Oct
2007
Articles from 30th Oct 2007
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Liverpool Daily Post Bonfire Night map
Oct 30 2007 | Liverpool News
Planning to head out for Bonfire Night this weekend? Find out where the best events are taking place by looking around the Liverpool Daily Post's Bonfire Night map. Read
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Probe into train buffer crash at Lime Street
Oct 30 2007 | Liverpool News
A TRAIN crashed into buffers at Lime Street station last night. Read
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Liverpool's culture boss is off sick - again
Oct 30 2007 | Liverpool News
LIVERPOOL’S Capital of Culture boss is off sick again, two months before the start of the showpiece year. Read
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Rhys Jones murder: car park witness comes forward
Oct 30 2007 | Liverpool News
A potential new witness to the murder of 11-year-old Rhys Jones has come forward after a reconstruction on Crimewatch. Read
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Green light for revived rail link to Mersey docks
Oct 30 2007 | Liverpool News
A VITAL £7.6m project to provide a direct rail link between Liverpool docks and the UK’s main rail network is to go-ahead. Read
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Courts facing lawyers’ protest crisis
Oct 30 2007 | Liverpool News
MERSEYSIDE’S criminal justice system is set to be thrown into chaos as solicitors prepare to defy Government reform of their pay scales. Read
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Oil matters more than my suffering, says torture victim
Oct 30 2007 | Liverpool News
TORTURE victim Les Walker last night spoke of his anger over the “red carpet treatment” being given to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia on his state visit to Britain. Read
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Public inquiry begins today to determine future of former Garden Festival site
Oct 30 2007 | Liverpool News
BATTLE lines will be drawn today when a public inquiry opens in Liverpool to determine the future of the former International Garden Festival site at Otterspool. Read
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Killer ladybirds are spotted...
Oct 30 2007 | Liverpool News
A GARDENER from Wirral has made the area’s first confirmed sighting of an invading ladybird species which is killing off domestic insects. Read
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500 protesters gather at Town Hall in bid to save school from closure
Oct 30 2007 | Liverpool News
AROUND 500 protesters gathered in Warrington last night to voice their feelings about the proposed closure of a popular school. Read
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Police threat as Mathew Street report faces more delays
Oct 30 2007 | Liverpool News
FRUSTRATION was mounting last night as the report into the Mathew Street Festival cancellation was yet to be published. Read
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Decision day on Capital of Culture funding plans
Oct 30 2007 | Liverpool News
LIVERPOOL City council leader Warren Bradley expects to hear soon if the Government will hand the authority a lifeline for funding next year’s Capital of Culture celebrations. Read
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Footballers highlight JLA’s £2m runway lighting system
Oct 30 2007 | Liverpool News
TWO Premiership footballers launched a £2m runway lighting system which should reduce the number of cancelled flights at Liverpool John Lennon airport. Read
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08 Biennial set to bring in 500,000 city visitors
Oct 30 2007 | Liverpool News
LIVERPOOL’S Biennial art festival brought over £13.5m to the city last year according to a new report, and organisers say next year’s festival will attract over 500,000 people. Read
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Walker jury goes into day four
Oct 30 2007 | Liverpool News
THE jury trying former Mayor of Sefton John Walker and his wife Catie is due to resume its deliberations today. Read
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Phone technology in hunt for killer
Oct 30 2007 | Liverpool News
NEW mobile phone technology is to be used by detectives in the Rhys Jones murder case to help trace potentially vital witnesses. Read
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Rhys Jones killer 'identity video' is shut down
Oct 30 2007 | Liverpool News
MERSEYSIDE Police last night ordered international video sharing website YouTube to remove a video which claims to name the killer of Rhys Jones. Read
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Cool move to raise Rhys fund cash
Oct 30 2007 | Liverpool News
HALLOWEEN partygoers were treated to a blood-chilling Tim Burton ice sculpture exhibition to raise money for the Rhys Jones memorial fund. Read
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Flyglobespan plan new routes as JFK flights end
Oct 30 2007 | Liverpool News
BUDGET airline Flyglobespan is planning to launch new routes out for Liverpool’s John Lennon Airport, the Daily Post can reveal. Read
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School of samba
Oct 30 2007 | Liverpool News
WIRRAL School of Samba is holding a beginners drumming course at Oldershaw School, Wallasey. Read
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Car park attacker ‘danger to women’
Oct 30 2007 | Liverpool News
A WOMAN was attacked in Neston town centre during the early hours of the morning by a man wearing a balaclava. Read
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Smart way to track down metal thieves
Oct 30 2007 | Liverpool News
THIEVES hoping to make money out of breaking into electrical substations could get more of a shock than they might expect. Read
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Pansies launch city’s gay festival as memorial for homophobia victims
Oct 30 2007 | Liverpool News
A SPECTACULAR floral display marked the start of the city’s gay festival. Read
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Store hit in ram-raid
Oct 30 2007 | Liverpool News
THIEVES who used a stolen cherry-picker to ram-raid an out-of-town store near Chester fled empty-handed, police said last night. Read
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Homes damage claims ‘are false’
Oct 30 2007 | Liverpool News
DAMAGE to social housing accounts for more than a third of criminal damage reports to police in Wirral – but according to the council many of these were false claims. Read
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Bitter-sweet film on Liverpool’s 300 years of sugar trade screened at the Tate
Oct 30 2007 | Liverpool News
THEY were called “boys from the whitestuff” – the generations of families who enjoyed jobs for life at the Vauxhall’s Tate & Lyle sugar refinery. Read
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Public sceptical over new ‘people’s court’ project
Oct 30 2007 | Liverpool News
A PIONEERING £3m fast-track “justice centre” in north Liverpool has failed to improve the crime-racked community, local people believe. Read
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GPs out-of-hours service branded ‘inadequate’ as A&E departments are inundated
Oct 30 2007 | Liverpool News
ACCIDENT and emergency departments are being inundated by patients with minor ailments because out-of-hours service provided by GPs is poor and inadequate, says a new study. Read
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Schools get smart after burglaries
Oct 30 2007 | Liverpool News
BURGLARS targeted Liverpool schools almost 100 times in the last school year, it emerged last night. Read
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Stores sold cigarettes to under-age girl
Oct 30 2007 | Liverpool News
A TEENAGE secret shopper in Wirral found that most shops will still sell cigar- ettes to under-age people. Read
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Liverpool takes the lead in curbing arms trade investment
Oct 30 2007 | Liverpool News
AUTHORITIES across Merseyside are being encouraged to follow Liverpool’s lead in calling for the area’s largest pension fund to stop investing in arms companies. Read
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Bulldozers ready to flatten derelict ‘grot spot’ pub
Oct 30 2007 | Liverpool News
A NOTORIOUS Croxteth eyesore former pub is to be demolished in a bid to help regenerate and improve the neighbourhood. Read
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Town keeps the green flag flying as three more parks gain top award
Oct 30 2007 | Liverpool News
THREE more parks in St Helens have won national Green Flag status. Read
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Historic library to get £1.3m makeover
Oct 30 2007 | Liverpool News
AN HISTORIC Liver-pool library is to get a £1.3m makeover after Lottery funding was secured. Read
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John Lewis boss praises leaders as ‘men of vision’
Oct 30 2007 | Liverpool News
LIVERPOOL city council’s current and former chief executives will today be described as “men of vision” for being in the forefront of urban regeneration. Read
