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2009
Articles from 9th Jul 2009
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High winds hamper efforts to remove collapsed crane from Liverpool flats
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
HIGH winds hampered efforts to start the operation to cut up and remove a collapsed crane today. Read
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Last night's Thunderball numbers - Wednesday, July 8
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
Last night's National Lottery thunderball numbers. Read
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Thefts from Merseyside hospital staff double in year
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
THEFTS of staff property at a Merseyside hospital have doubled in a year. Read
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Liverpool election fraud councillor escapes second vote of no confidence
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
DISGRACED city councilor Steve Hurst narrowly avoided a second move to have him thrown off Liverpool council over his conviction for election fraud. Read
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New North West Ambulance Service chief executive appointed
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
MERSEYSIDE’S ambulance Trust has appointed a new chief executive. Read
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Liverpool pair admit betting shop burglary
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
TWO men have admitted a burglary at a betting shop. Read
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Liverpool to develop £5m computer games academy
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
AMBITIOUS plans to turn Liverpool into an international nerve-centre for the computer gaming industry can be revealed today. Read
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Two teenagers appear in court charged with manslaughter of Kirkby teenager Ben Smith
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
TWO youths appeared in court charged over the death of a Kirkby teenager. Read
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Art exhibition open at Liverpool Playhouse thatre to conincide with staging of The Hypochondriac
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
A HOST of potions dreamed up to cure life’s ills went on display at the city’s Playhouse theatre last night. Read
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Duke of Westminster visits Liverpool's NSPCC centre
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
THE NSPCC Hargreaves Centre had a special visitor yesterday, when the Duke of Westminster called in to meet the centre’s staff. Read
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Liverpool university students run their essays through ‘cheat detectors’
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
STUDENTS are being allowed to run essays through electronic cheat detectors – before they hand work in. Read
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Liverpool Anglican Cathedral prepares for graduation ceremonies
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
LIVERPOOL’S Anglican Cathedral is preparing to welcome more than 4,000 final-year students as they graduate from Liverpool Hope University and Liverpool John Moores University over the coming weeks. Read
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Liverpool armed robbery suspect arrested in police raid
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
AN ARMED robbery suspect is being questioned over a raid in which a security guard was attacked with a knife. Read
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Former Liverpool Lord Mayor in battle with planners
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
A FORMER Lord Mayor of Liverpool is locked in a battle with city planners over a scheme to build a house in his garden. Read
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Chas And Dave singer, Dave Peacock, singer mourns death of wife
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
ONE half of Cockney singing act Chas And Dave has pulled out of a gig after the death of his wife, it was revealed last night. Read
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Mystery mounts over Michael Jackson’s final resting place
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
MYSTERY surrounded the whereabouts of Michael Jackson’s body last night, a day after the public were given a final opportunity to say goodbye to the King of Pop. Read
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Actor Alex Baldwin ready for political office
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
ALEC BALDWIN could be the next US actor to enter politics, after saying he was giving “serious thought” to running for Congress. Read
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Fresh hope for high-speed rail link from London-Liverpool
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
A HIGH-SPEED rail line from London must run to the North and not stop at Birmingham, the man in charge of the project told MPs yesterday. Read
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Island ‘elixir’
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
A SECRET in the soil of Easter Island could turn out to be a biochemical “elixir of life”, research suggests. Read
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Pupil ‘assaulted’
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
A TEACHER was being questioned by police last night on suspicion of assaulting a 14-year-old boy at school, sources said. Read
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Shop mannequin sparks bank-raid flashbacks
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
A SHOP owner was told to remove a mannequin from outside his store because it reminded bank workers of their armed robbery ordeal. Read
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Shed of the year a ‘kite cabin’
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
AN ARTIST who constructed a cabin at the bottom of his garden without any plans was crowned the winner of this year’s Shed of the Year award. Read
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Plan in place to lift crashed crane off Liverpool city centre apartments
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
A PLAN detailing how a 200ft crane will be removed from a city centre rooftop will be signed off by senior health and safety inspectors today. Read
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Sea ice gets thinner
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
NEW Nasa satellite measurements show that sea ice in the Arctic is not just shrinking in area, but thinning dramatically. Read
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Plans announced for £30m Chester theatre complex
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
PLANS to build a new £30m theatre and conference centre for Chester city centre were unveiled last night. Read
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Call for learner restrictions
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
MOST motorists want a tightening of rules for learner drivers and restrictions after they have passed their test, according to a survey out today. Read
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A-Levels system ‘threatens independent thinking’
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
INDEPENDENT thinking is being squeezed out of A-Levels by pressure from constant government missives and a focus on boosting league table scores, research suggests. Read
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Crown Estate value drops £1bn
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
THE Queen’s Crown Estate property empire last night said more than £1bn had been wiped from the value of its assets – the first decline since 1993. Read
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London Olympic Games crime fears
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
INTERNATIONAL organised criminal networks are already preparing to target the London 2012 Olympics, one senior police officer warned yesterday. Read
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Bruno film drops Michael Jackson scene
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
MAKERS of spoof film Bruno have axed a scene featuring Michael Jackson’s sister to avoid offending her family when it is released nationwide this week. Read
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Coronation Street moving
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
CORONATION Street is to move from Wednesday nights, in a break with almost 50 years of broadcasting, since the soap’s launch in 1960. Read
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Sainsbury’s suggests building multi-storey car park in the centre of Crosby
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
A MULTI-STOREY car park could be built in the heart of a Merseyside town under a supermarket giant’s plans. Read
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United Utilities apologises after 50 homes were flooded in Huyton
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
UNITED Utilities has apologised for flooding which devastated 50 homes this week. Read
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Parents struggle to pay for children’s college places
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
THREE-QUARTERS of parents claim the recession is making it harder for them to fund their child through university, a survey showed yesterday. Read
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Fugitive film director in bid to appeal over sex charge
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
FUGITIVE film director Roman Polanski has taken his bid to have a decades-old sex case thrown out to the US appeals court. Read
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PM hails ‘historic’ G8 climate agreement
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
GORDON BROWN yesterday hailed a “historic” agreement between the world’s major industrialised nations that they will not allow global temperatures to rise by more than 2°C and will cut their emissions of greenhouse gases by 80% by 2050. Read
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Card takes 22 years to arrive
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
A WOMAN was stunned when a postcard from a Greek island arrived 22 years after it was sent. Read
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11 cases dropped in Jersey inquiry
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
ELEVEN more cases in the Jersey historic child abuse inquiry have been dropped due to lack of evidence, police announced last night. Read
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Grant praises Marie Curie cancer care for terminally ill
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
ACTOR Hugh Grant has launched a campaign to highlight nursing services available for terminally ill cancer sufferers. Read
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Liverpool teenager hailed a hero for shooting a Taliban fighter in Afghanistan
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
A LIVERPOOL teenager was hailed a hero for shooting a Taliban fighter, moments after a bullet blasted a hole in his own shoulder. Read
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Mobile networks failing in rural areas
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
PEOPLE in large parts of the UK are unable to access the internet via mobile networks, maps published by industry watchdog Ofcom revealed last night. Read
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Price of Liverpool city centre apartments falls by 15% in a year
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
APARTMENTS in Liverpool city centre have seen around 15% wiped off their value over the past year. Read
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Cats make comeback
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
CATS could be returning to the West End – not the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical but the animal – to combat a vermin problem in theatre-land. Read
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Former Tatton MP Martin Bell launches rare attack on shadown chancellor George Osborne
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
FORMER Cheshire MP Martin Bell has launched a rare attack on his successor by querying why the taxpayer pays for him to live in a £445,000 farmhouse. Read
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NHS ‘must repay life-savings’
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
A MOTHER and daughter were forced to use their savings to pay for life-saving treatment for the younger woman because of a dispute over which NHS body should fund her care, a report said yesterday. Read
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Ofsted under fire
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
OFSTED is nothing more than a government “poodle”, MPs said yesterday. Read
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Cubs allowed in
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
COMMONS Speaker John Bercow has stepped in to allow cub scouts access to Parliament after the House authorities refused permission on the grounds that they were too young. Read
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Villagers turn against monkeys
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
A SOUTH India village that worshipped monkeys, after their numbers increased to more than half the population, are now calling for them to be forced out. Read
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Defence chief calls for patience after seven deaths in a week
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
SUCCESS in Afghanistan will require “courage and patience”, Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth warned yesterday, as the conflict claimed the life of a seventh British serviceman in just seven days. Read
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Peering at the edge of the universe
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
TWO dying stars at the edge of the universe, and farther away than any detected before, have been discovered using a new imaging technique. Read
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Liverpool schoolchildren show off musical skills
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
DOZENS of schoolchildren showed off their musical skills at a showcase of talent. Read
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World Cup bid delegation to visit Liverpool to inspect possible match venues
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
A DELEGATION of World Cup bid leaders will visit Liverpool later this month as part of the Football Association’s bid to host the 2018 or 2022 finals. Read
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New 4D experience at Beatles Story at Liverpool's Pier Head
Jul 09 2009 | Liverpool News
THE North West’s only 4-D experience will soon open at the Beatles Story’s second home, at the Pier Head, with Fab4D expected to become an instant hit with visiting families from across the world. Read
