Articles...
Jun 21 2007
LIVERPOOL’S dependence on “grant culture” has officially come to an end, an annual review by urban regeneration company Liverpool Vision revealed last night....
Jun 21 2007
NEARLY three years of hard work came to fruition yesterday when a £17m haven for abused children opened its doors in Merseyside....
Jun 21 2007
CONTROVERSIAL plans to stop people in Liverpool smoking in their own homes won comments of all-round support from councillors last night....
Jun 21 2007
LIVERPOOL’S direct air link to New York is to be cut to only one direct flight a week because of poor passenger numbers....
Jun 21 2007
A MAN was arrested after an explosive device was found in a garden in Cheshire yesterday....
Jun 21 2007
BLIND children were treated to a day out as part of an annual summer trip organis-ed by Liverpool taxi drivers....
Jun 21 2007
MERSEYSIDE’S biggest hospital trust has become the second in the region to agree to cut carbon emissions in an effort to turn the NHS “green”....
Jun 21 2007
A WIRRAL biscuit factory facing closure – with the loss of 821 jobs – is among the worst victims of private equity “rogues”, MPs were told yesterday....
Jun 21 2007
FINAL preparations are being made for this weekend’s two day music festival at Knowsley Hall – expected to attract some 50,000 people to see co-headliners The Who and Keane....
Jun 21 2007
A “SERIOUSLY under-performing” prison has made significant improve-ments since its last inspection – but still has a long way to go....
Jun 21 2007
THE cost of school meals is to rise in some parts of Merseyside this September....
Jun 21 2007
A SIXTH-FORMER with her finger on the environmental pulse has helped compose a song as part of a government drive against fly-tipping....
Jun 21 2007
“DURING 2006 developments worth more than £300m were completed in the city centre, including the Metquarter and the Unity development in Chapel Street, where 150,000 sq ft of specul- ative prime office space has been provid- ed,” says Jim Gill....
Jun 21 2007
AUDIOLOGY services in Wirral are to be provided by the private sector in a bid to cope with a shortage of consultants and two-year patient waiting lists on the NHS....
Jun 21 2007
A VAN driver who ran over and killed a three-year-old boy had no chance of stopping, an inquest heard....
Jun 21 2007
WORLD gymnastics championship gold medal winner Beth Tweddle is urging the people of Cheshire to get on their bikes for the British Heart Foundation....
Jun 21 2007
ELLESMERE Port Civic Hall will be hosting a series of activities to celebrate Veterans’ Day next Wednesday....
Jun 21 2007
POLICE have appealed for information about a man from Wirral who has been missing since early March....
Jun 21 2007
JOHN PRESCOTT yesterday launched a savage attack on Tory grandee Lord Heseltine’s claims to have kick-started Liverpool’s renaissance....
Jun 21 2007
A SERVICE supporting deaf people in St Helens has been awarded more than £262,000 from the Big Lottery Fund’s Reaching Communities programme....