Care company donate staff to support others ahead of Royal request
A Warrington-based care company is donating staff to support others ahead of a Royal request for “The Big Help Out.”
Author Gary Skentelbery
Gary Skentelbery
Experienced journalist for more than 40 years. Managing Director of magazine publishing group with three in-house titles and on-line daily newspaper for Warrington. Experienced writer, photographer, PR consultant and media expert having written for local, regional and national newspapers. Specialties: PR, media, social networking, photographer, networking, advertising, sales, media crisis management. Chair of Warrington Healthwatch Director Warrington Chamber of Commerce Patron Tim Parry Johnathan Ball Foundation for Peace. Trustee Warrington Disability Partnership. Former Chairman of Warrington Town FC.
St Rocco’s Hospice launch new lottery fundraiser from retail outlets
WARRINGTON’S St. Rocco’s Hospice has recently launched a new £1 lottery ticket sale from their retail outlets to help raise additional funds.
The day a local teenager legally drove a horse-drawn cart over Thelwall Viaduct!
BUILT and designed to take up to 79,000 vehicles per day when it officially opened 60 years ago, a horse-drawn cart driven by a local teenager was actually the first vehicle to travel over the completed Thelwall Viaduct.
Minister sees how Birchwood business MoltexFLEX is leading the way in nuclear science
DURING a recent visit to Warrington Energy Minister Grant Shapps saw for himself how a Birchwood-based business is leading the way in nuclear science technology.
Independent candidate says “roll on next year” despite coming bottom of poll
LATCHFORD West independent candidate Amanda Bowles says there is “plenty to build on” despite coming bottom of the poll in the local by-election result last week.
Missing Orford woman found safe and well
UPDATED: A woman reported missing since last Thursday morning has been found safe and well on Sunday evening.
Warrington remembers Anzac Day as Mayor lays wreath
THE Mayor of Warrington, Cllr Jean Flaherty laid a wreath at Soldiers’ Corner in Warrington Cemetery to commemorate the anniversary of Anzac Day, on Tuesday April 25.
Police alerted after youngsters start camp fire in wooded area
POLICE were alerted after firefighters were called out to a campfire started by young people in a wooded area at Orford, Warrington.
Woman involved in crash was nearly four times drink driving limit
A woman arrested following a road traffic collision in Stockton Heath was found to be nearly four times the drink driving limit.
Appeal launched after three masked men armed with baseball bats damage convenience store during robbery
DETECTIVES are appealing for information after three masked men armed with baseball bats carried out a robbery at a convenience store in Orford last night (Saturday), damaging the premises and leaving a staff member extremely shaken.