Articles...
Dec 12 2007
IT’S great news that retail chain Home Bargains plans to create up to 700 new jobs at its Liverpool- based head office. Nevertheless, that joy comes with an important caveat – it depends on the firm winning planning approval for an extension to its premises at the city’s Axis Business Park....
Dec 5 2007
TODAY, Joseph Dutton woke up to his first full day in prison and stared at the cell bars which will frame his morning view for the next year or so....
Nov 30 2007
THE last few days will have been a roller-coaster ride for Liverpool school teacher Gillian Gibbons, and for all her friends, family, and her many well-wishers....
Nov 28 2007
THE news that thousands of Merseyside workers will continue to see their pension contributions invested in companies involved in the arms trade has outraged many people....
Nov 27 2007
ANYONE reading the bizarre chain of events which has led to Liverpool teacher Gillian Gibbons facing 40 lashes in Sudan will realise that she is the victim of an entirely innocent mistake....
Nov 26 2007
THE NSPCC research into the level of domestic violence suffered by pregnant women on Merseyside makes for depressing, shocking reading....
Nov 21 2007
YOU would think it would be a fairly simple task. Giving soldiers sent out to fight for Queen and country the tools for the job....
Nov 20 2007
THE subject of incapacity benefit is a thorny one. While everyone may know someone who knows someone who has a “glass back”, it is equally fair to say that there are many more people in this country whose poor health does not permit them to earn their daily bread....
Nov 19 2007
IT GIVES us little pleasure to return to this topic once more, but today the Liverpool Daily Post reports on fresh misgivings about the service provided by Merseyside’s vital GPs out-of-hours cover service, Urgent Care 24....
Nov 12 2007
THE potentially lethal MRSA bug has become one of the biggest crises to affect the health service, mainly because it has developed a resistance to certain antibiotics and is therefore much more difficult to treat....
