Recently added articles from Daily Post (Liverpool, England):

The leaving of Liverpool.(Features)

Jul 22, 2008 ... One million visitors flock to waterfront in four days Liverpool businesses ride crest of Tall Ships' ...

Sailing giants bid fond farewell; It was a special day on the Mersey as the Tall Ships race flotilla made an emotional departure. Laura Sharpe joined the unprecedented crowds to wave goodbye TALL SHIPS A SPECTACULAR FAREWELL.(News)

Jul 22, 2008 ... Byline: Laura Sharpe MERSEYSIDE waved a fond and spectacular farewell to the magnificent Tall Ships yesterday. The thousands of sunsoaked spectators lining the banks of the River Mersey, from Otterspool to Crosby, for the Parade of Sail finale, saw the number of ...

Thousands line promenade to watch the Parade of sail; Liam Murphy with a personal view from Wirral of the Tall Ships' departure TALL SHIPS A SPECTACULAR FAREWELL.(News)

Jul 22, 2008 ... Byline: Liam Murphy FROM Wirral, the Tall Ships' Parade of Sail was a truly spectacular sight, with thousands upon thousands lining the promenade from Seacombe to New Brighton. The weather was kind and many found their own vantage points from the hundreds to choose ...

Crowds flank river to bid ships bon voyage; TALL SHIPS A GREAT DAY OUT FOR SPECTATORS Tens of thousands came from all over the UK, as well as from around the world, to see the Tall Ships Parade of Sail in the River Mersey. Laura Sharpe reports.(News)

Jul 22, 2008 ... Byline: Laura Sharpe THE departure of the Tall Ships brings to a close a momentous four days on the Mersey. And while there were some early organisational problems, the vast majority of spectators appeared to be delighted they had taken the time to visit Liverpool in its Capital ...

Flying Scotsman saves the day as steam locomotive completes Tall Ships excursion.(News)

Jul 22, 2008 ... A LATE-NIGHT dash to borrow a crucial spring from the world-famous Flying Scotsman steam locomotive saved a major excursion to Liverpool from cancellation. The Art in the Age of Steam train, from Scarborough to Liverpool, faced being axed after a vital cylinder spring jammed. ...

Police praise 'good behaviour' of Tall Ships and Open spectators; TALL SHIPS A GREAT DAY OUT FOR SPECTATORS.(Features)

Jul 22, 2008 ... MERSEYSIDE Police have hailed their largest-ever operation, split between the Open Golf championship and the Tall Ships event, as a huge success. More than 1m people visited the Tall Ships over four days, and 201,000 spectators made their way to Royal Birkdale, but there were ...

Blog poll results prove Tall Ships event was a big hit with visitors; TALL SHIPS A GREAT DAY OUT FOR SPECTATORS.(Features)

Jul 22, 2008 ... THE Liverpool Daily Post and its sister paper, the Liverpool Echo, has been covering the Tall Ships Race 2008 visit to Liverpool via an online live blog, constantly updated with news, photos, video and reader comments and questions. Since Friday, more than 3,500 people have ...

Daredevil drives into the Mersey; TALL SHIPS AND NOW THE RACE BEGINS.(News)

Jul 22, 2008 ... A DAREDEVIL driver crossed the Mersey in his amphibious car just ahead of the Parade of Sail yesterday. He left his mooring at Canning Dock, on the Liverpool side of the river, at about 1.50pm, and drove up the slip road at Egremont 40 minutes later. The car is ...

McCanns vow to continue their search for Madeleine; Investigation shelved by Portuguese.(News)

Jul 22, 2008 ... Byline: BY SAM MARSDEN and TIM WALSH Daily Post Correspondents KATE and Gerry McCann vowed to continue the search for their daughter Madeleine last night, after the Portuguese authorities shelved their investigation into the child's disappearance. The couple welcomed ...

Hospital appointments hit by 'glitches' in system.(News)

Jul 22, 2008 ... APPOINTMENTS at two Liverpool hospitals were disrupted after patients' medical records were transferred on to a new computer system. Some patients with an appointment at the Royal Liverpool and Broad green hospitals were turned away when they arrived to see their doctor. ...

Boy dies after motorbike hits wire.(News)

Jul 22, 2008 ... POLICE say there is no indication to suggest the wire which killed a teenage off-road motorcyclist was placed to cause deliberate harm. Ryan Acaster died after his off-road motorcycle hit a wire suspended between two trees on private farmland in Crossens, Southport. ...

Battle over Narnia site.(News)

Jul 22, 2008 ... A COUPLE who bought a Narnia website name for their son said they would have to wait to find out if they had won their David and Goliath-style battle. Richard and Gillian Saville-Smith, from Edinburgh, ...

Plans for new Everton stadium may face 'call-in' decision next week.(News)

Jul 22, 2008 ... EVERTON FC's plans to build a new stadium in Kirkby will not face a decision over a "callin" until at least next week. Government sources told the Daily Post last night there was a delay holding up the decision. Baroness Andrews, the Parliamentary undersecretary of ...

Incapacity payouts axed as government takes hard line; Claimants to be put through tougher tests.(News)

Jul 22, 2008 ... Byline: BY ROB MERRICK Political Correspondent INCAPACITY benefit will be scrapped and all claimants put through a tough new disability test to find the estimated 2m people able to work, under plans unveiled yesterday. And a new "work for dole" scheme will force anyone claiming ...

Welfare reform crackdown will make little difference, claims Mersey MP.(News)

Jul 22, 2008 ... ONLY one MP broke the new Labour-Tory consensus on welfare reform to insist the proposals were too weak - Birkenhead's Frank Field. The former welfare reform minister argued the latest crackdown would make little difference. Mr Field said the government was making the ...

IN BRIEF: Briton killed in double murder.(News)

Jul 22, 2008 ... A BRITON was killed in a double murder in New Zealand, according to reports. David Roberts, 43, from Caernarfon, North Wales, was found dead in Auckland on Saturday, his family told the BBC. Mr Roberts and an Indonesian man were stabbed to death in a ground floor apartment. ...

IN BRIEF: Guilty pleas in bomb trial.(News)

Jul 22, 2008 ... TWO British Muslims accused of plotting to blow up an airliner pleaded guilty to a lesser charge. Arafat Waheed Khan, 27, and Waheed Zaman, 24, admitted distributing videos threatening suicide bomb attacks in Britain. The pleas come exactly a week after five of their six co-defendants ...

IN BRIEF: Wrong flight.(News)

Jul 22, 2008 ... A FAMILY thought they were heading for a holiday in Lanzarote until the plane landed and the hostess said: "Welcome to Turkey." Charles Coray, wife Tanya and daughter Phoebe, nine, were issued with the wrong boarding pass when they checked in at Cardiff Airport yesterday. ...

Google Earth starting to get up close and personal; Mapping project 'could hit a legal minefield'.(News)

Jul 22, 2008 ... Byline: BY RICHARD DOWN Daily Post Staff GOOGLE Street View, the pioneering eye level mapping project, has arrived on Merseyside amid invasion of privacy fears. The internet giant is trying to produce a street level map of the entire planet allowing billions of web ...

Polls says nurses lack basics in treating heart disease.(News)

Jul 22, 2008 ... SOME nurses lack basic training in treating the UK's biggest killer, heart disease, a poll out today states. More than one in four (28%) are uncomfortable seeing patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) while one in eight (14%) have never had any basic training in it. ...