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IMAGINATIVE plans for Warrington town centre which would see the disappearance of the town’s “ugliest” building and the re-development of a major shopping centre and a new hotel, have been given the green light.
ORGANISERS of the Creamfields music festival at Daresbury have been issuing warnings over dangerous drugs being found on site.
POLICE detectives have renewed their appeal for information following the 31st anniversary of the murder of Vera Anderson in Warrington.
TALKS are ongoing over the future of the Gravity trampoline centre and Newton’s Restaurant and bar in Time Square, which both closed without warning at the start of the school summer holidays.
MAJOR plans for the re-development of a key part of Warrington town centre, including up to 900 apartments – some 12 storeys high – will come under scrutiny this week.
POLICE have already started preparing for the Creamfields Music Festival at Daresbury which starts next Thursday, over the Bank Holiday weekend.
ANGRY Liberal Democrats have attacked Warrington Borough Council’s opposition Conservative group for a “chaotic” call-in challenge to the Labour group’s decision to invest over £60m in a solar farm near Doncaster.
ENERGY distribution network Scottish Power looks set to close its Warrington office by the end of the year – although the energy giant says it aims to retain a presence in the town.
TRAVELLERS have set up camp on Crab Lane playing fields, Fearnhead – the latest in an ongoing series of “invasions” of open land in the Warrington area.
A former Warrington student is one of three foreigners arrested by authorities in Indonesia for distributing cocaine on the holiday resort island of Bali at the end of July.