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Feb 5 2008
ROLLS Royce has announced it will close its plant in Bootle with the loss of more than 200 highly skilled jobs....
Feb 5 2008
AFRICAN tribal elders are being flown into the UK to mutilate young Liverpool girls in a “heartbreaking” cultural tradition....
Feb 5 2008
MERSEY Tunnel tolls will rise to £1.40 from April, despite just six of the region’s transport authority board of 18 agreeing to the rise yesterday...
Feb 5 2008
HALF a pint of noxious liquid mercury spilled from the pendulum of an antique clock at a Wirral art gallery yesterday, forcing a full-scale evacuation....
Feb 5 2008
TWO rare Georgian terraces have been given listed status in Liverpool’s World Heritage Site....
Feb 5 2008
AS ESSENTIAL require-ments for a new des res go, a large pool, plenty of rocks and a beach probably won’t feature on too many wish lists....
Feb 5 2008
THE Bishop of Liverpool has said inner-city youngsters have inspired him to go green and ask his flock to go on a carbon fast for lent....
Feb 5 2008
RICHARD BRANSON’S Virgin Group could be opening a doctor’s surgery in Liverpool with the possib- ility of a dentist and physio- therapist being added, too....
Feb 5 2008
A THOUSAND unionists fighting to keep Bootle’s Rolls-Royce factory open are expected to march through Liverpool City centre on Saturday....
Feb 5 2008
DEMAND for the Viennese Balls at St George's Hall has been so great that all free tickets were allocated just hours after being released to the public....
Feb 5 2008
REBEL Mersey MP Frank Field faces an inquiry tomorrow that could trigger his suspension from the Labour party for backing a referendum on the EU Treaty....
Feb 5 2008
A MAJOR Merseyside steamship preservation project received a cash windfall when another maritime society was wound-up....
Feb 5 2008
LIVERPOOL FC star Yossi Benayoun was caught up in a terrorist bombing while visiting his parents in his home town in Israel....
Feb 5 2008
A LOT has transpired in the 12 months since Messrs Hicks & Gillett took over LFC....
Feb 5 2008
Liverpool FC spent years scouring the world for investment before the arrival of Tom Hicks and George Gillett a year ago this week. On day two of a three-day special report, David Bartlett looks at how the deal was done...
Feb 5 2008
HEALTH chiefs will decide within months whether to add fluoride to tap water across Merseyside in a bid to cut tooth decay in children....
Feb 5 2008
Dr Michael Moore, 62, thought the 34-year-old woman “was coming on strong” after she asked him to examine her chest and pulled up her top to reveal she was not wearing a bra, the GMC hearing in Manchester heard....
Feb 5 2008
WEIGHTMANS has been named the city’s most innovative law firm in a new legal guide....
Feb 5 2008
A TOP Rugby League player is to face trial accused of breaking a man’s jaw with a punch in Wigan....
Feb 5 2008
WIRRAL’S largest law firm has relocated to a new office, as partners pledged their commitment to keep its roots in the borough....
Feb 5 2008
TWO Liverpool law firms are launching their own series of seminars which they say have been specially designed to tackle the changing nature of work and family life in Britain....
Feb 5 2008
AN ELECTRO pop pioneer has nominated his home town to be included on the Liverpool Map....
Feb 5 2008
SCAMNESTY has been launched in St Helens to encourage people to drop scam mailings into a special post box....
Feb 5 2008
MORE than 1,300 pictures have now been sent to the Liverpool Daily Post’s online photo gallery, which aims to document Capital of Culture year through the eyes of local photographers....
Feb 5 2008
SIX members of an international drug-smuggling gang could be stripped of their profits....
Feb 5 2008
A NEW aid project to help families in some of the world’s poorest areas is being set up by a Liverpool charity worker....
Feb 5 2008
ANGLO-ITALIAN singer songwriter Jack Savoretti will be busking at three local Caffe Nero coffee shops today to promote his soon to be released new album Between the Minds....