Gymnastics club wins a share of £10 million
WARRINGTON-based Wire Gymnastics Club has secured a share of £10 million National Lottery funding from Sport England’s Inspired Facilities fund.
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Help the children Santa may not visit this Christmas
AN appeal has gone out to make sure as many Warrington children as possible wake up to a present under the tree this Christmas.
“Police take up to two hours to reach us” claims councillor
POLICE officers and PCSOs are taking up to two hours to reach their “beat” areas in the Culcheth area, according to a local councillor.
Fire breaks out at Bridgewater High School
TWO fire engines from Warrington went to an incident at Bridgewater High School, in Broomfields Road, Appleton.
Dom is aiming to become a doctor
A WARRINGTON student who hadn’t made plans to go to university a year ago is now aiming to study medicine with hopes of becoming a doctor.
£38,000 improvement scheme for cricket ground
IT hardly looks the “green swathe” that poetically inclined cricket writers wax lyrical about, but the work carried out on Grappenhall Cricket Club’s Broad Lane ground towards the end of the summer should offer hope that next season will be better than the one recently departed.
Child trapped by hand in escalator
FIREFIGHTERS from Warrington were called out this afternoon after a child’s hand became trapped in an escalator.
Council joins campaign to tackle “modern slavery”
SUNDAY is World Anti-Slavery Day – and Warrington Borough Council is teaming up with partners across Cheshire with a campaign to tackle modern slavery.
Village Purple Flag group is wound up
THE group that steered Stockton Heath towards becoming the first village in the UK to be awarded a Purple Flag for the management of its night-time economy, has disbanded.
Scouts put councillors in the hot seat
SCOUTS from Glazebury were given an opportunity to put councillors in the hot seat when Culcheth and Glazebury Parish Council hosted a special Q&A session for them.