Library to celebrate National Poetry Day
PENKETH Library is to host a month long celebration to mark National Poetry Day next month.
Author David Skentelbery
Ex-Mayor takes up cudgels on behalf of Dial-a-Ride charity
FORMER Mayor Geoff Settle is to put strongly-worded questions to the next meeting of Warrington Borough Council – on behalf of Warrington Dial-a-Ride.
Plan to re-locate Frodsham police station
POLICE are seeking feedback on a proposal to relocated Frodsham Police Station to the nearby fire station.
153 arrested at sell-out Creamfields festival
MORE than 150 festival goers were arrested at Creamfields this weekend as a result of a major policing operation.
Grappers’ survival hopes dealt a blow
GRAPPENHALL went down by 60 runs at home to Didsbury – a defeat that dealt a blow to their hopes to avoid relegation.
“Warrington’s bank” is open for business
BRITAIN’S newest business bank – in which Warrington Borough Council has a 33 per cent stake – has officially opened.
Combine harvester ablaze at farm
FIRE crews were called to a farm at Burtonwood, Warrington when fire broke out in a combine harvester.
Far from the Madding Crowd – in Warrington
CREAMFIELDS this was not. Nor Market Gate, nor Sankey Street nor any other part of the busy town centre. This was a different face of Warrington over the Bank Holiday weekend.
CCTV cameras erected without permission at gated house
MEMBERS of Warrington’s development management committee are to rule on a retrospective application for permission to erect CCTV cameras at a large, gated, detached house at Appleton.
Major new retail units planned
PLANNING chiefs are being asked to approve proposals to build new retail units at the former Alban Retail Park – now known as Junction Nine – off Winwick Road, Warrington.