Wrestling fans could watch all star action at the Parr Hall as The Riot Squad' took on the challengers, including Mike Dallas, Warrington's own wrestling hero.

Long-serving sports writer Jack Steel had a bee in his bonnet about a BBC documentary on rugby league called The Game That Got Away'.

He wanted an study of the sports history, but instead said it was the usual cloth caps versus deer stalkers' stereotypes of League versus Union.

He acidly said viewers would be left with the impression "it is just the coarse sort of game these weird people in the north would follow."

In other sport news John Rutter, aged 16, from 250 Lovely Lane, had been signed up by Wolverhampton Wanderers. He also had trials with Manchester United and Derby.

Risley Prebyterian Chapel was also set for demolition to make way for the new Lancashire to Yorkshire Motorway (M.62)'.

But the best story of the week was how Mrs Pritchard of Wellfield Street found two goats in her garden, eating her plants.

A farmer from Mill Lane was fined £7 for allowing his animals on the highway.