Sep
2009
Articles from 14th Sep 2009
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Harry Potter weaves his magic for Mersey hospice Claire House
Sep 14 2009 | Liverpool News
THOUSANDS of pounds paid to Merseytravel to film the latest Harry Potter movie, in the Queensway Tunnel, will be donated to Wirral children’s hospice Claire House. Read
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Liverpool sister’s run for meningitis victim
Sep 14 2009 | Liverpool News
A LIVERPOOL mother-of-two is preparing to con-quer the Great North Run in memory of her sister, who died from meningitis. Read
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Liverpool FC in £80m shirt sponsorship deal with Standard Chartered bank
Sep 14 2009 | Liverpool News
LIVERPOOL FC was today expected to announce a massive shirt sponsorship deal with a London-based banking firm worth a reported £80m. Read
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Celebrity chef Marco Pierre White helps attract 30,000 visitors to second Liverpool Food and Drink Festival
Sep 14 2009 | Liverpool News
HE IS the bad boy celebrity chef who famously made a young Gordon Ramsay cry. But Marco Pierre White was on his best behaviour yesterday for the second Liverpool Food and Drink Festival, in a sun-soaked Sefton Park. Read
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Restauranteurs and chefs say food and drink festival has helped put Liverpool “on the culinary map”
Sep 14 2009 | Liverpool News
RESTAURATEURS say the success of the festival has put Liverpool “on the culinary map”. Read
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Liverpool nurse gave morphine dose ‘four times’ normal
Sep 14 2009 | Liverpool News
A LIVERPOOL nurse was cautioned after giving a patient four times the amount of morphine prescribed. Read
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Liverpool property tycoon buys Chicago landmark
Sep 14 2009 | Liverpool News
CONTROVERSIAL Liverpool developer Bill Davies is causing a stir in America, after reportedly buying Chicago’s iconic former post office for £24m. Read
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Billinge woman drowns while on holiday in Kenya
Sep 14 2009 | Liverpool News
A 19-YEAR-OLD Merseyside woman has drowned in Kenya, the Foreign Office confirmed yesterday. Read
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Liverpool winner in TV crisps crunch
Sep 14 2009 | Liverpool News
A LIVERPOOL entrepreneur will be among three adults pitted against three youngsters to create a new flavour of crisps on CBBC’s popular Beat the Boss programme. Read
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Liverpool City Council workers paid £2.5m for acting up
Sep 14 2009 | Liverpool News
CITY council managers have pocketed more than £2.5m in the last three years filling in for their absent bosses. Read
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Veteran tug tender Daniel Adamson opened up for Heritage Open Day
Sep 14 2009 | Liverpool News
A VETERAN tug tender was opened up to the public for what was thought to be the country’s first Heritage Open Day afloat. Read
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Charity warns on Elton adoption
Sep 14 2009 | Liverpool News
ELTON JOHN’S plan to adopt a child from Ukraine could result in more youngsters being abandoned, a children’s charity warned. Read
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TUC’s Brendan Barber warns Merseyside would bear the brunt of public sector job cuts if the government decides to cut public spending
Sep 14 2009 | Liverpool News
THE TUC has warned that Merseyside would bear the brunt of public sector job cuts if the Government decided to slash public spending. Read
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Music hall Bragg
Sep 14 2009 | Liverpool News
MUSICIAN and cam-paigner Billy Bragg is to turn back the clock by reviving the golden age of music hall. Read
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‘Nosey’ mother saved teenager
Sep 14 2009 | Liverpool News
A TEENAGER saved from a sex attack by her “nosey” mother, after she was groomed online, warned others yesterday about the dangers of the web. Read
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Death of Merseyside doctor: New Zealand man in court
Sep 14 2009 | Liverpool News
A BOAT driver denied causing a powerboat crash which killed a Merseyside doctor in New Zealand. Read
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Prime minister Gordon Brown to visit Vauxhall Ellesmere Port plant
Sep 14 2009 | Liverpool News
GORDON BROWN will tomorrow make his first visit to Vauxhall’s Ellesmere Port plant since Magna International was named as the most likely buyer of General Motors’ European arm. Read
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Chants but no violence as rival factions kept apart by police lines
Sep 14 2009 | Liverpool News
A PRO-PALESTINIAN demonstration met with verbal protests from a small band of far-right extremists in London yesterday. Read
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Friendly strain of bacterium that can turn dangerous
Sep 14 2009 | Liverpool News
E COLI is a common bug that is present everywhere. Read
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Girl, 8, is found hanged in bedroom
Sep 14 2009 | Liverpool News
AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD girl found hanged in her bedroom had severe learning difficulties, neighbours revealed last night. Read
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Health chiefs: We didn’t need to shut E coli farm
Sep 14 2009 | Liverpool News
THE Health Protection Agency last night defended its decision to allow a farm at the centre of an E Coli outbreak to remain open, despite children falling ill. Read
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Reforms in place ‘before election’
Sep 14 2009 | Liverpool News
REFORMS to clean up Parliament will have been completed before the next General Election takes place, Harriet Harman will say today. Read
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Plaque for the ‘bravest’
Sep 14 2009 | Liverpool News
A BLUE plaque was unveiled yesterday in memory of 161 men from 60 terraced homes in one Cheshire street who joined up to fight in World War I. Read
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Aristocrats ‘should give up their acres for allotments’ in Merseyside, Cheshire and West Lancs
Sep 14 2009 | Liverpool News
UNUSED land should be snatched from wealthy aristocrats to tackle the region's allotments crisis, the Government was told today. Read
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Dodo skeleton goes on show at World Museum Liverpool
Sep 14 2009 | Liverpool News
THE phrase “dead as a dodo” is proverbial for anything lifeless or extinct. Read
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Father calls for “professional help” for Wallasey woman who drowned daughter
Sep 14 2009 | Liverpool News
THE father of a Merseyside woman who drowned her four-year-old daughter in the bath said she needed professional help. Read
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Confused? You will be: Lib Dems field Twigger to fight Twigg in Liverpool West Derby at next election
Sep 14 2009 | Liverpool News
VOTERS could be forgiven for thinking politicians are all the same when it comes to their choices at the next general election. Read
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Tablet trialled at Liverpool's University Hospital Aintree could saves lung disease patients’ lives
Sep 14 2009 | Liverpool News
A DAILY tablet trialled at a Merseyside hospital could save the lives of millions of lung disease sufferers around the world. Read
