Warrington Town players, management and supporters all got together for the pre-season launch at the Village Hotel. The club begin their National League North campaign on August 5th and hopes are high for another successful season. We spoke to manager Mark Beesley, owner/chairman Toby Macormac and players Josh Amis and Tony Thompson. Keep tuned to MIX 56 as we'll be keeping you up to date on all your local sport throughout […]
Ahead of the much-anticipated DAB+ switch-on in the Warrington area, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport - The Rt Hon Lucy Frazer - along with Warrington South MP, Andy Carter paid us a visitFor over an hour, our special guests were given a tour of the MIX 56 studios and a short presentation by members of our Kids Live @5 team, highlighting the work we do for […]
Lymm Transport Day 2023 was a roaring success - with record numbers attending and over £8000 raised for local causes Following on from our previous post about the success of Lymm Historic Transport Day 2023, Jack Levy and Lee Kendal, from the organising team called into the studio to give us an update this morning. You can listen again right here! This year's event was bigger and better than ever, […]
Highlights from the MIX 56 live broadcast from the RHS Flower Show Tatton Park 2023The RHS Flower Show is one of the most-loved and prestigious events in the local calendar each year, attracting over 80,000 visitors looking for gardening inspiration and advice.For the second year running, we were proud to be the only independent radio station invited to broadcast live from the event. Over the two days, Ian and Paul were […]
Lymm Runners has teamed up with Charity Jog On Again to give sports shoes a second chance! Did you know that over 30 million pairs of sports shoes end up in landfill every year? The vast majority of these shoes have plenty of life left in them - yet - there's millions of needy people around the world who would benefit from having them. Chrissie Knight from Lymm Runners joined […]
Lymm Festival 2023 continues - and a special evening of spoken word is taking place at the Brewery Tap tomorrow night Ahead of "Words on Tap" we were delighted to welcome Rick Varden - The Urban Poet - to our morning studio for a chat and a live poetry reading! Words on Tap is an open-mic-night style event where you can take the stage to share your poetry, stories and […]
After a three year gap, Lymm Historic Transport Day returned to the village - and was a roaring success!The iconic Lymm Transport Day has long been a firm favourite in the local calendar and it made a much welcome return this year - bringing a crowd of thousands to the village.The day started with a parade of historic vehicles driving through up Eagle Brow, heading up to the May Queen […]
It's Thursday 22nd June and the latest Warrington / Knutsford Guardian is out Gareth Dunning is Deputy Editor and highlighted some stories you need to know about. We won, it's scrapped Headlining the paper this week is the story of local campaigners celebrating the removal of Central 6 Streets Plan in Westy. The controversial road plan undertaken by Warrington Borough Council has been removed, almost a year to the day […]
Lymm Festival is back for 2023 and starts this evening with the iconic FoodFest from 6pmBut, just ahead of the opening of an exciting timetable of events over the next couple of weeks, it was our great pleasure to welcome local singer-songwriter, Jess Lees to our morning studio for a chat and live performance!Jess will be no stranger to many; a star in the making who has been delighting audiences […]
