The sound of a war drum beat rolled across the Winwick fields and into St Oswald’s Parish church at the weekend as it did over three hundred and fifty years ago when the Battle of Winwick took place between a Scottish army and the English Parliamentarian forces led by Oliver Cromwell on land three miles north of Warrington.

AN imaginative plan to create a Jacobean meditation garden at the rear of the former Marquis of Granby pub in Church Street, Warrington has been put to borough council planners.

A NEW book is about to be published which will make an important contribution to local transport history – including in the Warrington area.

IMAGINATIVE plans to restore and extend a historic farmhouse and convert it into two dwellings have been put to Warrington planning chiefs.

CO-founder of Warrington Worldwide, David Skentelbery, has been made Honorary Freeman of Warrington at the town’s Parr Hall last night.

THE historic Bluebell Inn, in Horsemarket Street, Warrington is set to get a facelift after planners gave the go-ahead.

ONE word described RAF Burtonwood on D-Day in June 1944 – BUSY!