Town centre Welcome Back Festival gets musical this weekend
THE month-long “Welcome Back” celebration launched in Warrington Town Centre last weekend, continues with a programme of global music, dance, storytelling and craft activities.
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Fourteen local men arrested as police carry out dawn raids across Warrington targeting organised drugs crime
POLICE carried out dawn raids on 16 properties across Warrington this morning, arresting 14 local men in Cheshire’s largest single operation to target those suspected of county lines organised drugs crime.
Teenager who wrote rap song about attempting to run down police officer jailed for 40 months
A teenager who wrote a rap song about his attempts to run down a police officer with a car near a cemetery in Warrington, has been jailed for 40 months.
College celebrates outstanding vocational results with 100 percent pass rate
WARRINGTON & Vale Royal College is celebrating this year’s vocational results and is extremely proud of how hard students have worked to achieve such impressive grades.
Hunt for arsonist who set fire to bin outside community centre
AN appeal has been launched to help find an arsonist who deliberately set fire to an industrial bin outside a community centre in Warrington last night.
Firefighters called out for second consecutive day to rescue people trapped in bus station lift
FIREFIGHTERS were called out for a second consecutive day to rescue people trapped in a lift at Warrington Bus Station interchange.
£5m improvement project for nine-storey Kingsway House gets green light
A major £5 million improvement scheme for the nine-storey high Kingsway House in Latchford, Warrington, has been given the go-ahead by town planners.
Birchwood based Jacobs joins Nuclear AMRC to drive supply chain innovation
BIRCHWOOD-based Jacobs has joined the Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (Nuclear AMRC), based at the University of Sheffield, to drive innovation in advanced nuclear technologies.
Lymm High School students achieve some incredible exam results in exceptional circumstances
THERE were some incredible individual performances mixed with feelings of “joy, pride and relief” as students collected their A level and BTEC results at Lymm High School.
Birchwood College celebrate 100 percent pass rate!
BIRCHWOOD College is once again celebrating outstanding Year 13 exam results, with a 100% pass rate on their level 3 BTEC programmes, of which 80% were graded Distinction Star to Merit.