MATTHEW Ward scored twice as 1874 Northwich record a fourth successive league win on Tuesday. Ian Street’s men have now won six of their eight matches in the Premier Division since being promoted, rising to seventh place in the table. They
PREMIER Division dominoes has current champions Kings Arms A setting the pace with a 7-1 defeat of Cheshire Cheese Wheelock, whose landlord Mick Pointon and Miles Halligan won the final pairs to prevent a blankout. They are followed by promoted
THE Crewe Liberal Club Open League suffered a further resignation prior to the Premier Division West End Band derby match when the Band C team resigned due to lack of players. This was not the team that last week was rumoured to fold, as they managed
NANTWICH Town were denied all three points at Halesowen Town on Tuesday after the hosts bagged a late leveller. Dabbers striker Aaron Burns had opened the scoring for the visitors on 16 minutes, but in the second minute of injury time a goal from
STEVE Davis believes Crewe Alexandra will repair the early-season damage after their revival continued at Yeovil on Tuesday night. Fresh from a morale-boosting derby 2-1 win over Port Vale, the Alex claimed their first point on the road at Yeovil
CHESHIRE East Council claims it has saved the Borough’s taxpayers £5million without cutting services. The council says that significant reductions have been achieved in management costs by as much as 19 per cent at top tier level and 22 per
WINSFORD children met some of their favourite cartoon characters during a sports day event organised by the Tinystars community group. More than 150 people got involved in the racing at the Knights Grange athletics track, including the likes of
BITTERSWEET farewells will be replicated on the platform of Crewe railway station this Sunday, September 21 in a theatrical and musical commemoration. Over By Christmas will be performed on platform 12 at 12.30pm and 1.30pm in a free event.
A MID Cheshire pub guru has a vision to put personality into Northwich's Barons Quay development. Damon Horrill, who runs Debees and the Red Lion, in Winsford, and the Kings Lock, in Middlewich, hopes his innovative bar and restaurant concept will
LUXURY car company Bentley has announced a new flagship model to be made in Cheshire – the 190mph Mulsanne Speed.To be made at the company's headquarters in Crewe, the 6.75-litre car will be unveiled at the Paris Motor Show at the beginning
A GROUP of South Korean Christians flew over to England to bless the streets of Middlewich. More than 400 Christians from 30 different churches in South Korea have embarked on a prayer mission whereby they are split up into smaller groups and
DESPITE a performance that offered promise, Witton left Lancashire unfulfilled. The awkward truth is Albion are too easy to score against. They have conceded 15 goals now in nine Premier Division matches, plus five in Saturday’s FA Cup collapse
A GEM of the Northwich high street has been saved thanks to the dreams of its former owner and a Guardian article. When Debbie Clowes decided to close Northwich Art Shop after 22 years she hoped a new owner would come forward to keep it open.
WINSFORDIAN, Azahar Hughes, completed a gruelling open water swim across the UK’s largest lake on Sunday, September 14 to raise money for charity. The 45-year-old swam Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland alongside friend, Pete Ormrod, in support of
A COMMUNITY group that’s helped transform Queens Park in Crewe were honoured at a prestigious local government service awards ceremony. The Queens Park Ants – which stands for ‘action not talk – were presented by their finalists gong by international
WHARTON Cons A edged closer to recapturing the Premier Division title following a comfortable home success against Castle Private B on Friday. The visitors to the Tin Mission were restricted to 29 chalks from the first four blocks, which included
A NEW cause for conflict is emerging in the apparently peaceful country lanes and byways of mid Cheshire. Much is said about cyclists and motorists and cyclists and pedestrians finding ways to co-exist in the modern world, but as more and more
CALLUM Begg scored an unbeaten century to help Kingsley secure a win at Bunbury that makes safe their place in the TACS Partnership Cheshire League’s Division Two for another season. He hit 16 boundaries, plus a single six, on his way to a run-a-ball
MIKE Clarke was Weaverham’s star turn as the newly-crowned Division Two champions signed off with a five-wicket win on Saturday at home to neighbours Northwich. He returned figures of 4-36 as the Russets dismissed their guests for 142 at Wallerscote
Altrincham Kersal 31 Northwich 21 BLACKS will learn a lot from their first defeat of the season. With the absence of five senior players, they will take strength further down the South Lancashire/Cheshire Division One calendar for having got
Manchester 12 Winnington Park 29 VICTORY was in the bag by half time at Manchester on Saturday. Crossing four times in the first period and defending stoutly after the interval ensured back-to-back league wins in South Lancashire/Cheshire Division
A POPULAR comedy night returns to Northwich on Saturday, September 27. Ha Ha at the Harlequins has a line-up of three acts hosted by Barnton comedian Kevin Dewsbury. Headlining is Australian comedian Mickey D who has performed at eight Edinburgh
THE parents of a nine-year-old boy from Middlewich have been forced to fundraise for his Cerebral Palsy treatment after he was dropped by the NHS. Ben Baddeley was born with Spastic Diplegia Cerebral Palsy, and defied medical experts by building
AFTER months of hard work and planning, Winsford Salt Fair 2014 has arrived. This year’s celebration of the town’s proud industrial heritage will have a special focus on the centenary of the First World War. Nationally-significant art projects
WINSFORD Salt Fair officially gets underway tonight, when town mayor, Councillor Gina Lewis, reads the historic Royal Charter at the George and Dragon. Below is a full list of events featured during Salt Fair 2014. Events – time, location,
CREWE and Nantwich has seen a 40 per cent drop in people claiming job seekers allowance in the past year. In September 2013, around 2,000 people were claiming benefit in Crewe. That figure has now fallen to 1,226. The figures, released by the
