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  • UniBond League President's Cup: Review of the Week

    HALF a dozen teams won through to the competition’s last eight over the past seven days. But Quorn, quarter finalists last season, are not among them after they surrendered a half time lead in a 3-1 reverse at home to Grantham Town.

  • Shell's about turn over Poppy Appeal collections

    A MULTI-national fuel giant has gone back on its policy to ban poppy boxes on its garages’ counters. Staff at the Shell garage in Sandiway faced customer complaints because of the company’s decision to ban poppy boxes from its counter. The garage, at

  • Two killed in Booth Lane power cable accident

    TWO men, believed to be aged around 40, have died after when their tipper truck touched an overhead power cable in Middlewich. It is believed they were delivering road surfacing material to a site on Booth Lane in Middlewich. The men were at the back

  • What Brunner Mond really wants is power

    READING the letters in the Guardian concerning the proposed ‘incinerator’ at Brunner Mond, it seems to me that people do not seem to understand what it is that Brunner Mond actually want to build. The old power station is to be demolished and replaced

  • Man dies after collision on A556

    A 53-year-old man from Wirral has died after a road crash at Tabley. The man's Vauxhall Agila was involved in a collision with a Volkswagen Caddy on the A556 Chester Road, 4.30pm yesterday, Saturday. A police spokesman said the man died at scene

  • Worry over new homes plan for farm

    RESIDENTS have raised concerns over plans to build 19 new homes on a farm in Hartford. Harrow Estates, based in Preston Brook, has applied for planning permission to build 19 properties – 13 detached family homes and six apartment units – on land at

  • Ernest's charts go on ice while new 'weather man' is sought

    A PENSIONER who documented one of the coldest winters in British history is looking for someone to carry on his work. Ernest Jones, who lives in Willowmere retirement village in East Road, Middlewich, painstakingly recorded the weather conditions of

  • Meet your MP

    WINSFORD MP Stephen O’Brien will hold a surgery for constituents on Friday, November 27. Residents can book an appointment to meet him at Winsford Conservative Office, in Ways Green, Winsford, between 4.30pm and 6pm. To book a slot, call 020 7219

  • Don't be tempted by stolen goods

    CHRISTMAS shoppers feeling the pinch of the credit crunch this year are being warned not to be tempted into buying stolen goods. Insp Paul Loughlin, of the Northwich Neighbourhood Policing Team, said: “We usually start to see smaller goods