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Jun 28 2007
PUPILS attending schools in Merseyside are having up to £2,500 a year less spent on them by the Government than students learning in some of London’s most affluent boroughs....
Jun 28 2007
GORDON Brown will today start work on 'changing the direction of Government' - and that should mean new posts for several MPs from the region....
Jun 28 2007
LIVERPOOL’S World Heritage Site is not threatened by new developments around the Pier Head, Unesco’s World Heritage committee confirmed in New Zealand ....
Jun 28 2007
IT WAS, admits Liverpool’s Bafta-winning playwright Jimmy McGovern, every writer’s nightmare. “You walk into your local boozer and there is a man saying, ‘have I got a story for you’!”...
Jun 28 2007
JOB cuts may compromise educational opportunity and put staff under unworkable pressure at a Liverpool college, unions warned last night....
Jun 28 2007
A MERSEY ambulance crew went off shift and refused to carry a sick child to hospital for emergency treatment, it was claimed last night....
Jun 28 2007
AN INJUNCTION to re-open Stanley Dock Heritage market could be won today....
Jun 28 2007
MERSEYSIDE’S licensees last night expressed their fears of physical violence and verbal abuse at the hands of disgruntled smokers....
Jun 28 2007
UNDERPAID care workers may mount a wave of legal action against Liverpool care agencies if they see a 30% pay cut, it emerged last night....
Jun 28 2007
JUST days after a Liverpool company snapped up prized city restaurant Alma de Cuba, it has bought its sister restaurant and bar Alma de Santiago....
Jun 28 2007
Portuguese police are looking into claims that the Spanish authorities have detained an Italian man over the abduction of Madeleine McCann, a spokesman said today....
Jun 28 2007
SAINT'S legend Ray French today gave his seal of approval to plans for a £25m stadium that will see St Helens play in a home fit for the 21st century....
Jun 28 2007
THIS is the first picture of the new multi-million pound stadium planned for rugby world club champions St Helens....
Jun 28 2007
MARK DOWD is expec- ted to be re-elected for another term today as chairman of the reg- ion’s transport execut- ive, Merseytravel....
Jun 28 2007
St Luke's head Sharon Cowe, back left, with pupils, in their Victorian costumes. The children from the Formby school had a visit from 'Queen Victoria' and her retinue. Queen Victoria is June Lornie, husband David is John Brown, Avril Smith is Baroness Sophie, and Emperor William is Steve Smith Picture: SUZY JAMES/ tmcSJ210607LLUKES-1...
Jun 28 2007
MORE than 300 police officers took part in synchronised early morning raids as part of Cheshire’s largest ever drugs operation....
Jun 28 2007
A PRIVATE waste disposal company is offering to reinstate weekly bin collections for those unhappy with Wirral’s new recycling system....
Jun 28 2007
COMMUTERS and staff on a busy Merseyrail train could have been killed when a pav-ing slab was thrown onto its roof, a police inspector warned last night....
Jun 28 2007
CELEBRITY stylist Herbert Howe hosted the first of a series of receptions at his new Bling Bling building in Hanover Street last night....