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  • 'No fixed timescale' for Big Lock footbridge repairs

    THE Canal and River Trust is carrying out repair work on the Big Lock footbridge due to a structural failure. The original traffic regulation notice from Cheshire East Council said that the works would take up to 21 days but the trust has now confirmed

  • YESTERYEARS: A look back at Witton Street in Northwich

    TOP of Witton Brow, Ship Hill or plain old Witton Street, Northwich At the top of the slight rise in Witton Street and we see Hormbrey’s butchers to the right. I would estimate the date as possibly 1937 and the Coronation of King George Vl

  • Win a pair of wellies!

    EVER struggled to get a pair of wellies to fit properly? One businesswoman was so fed up seeing people hacking their wellies down the side to make them wider, that she decided to design her own. In 2016 Verity Smith from Willaston launched

  • CINEMA LISTINGS: What's on at Northwich Odeon over Easter

    Northwich Odeon listings from Friday, April 19 to Thursday, April 25.    iSense 2D Avengers Double Bill (TBC) 3h02m Wed:            20:50   2D Avengers: Endgame (TBC) 3h02m Wed             23:35 Thu              11:00 14

  • Children’s awards

    AS an ambassador for WellChild, the national charity for seriously ill children, I would like to appeal to your readers to give a brave and special young person in your area the credit they deserve by nominating them for the 2019 WellChild Awards.

  • Halloween is now tainted

    I’VE always liked Halloween but it is tainted for me this year now that those EU chappies have fixed that as the extension date for us waving them goodbye. For heavens sake, and the sake of our country and our sanity, let’s just leave now with

  • Language is dividing us

    WE can’t go around publicly naming someone an arch brexiter, or arch remainer come to that, without dividing the country into Roundheads and Cavaliers or risking a war of the roses. The media is getting more fond of it by the day, and the suggestion

  • Time to vote independent

    THE incompetence of the Conservative Party and the Labour opposition at national government, is all too clear. However, your readers may not be aware of the gross incompetence of the local Cheshire East Council in recent years. It has featured

  • Free day of fitness activities in Middlewich Leisure Centre

    MIDDLEWICH Leisure Centre is running free sessions on Sunday, May 5. The free sessions are to celebrate Everybody Sport and Recreation’s fifth year as a trust. The recent Active People’s survey showed that Cheshire East was the most active

  • Tell them how you feel

    THE time approaches when elections will be held for Cheshire East councillors and already leaflets extolling the virtues of the prospective candidates are popping through the letter boxes. So maybe now is a good time to reflect on how we feel about

  • Lucky to live in fab town

    ALTRINCHAM used to be a lovely town. The Trafford Centre came along and Altrincham failed. It’s only the past three to four years that it has started to get better, but only around the market area. Northwich has had different problems. For

  • Don’t compare us

    NORTHWICH has failed as we have a council of elected members with zero commercial experience who were naive enough, at a time when the high street is in terminal decline across the nation, to think that ploughing an obscene amount of cash in to a new

  • Listen to the residents

    I NOTED with interest your article in the Northwich Guardian on Barons Quay and your interview with Cllr Sam Naylor on the BBC Radio 4 piece on Northwich and Altrincham. I also heard the broadcast and I think that Ruth Alexander’s real point was

  • Funds needed for potholes

    SO, the Transport Secretary announced last week that Cheshire West and Chester Council would receive £436,018 to spend on road improvements. This doesn’t tally with the November 2018 statement of the Minister for Roads that the north west would

  • Electric Church celebrates second Record Store Day in style

    THE second Record Store Day in Electric Church was a bigger success than last year according to shop owner Jimi Coppack. This year was bigger and better in Electric Church and one customer even queued up from 11pm the night before to be the first

  • Disused Hartford buildings could make way for four new homes

    A COURTYARD of disused buildings off could be demolished to make way for four new homes near the centre of Hartford. The Hartford House Yard workshop site, featuring an office and a number of old or collapsing storage and shed structures, would

  • Planning committee set for vote on Middlewich eastern bypass

    COUNCILLORS will vote on whether to approve plans for the long-awaited Middlewich eastern bypass next week. Cheshire East Council officers are calling on members of the strategic planning board to give the go-ahead to the £58 million road ahead