Oct
2009
Articles from 9th Oct 2009
-
Laura Fletcher detained indefinitely for drowning daughter Chloe
Oct 09 2009 | Liverpool News
A MERSEYSIDE mum who drowned her four-year-old daughter in the bath was today detained in hospital indefinitely. Read
-
Rhys Jones killer's mum Janette Mercer loses jail appeal over lying to police
Oct 09 2009 | Liverpool News
SEAN Mercer's mother today lost an appeal against her three-year jail term for lying to police. Read
-
Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital fined £35k after legionnaires’ germ found in water supply
Oct 09 2009 | Liverpool News
A LIVERPOOL hospital has been fined £35,000 after high levels of the bacteria which leads to Legionnaires’ disease were found in its water supply. Read
-
Liverpool’s coachman John Jackson retires after 22 years
Oct 09 2009 | Liverpool News
WHEN John Jackson started his career as the Lord Mayor of Liverpool’s coachman, the city was only just beginning to emerge from the Militant era of the 1980s. Read
-
Vauxhall Motors Ellesmere Port Astra launch reveals hopes for positive future
Oct 09 2009 | Liverpool News
THERE may still be a shadow hanging over Ellesmere Port, but in the Cheshire sunshine yesterday the future of the town’s Vauxhall plant began to look much brighter. Read
-
Vauxhall staff play their part in getting Ellesmere Port ready for the Astra
Oct 09 2009 | Liverpool News
PAUL TASKER is proud of the part he has played in getting the new Astra into production – and securing the future of Ellesmere Port. Read
-
Motoring correspondent Alistair Coull test-drives the new Astra
Oct 09 2009 | Liverpool News
DESPITE all the uncertainty hanging over the future of the Ellesmere Port plant, the good news is that the sixth-generation Vauxhall Astra is a great-looking car built to a high standard. Read
-
Physicist’s Nobel Prize
Oct 09 2009 | Liverpool News
A PHYSICIST at a top UK university who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry said he was indebted to his colleagues for his success. Read
-
Wallasey teenager jailed for metal pole attack
Oct 09 2009 | Liverpool News
A TEENAGER who beat a girl with a metal pole was sent to a young offenders’ institution for 15 weeks. Read
-
£14m luxury Hotel Indigo to open in Liverpool in 2011
Oct 09 2009 | Liverpool News
ENTREPRENEUR Simon Matthews-Williams is to defy the sharpest economic downturn in a decade to build a £14m luxury boutique hotel in Liverpool city centre. Read
-
Lancashire Police start twittering
Oct 09 2009 | Liverpool News
LANCASHIRE Police has launched its own Twitter page to reach a wider cross- section of the people. Read
-
Royal Mail staff mustn't strike, say Mersey business leaders
Oct 09 2009 | Liverpool News
MERSEYSIDE business leaders last night called for Royal Mail and postmen to settle their differences to avert a crippling walk-out. Read
-
Poll predicts Tories will storm back into Merseyside at election
Oct 09 2009 | Liverpool News
THE long Conservative drought in Merseyside will end in spectacular fashion next year, according to a poll of key battleground seats. Read
-
David Cameron vows to end 'big government' if Conservatives win General Election
Oct 09 2009 | Liverpool News
DAVID CAMERON drew the battle-lines for the election when he vowed to tear down the "big government" he blamed for recession, bad schools and a broken society. Read
-
Merseyside police officers sent to Liverpool Hope university
Oct 09 2009 | Liverpool News
MERSEYSIDE police officers are being sent to university to turn them into leaders in their field. Read
-
Lunar landing set to be a blast
Oct 09 2009 | Liverpool News
SCIENTISTS hope to make a splash by “bombing” the Moon with two spacecraft tomorrow. Read
-
Good to meet you, comrade Miliband
Oct 09 2009 | Liverpool News
CLIMATE Change Secretary Ed Miliband was unexpectedly reunited with a long-lost relative during a trip to Russia. Read
-
Home drinking ‘cuts back on teen trouble’
Oct 09 2009 | Liverpool News
PARENTS can help to keep their teenage children out of trouble by giving them a weekly allowance of alcohol, a British study has found. Read
-
Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry prepare for deployment to Afghanistan
Oct 09 2009 | Liverpool News
TERRITORIAL Army soldiers from the Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry have become the only unit of their kind to qualify for a rigorous special forces- style training regime. Read
-
Launch of The Wirral Apprentice scheme
Oct 09 2009 | Liverpool News
WIRRAL Council launched its new apprentice scheme with dozens of young people thronging the steps of Wallasey town hall. Read
-
Plans for Wirral university move closer
Oct 09 2009 | Liverpool News
WIRRAL is the only area in the north of England to move through to the next stage of developing a new university. Read
-
Tributes to golf victim
Oct 09 2009 | Liverpool News
TRIBUTES were paid to a mother of two who died after she was hit on the head by a golf ball while playing a practice match. Read
-
Band celebrates raising £300k
Oct 09 2009 | Liverpool News
THE Merseycats are celebrating raising £300,000 over 20 years for Merseyside’s children charities by holding a special sell-out concert tonight. Read
-
Melanie Hall's parents plead for daughter's killer to come forward
Oct 09 2009 | Liverpool News
WITNESSES shielding the killer of a young hospital worker whose bones were found dumped beside a motorway were urged last night to break a 13-year silence. Read
-
VIP visit for Polish school
Oct 09 2009 | Liverpool News
POLAND’S UK ambassador is to visit a Liverpool school. Read
