Emergency road closures
A BUSY town centre road at Warrington will be closed from early today
(Wednesday) while work continues on repairs to a major cable fault.
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Unions plan day of action
TRADE Union members at Warrington are preparing for an all-out day of
industrial action on Wednesday next week – co-ordinating with similar
action by public service unions across the country.
Post office raid: police renew appeal
POLICE are still appealing for information following an armed robbery at a Warrington post office a month ago.
The Future of Medicine?
STRETTON based Cheshire Natural Health director and founder Tracey
Turton believes that healthcare in the future should combine both the
wisdom of natural medicines and the advances in modern medicine.
Calling all goal keepers
WARRINGTON Town Football Club are delighted to announce that a specilist
goal keeping school is to start, tomorrowWednesday (nov 23) on the
club’s state of the art, 3G training pitches.
Boost for air ambulance
WARRINGTON-based housing and maintenance company Morris and Spottiswood
is to support the North West Air Ambulance charity by sharing funds
raised and having the charity’s logo and website featured on one of
their vans which travels around the north west of England.
CCTV will stay on watch
THE CCTV security camera system which has kept a watchful eye on
Culcheth village centre for the last three years has been purchased by
Culcheth and Glazebury Parish Council.
Children in Need's £100,150 boost
Children in Need telethon donation calls handled by volunteers at BT’s Warrington call centre totalled £100,150.
Fan goes into labour in queue
A FAN who went into labour while queuing for free tickets to see celebrity “Dad of the Year” Peter Andre has met her idol during the Warrington Christmas lights switch-on..
The town's REAL jobless total
A TOTAL of 14,270 people in Warrington are on out-of-work benefits – an unemployment rate of 11.7 per cent – but the total of people on Jobseekers Allowance (JSA) – the figure
usually quoted as the headline rate of unemployment – is 4,780, or 3.9
per cent, according to the latest available figures.