Press Releases – 2013

18 December: Cheshire law firm unifies as FDR

• Cheshire law firm Forshaws Davies Ridgway (FDR) has decided to rebrand all its private client legal services under one unified ‘FDR’ brand… Read more

14 December: Ice Queen brings panto cool to Kingsley

• Kingsley Players will be transforming the village community centre into a palace of ice for their traditional January panto… Read more

2 December: Keep law local, says new Warrington Law Society President

• Keep law local is the message from newly elected Warrington Law Society President, Stephen Lawson, a partner at Forshaws Davies Ridgway (FDR)… Read more

28 November: Dealing with stressful relationships at Christmas

• Christmas – ’tis the season to be jolly. Or is it? Apparently lots of us find the whole period rather stressful… Read more

27 November: FDR – Pyjamas for Pudsey

• Solicitors and staff at Warrington law firm Forshaws Davies Ridgway fdr, have raised £115 for Children in Need by having a dress-down day… Read more

29 October: Widnes creative design agency goes MaD!

• Widnes’ award-winning creative design agency Printel has rebranded with a new name – ‘Media and Digital’ – or MaD to their friends… Read more

10 October: FDR plays a’hole in one’ for Warrington Youth Club

• A new hot meal service is being launched at Warrington Youth Club, thanks to a donation of £530 raised by Cheshire law firm Forshaws Davies Ridgway (FDR) who organised a charity golf day… Read more

18 September: Riotous comedy on stage in Kingsley

• Kingsley Players are back on stage again this October for a four night run of the riotous comedy ‘The Servant of Two Masters’… Read more

12 September: FDR charity will-writing week bonanza for St Rocco’s Hospice

• Where there’s a will, there’s a way! Cheshire law firm Forshaws Davies Ridgway (FDR) has donated £3640 to St Rocco’s Hospice after participating in the charity’s annual will-writing week… Read more

2 September: Cheshire solicitor appointed to top Law Society panel

• Cheshire solicitor Stephen Lawson has been appointed to one of the country’s top legal advisory panels – the Law Society’s Civil Justice Committee… Read more

22 July: Warrington FDR solicitors put icing on the cake for BAKO acquisition

• Warrington law firm Forshaws Davies Ridgway (FDR) has spread icing on the cake for BAKO North Western’s acquisition of another bakery supplier… Read more

18 July: New CEO for Cheshire law firm FDR

• Cheshire law firm Forshaws Davies Ridgway (FDR) has a new chief executive at its helm. 30 year old Oliver Burton has joined the full service solicitors practice after enjoying a meteoric career in the commercial and corporate banking sector… Read more

17 July: Wedding cake entrepreneur wins logo competition

• Cookie and cake entrepreneur Jane Galloway-Reilly has won a free £300 make-over of her company logo, in a competition organised by award-winning Widnes creative design firm, Printel and the Weekly News…. Read more

17 June: Weaver Words Weekend planned for September

• Weaver Words, Frodsham’s successful literature festival, will be back on stage again this September with a one day fund raising spectacular in preparation for an exciting five day festival in April 2014…. Read more

17 June: Gay couples shine a torch for the benefits of marriage, says QualitySolicitors Forshaws Davies Ridgway

• As gay couples celebrate their new right to marry, a Warrington solicitor believes the campaign has shone a useful spotlight on the benefits of all couples, homosexual and heterosexual, formally tying the knot…. Read more

24 April: New EU support programme to boost Halton small businesses

• Halton’s small and medium-sized businesses are to get free expert support, thanks to a £400,000 joint funding package from the European Union, matched by Halton Borough Council… Read more

18 April: New-Look Halton Professional and Business Women Network

• A new-look women’s network for Halton’s business and professional women has been launched by the borough’s Chamber of Commerce and Enterprise… Read more

18 April: Extra Calendar Girls date in Kingsley – by popular demand

• Kingsley Players’ production of Calendar Girls has proved so popular at the box office, the group has decided to add an extra performance into the schedule… Read more

18 April: Premier at the Royal Northern College of Music

• Award-winning Manchester duo, composer Michael Betteridge and writer Lynn Pegler, have joined forces again to create a new work for strings and voice, which will be premiered at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) on Saturday 4 May … Read more

15 April: Treat police cautions with caution, warns Warrington defence solicitor

• Hundreds of people accepting a police caution may be catastrophically damaging their future career prospects, warns a defence solicitor from QualitySolicitors Forshaws Davies Ridgway in Warrington. … Read more

5 April: Grange School – rescheduled memory lane visit

• An open event at the Grange School in Runcorn has been rescheduled for Thursday 18th April after the original event before Easter had to be cancelled due to heavy snow … Read more

4 April: QualitySolicitors Forshaws Davies Ridgway sponsors Lymm RFC

• QualitySolicitors Forshaws Davies Ridgway has announced another sponsorship package to help Lymm’s flourishing rugby union club … Read more

19 March: Solicitors Forshaws Davies Ridgway get funny for money

• Staff at Cheshire solicitors Forshaws Davies Ridgway got funny for money on Friday and raised £370 for BBC’s Comic Relief charity … Read more

28 February: High housing costs in Warrington trap unhappy couples, warns solicitors QualitySolicitors Forshaws Davies Ridgway

• Crippling rents and the high cost of home ownership are forcing many unhappy couples to remain under the same roof, warns Warrington-based QualitySolicitors Forshaws Davies Ridgway… Read more

13 February: Solicitors Forshaws Davies Ridgway raise £750 for Breast Cancer Care

• Staff at Warrington solicitors Forshaws Davies Ridgway have raised a mammoth £750 for the cancer charity, Breast Cancer Care… Read more

4 February: Legal aid for divorcing couples axed in April, warns solicitors Forshaws Davies Ridgway

• It will be no April Fool’s joke but on 1st April separating and divorcing couples will lose the right to claim legal aid, warns Warrington-based QualitySolicitors Forshaws Davies Ridgway (FDR)… Read more

28 January: Kingsley Players bake ‘big buns’ for ‘Calendar Girls’

• Kingsley Players will be baking ‘big buns’ in readiness for their May production of ‘Calendar Girls’. They join a growing number of amateur dramatic societies taking part in the Guinness World Record attempt to make this the most frequently staged play within one ‘calendar’ year…. Read more

17 January: Printel and Alsop School spearhead the Augmented Reality revolution

• Widnes creative design firm Printel and Liverpool’s Alsop High School are trail blazing the latest digital technology Augmented Reality in the classroom… Read more

14 January: Saturday opening launched by solicitors Forshaws Davies Ridgway

• Warrington residents will now be able to make a will or organise property conveyancing alongside their weekly shop, thanks to new Saturday opening hours introduced by local QualitySolicitors Forshaws Davies Ridgway (FDR)… Read more