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Dec 12 2006
TAXPAYERS will be forced to provide extra funding to finish Liverpool’s new waterfront arena after it emerged there was a £9m hole in its coffers....
Dec 12 2006
EVERTON FC chief executive Keith Wyness last night confirmed the club had signed an exclusive deal over plans to build a stadium in Kirkby....
Dec 12 2006
MERSEYSIDE will today be promised "London-style" powers to decide bus routes and fares to end the chaos caused by 20 years of private operators....
Dec 12 2006
STAGE and screen star Jonathan Pryce steps on to a different platform today to be awarded an honorary degree by Liverpool University....
Dec 12 2006
X-FACTOR fever came to Liverpool last night when hundreds packed the Metquarter shopping mall to see local hero Ray Quinn in action....
Dec 12 2006
IT HAS rarely been far away from controversy in its 20-odd years in the city, and yesterday Liverpool's Tate Gallery was criticised for staging a "pornographic" exhibition at Christmas....
Dec 12 2006
A LOST seal pup mysteriously found miles from the coast has been successfully released into the Irish Sea at Wirral....
Dec 12 2006
POLICE and councillors last night took to the streets of Wavertree to tell residents that the gang who had terrorised their neighbourhood had finally been stopped....
Dec 12 2006
LIVERPOOL FC supporters have launched a petition calling for the BBC to drop former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie from its Christmas Day schedules....
Dec 12 2006
THE Liverpool Daily Post news feature writer Mike Chapple has won a prestigious national award for his weekly At the Bar column....
Dec 12 2006
LIVERPOOL aims to scrap discounted rates on vacant homes. Sam Lister reports...
Dec 12 2006
DEVELOPERS behind the city’s biggest private residential scheme will be told they must make 15% of the homes family-sized....
Dec 12 2006
A TEENAGER kicked and stamped a former librarian to death, a court heard....
Dec 12 2006
A MAN threatening to throw himself off the Rocket flyover caused the temporary closure of a section of the road last night....
Dec 12 2006
A BRASS-BOUND leather travelling case once owned by an "ignorant" Liverpool seaman who became a chief in Hawaii yesterday fetched £12,000 at a New York auction....
Dec 12 2006
HOSPITAL managers on Merseyside have ordered a cleaning crackdown to battle a superbug which is seven times as common as MRSA and an increasing feature on death certificates....
Dec 12 2006
LIVERPOOL’S Littlewoods organisation has come to the rescue of people caught up in the Farepak hamper firm collapse....
Dec 12 2006
A CHEATING husband was convicted yesterday of murdering his wife before fleeing with her body in the family car to France. ...
Dec 12 2006
ATRAINEE fighter pilot whose career dreams were shattered after he injured his neck during a "high-G" training manoeuvre is bidding fora £1.7m damages payout at London's High Court. ...
Dec 12 2006
A ROBBERY gang which targeted betting shops have been jailed. ...
Dec 12 2006
A 13-year-old girl has been snatched off the street and raped, police have said....
Dec 12 2006
FIVE men have been jailed for atotal of 27 years for their part in a ransom plot after a man was snatched from his home and held captive in Liverpool for two days over a debt. ...
Dec 12 2006
A LIVERPOOL man who was kicked and punched to death in one of Britain's safest towns was yesterday described as a "great chap" by one of his friends, Tory MP Boris Johnson. ...
Dec 12 2006
A LIVERPOOL fan caught hurling racist abuse at a rival player at Anfield has been banned from football matches for three years. ...
Dec 12 2006
DETECTIVES have closed a 19-year-old investigation into the sexual assault of a teenage boy. ...
Dec 12 2006
PROSTITUTES in Ipswich were last night being told to "stay off the streets" as fears grew that a serial killer may have murdered five vice girls. ...
Dec 12 2006
ABOUT 50 campaigners and victims of collapsed Christmas savings scheme Farepak staged a protest outside the headquarters of Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) last night ...