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Stories for 8 December 2006

Crewe Guardian Business

Welcome to Hospital Street Nantwich

Come on down for a great shopping day. If you're looking for premium quality children's clothes at competitive prices, Rose A Lily should be your first port of call.   more...

Messenger Newspapers News

Counterfeit notes fear

Businesses and shoppers are being urged to make sure they're not passed counterfeit £20 notes.   more...

Axe falls on maternity unit

HEALTH chiefs have approved a major reorganisation of children's and maternity services in Greater Manchester that will mean the axe for frontline facilities in Trafford.   more...

Low cost council does well

TRAFFORD council is a low cost and well performing council, delivering value for money services - according to external inspectors.   more...

'Second rate' maternity system has to change

THE shake-up of children's and maternity services in the region is urgently needed, according to doctors backing the review.   more...

How the maternity changes will affect you

How will the services affect you?   more...

'Mixed emotions' on childrens service decision

TRAFFORD'S health bosses say they have mixed emotions' over the massive impact on the borough of the health review announced today.   more...

Don't suffer in silence

A new campaign aims to offer a greater level of support to victims suffering domestic abuse this Christmas.   more...

Messenger signs up for cancer campaign

A SALE cancer sufferer has made a difference by urging the Government to face up to future challenges posed by the disease.   more...

Don't give in to pester power

FATHER Christmas is backing Greater Manchester Police's (GMP) festive crime crackdown campaign by urging parents not to buy their children present that could be used in an anti-social manner.   more...

Middlewich Guardian News

Town to play waiting game

TERRY Murphy hopes to hang on to Graham Kay.   more...

Kay could be the key

CHRIS Willcock believes Middlewich Town defender Graham Kay can solve his defensive dilemma.   more...

Northwich Guardian News

Vics' night to remember

SIR Alex Ferguson predicts Northwich Victoria have a bright future ahead of them.   more...

Vics v Weymouth preview

NORTHWICH Victoria can't wait to face Weymouth tomorrow, according to boss Steve Burr.   more...

Remember the month of November

WITTON Albion were the best team in the UniBond Premier Division last month.   more...

Bruno signs for Witton

FRANK Bruno is to speak at a Witton Albion dinner.   more...

Northwich Guardian Sport

Morgan backs Ladies to go on winning streak

KAREN Morgan believes Park Ladies have surpassed expectation so far this season.   more...

St Helens Star Business

BBC Worldwide

Top BBC kiddies' DVD's up for grabs. Five lucky star reader have the chance to win a set of BBC Worldwide's five new children's dvd's this Christmas.   more...

What's New in Santa's Sack

Your guide to local businesses and services, which may help you to decide on that ideal Christmas present this year.   more...

Chance to make your own Christmas gifts

There's a chance for arty townsfolk to create Christmas gifts with a difference - thank to a new ceramics class at Newton Community Centre.   more...

Clubland

Your guide to the pubs and clubs in the St Helens area.   more...

Warrington Guardian News

Taxi firm puts itself into administration

PINK Ladies Ltd has put itself into administration - and one franchisee has said he is suing the company.   more...

The Cheshire Lines building on track for first residents

CHESHIRE Lines is only three months away from opening its doors to its first residents.   more...

Living with cystic fibrosis

THE parents of a 12-year-old girl born with cystic fibrosis have offered words of comfort to the Chancellor Gordon Brown and his wife, Sarah, after their youngest child was diagnosed with the same disease.   more...

Christmas concert

ENJOY an evening of Christmas music with performances by local brass bands at St Thomas' Church.   more...

Falling with style

GLIDING, not wobbling across ice, how hard can it be?   more...

Government speaks to franchise firm

DEPARTMENT of Trade and Industry investigators have spoken to a Warrington company in response to complaints from franchisees.   more...

A few quid can give homeless person a meal and a present

WHILE most of us will be lucky enough to spend Christmas Day tucking into a traditional meal with all the trimmings in the warmth of our homes, spare a thought for those who are not so fortunate.   more...

Water cheek! Man refuses to pay twice

SEE you in court!   more...

Tributes to stenographer at Nuremberg

FROM working as a volunteer ambulance driver in the war to being present at the Nuremberg trials, Joan Parsons had a remarkable tale to tell.   more...

Seal spotted in Woolston Park

A seal attracted a large crowd this morning when it was spotted in Woolston Park.   more...

Writer Tim Firth's nativity is based on school days

EVERYONE remembers playing Mary, Joseph or a tea-towel-clad shepherd in their school nativity... either with fond or cringeworthy nostalgia.   more...

War hero Harold Sutton did the impossible

"HE SET off on a raid on a Lancaster Bomber with seven people on the plane.   more...

Reflexology is very good for the sole

I'M not fond of feet, not my own or anyone else's. So, the idea of spending an hour sockless with a stranger handling my tootsies wasn't the stuff of dreams.   more...

Baby look at you now!

THE Manic Street Preachers may already be a household name.   more...

Walking Day 2007 events

THE walking day events list for 2007 has been set by the borough council. Events have been scaled back because the police could not afford the cost of policing processions on the road.   more...

Wirral Globe News

Police raid nets £1m drugs haul

POLICE on Wirral seized 25 kilos of drugs believed to be cocaine, heroin, crack cocaine, amphetamine and cannabis with an estimated street value of £1m following a raid at an address in Park Road, Birkenhead.   more...

Frank’s tunnel vision

FORTY FIVE-year-old Frank Rogers has worked on some of the biggest engineering projects in the world, but taking over as boss of the Mersey Tunnels has realised a childhood dream.   more...

A ferry nice idea for an exhibition!

THE RICH history of the Mersey Ferries has been captured in a special exhibition launched this week.   more...

Cyanide suicide

A UNIVERSITY toxicology lecturer swallowed cyanide in front of his fiance, an inquest heard.   more...

Raid on market stallholders

STALLHOLDERS on Birkenhead Market who are selling fake, high-value designer clothing and other goods have been targeted during a raid jointly organised by Wirral Trading Standards and Merseyside Police.   more...

  
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