Crash victim cut from car’s wreckage

Oct 4 2007 by Liam Murphy, Liverpool Daily Post

A 46-YEAR-OLD man had to be cut from a car after a crash on the flyover near the Birkenhead tunnel.

The accident, which involved one car, happened at around 4.10pm yesterday evening and caused tailbacks for commuters.

Three fire engines and Merseyside Fire Service’s specialist rescue unit were sent to the scene of the accident.

A spokesman for the fire service said the man had been injured but his injuries were not life-threatening.

Pledge over weekend GPs

GORDON BROWN will today promise to open up GP surgeries in the evenings and at weekends, as he clears the decks to call a likely general election next week. The Prime Minister will unveil the Darzi Review, drawn up by the leading surgeon he appointed in the summer to spearhead NHS reform. Mr Brown has targeted the running sore of inconvenient GP hours as a top priority, in a bid to shore up the NHS as a vote-winner for Labour.

Earth Mark II

A NEW Earth could be forming in a band of dust swirling round a star 424 light years away, astronomers said yesterday. The belt of warm dust, which scientists suspect is beginning to clump into planets, is located in the middle of the star’s “habitable zone”. Also known as the “Goldilocks zone”, this is a region just the right distance from a star to allow liquid water and possibly life to exist on a rocky planet.

Boat sinks

A FISHING boat sank in minutes early yesterday, after apparently hitting a tree trunk floating in the water. The three crew members were rescued by a pilot boat and lifeboat after the 28ft Lady Hamilton went down in Falmouth Bay, Cornwall. Falmouth Coastguards had been warning about a large tree trunk floating in the water.

Cracking news

WALLACE and Gromit are returning to the small screen for the first time in more than 10 years. Trouble At t’ Mill features the cheese-loving inventor and his faithful sidekick’s attempts to run a bakery business. The half-hour adventure will be filmed at the Aardman studios in Bristol in January and shown on BBC1 late next year.