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  • Councillors' claims total almost £24,000

    COUNCILLORS who sat on each of the three authorities during the local government reorganisation in 2008/09 claimed at least £23,900 during their year in office. The allowances are set by an independent panel, but during the year when some councillors

  • Severe weather warning

    THE Met Office has issued a severe weather warning for Cheshire over the next three days. People are being told to prepare for heavy rain and wind gusts of up to 60 miles per hour. The downpours are expected to last until Saturday.

  • Severe weather warning issued

    THE Met Office has issued an early warning of severe weather for Cheshire over the next three days. People are being told to prepare for heavy rain and wind gusts of up to 60 miles per hour. The downpours are expected to last until Saturday

  • Met office issues weather warning

    THE Met Office has issued an early warning of severe weather for Cheshire over the next three days. People are being told to prepare for heavy rain and wind gusts of up to 60 miles per hour. The downpours are expected to last until Saturday

  • ROWING: Glory in the rainfall for Grange

    GRANGE School’s rising stars outshone everybody at neighbours Northwich Rowing Club’s biggest – and wettest – Autumn Head yet. The Hartford-based club topped the medals table after seven of their 17 crews set the fastest time in their respective

  • Building site youths detained

    POLICE were forced to stop a group of young people from climbing on a building site in Wheelock Street on Friday night. The youths had gained access to the site from the street and were briefly detained while their personal information was taken. There

  • Will we get the good times again?

    THE ‘vision’ has faded but when the good times come CWAC will be ready to re-invigorate Northwich and will hit the ground running. So say two of our local councillors. I cannot see this within the near future. However one company has

  • Bargain books up for grabs

    THE Friends of Winsford Library will hold a new book sale at the library on Saturday, November 21. New books will be on sale at reduced prices at the library in High Street between 9.30am and 1pm. All proceeds will be ploughed back into the library

  • UPDATED: Doorman smashed customer over head with shovel

    A DOORMAN at the former Madisons bar has been jailed indefinitely for attacking a man with a shovel, leaving him for dead. Mark Igoe, 34, clubbed 55-year-old Frank Pemberton over the head with a spade and slashed Sandra Pemberton’s arm down

  • UPDATED: Family's tribute to couple killed in crash

    A LOVING Northwich couple were killed when their car plunged down a motorway embankment in Scotland. Philip Gerrard, 46, and his wife, Pamela, 48, of Appleton Street, in Winnington, were killed when their Peugeot left the A74(M) near Beattock

  • Police Hunt For Robbers

    POLICE are hunting two offenders who threatened their victims with an iron bar before making off with their belongings. The attack happened between 10.15pm and 10.45pm on Tuesday November 10 near to Queen's Park Avenue in Crewe. The victims, an 18-ear-old

  • Emily's Healing Powers

    STUDENT Emily Timmis is head and shoulders above the rest when it comes to shoulder massaging. The South Cheshire College student has been taught the powers of healing hands by her grandmother who is a full time reflexologist. Emily has been practicing

  • School Boost For Local Charities

    FUNDRAISERS from King’s Grove School in Crewe presented cheques totalling £2,630 to local groups last week. Representatives from HomeStart and Leighton Hospital's Special Baby Care Unit were presented with cheques during a school assembly to

  • Your chance to see gas project close up

    MEMBERS of the public are invited to an open day to explore the Stublach gas storage project. The event at Lach Dennis Village Hall takes place on Saturday, November 21, and will run from 10am until 4pm. There will be exhibition stands and Storengy

  • UPDATED: Winsford man jailed for town centre attack

    A WINSFORD man has been jailed for a violent attack on a group of drinkers in Northwich town centre. One victim was left with a fractured skull and a permanent loss of taste and smell following the assault in Witton Street in the early hours

  • Thanks to town for £20,000 raised in Poppy Appeal

    GENEROUS Winsfordians helped raise £20,000 for the Poppy Appeal this year. People and businesses collected on behalf of the Winsford branch of the Royal British Legion, while some of its members decorated an empty shop in the town centre with their

  • Missing sports page: Northwich Guardian

    THIS week's Northwich Guardian is missing a page of sport. An error during the production phase of the print process means that page 59 contains classified ads rather than our usual comprehensive results, tables and fixtures round up. Indeed

  • Town Council Campaigners Call For Phone Poll

    CAMPAIGNERS for a town council in Crewe have raised questions regarding Cheshire East Council's second stage of consultation on the issue. The authority has announced that the next stage has been put back and will now start on November 30 and will end

  • Drunk 'friend' steals car and causes crash

    A DRUNKEN man was arrested after causing a crash on Wallcroft Gardens, Middlewich, early Saturday morning. It is thought the person had taken the keys without permission from a friends house and then crashed the car whilst intoxicated.

  • Communities Benefit From Colleges Week

    TREE planting, bug box making and creating wildlife habitats were amongst the community activities put on by Reaseheath College to celebrate national Colleges Week. Students and staff from the Nantwich college helped pupils from Hungerford

  • Nantwich Singers' Christmas Concert

    THE Nantwich Singers’ Christmas concert will take place at St Mary’s Church on Saturday, December 12 from 7.30pm. Entitled A Spotless Rose, one of the honorific titles given to the Virgin Mary in medieval times, the programme will include music from

  • MP Takes Up Traders' Concerns

    SOUTH Cheshire MP Stephen O’Brien has met traders in Calveley to discuss their concerns about the financial impact roadworks are having on their businesses. The traders were led by Philip Twist, proprietor of the Wardle Service Station on Nantwich Road

  • Nantwich Supermarket Gets Go Ahead

    SAINSBURY'S has been given the green light to redevelop their store in Nantwich. Cheshire East Council's Strategic Planning Board granted permission at a meeting on Wednesday last week. The plans to replace the premises with a new larger store were

  • Students Face Up To Art Project

    CREWE students have been creating a big impression by displaying eye-catching portraits of themselves at college. Graphic Communications students at South Cheshire College have made their mark by creating black and white portrait stencils and spraying

  • Thieves steal badges from cars in Sutton Lane, Middlewich

    THIEVES stole badges from two vehicles parked in Sutton Lane at the weekend. Between 7pm on Saturday and 9.30am on Sunday, the emblem of a blue Land Rover Discovery was taken. Then between 10.30am on Saturday and 10am on Sunday, the badge of a blue

  • Lyrical Genius From The New 1920

    A DOUBLE headliner of cutting edge sounds, featuring The New 1920 and Skeletons, comes to The Box in Crewe on Thursday Nov 26. Cardiff quartet The New 1920 are really beginning to make a name for themselves. After touring alongside Get Cape Wear Cape

  • Crewe Lifeguard Team In Championships

    A CREWE lifeguard team are set to compete in the largest competitive event in the pool industry’s calendar. The National Pool Lifeguard Championship’s final, being held in Birmingham on November 28, will see team Cheshire East, who train at Crewe Swimming

  • Middlewich farmers outraged over incinerator plans

    FARMERS have joined the growing ranks of local residents who have expressed outrage over plans to build huge waste-burning incinerators near Middlewich. American company Covanta is one of several corporations planning to build incinerators

  • Police want to make Rudheath fun

    RESIDENTS in Rudheath are being called on to help bring the community together by organising a fun day. PCSO Angela Richardson and PC Holly Campbell of the Rudheath Neighbourhood Policing Team are appealing to the community to organise a fun day for