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John Barnes keen to apply principals from his time at Liverpool and Watford to help Tranmere Rovers gain promotion

JOHN BARNES aims to apply the ideas he took from two contrasting but successful football regimes at Liverpool and Watford to the task of guiding Tranmere through the forthcoming League One season. Read

Jim Hancock: Food for thought

ONE of the most powerful people in the North West emerged from the shadows last week. Read

BBC Strictly Come Dancing duo never aspired to stardom

STRICTLY speaking, Flavia Cacace never intended to become famous. She and Vincent Simone were inseparable on and off the dance floor, a competing couple and romantic partners, but they had no starry aspirations. Read

Win tickets to see China Crisis and other Summer Pops fringe gigs

IT’S been back to school for China Crisis guitarist Eddie Lundon recently, except this time he is at the front of the classroom. Read

Peter Elson: The Macmillan years come under the microscope, says Peter Elson

WHEN Harold Macmillan died I wondered if he had met his Judgement Day about his behaviour back on earth – and having to explain his inhumane blunder of sending the White Russian refugees back to the USSR, thereby facing certain imprisonment and most likely death on Stalin’s direct orders. Read

Goodison transfer plans look exciting - Everton FC latest

THE man who smashed the British transfer record as Everton chairman believes supporters can be excited about the club’s transfer plans this summer. Read

Paul Waring happy despite last-putt agony at Open de France

PAUL WARING insists he was delighted with his sixth place finish in Paris yesterday, despite a lipped putt on the 18th green robbing him of a place in the Open Championship. Read

Pepe Reina expects Xabi Alonso and Javier Mascherano to stay at Anfield - Liverpol FC latest

PEPE REINA is confident Liverpool will keep hold of both Xabi Alonso and Javier Mascherano despite summer speculation linking both with moves to Spain. Read

Thousands take part in Race for Life at Birkenhead Park

FIVE thousand women descended on Birkenhead Park yesterday to take part in the Race for Life. They all shared a common goal – to have fun and raise money to beat cancer. Read

The Race for Life gave me hope following the death of my mother

THE first time I did the Race for Life was June 19, 2005. Read

Joint fire and police team launched in Merseyside to investigate rise in arson at businesses

A NEW team to track down arsonists who torch businesses for the insurance money was launched in Merseyside. Read

Liverpool Women’s Hospital relaunches no-smoking drive

LIVERPOOL Women’s hospital is spending thousands of pounds clearing up cigarette butts – because people are ignoring its no smoking rules. Read

Manager blamed for The Beatles’ break-up dies

A FORMER music manager, blamed by many Beatles fans for the group’s split, has died. Read

Kenny Dalglish's delight at Anfield return - Liverpool FC latest

KENNY DALGLISH returned to Anfield at the weekend and admitted he felt "lucky" to be returning to his spiritual home. Read

Halewood transmission plant Getrag Ford wins new work and revamp

BOSSES at a Halewood car parts plant facing a cut in shifts have pledged more than £100m investment and a new product launch next year. Read

Arson is suspected in a recording studio fire in Liverpool city centre

ARSONISTS may be to blame for a blaze which sent smoke billowing over Liverpool city centre. Read

Firefighters evacuate 500 Liverpool residents after gas cylinders found near fire

HUNDREDS of people were allowed to return to homes they evacuated in Toxteth. Read

Liverpool John Moores University professor bring “school of rock” to St George’s Hall

ELECTRIC guitars echoed around St George’s Hall as a long-haired university professor taught students at his self-styled “school of rock”. Read

Conductor Vasily Petrenko and artistic director Jude Kelly are among those receiving honorary degrees from Liverpool University

VASILY Petrenko is to be given an honorary degree from Liverpool University next week. Read

Deathtrap Southport road to be redesigned to cut the number of car crashes

A BUSY Merseyside road which sees almost 10 crashes a year is set to be redesigned to tackle its accident toll. Read

Liverpool's first Science and Technology festival finishes with a mechanical polar bear

LIVERPOOL’S Festival of Science and Technology ended yesterday with visitors at the World Museum coming face to face with a mechanical polar bear. Read

Tributes to respected World War II veteran Liverpool-born Charlie Crute

A DECORATED World War II veteran and respected lifelong socialist has died. Read

Ticket news delights Jackson fans

Michael Jackson fans who beat the odds have begun to celebrate winning coveted tickets to the pop star's memorial service at the Staples Centre in Los Angeles. Read

Obama seeking a new start in Moscow

Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev are set to end a seven-year gap in US-Russian summits. Read

Knowsley council’s apprentice scheme to be rolled out across Merseyside

KNOWSLEY’S Apprentice scheme has proved so successful it’s going to be rolled out across all Merseyside’s boroughs. Read

Doctors and nurses to be paid less in the north under the Conservatives, it's claimed

DOCTORS and nurses would be paid less in the north than in the south under shock Conservative plans, it was claimed last night. Read

Liverpool Daily Post reporters scoop eight awards

THE Daily Post reigned supreme at an awards ceremony recognising contributions to the newspaper industry. Read

Terror law adviser backs 'hacker'

The Home Office's adviser on terror laws has said that extraditing an autistic Briton accused of hacking into US military networks would be "cruel" when he could be prosecuted in the UK. Read

Rethink on UK foreign aid spending

Britain is to target foreign aid at improving security and justice in the world's most "fragile" states. Read

Police figures spark red tape row

The Home Office has been accused of "manipulating" figures to hide a rise in the time police officers spend on paperwork. Read

UK presses Iran on embassy worker

Iran faces mounting pressure from the UK to free British embassy workers being held by the authorities. Read

Union fury over public sector pay

The Government is facing a serious clash with trade unions after Chancellor Alistair Darling failed to rule out a pay freeze for public sector workers. Read

Afghan death three due to be named

Three British soldiers killed in separate attacks in Afghanistan, while taking part in one of the UK military's biggest co-ordinated air operations of modern times, are due to be named. Read

State-backed bank plans unveiled

The campaign for a Post Bank has been stepped up with calls for the Government-owned Northern Rock to be used as the basis for a new state-backed bank in post office branches. Read

Talks on cross-Channel immigration

Plans for a crackdown on illegal cross-Channel immigration are being discussed by Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy at an Anglo-French summit. Read

Government urged to stem job losses

Business leaders have urged the Government to do more to help stem the tide of job losses, including a scheme aimed at providing an alternative to redundancy. Read

Merseyside police chief Bernard Hogan-Howe on shortlist for Northern Ireland Chief Constable job

MERSEYSIDE’S Chief Constable is on the shortlist to become the new police chief of Northern Ireland. Read

Woods wins again

Tournament host Tiger Woods saw off defending champion Anthony Kim and held off a last-round charge from Hunter Mahan to win the AT&T National at Congressional Country Club. Read

REVIEW: Australian Pink Floyd, Echo Arena

AUSTRALIAN Pink Floyd are fast becoming as legendary in their own way as the genuine article. The arena-filling appeal of a tribute band is to the uninitiated, quite baffling. It wasn’t explained either by the first sight the Antipodeans rockers who were kicking off this year’s Summer Pops – diminutive black-clothed figures largely lost behind a jungle of lasers and 40ft animation. Read

3 killed in bomb blast

SUSPECTED Muslim guerrillas detonated a bomb near a Roman Catholic cathedral in the southern Philippines today, killing at least three people and wounding more than two dozen others. Read

Elderly sight cure

THE surgeon who pioneered laser eye surgery to cure short-sightedness has ann-ounced a new technique which could prevent millions going blind. Read

Union fury at call for pay freeze

CHANCELLOR Alistair Darling has failed to rule out a pay freeze for public sector workers, sparking warnings of possible industrial action from union leaders. Read

Poorer pupils shunning modern language GCSEs

JUST one in four of the poorest teenagers take a modern foreign language at GCSE, new figures showed. Read

Wadsworth targets stability as Chester players report back

CHESTER City begin their preparations for life in the Blue Square Premier League today, when their players report back for pre-season training. Read

Earliest Bible is published on internet

ABOUT 800 pages of the earliest surviving Christian Bible have been recovered and released on the net. Read

Get going on ‘green’ jobs

THE Mersey Partnership’s report into the ways in which Liverpool and its surrounding areas can face up to the legal need to cut carbon emissions makes sober reading. Read

Obituary: Karl Malden

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Iran frees journalist

A JOURNALIST, with joint British and Greek nationality held in Iran for more than two weeks, was reported by Iranian state TV last night to have been released. Read

Popeye made kids smoke?

PERHAPS your story (July 1) about cancer deaths in Liverpool – and the appallingly high rate in the city of deaths due to smoking – should make everyone realise that stopping young people taking up the tobacco habit in the first place makes real sense, and will save many lives and much distress. Read

MG Rover fraud probe

THE Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is to investigate the collapse of MG Rover after a four-year probe into the Midlands car- maker’s demise. Read

Coffee could reverse the effects of Alzheimer’s disease

A FEW cups of coffee a day may be all that is needed to reverse the effects of Alzheimer’s disease, new research suggests. Read

Festival dryout

A LOCAL beer festival had to be stopped a day early after it ran out of beer, organisers said. Read

Multiple births call

PARENTS expecting twins and triplets are missing out on vital information to protect their babies’ health, an expert warned today. Read

Ritchie’s grand bid for green estate

BRITISH film director and pop star Madonna’s ex-husband Guy Ritchie has submitted plans to make his country estate more eco-friendly. Read

Stars out for plaque to actress Richard

A STAR-STUDDED audience turned out to remember actress Wendy Richard as a plaque was unveiled in her memory. Read

Bog record is smashed

ONE of the most unusual and gruelling events in the sporting calendar was completed in a world record time. Read

Daily Post Arts Editor’s Pick of the Day: Monday, July 6, 2009

ART: Henny Acloque has created a series of weird worlds in her first major UK solo show. The London-based artist has a penchant for monkeys and golden eggs and is inspired by Netherlandish and Victorian fairy painters as well as her travels abroad.Ceri Hand Gallery, Cotton Street, Liverpool, until August 2, 0151 207 0899. Read

Blast for US actors playing Britons

THE star of a hit US TV series has criticised the trend for Hollywood actors to be cast as British heroes. Read

£60.2m loans for dental work

BRITONS have taken out personal loans worth an estimated £60.2m to fund private dental treatment. Read

Ninth detainee release nearing

IRAN has said it will release the eighth of nine British embassy employees detained in Tehran late yesterday, Foreign Secretary David Miliband revealed. Read

Science fiction writer Chris Beckett scoops Edge Hill Short Story Prize with The Turing Test

SCIENCE fiction writer Chris Beckett has won this year’s Edge Hill Short Story Prize – the UK’s only award for a short story collection by a single author. Read

Hundreds of thousands hit by flooding

AT LEAST 16 people died and more than 320,000 evacuated homes in southern and central China after heavy rains toppled houses, flooded roads and damaged a dam. Read

Drop in airport spending

THE amount British holidaymakers have spent at UK airports has plummeted in recent months. Read

Miliband rejects MI6 Facebook row

FOREIGN Secretary David Miliband has defended the next head of MI6 after details of his personal life were posted on social networking website Facebook. Read

Scantec Personnel wins five year contract with the Atomic Weapons Establishment

WIRRAL recruitment agency Scantec Personnel has won a new five-year contract to supply the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE). Read

Miller Homes steps up housebuilding programme as demand soars

CONSTRUCTION firm Miller has stepped up its house building programme after a surge in demand across the North West. Read

Liverpool Daily Post Flickr user provides West Kirby masterclass

TAKING breathtaking shots can be a complex art. But Colin Bell, a Flickr user from Wallasey, demonstrates not only a mastery of the art in his series of shots taken at West Kirby’s drained Marine Lake but provides a concise tutorial for fellow photographers. Read

THE MAIL ON SUNDAY

MODERN Water, listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM), is involved in the complex process of water desalination – taking seawater and making it drinkable. Read

Voss Training Services is sold to Driver UK

THE founder of Birkenhead-based Voss Training Services has sold the business after 16 years at the helm. Read

Rent-to-own model reaps rewards for Brighthouse

RENT-TO-OWN retailer Brighthouse is targeting future growth after it reported a successful year’s trading. Read

Vikings vicious win bodes well

WIDNES Vikings enter next Sunday’s Northern Rail Cup final clash with Barrow Raiders in scorching form after they dispatched Doncaster in ruthless fashion on Saturday. Read

ST HELENS scrum-half Sean Long is expected to be out for around eight weeks after confirmation the player has broken his jaw.

The 32-year-old was taken to hospital on Friday night after suffering the injury in Saints’ shock engage Super League defeat at Salford. Read

Awesome display as Warrington climb up

COACH Tony Smith praised the “awesome” Warrington defensive display as his side scored four tries in sending engage Super League basement side Celtic Crusaders tumbling to a 17th defeat of the season. Read

Umpire is killed

A CRICKET umpire died after being struck on the head by a ball. Read

Wavertree move to top of the table

WAVERTREE sneaked home by five runs at Whitefield to step over them into top place in the Bromborough Paints Merseyside and Southport Alliance. Read

Relegation fears allayed as Burscough grab victory

BURSCOUGH boosted their survival hopes with a crucial six-wicket win over fellow strugglers Ainsdale in the Liverpool Competition First Division. Read

Stunning partnership has Bootle celebrating again

A STUNNING first-wicket stand of 215 between Steven Mullaney and skipper David Snellgrove put Bootle on course for another crushing victory. Read

Paul Hanagan delighted at landing second Lancashire Oaks winner on Barshiba at Haydock

PAUL HANAGAN will be hoping to keep the ride on Barshiba at York next month after partnering the David Elsworth-trained mare to victory in the bet365 Lancashire Oaks at Haydock on Saturday. Read

Sea The Stars has Irish Champion Stakes aim after adding Coral-Eclipse to Classic double

THE all-conquering Sea The Stars’s next main target will be the irish Champion Stakes following his latest success in the success in the Coral-Eclipse Stakes at Sandown on Saturday. Read

Pedrosa wins in America

Dani Pedrosa put himself back in the running for the FIM MotoGP World Championship title as he won the US Grand Prix at Laguna Seca. Read

Third soldier killed in Afghanistan

A British soldier has been killed in Afghanistan while taking part in one of the UK military's biggest co-ordinated air operations of modern times, the Ministry of Defence said. Read

Delight for record-breaking champion

Roger Federer savoured "an unbelievable moment" in his career after claiming a record 15th grand slam title with victory in an amazing Wimbledon final against Andy Roddick. Read

Federer wins incredible final

Roger Federer survived another epic final to win his sixth Wimbledon and record 15th grand slam title against a gallant Andy Roddick. Read

Shop worker killed by lone gunman

A shop worker was killed in a hail of bullets, police have said. Read

Horror blaze father 'feared end'

A father has described how he thought it was "the end" after hiding in a bathroom with five of the six people who died as a blaze engulfed their tower block. Read

Anglo-French summit on immigration

Plans for a crackdown on illegal cross-Channel immigration will be discussed by Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy at an Anglo-French summit. Read

Pay freeze row sparks strike fears

Chancellor Alistair Darling has failed to rule out a pay freeze for public sector workers, sparking warnings of possible industrial action from union leaders. Read

Bishop urges gay people to repent

The Bishop of Rochester has been accused of going "against Christ's gospel" after he urged homosexuals to "repent and be changed". Read

Two soldiers killed in Afghanistan

Two British service personnel have been killed in attacks in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said. Read

Two solders killed in Afghanistan

Two British service personnel have been killed in attacks in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said. Read

Miliband dismisses MI6 Facebook row

Foreign Secretary David Miliband has defended the next head of MI6 after details of his personal life were posted on social networking website Facebook. Read

Cavendish wins second stage

A perfect finish saw British speedster Mark Cavendish win the second stage of the 2009 Tour de France from Monaco to Brignoles to further his standing as cycling's leading sprinter. Read

Shaw hit with ban

British and Irish Lions lock Simon Shaw has received a two-week ban after being cited for dangerous play during Saturday's third Test victory over South Africa in Johannesburg, the South Africa Rugby Football Union have announced. Read

IRB probe South Africa protest

The International Rugby Board are investigating South Africa's protest against the suspension of Bakkies Botha during Saturday's third Test against the British and Irish Lions. Read

Ten held over shop shooting death

Ten people are being questioned over the fatal shooting of a man in a shop, police said. Read

SFO 'to examine MG Rover collapse'

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is to investigate the collapse of MG Rover after a four-year probe into the Midlands carmaker's demise, it was reported. Read

Probe continues into flats tragedy

Inquiries into how a blaze which ripped through a tower block killing six people, including a three-week-old baby girl, was able to spread so quickly are continuing. Read

Concern over MI6 chief web details

The Liberal Democrats are calling for an inquiry into whether the new head of MI6, Sir John Sawers, should be allowed to take up his post after his wife apparently published personal details on the Facebook website. Read

Beckenbauer backs England for World Cup

FIFA committee member Franz Beckenbauer has tentatively backed England's World Cup bid, claiming the country could stage football's showpiece event "tomorrow". Read