Mar
2009
Articles from 3rd Mar 2009
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Ofcom asks listeners for views on City Talk radio playing music
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
OFCOM wants listeners' views on plans to allow Liverpool’s only talk show station to play music. Read
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UPDATE: 2,200 Vauxhall Motors employees caught up in brinkmanship
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
VAUXHALL’S Ellesmere Port plant could be closed down if its parent company General Motors does not get Government support, the company warned today. Read
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Government accelerates Merseyside's school modernisation programme
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
THE Government today accelerated Merseyside's school modernisation programmme. Read
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Lecture at Edge Hill University on why teenagers are miserable
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
TANYA BYRON, Edge Hill University’s newly-installed chancellor will deliver a free lecture on why the UK has the most miserable teenagers in Europe. Read
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IVF rule changes on second parent
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
NEW rules allowing women who have children via IVF a wider choice in who they name as the second parent come into force next month. Read
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£17m plans for radiotherapy centre at University Hospital Aintree, run by Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
BUILDING work on a £17m radiotherapy centre to treat Liverpool cancer sufferers could begin within the next few months. Read
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Shots fired at Huyton house
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
SHOTS were fired at a house in the Huyton area yesterday afternoon. Read
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Bomb found under Sefton Park lake in Aigburth is a British mortar
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
AN EXPLOSIVE device found buried in the silt beneath Sefton Park lake on Sunday night has been identified by army bomb experts as a British mortar. Read
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Thieves target disabled Wallasey man
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
A HOUSE-BOUND man was left “very shaken” after thieves smashed their way into his Wallasey home. Read
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Peel Energy bring new wind turbines to Liverpool waterfront
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
THE Port of Liverpool’s new £15m waterfront wind farm is up and running. The last of the four turbines, each 125 metres tall, has just been commissioned by Peel Energy, and all are now generating electricity. Read
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Frozen lake could reveal chance of life on Mars
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
AN UNEXPLORED lake “frozen in time” for hundreds of thousands of years beneath Antarctica could contain “unique forms of life” that may even give clues to life on Mars, scientists claim. Read
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Britons turn down sex for sleep
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
ALMOST 80% of Britons prefer a good night’s sleep to sex, a survey has revealed. Read
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New book celebrates Liverpool FC and Everton’s shared past
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
A NEW book celebrating the unique nature of Merseyside’s football giants has been launched. Read
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Toxteth set to welcome BBC's Question Time
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
THE BBC’s flagship political discussion show, Question Time, is set to be broadcast from Toxteth for the first time. Read
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Council tax increase approved by Wirral leaders
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
WIRRAL council last night approved a 4.4% increase in council tax despite another bid by opposition Conservatives and rebel Liberal Democrats to overturn controversial library closures. Read
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Kensington woman Louise Gardener tells murder jury she “lost control” and stabbed mum-of-two.
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
A MERSEYSIDE woman has told how she stabbed a mother-of-two to death. Read
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Murdered father-of-two Graham McKenna laid to rest in full military funeral (VIDEO)
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
A MURDERED Merseyside soldier was given a full military funeral as hundreds of mourners turned out to pay their respects. Read
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Everton’s NSPCC Hargreaves Centre gets new patron
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
EVERTON’S NSPCC centre has a new patron, thanks to one of the country’s largest holiday companies. Read
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Illustrious history of Birkenhead shipyard Cammell Laird
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
CAMMELL Laird is one of the foremost names in the history of shipbuilding, and its illustrious history dates back to the 1820s when shipbuilding first began in Birkenhead under William Laird, a Scottish entrepreneur. Read
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Birkenhead shipyard Cammell Laird in final talks for £150m aircraft carrier contract
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
BIRKENHEAD’S Cammell Laird shipyard is poised for a jobs bonanza linked to a £150m Ministry of Defence contract. Read
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Wirral council leader welcomes announcement about Cammell Laird
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
WIRRAL council leader Steve Foulkes last night welcomed the news Cammell Laird has been named as a preferred bidder in a multi-million pound MoD contract. Read
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Supermarket giant Tesco announces plan to create more than 200 finance jobs
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
The expansion of its UK banking operation, in Edinburgh, will see the Scottish capital become the headquarters for the firm’s finance arm. Read
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Liverpool opens stupendous canal link across Pier Head
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
Liverpool’s newly-built canal link across the Pier Head will help transform city tourism. Peter Elson reports Read
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Prison paintings by Kray twins auctioned for £14k
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
SEVEN paintings created by the Kray twins during prison art classes fetched triple their estimates at auction yesterday. Read
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Troubled singer Amy Winehouse returns to UK
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
AMY WINEHOUSE has returned to Britain after her two-month Caribbean break amid fresh controversy. Read
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Ofsted inspectors lift Knowsley Village primary school’s 'failing' tag after head juggles management of two schools
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
A PRIMARY school has had its failing tag lifted, thanks to the intervention of a head teacher who juggled the management of two schools. Read
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Return to work plea
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
RETIRED social workers are being urged to return to the profession to protect children at risk from abuse or neglect. Read
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Liverpool schools face £15m equal pay bill
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
LIVERPOOL schools are to be asked to foot a £15m bill to give equal pay to staff like cooks and cleaners. Read
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Liverpool Hope Street redevelopment latest victim of credit crunch
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
THE proposed £100m redevelopment of Liverpool’s historic Hope Street has become the latest victim of the credit crunch. Read
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Capital of Culture year costs taxpayer £68,000 in Freedom of Information requests
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
REQUESTS for data under the Freedom of Information Act cost Liverpool council more than £68,000 during Capital of Culture year. Read
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Consultation starts on Supplementary Planning Document for Liverpool’s World Heritage Site
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
PUBLIC consultation starts this week about the proposed framework for new developments and conservation in Liverpool’s World Heritage Site. Read
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Every surgical patient at Whiston and St Helens hospitals to be screened for MRSA
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
EVERY patient entering two Merseyside hospitals for surgery will be screened for MRSA, it has been revealed. Read
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Demand to end ageism
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
ONE in eight MPs would be out of a job if they were subjected to the same “ageist” rules faced by millions of older workers, a new report claims today. Read
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Scott Rees appoints three bilingual paralegals to boost minority services
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
SCOTT Rees & Co Solicitors has recruited three more bilingual staff to make its services more accessible to ethnic communities. Read
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Virus kills bacteria
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
A VIRUS that knocks out bacterial defence systems is the latest weapon in the fight against drug-resistant superbugs. Read
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Chaos as Tories boycott Merseyside select committees
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
RADICAL plans to bring the “unaccountable” heads of powerful Merseyside quangos under control were in disarray last night when the Tories announced a surprise boycott. Read
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Gordon Brown seeks unity at President Obama summit
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
PRIME Minister Gordon Brown flew to America last night for a meeting with Barack Obama, at which he hopes to secure the US President’s agreement on international action to tackle the global economic downturn. Read
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Wirral company MD wins key UKIP position
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
A WIRRAL businessman has been elected to the UK Independence Party’s National Executive Committee. Read
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Facebook warning to cash-strapped firms
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
RECESSION-BATTERED employers should crack down on the impact on productivity of internet misuse at work, a law firm warned yesterday. Read
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Colin Bell says internet file sharers could be caught by Pirate Bay case
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
Commercial/ IP lawyer Colin Bell says internet file sharers could be caught by a Swedish case Read
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Charge for wider coffins
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
PEOPLE wanting wider coffins when they are buried will be charged extra by one council. Read
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Charge of the Light Brigade memorabilia fetches £4,400 at Liverpool auction
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
Thomas Wright was born in Warrington and ended his days in Widnes, and his Crimea Medal with Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman and Sebastopol clasps has been in the family ever since. Read
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Weightmans and Bremners appointed to advise Helena Partnerships
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
WEIGHTMANS and Bremners have been appointed to advise a social landlord in St Helens. Read
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Liverpool divorce lawyers back call to fund collaborative law
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
LEADING Liverpool family lawyers are backing calls to allow divorcing couples to claim legal aid when they use “collaborative” lawyers. Read
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Livepool is packed with fossils if you know what you’re looking for
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
IT’S one of Liverpool’s newest, swankiest shopping centres. But next to the polished floors and up-to-the-minute styles inside the Metquarter is a mine of altogether older treasures. Read
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Elvis Presley’s monogrammed shirt put on display at Beatles Story
Mar 03 2009 | Liverpool News
A STRIPED polo shirt worn by Elvis Presley throughout the late-1950s is on display at the Beatles Story. Read
