Our local amateur dramatic group brought home the silverware at the recent NODA (National Operatic and Dramatic Association) awards evening. David Varley won for Best male performance in a comedy for “The Three Musketeers”. Best staging went to the whole of the backstage team for “Holmes and the Ripper”. Congratulations one and all.
With a theme of “A celebration of Cheshire” based at the Community Centre, activities include talks, events, workshops and writing competitions. Entries will be judged by patron Tim Firth who will also be guest speaker at a literary dinner at Main Street Kitchen. Guest line-up includes stand up Jenny Eclair, poet Lemn Sissay, BBC presenter Louise Minchin and a one man performance of Charles Dickens “Nicholas Nickleby” by his great, great grandson, Gerald Dickens. A free Weaver Words brochure is available from Frodsham Community Centre and venues around the area.
Doorstep criminals are cunning, creative and convincing. Anyone can be fooled by professional con artists and the over 60s are their prime target.
Bogus callers try to access your home or get personal details, pretending to be council staff, charity collectors, meter readers or Police Officers etc. They will try to steal your money and valuables.
Two Frodsham residents have been found guilty and imprisoned for facilitating illegal entry to the UK. At Chester Crown Court on 4th February Thi Kieu Anh Hoang was jailed for 27 months and Tuan Khac Doan for 54 months for trafficking two teenagers from Vietnam. The two had been in custody since July 2023 following a visit to a Frodsham nail bar by the Western Exploitation team in company with Immigration officers. They were arrested under the Modern Slavery Act.
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(REVISED from) Article from Frodsham News Issue 4 Autumn 2025