Thisweek

38 YEARS AGO

THE education minister was due to face hundreds of angry mothers on a visit to his Runcorn constituency over protests on proposed cutbacks.

Striking contract workers brought chaos to ICI in Halton as a mass picket caused a mile-long traffic tailback.

Parents of youngsters at a Runcorn primary school were up in arms about plans to cut classroom accommodation.

Runcorn Development Corporation was swamped by more than 1,500 people eager to buy their New Town houses.

A petition sent to the Boundary Commission called for a halt to the ‘carving up’ of Runcorn.

Raiders escaped with more than £1,000 from a Runcorn funeral directors. 61 YEARS AGO WIDNES College Of Further Education was due to start a full-time chemistry degree course.

Plans were being prepared for a new railway station in Farnworth, Widnes.

A man well known in Runcorn and Widnes music circles was appointed conductor of a band in Wales.

A joint funeral was held for a Widnes couple who had been married for 66 years and passed away within two days of each other.

Proposals for welcoming 17,500 people from Liverpool to the Upton area of Widnes were removed from a development plan.

Three young Widnes men were sent to prison for their part in a series of break-ins across the town.