Articles...
Mar 26 2008
CELEBRITIES flocking to Liverpool during the Capital of Culture celebrations are increasing demand for the services of accredited bodyguards....
Mar 26 2008
MERSEYSIDE’S Jaguar and Land Rover plants are to be sold to Indian company Tata Motors as part of a deal worth around £1bn, car giant Ford will confirm today....
Mar 26 2008
A NEW dockland development on the Mersey could become the site of more than 7,000 new homes over the next 15 years....
Mar 26 2008
A TIRADE of criticism damning the leadership of Liverpool council was circulated by a deselected Lib-Dem member yesterday....
Mar 26 2008
A SENIOR Tory councillor from Wirral has agreed to pay a Conservative colleague £6,000 in damages and apologise for attacking her in his emails....
Mar 26 2008
LIVERPOOL has squandered its Capital of Culture cash on unnecessary projects, a Tory front-bencher claimed yesterday....
Mar 26 2008
LIVERPOOL will gain nearly 1,000 new or refurbished affordable homes after an £80m funding boost was announced yesterday....
Mar 26 2008
A CATHOLIC Mersey MP pledged yesterday to lead a fresh Labour revolt on embryo research and lesbian fertility treatment – despite Gordon Brown’s offer of a limited free vote....
Mar 26 2008
THE “Aintree oracle” – course historian Reg Green – died yesterday ....
Mar 26 2008
QUEEN guitarist Brian May has been confirmed as the new chancellor of John Moores University (JMU)....
Mar 26 2008
A BUSY city centre shopping street will close to traffic as part of a £35m waterworks scheme....
Mar 26 2008
A CONSULTANT who has criticised plans for the new Royal Liverpool Hospital says the opinion is widespread within the organisation, but a culture of fear is stopping others from speaking out....
Mar 26 2008
TRADERS have branded a multi-million pound plan to regenerate Kirkby town centre as the “kiss of death” for small businesses....
Mar 26 2008
A WELL-known Kirkby vicar is among thousands of people who have formally objected to the Everton/Tesco development....
Mar 26 2008
TRAIN passengers travelling between Chester and Crewe suffered a post-bank holiday over-run of engineering works yesterday....
Mar 26 2008
KNOWSLEY council has revealed that “two major contenders” are interested in opening a supermarket as part of the £15m regeneration of a crumbling 1960s shopping complex in Halewood....
Mar 26 2008
HIGH expectations ride on Cirque du Soleil productions these days and tickets in the region of £50 heighten them, so striking out in a new direction is a gamble....
Mar 26 2008
THE man who would be Shankly will be revealed this morning at – where else – the home of Liverpool Football Club....
Mar 26 2008
MERSEYSIDE’S Jaguar and Land Rover plants are to be sold to Indian company Tata Motors as part of a deal worth around £1bn, car giant Ford will confirm today....
Mar 26 2008
A RINGLEADER of an international drug-smuggling gang has been stripped of more than £370,000....
Mar 26 2008
A MECHANICAL technician from Chester will be spending the summer flying high with the world-famous Red Arrows as part of their back-seat support crew....
Mar 26 2008
THE Chief Constable of Merseyside’s criticism of sentences handed down for gun crimes reflects on a situation that is “not black and white”, according to city lawyers....
Mar 26 2008
LIVERPOOL will showcase public health achievements to the world when the city hosts the largest conference of its kind in the UK next week....
Mar 26 2008
TEACHERS are going to be protected from cyberbullying by pupils and parents....
Mar 26 2008
A CHESHIRE man was among 27 “Bevin Boys” who received commemorative badges from Prime Minister Gordon Brown yesterday....
Mar 26 2008
KERRY KATONA is in hospital amid fears she may have pre-eclampsia....
Mar 26 2008
AXED transatlantic routes from Liverpool John Lennon Airport will not be brought back this summer....
Mar 26 2008
A SHOP worker was threatened with a knife during a robbery in Widnes....
Mar 26 2008
A POLICE surgery for Little Neston will take place on Tuesday, April 1, at St Michael’s Church, Marshlands Road, starting at 10am. PCSO Linda Conway, who will be hosting the event, said: “The two-hour surgery is the perfect opportunity for people to talk to me about any issues they feel Ellesmere Port and Neston Neighbourhood Policing Unit can help with....
Mar 26 2008
WOMEN from across the region are being encouraged to sign up for a Moonlight Walk to raise funds for the Countess for Chester Hospital....