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Editor Gary Skentelbery Production Paul Walker Editor’s Comment Advertising CONGRATULATIONS to on reaching their James Balme second successive Wembley >nal following their Tony Record impressive semi->nal victory over Catalan Dragons. Freephone It has provided yet another shot in One thing I know for certain doubt his professionalism behind the 0800 955 5247 the arm for the community during Wembley will not be a place for the scenes is now paying off on the Ield. Editorial these tough economic times. faint hearted when probably the two Keep up the good work and lets 01925 623631 The change in the club's fortunes best supported teams go head to hope for another memorable home since the arrival of Head of Coaching coming parade. Email head in what is set to be an Tony Smith have been nothing less electrifying Inal. info@warrington- than monumental and I am sure he is I know Tony will be the Irst person Deadline for the October worldwide.co.uk relishing the challenge of taking on to congratulate the players for their issue of Warrington Websites his former club Leeds in the show performances on the Ield and take Worldwide is www.culchethlife.com piece Inal which is set to be the Irst little credit for the sucess he was sell out in 13 years. www.frodshamlife.co.uk September 14 After last season's success over his brought to the club but I have no www.lymmlife.co.uk Irst club HuddersIeld, Warrington www.warrington.tv have the taste for success while it has www.warrington- been more than a decade since worldwide.co.uk Leeds' last Challenge Cup Inal. Address But with both clubs capable of New Media Centre turning on the style - this clash is too close to call. Old Road Warrington WA4 1AT

warrington-worldwide is published monthly by Orbit News Ltd. The contents of this magazine are fully protected by copyright and nothing may be reprinted or reproduced without prior permission of the publishers. The publishers are not liable for any statement made or opinion expressed by third parties in this publication. Printed by TwentyFourSeven September 2010 www.warrington-worldwide.co.uk 3 Putting the WOW in swimming – and winning! WARRINGTON Warriors is a swimming club going places. Founded in 1972, the club continues to build upon its successes turning children into competitive swimmers, winning regional, national and international medals. Warriors of Warrington Swimming Premier Division of the North West Club works closely in partnership with section of the National Swimming the borough council, which provides League. Warriors qualiIed for the Irst coaching for its top squads via the time in 14 years to compete in the town's swim development scheme, national "B" Final, which took place in the English Talent Programme Level 1 Rebecca Pye swimming 100 backstroke. together with water space allocated at ShefIeld in April last year, Inishing in each of the borough's pools. This and Level 2 respectively and Aisha 6th place overall. Olympic games. partnership has seen year on year Thornton and Edward Shattock onto the Warriors were awarded the Hugh This year, Warriors qualiIed again success for both swimmers and the English Talent Open Water Programme. Laughland Trophy and the Wallace club. However last season proved to and in April Inished joint Irst. Warriors continued their winning Trophy, in a close run points Inish with be the club's most successful yet under During the year, the club has had ways at the Cheshire County Stockport Metro Swimming Club. the guidance of head coach Darren four swimmers on the ASA English Championships in March, Rebecca Pye The club already has 250 members, Ashley. Talent programme; Andrew McLay and breaking Helen Slatter's 100m ages 6-18. Anyone who wants to get In 2008, they were promoted to the Rebecca Pye have been invited onto backstroke record which had stood for involved should call Darren Ashley on 14 years. 07717 558369 or contact the Helen trained with the Warriors in Warriors Secretary via www.swim the 1990s and competed in three warriors.org.uk

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Michael Hello and welcome to my Mahoney is a monthly column . . . Clinical Hypnotherapist. He has research, andpatient trials experience. by Michael Mahoney He is a member of the Hypnotherapy Association, an associate of the Primary Care Society for Gastroenterology, he is a non Communication NHS service provider and Does true communication exist? whom we are (trying to) communicate. Private Health Service Provider After many years in practice I have Without this understanding on both come to the conclusion that it sides long term friendships can dissolve Tel: 01925-658322 email doesn’t. We see examples and within moments, irreparably damaged, [email protected] experience it every day. orat best strainedforsome www.michaelmahoney The conversation which turns into a considerable time. hypnotherapist.com row, because of a misunderstanding of Ourown internaldialogue can be a word, phrase or even the tone of misinterpreted too; we can label an simply has to learn to think differently. voice used. The email which comes emotion as anger, when it is simply And it starts with learning that we have across cold, unfeeling or insensitive. frustration for example. We can also the powerand authorityin ourlives. Friendships near breaking point set ourselves up for failure by We are the controllers in our lives, not because of a misinterpretation of a interpreting past events and outcomes some remembered hurtful or limiting written or verbal word or through the negatively. Ourown internaldialogue words from a dominant individual from misinterpretation of an action or is very important to us, and it can ourpast, orpresent. When we learn inaction. These are often misinterpreted make us feel successful orfeel like a we have the right to effective self due to failures in our own internal failure, it can make us feel happy or communication, then we can start to dialogue, the sleep deprived individual sad, loved orunloved, valued or live the life we truly want to live. missing the nuances, frustration and unvalued, positive ornegative and Communication with others however agitation caused by tiredness. The many otheremotions as well. is different; it is usually more complex stressed executive being assertive What we tell ourselves has a especially when emotion is involved. which comes overas aggression. massive impact on ourlives, what we Some would argue there is little logic in These and many more examples choose to believe can propel us to emotion, once communication breaks can be seen around us every day, and success and victory, or disappointment down into emotional responses it often experienced too. and defeat. As individuals having the makes sense to try and calm things Fortruecommunication to exist, correct label on the right emotion helps down, identify the cause and to correct every person would have to have had us to function well, while failure to do it the best we can. the same experiences, thoughts, so will limit us in all aspects of ourlives. We all own the powerorauthority upbringing, social background, beliefs And yet getting this internal in ourlives to think and believe what and much more. Simply it does not dialogue right is not really that difficult, we want to about ourselves, though exist; the best we can hope foris to we have to simply learn new ways to sometimes we have to recognise that convey ourthoughts and feelings in an think, feel and behave. The person we have that authority to do so first. appropriate way to the individual to who does not feel confident orrelaxed I hope I have communicated well!

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From that stall in the mall, Boutique Hoco has grown to have a shop in Success story from a disaster the Old Market Place, stores in IF it had not been for the disastrous foot and mouth outbreak at markets, moving on to country Angleysey, Stockport and of 2001, Warrington might never have had two of its most shows and events. They were doing Newcastle under Lyme and more to interesting shops. well and hadn't thought of open soon. They have also opened Boutique Hoco, in the Old changing anything. a store dedicated solely to Market Place, was the brainchild of Then foot and mouth struck – and all the shows were cancelled. PANDORA in Golden Square to Chris and Honor Orme – but they cater for the growing demand for might never have thought of it but Overnight their market vanished. for the spread of foot and mouth. They realised they had to change the jewellery. And if they hadn't opened – and change fast. All this growth at a time of Boutique Hoco, they may not have The Irst step was an accessory recession earned Chris and Honor stall in the mall at Golden Square. opened Pandora in Golden Square the Retailer of the Year title in the Then, on a buying trip to New either. Warrington Business Awards. There may not appear to be York, the couple discovered much of a connection between foot PANDORA jewellery and realised it Chris said: "The award is not just and mouth disease and the would be a big hit. for us - its for our staff. We couldn't jewellery, watches, bags, The rest, as they say, is history. have done it without them." sunglasses and other fashion accessories that Chris and Honor sell. But they started their business some 20 years ago, running stalls Job club success The Jobs Club set up by MP David Mowat and Warrington South Conservatives has celebrated its latest successes with 80 per cent of those taking part Inding new work. Of the 20 people who took part in the latest programme, the fourth of its kind, 13 have already found a job and a further three decided to start their own businesses - an outstanding 80 per cent success rate. The club was set up in April to help people who had lost their jobs during the recession. Participants are taught valuable job search skills including CV preparation, interview techniques and networking skills to help them stand out from the crowd. Many of the people who have beneItted from the club had found themselves unemployed for the Irst time in their lives and had never had to search for a job before. To date 80 people have taken part in the programme with 60 going on to Ind work. September 2010 www.warrington-worldwide.co.uk 7

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Campbell Crossley & Davis I am now left with some choices. A travel agent I know rings her LICENSED INSOLVENCY PRACTITIONERS I could ask them out again. I clients when they get back from could assume that nobody will go their holidays to see if everything out with me and never ask anyone was as good as they expected and again or I could go and ask they had a good time and also someone else instead. Referrals are asking for referrals. This is a far the same just because one person better approach than if they were to doesn’t refer business to you go and ask at the time of the holiday 8 www.warrington-worldwide.co.uk September 2010 September 2010 www.warrington-worldwide.co.uk 9 Wild?owers attract a rare visitor A RARE visitor has been attracted by wild?ower areas created along busy roads in Warrington – the brown hare. Over the last three years, the council has created colourful wildJower areas along roadsides in Birchwood, Winwick and Penketh and these have attracted bees, butterJies, ladybirds and other insects. Local ecologist and wildlife expert Jeff Clarke was looking for ladybirds among the wildJowers along Widnes Road near his home at Penketh, before and I'm always on the lookout The wildflower bed at however, when he spotted the hare. for wildlife. Widnes Road, Penketh. He said: "I have lived here for six "There is no question the hare years and never seen one on the would not have been here if it wasn't Sarah Bennett, Cheshire region previously short mown roundabout for the tall Jowers to hide in." biodiversity manager, said: "Hares have suffered a dramatic decline in numbers since the turn of the 20th century and are now classiIed as a UK Biodiversity Action Plan species. "Thanks to local conservation effort it is great news that we are starting to see more of them within the region." Since 2007 the borough council, in conjunction with seven local parish councils, have created almost Ive hectares of wildJower areas alongside the town's roads. More than 300 school children have also been involved in sowing seeds. Spectacular new season at Pyramid and Parr Hall Get ready for a spectacular new season at Pyramid Parr Hall from Sept/Oct September. October hails the launch of a newly refurbished Parr Hall – what a fabulous way to start a new season! The awaited refurbishment of Parr Hall will soon be completed and you can look forward to more "What’s On" comfortable seating, a lighter more airy entrance and box office area, not to mention the Sat18 September extended bar, which will sit over two floors! Alun Cochrane Sun 3 October In the meantime, we’ve got a stack of events to whet your appetite for autumn. Heidi Talbot with John McCusker & Boo Hewerdine (Sun 3 Oct, 7.30pm, £14/£12, PY) – the eclectic Heidi Talbot Songstress, nominated Best Female Vocalist at the 2009 Irish Music Awards, brings her unique Fri 8 October sound and style to Pyramid. TheBoy with Tapeon The Boy with Tape on HisFace (Fri 8 Oct, 7.30pm, £10/£8, PY) - stand up with no talking. His Face The Edinburgh hit show, which combines absurdity with genius – unmissable! Thurs 14 October Attila TheStockbroker Attila the Stockbroker - 30th Anniversary Tour (Thur 14 Oct, 7.30pm, £10/£8, PY) - poet and songwriter Attila the Stockbroker with his only North West tour date. Mon 25 October Seth Lakeman The Rape of Lucrece by William Shakespeare (Sat 16 Oct, 7.30pm, £12/£10, PY) - Olivier award nominee and RSC actor Gerard Logan with his astonishing solo performance of Tues 26 October Shakespeare's brilliant, brutal, narrative poem. Sean Lock Seth Lakeman (Mon 25 Oct, 7.30pm, £19.50, PH) - Mercury Music Prize nominee and twice Wed 27 October BBC Folk Award winner Seth Lakeman hits Parr Hall. Colin Fry Sean Lock - Lockipedia (Tue 26 Oct, 8pm, £17.50 PH) - star of BBC2’s ‘QI’ and team captain on Channel 4’s ‘8 Out Of 10 Cats’ Sean Lock! Fri 29 October Walter Trout Colin Fry - Free Spirit Show (Wed 27 Oct, 7.30pm, £18.50) - celebrated psychic medium Colin Fry returns after last year’s sell-out show. Sat30 October Fireman Sam Walter Trout (Fri 29 Oct, 7.30pm, £17.50) - Blues guitar legend Walter Trout hot on the heels of his acclaimed album The Outsider. Tickets & Information 01925 442345 With even more events and activities on our website, make sure you visit www.pyramidparrhall.com www.pyamidparrhall.com and call 01925 442345 for tickets and information. Tickets & Information: 01925 442345 or book online at www.pyramidparrhall.com 10 www.warrington-worldwide.co.uk September 2010 Chapel will open to public THE oldest chapel in Warrington is opening its doors to the public as part of National Heritage Day. On Saturday September 11 Cairo Street Unitarian Chapel will be open from 10am to 4pm. Founded in 1662, it is the oldest chapel in Warrington and has links with many well-known people and the Warrington Academy. Writer Anna Barbauld was a member and John Howard, the prison reformer, worshipped in the chapel. Joseph Priestley - the discoverer of oxygen - was both married and ordained a minister in the chapel and Frederick Monks, who gave the Golden Gates to Warrington, is buried in the burial ground. Also buried there is the young son of Elizabeth Gaskell the novelist and her husband William, a Latchford boy, who became one of the foremost Unitarian Ministers of his day and a noted educationalist and social reformer. On Sunday September 19 at 3pm the chapel is holding its Annual Academy Service, when there will be talk on the life of William Gaskell. Artists team up again ARTISTS Jim Heath and Happy G, who exhibited successfully at Warrington's Pyramid Arts Centre earlier this year, have come together again with an exciting exhibition of traditional photography and contemporary abstract painting. "Coffee Time in Window Dreams" is open now and throughout the summer season between 9am and 5pm, Monday to Saturday, at interior design and curtain shop Window Dreams, in Egypt Street, Warrington. Shop proprietor Christina met the pair while visiting their Pyramid exhibition. All passionate about the arts, they hit it off immediately and Christina offered space in her shop for an exhibition. When Christina showed Happy the "haunted basement" beneath the shop he promptly fell in love with the eerie space and she agreed to let him use it as a studio. A special promotion night is taking place on Thursday, August 26, from 6pm to 8pm when callers can chat to the artists and Christina about their ideas and work.

Fire station team triumph BLUE Watch at Warrington Fire Zealand next year. Station triumphed in the Cheshire Fire The Blue Watch extrication team and Rescue Service Extrication and consisted of crew manager Damian Trauma Challenge staged in Wight and IreIghters Lee Howells, Warrington. Micky Hitchen, Stuart Robinson and An estimated 1,000 people turned Jonathan Hill. out to watch the challenge take place In the trauma challenge, Blue Watch at Warrington Fire Station. again triumphed with IreIghters Adam They saw teams from across McConkey and Lee Howells judged the Cheshire, along with visiting teams from best team and IreIghters John Turner Greater Manchester, County Durham, and Jonathan Hill second place team. Derbyshire and West Midlands Alongside the challenge the Fire compete in extrication and trauma Station hosted a family fun day of competitions. activities for all the family from driving They were put through their paces simulators, Formula One Car, Formula with a simulation of a road trafIc One Car Simulator, go karts, car seat collision, with just 20 minutes to advice, Institute of Advanced Drivers medically stabilise and extricate a live Association, Rapid Response Road Unit, casualty. magician, competitions and prizes, etc. Blue Watch from Warrington were The Trauma Challenge has been judged winners by assessors from the running for several years and United Kingdom Rescue Organisation Warrington Blue Watch trauma team (UKRO). consisting of IreIghters Adam They will now go on toe represent McConkey and Lee Howells were Cheshire at the national championships national champions in 2008 and went in Hampshire in October, with the on to represent the UK in the World chance of going on to represent the UK Championships in Germany in 2009 in the world championships in New where they Inished 6th. September 2010 www.warrington-worldwide.co.uk 11 Students’ mercy mission STUDENTS and staff from Warrington's Priestley College have returned from an exhausting aid mission to Mozambique during which they spent two weeks building houses in impoverished communities. The small team joined forces with the Habitat for Humanity At the end of the fortnight, the charity and local tradesmen to houses were handed over to their Development said: "I really enjoyed brother. build three brick houses to provide new owners in a moving and interacting with the children and "The visit has given me some permanent shelter for some very emotional ceremony, which will be seeing the Inished buildings at the real life experience and opened special people. a lasting lifetime memory for all end was especially rewarding. my eyes to other cultures while at The team was based near those who took part. "Some of the things I saw were the same time making me very Chimoi in the north of the country, Vicky Rutter, 18, who is studying remarkable including a boy of six grateful for everything I have back located between Beira and History, Psychology and World looking after his four month old home." Zimbabwe. One family the group built for included a mother caring for Ive children in surroundings ravaged Rotary says ‘focus on the crocus’ by years of civil war and in an WARRINGTON Rotary Club is aiming to plant 5,000 bulbs in the town on polio throughout the world. area where the AIDS epidemic is October 2 to help earn a place in the Guinness Book of Records. Warrington Rotary Club is looking also rife. It will be joining with other Rotary as many bulbs as possible in one hour. for suggestions for locations where it As well as building the houses, clubs, the Eden Project in Cornwall and It is intended the bulbs should be can plant the bulbs in the town. The the Priestley group interacted with the International Flower Bulb Centre in planted in groups of 1,000. club is inviting schools and community local villagers and visited an Holland to try and set a new Guinness It is hoped they will be in full Jower groups to offer their suggestions. orphanage to give small gifts and World Record for bulb planting. to celebrate "Rotary Day - Thanks for A spokesman said: "The resulting toys to the children. The project is called Focus on the Life" on February 23 next year. blaze of colour next spring will be a While the students had the Crocus. "Thanks for Life" is a project involving reminder of the essential need to opportunity to enjoy some of the Rotary are contacting schools, the clubs and members of Rotary continue the Ight to eradicate polio normal tourist activities, most of community groups, Groundwork, the International to highlight the from our world." their time was spent working on the National Trust and other bodies to humanitarian work of Rotarians with a Suggestions should be emailed to houses. encourage them to take part in planting number one aim of helping to eradicate [email protected] 12Summertime slimmingwww.warrington-worldwide.co.uk made extraSeptember easy! 2010 Tina Evans is looking stunning after she lost 3st 7lbs dif7cult times, especially after years of struggling with her weight just in time when I had a weight gain. to be a gorgeous bridesmaid. • When you decide that Tina attends the Slimming group, always on hand to you’re going to lose weight, World Group at Tetleys club, offer advice and tips for her write a list ofthe pros and in Orford where she’s fellow members. 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