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  • Cheers to Hollyoaks star

    HOLLYOAKS star Darren Jeffries has thrown his support behind the World's Biggest Coffee Morning. The Warrington actor, who plays OB, took time out of filming the Channel Four soap to promote the event which raises money for the Macmillan Cancer Relief

  • Sam's a glass act

    A TALENTED Warrington student has taken her first steps into the art world in a new exhibition. Sam Cook, from Warwick Avenue, Great Sankey, is one of a group of students from Great Sankey High School and Barrow Hall Sixth Form College to have teamed

  • Police hunt hit and run driver

    POLICE want to speak to a driver following a hit and run incident involving a 14-year-old girl. The girl was riding a bicycle along Long Lane on Sunday, September 9 around 5.10pm near to the road's junction with Beatty Avenue. She was cycling in

  • Great Northern cook-off

    Daniel Miller, aged 15, of Warrington is interested in cooking and being 'a famous chief like Gordan Ramsay'. Here's his report... On Thursday 6th August I was over the moon with such overwhelming amount of information given to me by Mrs Richards,

  • Dealer jailed

    A DRUG dealer who brought almost £1,000 worth of crack cocaine and heroin into Warrington to be sold on the streets has been jailed. On Friday Warrington Crown Court heard how Michael Gillett had been bringing drugs from a dealer in Liverpool to a Warrington

  • Jury sent out in Ellie attack case

    THE jury in the trial of Ellie Lawrenson's grandmother has been sent out to consider a verdict. Jackie Simpson, aged 45, is accused of Ellie's manslaughter by gross negligence. She denies the charge. Five-year-old Ellie, from Great Sankey, was killed

  • Win tickets to the Country show in Cheshire!

    With country competitions, country sports and challenges galore taking place at the Cholmondeley Game and Country Show at Cholmondeley Castle in September (29th & 30th) visitors are promised action packed and fun filled days out, and we are offering

  • Zac's catch after only seven weeks in the sport

    YOU don't always need to have had lots of fishing experience to catch a whopper! Tom Bate has sent this picture of his friend Zac Williams with his super carp catch. Tom said: "When me and Zac were fishing on Stanners Pool on sunday he caught this

  • Andrew's prize mirror

    ANDREW Roe has sent us this cracking picture of his winning catch. The 13-year-old said: "I won a competition in the Sunday People for my 17lb 8oz mirror carp, which I caught while fishing with my brother on Serpentine pool on the Belmont estate in Antrobus

  • Wolves duo definitely out for season

    WOLVES have confirmed that Rob Parker and Mark Gleeson will both miss the rest of the season. Hospital X-ray results have shown that Parker fractured his cheekbone during Friday's defeat at St Helens, while Mark Gleeson sustained a dislocated elbow during

  • Flats plan at Berkeley House

    DISUSED offices at Berkeley House in Lymm will be converted into five flats after the plans were approved at a council development control meeting last Wednesday. The building, by Brookfields doctors surgery, was owned by the council and will retain

  • Thurston may reject All Golds call

    AUSTRALIAN international half back Johnathan Thurston could be the latest player to miss the All Golds' Centenary International in Warrington because of injury. Thurston last week won the NRL's Dally M medal and as a result was expected to receive an

  • Westwood chosen as Wolves' player of the month

    BEN Westwood has been named as Wolves' player of the month for August. Westwood was selected by coaches Paul Cullen, Jimmy Lowes, Dave Elliott and Gary Chambers and the award was based on match performance and day-to-day professionalism around the club

  • A slice of misfortune

    It has been suggested that I embellish some of the truth in this here blog of mine. I have always refuted this heinous accusation, until I came to write this entry and thought I would begin by saying that I have suffered a laceration, a huge gaping wound

  • Boost for Orford Park project

    THE Orford Park Project got a major boost when the sports minister gave his support to the scheme. MP Gerry Sutcliffe was in Warrington last week to give his backing to the £21 million project that will transform the area around the park into a massive

  • Saints to field strong side at Wigan

    ST Helens boss Daniel Anderson has promised to field a strong team against Wigan on Friday in the match that could decide Wolves' play-off fate. Wolves need to win at Salford and also need Wigan to lose at home to Saints if they are to finish sixth and

  • Wolves signings secure play-off wins

    THREE of Wolves' 2008 signings celebrated play-off victories as they played their last home games in the NRL at the weekend. Matt King scored a try and set up another in minor premiers Melbourne Storm's 40-0 thrashing of Brisbane Broncos in the first

  • No more home farewells for the departing trio

    HENRY Fa'afili, Brent Grose and Chris Leikvoll have played their last game at The Halliwell Jones Stadium in Wolves colours. The weekend's results leave Wolves in a position of not being able to finish higher than sixth in Super League this year. If

  • Hospital sets £200,000 budget

    A £200,000 budget has been set aside for the North Cheshire Hospital's foundation trust bid. If successful the bid will see Warrington Hospital become more accountable to local people because it will have more control over its own future, say hospital