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Matt Simpson

@Matt1988S

Content editor for @NorthwichNews, @KnutsfordNews & @WinsfordNews. Ex-@SOTLive reporter. Big @NUFC, @WarringtonRFLC & @Chiefs fan. Views my own.

 Kidsgrove, England
northwichguardian.co.uk/
Joined July 2012
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Knutsford Guardian: "225 HOMES NOD 'IS DEVASTATING'" @Matt1988S / @JOURNOBel lead for @KnutsfordNews. FULL STORY: t.ly/xwmEq Cheshire East planners 'let down community' over Longridge development. #KnutsfordGuardian #TomorrowsPapersToday #IBPapers
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Front pages of this week's Knutsford Guardian & the Northwich and Winsford Guardian on sale Thursday📰 #TomorrowsPapersToday #Newsquest #LocalNews #BuyAPaper #LocalNewsMatters #Knutsford #Northwich #Winsford #Cheshire
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I’m here at St Nicholas’ Catholic Highschool for #ALevelResults As part of @northwichnews! Had a great chat with Head Teacher Craig Burns already, who said he is ‘Really proud of the achievements of all students who’ve been in our sixth form’.
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Follow our live blog here: northwichguardian.co.uk/news…
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Front page of this week's Northwich & Winsford Guardian on sale Thursday📰 Arrest after road death #TomorrowsPapersToday #Cheshire #Newsquest #LocalNews #BuyAPaper #LocalNewsMatters #Northwich #Winsford #Middlewich #StormGerrit #StormHenk
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Great to hear! Hope the tour is going well @Tim_Burgess! northwichguardian.co.uk/news…
Tim Burgess honoured by college as The Charlatans gear up for UK tour

Tim Burgess honoured by college as The Charlatans gear up for UK tour

Tim, who grew up in Northwich, has been awarded a Fellowship at the Manchester-based Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM).

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My Mum was so pleased that I’d made in into The Northwich Guardian that she cut the story out and brought it to show everyone at our Manchester gig 🫶
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Belinda Ryan@JournoBel25 Oct 2023
#cheshireeast approves plans for #Tatton Services on #M56. The application will now be referred to sec of state #LDReporter northwichguardian.co.uk/news…
Controversial plans for new M56 Tatton Services approved by council

Controversial plans for new M56 Tatton Services approved by council

Plans for a new motorway service station on green belt land off the M56 have been approved  – despite one councillor branding it ‘a very large invasion of a very significant facility’.

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Thrilled to be back at the Vale and excited about The Valiant newsletter. Thank you to everyone I’ve dealt with for making me so welcome during spell covering Wolves. I couldn’t have asked for more.
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A fantastic morning celebrating the tremendous efforts of our #Alevel students.
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The Grange School celebrates as students receive A-level results dlvr.it/Stn9mw
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“This campaign, spearheaded by Esther with our community reporter, @TomBedworth2, will aim to provide more support for Warrington’s schoolchildren. It's a campaign we think everyone can get behind, and it is one that Newsquest is proud to champion.” holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2023/…
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Great to see so many smiling faces on results day in #Northwich and #Knutsford!! #alevelresultsday #ALevelResults #alevelresults2023 northwichguardian.co.uk/news…
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I’m here @Grange_Cheshire where pupils will soon be picking up their results! #alevelresultsday @NorthwichNews
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Northwich Piña Colada Festival 2023: All you need to know dlvr.it/StY8Fk
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For her final article for the Guardian, our reporter @JessicaFWG went to review @Tom_Grennan at Delamere Forest... northwichguardian.co.uk/news…
Review: Tom Grennan's forest gig a 'beautiful night of music in a beautiful location'

Review: Tom Grennan's forest gig a 'beautiful night of music in a beautiful location'

FOR any Tom Grennan fan who has been following him since the start, his gig at the picturesque Delamere Forest is one you wouldn’t want to miss - with his new album released the same day.

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Front page of this week's Northwich & Winsford Guardian on sale Thursday📰 "Blaze probe" #TomorrowsPapersToday #Nortwich #Winsford #Cheshire #Newsquest #LocalNews #BuyAPaper #LocalNewsMatters #Middlewich #CheshireWest
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Front page of this week's Northwich & Winsford Guardian on sale Thursday📰 "What's going on with new food hall?" #TomorrowsPapersToday #Nortwich #Winsford #Cheshire #Newsquest #LocalNews #BuyAPaper #LocalNewsMatters #Middlewich #CheshireWest
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My newsroom teammate @MichaelSlavin98 has been working on this for months. Really important read, share it far and wide if you can. Another reason to back local journalism. #Newsquest @warringtonnews warringtonguardian.co.uk/new…
Mum wins legal battle in manhunt to find missing Warrington son taken to Saudi Arabia

Mum wins legal battle in manhunt to find missing Warrington son taken to Saudi Arabia

A CHILD, ‘abducted’ by a Warrington resident, has been missing for six months now.

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Belinda Ryan@JournoBel5 May 2023
RESULT: MIDDLEWICH Inds gain two seats from Labour. Carol Bulman (Lab) keeps her seat but Labour's Mike Hunter and Jonathan Parry lose theirs. #cheshireeast #LocalElections2023
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Good news from the fire service, all persons accounted for from the flat blaze in #Winsford - pic G Cawley northwichguardian.co.uk/news…
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LIVE: Paramedics are treating six casualties at the scene of a blaze involving three homes in #Winsford - pic from @CheshireFire northwichguardian.co.uk/news…
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