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Sep 7 2006
The technology giant blamed delays in the production of a component for the PS3’s new disc technology....
Sep 7 2006
Ian Robson, owner of the Magpie Cafe in Whitby, North Yorkshire, was told by police his customers could be issued with the fixed penalty notices if they were deemed to be obstructing the road outside....
Sep 7 2006
EXECUTIVES at BAE Systems yesterday gave the green light for the sale of its 20% stake in plane- maker Airbus....
Sep 7 2006
Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, executive director of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), said “greater investment” was needed to help “build up” the health systems of developing countries, which lose thousands of trained workers annually....
Sep 7 2006
TWO men have been threatened with jail for breaching Anti-Social Behaviour injunctions obtained against them by Wirral council....
Sep 7 2006
PARENTS will be urged to switch to old-fashioned nappies at two Cheshire County Council-backed events....
Sep 7 2006
MANSFIELD Primary School, in Ellesmere Port, is set to close next year, Cheshire County Council announced yesterday....
Sep 7 2006
MARIE CURIE Cancer Care is looking to recruit fundraising volunteers to aid the team based at the Liverpool Hospice in Woolton....
Sep 7 2006
THE subway linking Lime Street station to St John’s Centre is to be filled in as part of a major package of works to improve the appearance of Liverpool’s main railway station....
Sep 7 2006
IT SEEMS that hardly a month passes without a horror story emerging in the media about the dreadful standards of cleanliness or food quality at a hospital somewhere in the UK....
Sep 7 2006
SEFTON’S funniest workers are being urged to become stand-up comedians....
Sep 7 2006
VISITORS to St Helens for the town’s annual Heritage Open Days will get a sneak preview of one of its biggest new attractions this weekend....
Sep 7 2006
SIX teenagers are being questioned by police after a teenage boy had his skull fractured in an attack....
Sep 7 2006
The mother-of-three has raised around £100,000 so far by riding across America in what is thought to be the greatest endurance feat attempted by someone with terminal cancer....
Sep 7 2006
INDEPENDENT investigators are to probe allegations that four Merseyside police officers tried to frame a retired colleague in a corruption case....
Sep 7 2006
Some 57% of Britons turned to credit cards to pay for their time in the sun, according to price comparison website moneysupermarket.com....
Sep 7 2006
Brave mother ready to tackle endurance ride on her Harley...
Sep 7 2006
The current headteacher at Kettlewell Primary is set to retire at the end of this term after seven years in charge, sparking the unusual recruitment campaign....
Sep 7 2006
Donald Stewart Whyte, 21, from High Wycombe, Bucks, will appear before City of Westminster Magistrates Court charged with preparing acts of terrorism under the Terrorism Act 2006....
Sep 7 2006
A Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust spokesman said no decision on who would now provide the service had been made, but agreed it was possible the work could be sent to India....
Sep 7 2006
A BURGLAR who forced his way into pensioners' homes armed with a screwdriver has been jailed for life....
Sep 7 2006
The Honda Formula 4-Stroke Powerboat Series returns to the River Mersey this weekend for a tense championship decider. With 32 teams, the event is the world’s largest offshore powerboat series. There will also be a chance to experience the S2000 simulator in the Honda Event Village, at Albert Dock. The Liverpool Grand Prix race takes place on Saturday and Sunday...
Sep 7 2006
HE WAS famed for his matchstick men, but celebrated Lancashire artist LS Lowry produced his own painting of Liverpool’s historic waterfront....
Sep 7 2006
FOUR Merseyside hospitals have scored top marks for both food and cleanliness....
Sep 7 2006
FIVE serious attacks at this year’s Creamfields festival have left some victims scarred for life, police said....
Sep 7 2006
The charges followed his detention by police hours over “a number of incidents” that took place in South Lanarkshire earlier this summer....
Sep 7 2006
Twelve others were injured in a series of incidents including engagements with insurgents and a landmine explosion....
Sep 7 2006
OLD World wines last night scooped the top awards in an international contest....
Sep 7 2006
A record-breaking 7,219 families joined the Caravan Club this August after pictures of Margaret Beckett and husband Leo in their caravan were published....
Sep 7 2006
AN ARRANGEMENT is to be unveiled between Cheshire refuges and schools to help children who are victims of domestic violence....
Sep 7 2006
AN EVENT organised to thank fire service staff covering during the strike was last night described as “antagonistic”....
Sep 7 2006
WORK ground to a halt on a Liverpool building site yesterday after construction workers found seven human bones....
Sep 7 2006
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed conceived a plot to hit Heathrow after the attacks on the US five years ago, America’s Office of the Director of National Intelligence (Odni) said in the papers....
Sep 7 2006
ONE in six Londoners admits moving seats on the bus or Tube to avoid a passenger they believe may be Muslim, according to a YouGov poll....
Sep 7 2006
Those in a position to have children at the right time should be encouraged to do so, but more needed to be done to help those forced to delay getting pregnant, Dr Gillian Lockwood said. This might include women who have not met the right partner, who care for elderly parents or who are in a poor financial position, she added....
Sep 7 2006
PRIME Minister Tony Blair will today cave in to demands from rebel Labour MPs to set a timetable for his departure – announcing that he will quit within a year....
Sep 7 2006
Baroness Sarah Ludford, vice-chair- man of a continuing European Parliament inquiry into so-called CIA “rendition flights”, congratulated human rights campaigners, lawyers and campaigning journalists for winning the admission....
Sep 7 2006
Oasis Hong Kong Airlines will launch its Gatwick-Hong Kong schedule, with four flights a week rising to daily flights by November using Boeing 747 planes....
Sep 7 2006
LEADING chess players from across Europe arrived in Liverpool yesterday for the start of one of the Continent’s most prestigious tournaments....
Sep 7 2006
The Confederation of British Industry said the consumer services sector saw the fastest rate of decline in business volumes this quarter since the eight weeks following the 2001 terrorist attacks in America....
Sep 7 2006
A MAN has been arrested in connection with the murder of Stephen Lloyd....
Sep 7 2006
BROMBOROUGH Pool Primary School is to close as part of a review of primary places in the borough....
Sep 7 2006
A FAMOUS Wirral venue that promoted local bands and thrust many into the spotlight is now set to close....
Sep 7 2006
A FORMER bus company worker who lied to police about the theft of a works car has been spared jail....
Sep 7 2006
WORK on the multi-million pound St Paul’s Square development in Liverpool stopped yesterday after old bones were found by builders....
Sep 7 2006
Ian McCulloch, 46, is charged with attacking Gary Duncan and his girlfriend, Juliet Sebley, following a concert at Glasgow Barrowlands venue last October....
