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Once again The Whitby High New Years Resolution Spa Day School celebrated the many and To simply Detox and feel pampered in 2012 varied successes of its students at its annual Presentation Evening. You may choose one treatment out of each section below Over 80 students received awards Aromatherapy Body Scrub from guest of honour Dr John Stephens, Deputy Director of Children’s Services for Cheshire West, Chester and Halton Partnership. Babor Khanya Body Scrub Current students from Year 8 through to Year 11 received Achievement and Endeavour Anti-Ageing Hand Treatment Awards, with others being presented with Awards sponsored by such companies as ------Unilever, HSBC, Cammell Lairds and Words & Pictures (Leeds) Ltd. Many students Volcanic Detox Wrap  travelled from around the country from their University studies to attend the evening, Aromatherapy Cellulite Wrap which saw the school hall packed to capacity with over five hundred people. Hydrating Body Wrap In addition to Dr Stephens’ address and a review of the school year by the ------headteacher, the students and guests were entertained by the fabulous ‘Studio B’ a Sensational Eye Treatment four piece rock band, all studying music at school. Headteacher, Bryn Heeley said: “It was a real honour to be able to stand before the Moist Intense Introductory Facial community and highlight the superb efforts and achievements made by the young Aromatherapy Hydrating Facial people of The Whitby High School. ------“I congratulate each and every one of them and thank all teaching and support staff for Mini Head Massage their unstinting hard work, which has made these achievements possible.” Foot Massage Hand Massage Why not enjoy 24hrs of indulgence .. Above: Highest Included in this spa day is a relaxing spa light lunch Book one of our luxurious Achieving GCSE and full use of health club facilities results rooms to truly enjoy your spa Also enjoy a detoxifying tea and Fruit platter in our day experience, followed by a relaxation area wonderful Dinner, Bed and Left: Dr John Special New Years Price Breakfast. This all inclusive Stephens and offer is a perfect start to the New Bryn Heeley with Year and is all yours for..... Achievement and £75.00 Effort Award winning Valid until 01/03/2012 £145.00* Per person students 01244 335262 For all enquires please call or email *Based on two people sharing [email protected] *Subject to availability valid until 01/03/2012 *terms and conditions apply *Terms and conditions apply *subject to availability Rowton Hall Country House Hotel Health Club and Spa, Whitchurch Road, Rowton, Chester CH3 6AD t- 01244 335262 e- [email protected] www.spachester.com 4 Tel 01244 350398 www.southwirral.com Keep it Local January 2012 5

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Have your say with police Regular police surgeries with PCSO Flanagan A Police Beat meeting will be held at St George’s are held every month United Reformed Church, on A41, Little Sutton on to discuss any issues Tuesday 31st January, 7.30pm, for people who live in or concerns which are affecting you or your the Wetherby Way and Ledsham Road areas. community. This will be the first meeting that Police Community Surgeries are held as Support Officer Neil Flanagan has held there and follows: replaces the old Neighbourhood Action Meetings/ First Monday of every Community Action Meetings. The meeting will be a month at Sycamore chance for residents of the area to come and have their Garden Centre, Chester say on the policing issues that matter most to them Road, Great Sutton (café) around the area. 1-2pm This meeting if successful will be held every 3/4 months First Tuesday of every and will be another way for residents and the police month at St George’s to work together to solve issues within the community. United Reformed Church, The meeting will not replace the police surgeries that I Chester Road, Little hold as these are also a good way to engage with the Sutton 12noon - 2pm community. First Friday of every If you have any information, issues or requests month, Little Sutton Scout regarding your community you can contact your Group, Heath Lane, Little Neighbourhood Policing Team on 0845 458 6373. Sutton 6-8pm

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Wednesday 4th January WHAT’S ON Whitby Wander at Whitby Hall, Stanney Lane, Ellesmere Port, at 2pm. Guided walk on the historical origins of Whitby Park. Contact Mary Lavery on 01606 288541. Free of charge Friday 6th - Saturday 7th January Chriska Stage Productions present the comedy panto Robin Hood and the Babes in the Wood, at Ellesmere Port Civic Hall from. Visit www.backcloths.com or call 01928 739166. Monday 9th January Wirral Ancient Egypt Society meeting at Mayer Hall, Bebington, Wirral, at 2pm. The guest speaker will be Dr Ashley Cooke the Curator of Egyptian and Near Eastern Antiquities, Liverpool World Museum who will give a lecture on ‘Rebuilding Liverpool’s blitzed collections’. Contact Maureen Lawson Telephone 0151 652 6785. Visit www. waes.org.uk Stage Fright – a new drama group in the Port If you have any skills to contribute or just simply want to make new friends and help out in any way, then the group needs you. Stage Fright wants to produce material that it can be proud of and bring entertainment and social inclusion into Ellesmere Port. The group meets at Stanney Grange Community Centre, Alnwick Drive, Ellesmere Port, and Ellesmere Port Fire Station Community Room, on Coronation Road. Contact Julie Barlow on 339 4601 or visit www.stagefrightdramagroup.co.uk

Wednesdays Coffee Morning, at the HHEET Centre, Church Parade, Westminster, Ellesmere Port. 10.30am-12noon. Are you thinking of starting a business or have recently starting trading? Come along to an Open Coffee Session @ The HHEET Centre. Contact Carol Vella on 356 6560.

Thursdays Tea and coffee afternoon at Hope Farm Library. Come along to the tea and coffee afternoon, from 2.30pm, every Thursday, term time only. Meet up with friends in a warm and relaxing atmosphere. Tea and coffee are free but donations welcome. Contact Annette Ritson Telephone 0151 355 8923

Fridays Ellesmere Port Community Ladies Choir at Ellesmere Port Fire Station, 7-9pm. Tel 07798575353. All Ages welcome. Cost is free Useful numbers and info

ALCOHOL PROBLEMS POLICE Local Helpline; 01244 364095 Emergencies call 999 Alcoholics Anonymous: 709 2900 Ellesmere Port Police Station, AL - Anon Family Group, Helping families of Whitby Road, Ellesmere Port alcoholics. Tel: 0207 403 0888 Tel 355 4066 ANCHOR STAYING PUT SAMARITANS 0151 355 1313 LinkLine:- 0345 90 90 90 AGE CONCERN South Wirral and Chester Area 336 8388 Phone:- 01244 377999 ALZHEIMER’S SOCIETY ST JOHN AMBULANCE 630 5206 Tel 339 7203 (answerphone) BUS SERVICES Leave message and we will return call. Bus & Rail Services Travel Line 0871 200 2233 open 8am - 8pm 7 days a week COUNCIL CITIZENS’ ADVICE BUREAU Cheshire West and Chester Council. All Cheshire West CAB, Ellesmere Port office, inquiries regarding education, social services, Whitby Road, Ellesmere Port. Wednesday and planning, transport, tourist information, events Friday 9.30am-12.30pm. Tel 355 3428 entertainments, allotments, community centres, DOCTORS football pitches, bowling greens, tennis courts, Great Sutton Medical Centre, ranger service, grounds maintenance, street Old Chester Road, Phone:- 0151 339 3126 cleansing, catering and cleaning. Call the Hope Farm Medical Centre, switchboard on 0300 123 8 123. Online at Hope Farm Road, Great Sutton. Tel 357 3777 www.cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk Whitby Group Practice, The Surgery, 114 Chester Road, Whitby. Tel Councillors 355 6144 Ledsham and Manor USEFUL NUMBERS Old Hall Surgery Gareth Anderson (Con) 26 Stanney Lane, Ellesmere Port. Tel 355 1191 29 Dublin Croft, Great Sutton CH66 2TD DRUG ABUSE Phone: 513 6292 Email: gareth.anderson@ Parents against Drug Abuse. Helpline 356 cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk 1996. All calls in confidence Keith Butcher (Lab) FIRE Change Hey, Change Lane Emergencies, call 999. Willaston. Phone: 0151 327 5191 Non- essential calls, Ellesmere Port Fire [email protected] Station, Wellington Road, Ellesmere Port Tel 355 3333 Sutton GP OUT OF HOURS CENTRE, Nicole Meardon (Lab) Western Cheshire Out of Hours Service... 21 Trumans Lane, Little Sutton CH66 1HL Clinics held at Ellesmere Port Hospital 01244 Phone: 07970 836290 343300 Email: nicole.meardon@ HOMEWATCH cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk Borough Homewatch Manager Paul Donovan (Lab) Ellesmere Port Police Station tel 355 4066 44 Seacombe Drive, Great Sutton CH66 2BD (Ext: 3063). 0r 01244 613063 Phone: 339 4167 Email: paul.donovan@ HOSPITAL cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk Emergencies call 999 Countess of Chester Hospital. Tel 01244 365000 Willaston & Thornton Myles Hogg (Con) Silverdale, Benty Heath Lane, Willaston Phone: 327 4096 Email: myles.hogg@ WE WILL LIST YOUR COMMUNITY GROUP FOR FREE cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk If you would like your group listed please e-mail [email protected]

Clubs and Societies Whitby, CH65 7EP. The unit is open every Action Transport Theatre, Whitby Hall, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday from 1900 to Stanney Lane, Ellesmere Port. Tel 357 2120 2130 and Tuesdays 1830 to 2030. Please drop by or ring 0151 355 1779 for further information. Cats Protection: South Wirral Branch. Tel 355 9813. www.southwirralcats.org Shell Pensioners Association: Cheshire Regional Branch. Tel 339 3450 Cat Rescue. Tel Gina on 356 4301. www.catchat.org Soroptimist International. Tel 339 3352 Cheshire Paranormal Society. Tel John South Wirral Rambling Club Millington on 355 2622. Tel. Joan Day on 355 1878 www.cheshireparanormal.co.uk South Wirral Stroke Club: Contact Secretary: Cheshire Regiment Association. Ellesmere Honor Ledder 348 0052 Port Branch. Tel 339 8734 Sutton Community Sports Centre, Chester Accordion Club. Meets at Groves Woodchurch Lane. Tel 339 4352 Club, Whitby. 2nd Tuesday 1.30pm, last Tuesday Sutton Wood Singers 7.30pm. 0151 334 7013 Guide Association (Ellesmere Port division) Trefoil Guild. Tel 355 7669 Email [email protected] Ellesmere Port Flower Club. Meeting at Our Lady’s RC Church, Enfield Road, third Wed of Schools the month, 7.30pm. Call 355 6454. Ellesmere Port Catholic High School, Ellesmere Port Hockey Club. Tel 355 7719 Capenhurst Lane, Whitby. Tel 355 2373 Ellesmere Port Philatelic Society. Tel 01244 Ellesmere Port CE Academy (North 579309 campus), Woodchurch Lane, Ellesmere Port. Ellesmere Port Running Club. Meets at Whitby Tel 338 2400 Sports & Social Club every Tuesday and Friday The Whitby High School, Sycamore Drive, night at 7pm. www.ellesmereportrunningclub.org Whitby. Tel 355 8445/6

Fibromyalgia Support Group. Tel Ruth Spicer USEFUL NUMBERS on 348 1098 Little Sutton Footloose Musicals. Tel 356 2079 Childer Thornton Primary School, New Grange Folk Dance Club. Tel 339 0094 School Lane, Childer Thornton. Tel 338 2170 Little Sutton CE Primary School, Berwick Great Sutton Everywoman’s Club. Tel 334 Road, Little Sutton. Tel 0151 338 2244 4162 Great Sutton Male Voice Choir. Tel 355 5363 Parklands Community Primary School Parklands, Little Sutton Tel 338 2220 Great Sutton Townswomen’s Guild. Tel 355 Rossmore School, Red Lion Lane, Little 4263 Sutton. Tel 338 2425 Little Sutton Community Centre. Tel 356 6761 St Mary of the Angels Catholic Primary Mersey Morris Men Rossall Grove, Little Sutton Tel: 338 2430 Monday practice, in Thornton Hough Village Sutton Green Primary, Armthorpe Drive, Little Hall, 8pm. Tel 347 1685. Sutton. Tel 338 2121 Multiple Sclerosis Society Branch meets every third Wednesday in the Great Sutton month Contact Peter on 339 8700 Capenhurst CE Primary School, Capenhurst Normandy Veterans Association Lane, Capenhurst. Tel 339 2685 0151 348 0307 Meadow Primary School, Dolphin Crescent, Parents Against Drug Abuse (PADA. Helpline: Great Sutton. Tel 338 2450 08457 023867. www.pada.org.uk St Saviour’s RC Primary School, Seacombe Royal British Legion Women’s Section: Little Drive, Great Sutton. Tel 338 2440 Sutton and District Branch. Tel 200 2939 Hinderton School, For children with Autistic Spectrum Conditions (ASC) and/or Speech, Ellesmere Port Sea Cadets Language & Communication Difficulties. We are open to young people aged 10 to 18 and are based at TS Forward, Appleton Drive, Capenhurst Lane, Whitby. Tel 338 2200 34 Tel 01244 350398 www.southwirral.com Keep it Local January 2012 35

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DRIVEWAY & PATIO SPECIALISTS l Indian Stone MUCKAWAY MUCKAWAY l TopScreened Soil & Turf TOP Supplied SOIL - various and Laid grades l TopScreened Soil & Turf TOP Supplied SOIL - various and Laid grades l l Spoil removed by self-loading grab wagon Block Paving l Spoil removed by self-loading grab wagon - l Spoil removed by self-loading grab wagon l * Screened TOP SOIL - various grades available Spoil* Screened removed TOP SOILby self-loading- various grades availablegrab wagon - l Fencing TopCHEAPER quality THAN ‘Turf’ SKIPS freshly lifted l Top quality ‘Turf’ freshly lifted l Compost CHEAPER THAN DigSKIPS & Shift l Pattern imprinted l Landscaping Design & Build l Compost Dig & Shift l Decorative* Top quality 'Turf'gravels, freshly slate,lifted stone & sands l Landscaping* Top quality 'Turf' Design freshly & lifted Build concrete l Landscaping Materials/Decorative gravels/slate etc Decorative gravels, slate, stone & sands l Landscaping sandstone and slate pieces l LandscapingLandscaping Materials/Decorative sandstone and slate gravels/slate pieces etc l Design Service Available l All* suppliedsuppliedCompost loose loose or /grabbed in jumbo buildersor in bags l All* suppliedsuppliedCompost loose loose* Mini or /grabbed diggerin jumbo & dumper buildersor hirein bags * Mini digger & dumper hire For an affordable quote l jumboRange ofbuilders mini diggers bags & dumpers available l jumboRange ofbuilders mini diggerswith bags or without & dumpers operators available with or without operators please call Steve on l BestNo* minimumDecorative prices and gravels order quickest / slate 1 to/ stone delivery100 / sandston inetc the area!! ll No Best* minimumDecorative prices gravels and order*Gardens quickest / slate 1 to/ cleared,stone 100 delivery / sandstondrains etclaid, in thefootings area!! dug etc.. *Gardens cleared, drains laid, footings dug etc.. 07716 870153 l Best pricesTel and 0151 quickest 353 delivery8686 l Best pricesTel and 01244*Spoil quickest removal 343043 service delivery - cheaper than skips! *Spoil removal service - cheaper than skips! l Mini* Landscaping diggers sandstone & dumpers and slate available l Mini* Landscaping diggers sandstone & *Topdumpers soil and & slateturf available supplied and laid *Top soil & turf supplied and laid 0151 721 0559 www.grabandshift.co.uk www.grabandshift.co.uk

DIRECTORY/SERVICES For DiscountTel Please 0151 Quote353 8686 DPADWIN1112 SMC PAVING * All supplied loose /grabbed or in jumbo builders bags For* All Discount suppliedTel loose Please 0151Tel /grabbed 07973 Quote353 334581 or in jumbo 8686 DPADWIN1112 builders bags Tel 07973 334581 www.grabandshift.co.uk www.grabandshift.co.uk * No mimium order 1 to 100 ton * No mimium orderwww.digandshift.co.uk 1 to 100 ton www.digandshift.co.uk

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Double Glazing Repairs Vacuum repairs

Double Glazing Repairs We can help with Vacuum Cleaner Repairs v Misted and damaged units v Replacement handles and hinges All types of vacuum cleaners v Window and Door locks serviced and repaired on site v Sticking doors and jammed locks etc. Upvc Care and Repair Call direct on Call John for friendly advice and free quotation 07970 618392 www.doubleglazingrepairswirral.com PAT Testing your electrical appliances www.tushingham2.co.uk

0151 336 3798 DIRECTORY/SERVICES Specialists in bespoke Extensions, Conservatories, Windows, Doors and Roo ine

• l Specialists Installations in bespoke• carried Extensions, out byConservatories, our own very Windows, skilled Craftsmen Doors and Roofline l 75% of our installations come from satisfied customers • • Installationsl 10 Year Insurance carried backed out by guarantee our own very skilled Craftsmen • 75% of our installationsTel: come 0151 from satisfied 343 customers9876 • 10 Year Insurance backedRegistered guarantee No 13712 Telephone: 0151 343 9876 Open 7 Days: Mon - Fri 9am - 5pm, Sat 10am - 5pm Sun 11am - 4pm

SpecialistsSpecialistsRegistered No in13712in bespokeUnit 1,Extensions, Dindale Conservatories, Road, Conservatories,Croft Retail Park, Windows, Brombo Windows,rough Doors CH62 Doors 3PY and and Roofline Roofline

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