AN electrical fault at a “professional cannabis farm” is believed to have caused the blaze which ripped through a three-storey restaurant building on Sankey Street, Warrington, yesterday, Tuesday.
SAVE Peel Hall campaigners say they have been inundated and overwhelmed with responses to continue their 30-year campaign against a plan to build 1,200 homes on the greenfield site.
Roads and business in and around Sankey Street have now re-opened after five fire crews were called out early this morning to tackle a blaze at the three-storey Efes restaurant building.
DETECTIVES are appealing for information and video footage following a robbery in Warrington town centre when the victim was run over after having his mobile phone stolen by two men in a dark car, who stopped asking for directions.
A controversial plan to build 27 homes off Mill Lane at Houghton Green has been deferred until more information is forthcoming, while former Mayor Geoff Settle has been left outraged over how the application was handled.
VIDEO: Glorious sunshine greeted those who turned out in force to remember all those who have died in conflict at the annual Service of Remembrance at Warrington Cenotaph.
TWO men have been jailed after being caught drug dealing crack cocaine in Warrington town centre thanks to CCTV as part of Project Servator.
WHILE the overall trend of new cases of COVID-19 for Warrington in the latest small area data from Public Health England is down – eleven areas saw increases with the highest rates of infection in the Great Sankey and Blackbrook areas of the town .
FOLLOWING on from the controversial decision to allow planning permission to build 1,200 homes on green fields at Peel Hall, which has left campaigners devastated and heartbroken, the political blame game has now started.
AFTER more than 30 years of campaigning Save Peel Hall campaigners have been left “devastated and stunned” after losing a public inquiry over a proposed 1,200 housing development in the area.
