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  • Lucky escape for driver after car ended up on its roof

    A DRIVER had a lucky escape after his car ended up on its roof. Joe Ecclestone, aged 27, was driving along Birchfield Road in Widnes in last week’s high winds when a bin bag blew across his windscreen. He hit the brakes but his Ford Focus skidded

  • 'Working together' police event cancelled

    AN event giving residents the chance to have their say on policing has been postponed. The working together event was set to be held at Riverside College′s Kingsway campus in Widnes on November 6. A new date is yet to be arranged. For more

  • Spooky fun at Norton Priory

    NORTON Priory welcomed little horrors to their Halloween spooktacular family fun events this week.The witchcraft and wizardry activities had children under a spell on Monday and Tuesday with potion making using supernatural ingredients and magical apparatus

  • Runcorn MP welcomes record annual fall in unemployment

    THE largest annual fall in unemployment since records began more than 40 years ago has been welcomed by Runcorn MP Graham Evans. The jobless figure is now below two million for the first time since 2008. The number of young people aged 18-24

  • Courageous youngster needs bone marrow donor

    A COURAGEOUS little boy battling a very rare cancer has been hailed a hero. Runcorn tot Harrison Rowbotham, aged three, has aplastic anaemia, but keeps smiling despite extensive tests and transfusions. His body has stopped producing enough