Wonderful women

Jun 26 2008 by Mark Thomas, Liverpool Daily Post

LAST Friday, the Liver- pool Daily Post had the pleasure of presenting an award at this year’s Merseyside Women of the Year ceremony, an event which we have been proud to be a part of since it launched six years ago.

Every year the event gets bigger, and the lunch has become a firm fixture for women in Liverpool, not to mention the odd man or two.

The results of this year’s contest, at which barrister Sue Sherman took the top accolade, appeared in Saturday’s Day Six, and a number of readers have contacted us after reading the achievements of these women.

Teacher Ellen Swan emailed us about two of the winners, Debra Mendy and former Brookside actress Sue Jenkins.

Ellen writes: “What a wonderful event this looks to be and what incredible women. Debra Mendy is clearly a credit to the teaching profession, and it is nice to see Sue Jenkins rewarded not only for her acting work but her devotion to charity.”

For those of you looking for the online picture gallery and rollcall of winners which we promised on Saturday, a technical problem meant they could not be uploaded at the weekend. However, our online team assure us you should be able to see them at www. liverpooldailypost.co.uk from tomorrow.

Ships make a return to this column once again this week, only this time it is the non-appearance in the Daily Post of a recent visitor to Liverpool which has caused concern.

M Mahon, of Wallasey, wrote to us about an American training vessel called the Empire State which he spied on the river on June 20.

He writes: “Over the last fortnight, we have had a selection of ships arriving at the Pier Head cruise liner terminal, vessels such as the Saga Rose, HMS Ark Royal and the Grand Princess. And so it was a surprise and delight to see a merchant cargo vessel called the Empire State.

“How disappointed I was on Saturday, June 21, when I purchased my copy of the Daily Post to find out there was no mention. If the vessel was worthy to be berthed on the Pier Head cruise terminal, then surely she was worthy of a mention in your paper.

“It was ships like her that were once the backbone of the British Merchant Navy, but how times have changed. If it is not big, white and dare I say beautiful, then they are obviously not newsworthy.”

As we said last week, we do our best to cover the interesting ships on the Mersey, but sometimes there just is not the space to feature them all.

Finally, we turn our attention once again to Superlambananas. In our recent coverage of the Go Superlambanana project, we described the Matchworks – formerly the Bryant & May factory – as being in Speke. We have been asked by Cllr Peter Millea to clarify that it is, in fact, in Garston.