday's game against Hull KR in his latest blog. Wood damaged an old shoulder injury in the Saints defeat on Friday and is still considered a doubt for this weekend's clash
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Complete idiots in the crowd
THE Arctic Monkeys at the Parr Hall were brilliant and well worth waiting a few hours in the cold that morning to buy the tickets. I have always enjoyed the Parr Hall as a venue for top acts and it would be good for it to be able to attract more acts
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Unable to persuade any supporters
Developer Mohammad Waheed is right to criticise Lymm Parish Council for lacking a vision for the future of the village (Guardian, March 8). However, this is the very reason that an initiative announced by the parish council last year, Lymm Vision, will
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Credit to our town
Last night I was fortunate to witness one of the best football matches I can remember watching for years. Warrington Town under-11 schoolboys played against Bootle schoolboys at Walton Sports Centre in front of a very large crowd and fought out a 0-0
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Causes huge tailbacks
I THINK it's about time the Council reconsider the bus lane outside Tesco on Winwick Road. Hopefully, they will come to a common sense decision and decide to scrap the bus lane altogether. I would imagine hundreds of people in the Warrington area have
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Why are they still building?
It gave me great pleasure to read in the Guardian that Clr Yvonne Fovargue and Howley residents had got a high-rise flats development knocked back. The Government inspector said that she deemed it should be turned down due to the above average level
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Wardens were doing their job
To last week's correspondent Mr Brooks, I would say that you could not find anyone less politically correct than I. I will go out of my way to help anyone and often have, but the amount of abuse of blue badges, is in some places, running at 50 per cent
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Vandals attack workers' car
My husband and seven colleagues have been parking their cars on the unmarked road at Winwick Park, opposite B&Q. On the evening of March 6, they came back to their cars after work to find some moron had deliberately gone down the side of each car from
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Only tip of iceberg
I AM heartened to see the issue of domestic violence addressed on a regular basis in your paper. The 2,000-plus victims you mentioned in the Warrington Midweek are only the' tip of the iceberg'. On top of the thousands of victims who report physical
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Look what is on offer here
HAVING lived in the Newton area for most of my life, I find it a little odd that the community should have such objection towards the Parkside development site. Originally this area was, as the name suggests, at the side of Newton Park. In the early
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Looking for that little spark
WELL since my last review we have beaten the Harlequins and we have lost against Saints. It was good to get the win at London because we seem to have trouble taking points from down there, and they were an unbeaten team until we played them so i think
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Fiasco at the stadium
May I firstly congratulate Warrington Wolves on a fantastic stadium and playing surface. How envious we are of such a ground and, yes, as much as we enjoy beating Warrington and Wigan at rugby, we need a good Wigan and Warrington for the health of the
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Why were we not consulted?
What a great shame the PCT feels the need to destroy the family GP and the service it offers to its patients in Warrington. GPs at my practice are willing to "go that extra mile" for patients whenever it is needed. The GPs know the patients' needs because
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Emergency chemists
CHEMISTS: Warrington PCT provides out-of-hours services at Garven Place, Sankey Street from 6.30pm-10.30pm, Monday to Friday and 10.30am-10.30pm on Saturdays and Sundays. EMERGENCY dental clinics are on Saturdays and Sundays from 10am to noon at Garven
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Community desk
Community Desk volunteer Ida Plinston will be manning the Community Desk hot seat in the Warrington Guardian offices tomorrow, Friday, to answer your questions. You can contact Ida by e-mail on: communitydesk@guardiangrp.co.uk or ring her between 10am
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Higher Walton WI
The February meeting took place in the parish rooms Higher Walton on February 21. The meeting was very well attended and began as usual with an introduction and welcome from our president followed by the reading of last month's minutes Copies of Cheshire
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Warrington CVS
2007 sees Radio General celebrating 50 years of playing record requests for patients in Warrington Hospital. It all started back in 1957 after some members of the then Warrington Council of Youth' visited an existing hospital radio station in Stockport
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Stockton Heath Flower Club
THE first meeting of 2007 was held at Appleton Parish Hall. Audrey Unsworth chairman of the club welcomed members old and new and a short AGM was held. The demonstrator for the evening was Don Billingham, from Maghull, with a demonstration entitled
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League of Friends
Lottery draw for week 25: 3, 5, 12, 15 no winner. Consolation prize £25 one winner.
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Culcheth WI
On a very cold and unpleasant evening, a smaller number than usual had an unexpected treat. Our booked speaker had cancelled, but instead we were introduced to the work of a medical herbalist. Natalia Kirkham practises in Stockton Heath. She works at
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British Korean Veterans Association
THE British Korean Veterans Association is trying to contact former members of HM Armed Forces who served in Korea/Japan from 1950-1953, and those servicemen and women who served in these two places at a later date with the Peace Keeping Force 1953-1957
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Glazebrook WI
OUR February meeting opened as usual with the singing of Jerusalem. After dealing with the business of the afternoon, the trip to the Brindley Theatre, Runcorn, to see a Gilbert and Sullivan Operetta was discussed. The half-yearly council meeting at
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Grappenhall WI
Our president, Freda Matthewson, welcomed 39 members and two visitors to our February meeting, held in the rather cramped but cosy Clubhouse bar area, due to the large room being occupied. Dorothy Platt was thanked for the lovely spring flower basket
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Dutton WI
DESPITE it being a wet evening, there was a good attendance at the February meeting of Dutton WI. Cheshire news and correspondence was read. Forthcoming events included the Luncheon Club at the Shrewsbury Arms and dinner at the Frodsham Golf Club. President
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NE Cheshire Flower Club
The February meeting saw a record number of members together with many visitors when we welcomed Pam Ingham of Congleton. Her demonstration, rather appropriately, was entitled In Other Words as Pam had been a reporter for her local newspaper for many
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The world of Wedge
MIKE Wainwright gives an insight into his life on and off the field. Q. What is your favourite film? A. Possibly my favourite at the moment is Anchorman with Will Ferrell. I grew a moustache recently and got told I looked a bit like him! Q. What
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Orford car dealer may have to pay back £12,000
A CAR dealer has pleaded guilty to six counts of getting cash and cars by deception. Steve Kingsbury operated online as A1autodeals from Unit 2 in Norman Street, Orford. The 44-year-old, from Crofters Road, in Kirkby, admitted the offences and asked
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Opposition chief praises Lymm's players
WELLINGTON College's head of rugby has paid tribute to the Lymm High School players after Saturday's success in the Daily Mail Under 15s Cup semi finals. Graeme Owton said: "The better team won and the game never flowed. "Lymm controlled things, were
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Man in rooftop stand-off with police
A man who spent more than eight hours on a roof in Appleton has finally been convinced to come down by police. (Click here for exclusive video footage of the protest) The man was seen on the roof of the house in Waverley Avenue shortly before 4am
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Firefighters tackle huge fire
Firefighters are tackling a ferocious blaze in Newton. They were called out at 6.30am this morning to tackle the fire, which started on a first floor flat on Cross Lane. Two firefighters have been taken to hospital suffering from smoke inhalation. Four
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Firefighters tackling blaze
TWO FIREFIGHTERS were taken to hospital after a roof collapsed on them while dealing with a fire in Earlestown. The fire struck several houses on Cross Lane in the early hours of this morning. The two firefighters were checking one of the properties
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A second chance
I'm under 12 stone! I had my weigh-in this morning...stepped on the scales and I'd only lost 1 lb, gutted! I've lived on cardboard all week and done exercise most nights and still only lost a lb. Chris on the other hand has drank tons, had chips
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Face in the crowd winner - round five
HERE'S the winner. The face circled in our crowd picture (below) has won a prize. The picture was taken at Wolves' clash with St Helens in engage Super League XII round five on Friday night. Click on the photograph below to see if it is your face that
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Keeping me busy
It's now been nearly a month back off R&R and it has gone really quickly being 12 on 12 off the past week and a bit has definately helped pass the time. The camp here has grown here since i first arrived way back in december. It seems ages ago that
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Drink driver had loaded air pistol in boot
A WARRINGTON man has been fined £325 and banned for driving for three years after admitting drink driving. Police were called out to the A550 Aston Hill near Queensferry in December last year to a report of a single vehicle accident. They found a dark
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£100k for park must not be forgotten
"I THINK there's a moral duty for the council to give the people of Westy what they deserve." Clr Hans Mundry, (Lab - Latchford East), wants a £100,000 guarantee from the borough council and he has not got it. The money was set aside around five years