After 47 years working in the academic, public, government and private sectors, Warrington Borough Council’s Chief Executive, Professor Steven Broomhead MBE, is to retire.
UPDATED: A fundraiser has raised over £5,000 for two Warrington families left homeless after a devastating blaze ripped through their semi-detached properties last Friday.
INSPECTORS from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) have rated Warrington Borough Council’s adult social care and support as requires improvement, with the lowest possible score for safeguarding.
A 35-year-old mother of four has been jailed after she was caught smuggling illegal drugs into the Creamfields music festival at Daresbury in Kinder Eggs concealed in her body.
TWO Warrington drug dealers, caught facilitating the supply of cocaine and cannabis through their use of an ‘EncroChat’ encrypted messaging service used exclusively by serious and organised criminals, have been jailed.
A Warrington garage owner has been fined and ordered to remove an extension after ignoring planning rules.
A teenage drug dealer with ambitious hopes of setting up a cocaine supply line in Warrington instead found himself before a crown court judge.
A dangerous child rapist from Warrington who repeatedly sexually assaulted and raped two young girls has been jailed for 24 years.
GOVERNMENT appointed commissioners are set to oversee Warrington Borough Council’s finances following a damning Best Value inspection report into the debt-ridden council.
TOWN Hall chiefs at Warrington have approved a proposal to fund a marketing exercise for Birchwood Park to consider offers for a possible disposal.
