Car completely destroyed by fire
FIRE left a car completely destroyed at Croft, Warrington last night.
Author David Skentelbery
Hospital’s garden awarded top RHS accolade
A REMEMBRANCE garden for those living with dementia at Warrington Hospital’s Forget me Not Unit has received the top accolade in the RHS Britain in Bloom Neighbourhood Scheme.
Smugglers beware: new cargo scanning technologies on the way
PARTICLE accelerators at STFC’s Daresbury Laboratory, near Warrington, are playing an important role in the development of a new generation of cargo screening technologies, capable of detecting firearms, narcotics and weapons hidden within dense cargo.
Council to get tough over concrete mixing plant
WARRINGTON Borough Council is to toughen up enforcement action against a firm which set up a controversial concrete mixing plant without planning permission.
Police step-up appeals following shooting incident
DETECTIVES investigating a shooting incident in Warrington have renewed their appeal for information from the public.
Three arrested after handbag snatch outside club
THREE men have been arrested and charged following an incident in which a man snatched a handbag from a woman outside a club in Warrington town centre.
Ashley bounces back from injury to retain title
WARRINGTON Athletic Club’s under 17 woman Ashley Nemits, just six months after recovering from injury, competed in the Northern Indoor Championships at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield in the under 17 300 metres.
Three cornered fight in borough council by-election
THERE will be a three-cornered fight for the vacant seat on Warrington Borough Council caused by the death of former council leader Terry O’Neill at Burtonwood and Winwick.
University names professor as new campus Provost
PROFESSOR Chris Haslam been named as the new Provost of the Warrington Campus of the University of Chester following the retirement of Professor Annette McIntosh-Scott.
Air pollution could kill 610 people in Warrington says British Heart Foundation
A TOTAL of 610 people could die in Warrington over the next 10 years from heart and circulatory disease caused by particulate air pollution.