Daily Post (Liverpool, England) back issues from May 2008:
Gerrard consoles fans as Moscow dream dies.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... SPORT: P32-36 CAPTION(S): A dejected Steven Gerrard applauds fans as he walks off the pitch at Stamford ...
Radical plans to tackle health crisis; New institute aims to slash region's pounds 2bn incapacity bill.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY LIZA WILLIAMS Daily Post Staff THE biggest-ever study into the well-being of Merseysiders has today revealed radical solutions to improve the shocking condition of the region's health. The Health is Wealth Commission has released the report after a ...
Mersey police catch 8,800 drivers on mobile phone.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY ROB MERRICK Political Correspondent MERSEYSIDE Police are leading the way in cracking down hard on motorists who risk lives by talking on a mobile phone at the wheel, new figures show. The force caught 8,800 drivers in 2006 who were given pounds 30 ...
Sir Paul's present from the city - a silver postcard.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... A SILVER postcard featuring a scene of the Liverpool waterfront will be presented to Sir Paul McCartney tonight. The musical legend will be at Liverpool Cathedral for the northern premiere of his choral work Ecce Cor Meum (Behold My Heart), dedicated to first wife Linda - his ...
Student cleared of city centre murder; Manslaughter trial still goes ahead.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY CHLOE GRIFFITHS Daily Post Staff A MANCHESTER United employee has told a jury he played no part in the death of a Liverpool University student. Corporate match day host at Old Trafford and part-time model Kevin O'Dea was cleared of murdering Sion Hardy by ...
IN BRIEF: Blaine blows world water record apart.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... MAGICIAN David Blaine yesterday set a new world record for breath-holding of 17 minutes and four seconds. The feat was broadcast live during America's Oprah Winfrey Show and the audience cheered as Blaine was pulled from a water-filled sphere. ...
IN BRIEF: Turbines spark seizure fears.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... WIND turbines which rotate quickly could cause seizures, a new study says. Blades should not spin more than 60 times a minute, according to researchers at the ...
IN BRIEF: Mass grave.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... THE uncovering of a Roman mass grave was hailed by a research team as an "almost unparalleled" discovery in British archaeology. Research ...
Map is a transport of delight; Familiar image given a twist as Merseytravel's public art contribution.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY VICKY ANDERSON Daily Post Staff A NEW artwork which gives a Mersey transport icon a completely different twist will soon be greeting commuters across the city. Centre of the Universe takes the instantly recognisable rail map of Merseyside and replaces the ...
Youngsters canvassed on home town revamp plans; Pupils involved in decision-making process.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY LIAM MURPHY Daily Post Staff YOUNG people from West Kirby will be among the first to give their opinions on how the town should be redeveloped. Next week, architect Christopher Egret will be at Hilbre High School as part of what is being described as a ...
Rumours quashed by Barclaycard.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... BARCLAYCARD have moved to quash rumours they are gearing up to move away from Kirkby Rumours had grown following the suggestion made by an employee during a meeting of Kirkby Residents Action Group that Barclaycard, which employs several hundred, was moving to Prescot. ...
Soccer obsession takes centre stage in city film.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... THE shoot for the third of the Liverpool-based feature films backed by Northwest Vision and Media was being completed in West Derby this week. Starstruck is a drama written by locally-born writer Leigh Campbell, which tells the story of two Liverpool schoolgirls obsessed with a ...
IN BRIEF: Probe into stampede death.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... HEALTH and safety inspectors are investigating the death of a woman trampled by cattle as she walked near a country house. She died on Sunday as she walked near South Elmham Hall, South Elmham, ...
IN BRIEF: Superfood discovery.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... SCIENTISTS have discovered why some cancer sufferers cannot be helped by superfoods including broccoli and asparagus, according to research published today. An eight-strong team found a protein which causes tumour growth also ...
IN BRIEF: Star to return.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... SIR Ian McKellen has said he will reprise his role as Gandalf in the two-film adaptation of JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit. The Lord of the Rings star said it was ...
IN BRIEF: Lollipop rage.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... COUNCILS are arming school crossing patrols with a hi-tech weapon to combat acts of "lollipop rage". Patrolmen and women are to receive new lollipop signs with an inbuilt camera to record rage incidents and car number plates ....
IN BRIEF: Sale ban plea.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... THE world should impose a ban on the sale of all Iraqi antiquities to discourage the looting of historic sites, a senior Iraqi official has said. Dr Bahaa Mayah, ...
VIDEO.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... Watch rare footage of Liverpool shot almost a century ago ...
FOOTBALL.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... Have your say on last night's football match online at our new banter site ...
VIDEO.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... Behind the scenes as preparations get under way for the Open at Birkdale ...
TOP FIVE.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... 1 Sheikh plans to get personally involved in takeover of Liverpool FC 2 Government advisor attacks Everton stadium plan 3 Government has ...
Jury told of 'callous killing' of man eating a takeaway; Father gunned down in car.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY LIAM CHRISTOPHER Daily Post Correspondent A FATHER-OF TWO was gunned down in "cold-blood" as he sat in his car eating a takeaway, a murder jury has heard. Michael Wright was shot three times in the head as he sat in his car near the KFC restaurant at ...
Council proves it's a good egg at awards ceremony.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... COMPASSION for chickens earned Wirral Council a place at the "Good Egg" award at a ceremony in London. Wirral Council was recognised for its pioneering move which will ensure more than 550 hens supplying the council with 152,000 eggs each year will live their lives free from ...
Last tsar is found.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... SCIENTISTS have confirmed they have found the remains of the heir to Russia's last tsar and his sister. DNA tests show bone fragments exhumed in the Ural Mountains ...
Health concerns should have impact on licence applications; HEALTH IS WEALTH REGION'S POOR RECORD.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... IN SCOTLAND, protecting and improving public health is a licensing objective, unlike in England. The commission wants to pioneer this approach in Liverpool - the first English authority to do this. It proposes to introduce area based Health Impact Assessments into planning ...
Residents' lifestyles studied for report; HEALTH IS WEALTH REGION'S POOR RECORD.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... AS PART of the study the commission looked at seven streets across Merseyside in depth. Focus groups were set up in these areas and a number of respondents were asked to keep a lifestyle diary, while interviews were carried out with professionals within the local community ...
Brown accused of insulting memory of MP over crunch by-election; ELECTION 2008 DECISION DAY.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... GORDON BROWN was yesterday accused of insulting the memory of Gwyneth Dun-woody by kick-starting a crunch by-election before the former Cheshire MP's funeral had taken place. Tory MPs protested the May 22 date for the Crewe and Nantwich by-election - just three weeks away - ...
People urged: Don't neglect right to vote; ELECTION 2008 DECISION DAY Some people are dying campaigning for the vote, while others - who have that right - treat it with indifference.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... Byline: Mike Chapple reports A SOUTH African-born academic who did not get the right to vote in his home country until he was aged 40, because of the Apartheid regime, has urged people in Liverpool not to take their democratic rights for granted. Speaking ahead of ...
Parties mount final push in the battle to control Liverpool; ELECTION 2008 DECISION DAY.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... POLITICAL parties will be out pounding the streets today in a last push to secure votes that could tip the outcome of Liverpool's most closely run election in a decade. Yesterday, the ruling Liberal Democrats brought national leader Nick Clegg to the city in an effort to drum up ...
LIVERPOOL DAILY POST: Action vital on city's health.(Leaders)
May 01, 2008 ... THE link between low incomes and poor health is well established, with Merseyside having one of the worst records in the UK. Despite billions of pounds of investment, Liverpool - according to new figures - ranks bottom out of 354 English towns and cities as the most socially ...
THE DAILY POST & YOU.(Leaders)
May 01, 2008 ... THE Daily Post strives at all times to be balanced, fair and accurate in its coverage. All its journalists have a duty to maintain the highest professional and ethical standards, as set out in the newspaper industry Code of Practice, which is designed both to protect the rights of the ...
Letter: Preparation is key to success.(Letters)
May 01, 2008 ... Byline: Helen Lloyd YOU published my letter on Wednesday, April 23, re: Proud of City - "You can take the girl out of Liverpool but not Liverpool out of the girl". It was a very positive take on my wonderful night at the Echo Arena attending the classical concert. I ...
Letter: We are not unruly.(Letters)
May 01, 2008 ... Byline: Mrs Esme Berman WHY, oh why, is Liverpool always targeted as being the most unruly and dangerous city in the UK? I am just amazed that some other cities do not seem to have the same reputation, but have their downsides also. How about Manchester ...
Letter: History of city.(Letters)
May 01, 2008 ... Byline: Tony Rainford I RECENTLY attended a premiere showing of a locally-made film about Liverpool and its people, at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. It is called Passport to Liverpool and thankfully it doesn't use the fame of The Beatles for content, or seize the ...
Letter: Give carers rights.(Letters)
May 01, 2008 ... Byline: Jayson Carmichael A RECENT tragic high-profile case involving an around-the-clock family carer must, I hope, get the Government to revise its policy for carers like myself. I do not know the circumstances of the case, but I know of the psychological effects ...
Letter: Bring back sands.(Letters)
May 01, 2008 ... Byline: John Shawcroft MOST seaside resorts throughout the world welcome the so-called "bucket and spade" brigade to their beaches with open arms. Southport's tourism bosses give the impression that to encourage such people would not be in keeping with the image of our ...
Letter: Get out and vote.(Letters)
May 01, 2008 ... Byline: J Moore SO MANY people complain and complain about the Government and their local councils, and say that they are not doing enough for us and wasting our taxes. But I guarantee that those people who shout the loudest will ...
Letter: Mindless racism.(Letters)
May 01, 2008 ... Byline: Alfred H Mahon IN REPLY to Rosalind McArt's letter on Monday, I, too, remember something similar happening during the early period of World War II, after Italy allied itself to Germany. I saw Tony Capoldi's ice cream parlour in Wavertree Road trashed in spite ...
Letter: Tough on thugs.(Letters)
May 01, 2008 ... Byline: Mrs L Nolan GARY NEWLOVE'S wife wants more police on the streets. She wants thugs who kill named and shamed. I agree with her 100%, but this won't happen. We are told time after time: "They can't be named for legal reasons." Why not? We are told ...
Letter: Charitable loss.(Letters)
May 01, 2008 ... MY WIFE and I are both 75-years-old so we decided to convert our front room from a dining room into a bed-sit room, for the time when we can no longer climb the stairs or if one of us is not feeling well. We have a downstairs toilet so it would be ideal. We have a five-foot wall ...
Letter: Why advertise?(Letters)
May 01, 2008 ... Byline: L Tanner CAN someone please tell me why if One Park West, on the site of the old Chavasse Park, is such a super-successful city ...
OBITUARY: Doug Hayward.(Features)(Obituary)
May 01, 2008 ... HIS flat Cockney vowels contrasted sharply with those of his long nosed colleagues on Savile Row, and, at his Mayfairshop, pseudo-aristocratic trappings were consigned to the bin. "There are no stags' heads coming through the walls, no pictures of the Queen Mum," pronounced ...
True success story; TRUST THE POST.(Features)
May 01, 2008 ... Byline: MARK THOMAS TATE Liverpool has been one of the true Liverpool successes of the past couple of decades, and this week we had the pleasure of helping the Albert Dock-based gallery celebrate its 20th anniversary with a special 12-page free pull-out. The ...
THOUGHT for the DAY.(Features)
May 01, 2008 ... Byline: Rev John Oldershaw THE United Reformed Church is introducing consensus decision making in its Synod meetings. During a debate those present indicate whether they agree or disagree with what is being said by holding up either a blue card ("I do not warm to ...
Murder charge jury out.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... A JURY yesterday retired to consider its verdict in the trial of a former soldier accused of killing his exgirlfriend. Father-of-three Anthony Clarke is accused of kidnapping Polish waitress Monika Szmecht. It is alleged he imprisoned her in a van before stabbing her, ...
Wanted: artist to create a lasting legacy of Liverpool; Map will capture city's global reach.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY LIZA WILLIAMS Daily Post Staff AN ARTIST is being sought to bring the Liverpool Daily Post's Liverpool Map campaign to life. For the last six months, we have asked our readers what areas of the North West are part of Liverpool's identity, and the project is ...
Schoolchildren raise their hats to new city centre.(News)
May 01, 2008 ... PUPILS at a Liverpool school are gearing up for the opening of the Liverpool One city centre complex by decorating 200 construction helmets. Children at St Francis of Assisi Academy, in Kensington, were invited to decorate and personalise each of the hats with their own ideas ...
Stunning look for station project; 08 Culture Diary.(Features)
May 01, 2008 ... Byline: Philip Key LIVERPOOL'S Edge Hill Station, the setting for a new arts community, is to get a stunning look for its disused approach. It will be the second of three so-called pavilions created for communities in Merseyside as part of the European Capital of ...
Music legend trying for the right moves; 08 Culture Diary.(Features)
May 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY PETER GUY Daily Post Staff TAKE one Liverpool bar, one music legend and the popular pastime of chess, and you have a recipe for quite possibly the oddest story of the year. But that's exactly the ingredients to what's going down this Saturday in Liverpool ...
Exhibitions celebrate a decade of links with Cologne; 08 Culture Diary.(Features)
May 01, 2008 ... Byline: Philip Key FOR the last ten years, the Eight Days a Week project has been creating artistic exchanges between Liverpool and Cologne, two cities both with vibrant arts communities. This year, with the tenth anniversary also marking Liverpool's year as European ...
KEY Events; 08 Culture Diary THE ARTS EDITOR'S PICK OF THE DAY.(Features)
May 01, 2008 ... Byline: Philip Key CHORAL: Paul McCartney's fourth classical work, a choral piece Ecce Cor Meum (Behold My Heart) gets its Merseyside premiere with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir and choristers of Liverpool Cathedral. The piece is conducted by Gavin ...
LONDON MARKET; In association with BUSINESS VENTURE.(Business)
May 01, 2008 ... LOSSES in the mining and banking sectors held back progress on the London market yesterday despite a late session rally on better than expected economic news in the US. Downgrades for Vedanta Resources and Halifax Bank of Scotland spread gloom through their respective sectors ...
WALL ST; In association with BUSINESS VENTURE.(Business)
May 01, 2008 ... THE Dow Jones industrial average fell 11.81, or 0.09%, to 12,820.13. Broader stock indicators also closed down. The ...
Coral remains upbeat despite shares plunge; In association with BUSINESS VENTURE Finances 'fairly strong'.(Business)
May 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY ALEX TURNER Daily Post Business Staff THE share price of plastic product manufacturer Coral Products plunged more than 22% yesterday as its trading difficulties continued. The Haydock-based company's interim management statement said its financial position ...
Critics attack grocery report; In association with BUSINESS VENTURE.(Business)
May 01, 2008 ... CAMPAIGNERS yesterday dismissed a report into supermarket dominance of the grocery sector as a "failure", saying it will do little to protect consumers or independent retailers. The Competition Commission unveiled a planning shake-up in a bid to boost competition in the pounds ...
Stock control system wins prestige award; In association with BUSINESS VENTURE.(Business)
May 01, 2008 ... LIVERPOOL IT firm Blue Fountain Systems is the latest monthly winner of the Merseyside Innovation Awards (MIA). It has won the accolade for the system it has developed which offers real-time stock control to car subassembly production. The system is currently one of ...
Standard Life sales figures up by 8%; In association with BUSINESS VENTURE.(Business)
May 01, 2008 ... LIFE and pensions group Standard Life yesterday said firstquarter sales rose 8% after it put in a "solid" performance against tough market conditions. The firm said worldwide life and pensions new business rose to pounds 4.48bn in the first three months of the year, with UK ...
Retail group 'weak start' In association with BUSINESS VENTURE.(Business)
May 01, 2008 ... ARGOS and Homebase owner Home Retail Group warned of retreating sales at both chains yesterday, amid the growing squeeze on consumer spending. The latest warning over the tough retailing conditions came as the company ...
In brief: Ready meals group enters US market.(Business)
May 01, 2008 ... READY meals and ingredients group Greencore is entering the US chilled foods market by spending up to EUR54m (pounds 27.5m) on ...
In brief: Gambling site signals profit.(Business)(Financial report)
May 01, 2008 ... INTERNET gambling site Party Gaming said it remained confident over prospects this year after first-quarter revenues grew 21% to 128.9m (pounds ...
In brief: Video trial set.(Business)
May 01, 2008 ... READING-BASED video streaming firm Vividas has agreed a commercial trial with the International Cricket Council (ICC) for a new pay-per-view portal to stream ...
In brief: Bodycote rise.(Business)
May 01, 2008 ... ENGINEERING group Bodycote International has seen sales rise around 18% so far this year due to ...
In brief: Flight losses.(Business)
May 01, 2008 ... IN-FLIGHT products and catering firm Watermark has slipped to a pounds 5.1m operating loss after a "disappointing" 2007. The Middlesex-based ...
In brief: Drug approval.(Business)
May 01, 2008 ... MACCLESFIELD-BASED drugs giant AstraZeneca has submitted its Symbicort product for approval from US regulators to treat chronic obstructive ...
House prices in downturn; Figures reveal first annual fall since 1996.(Business)
May 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY NICK BURRIDGE Daily Post Correspondent HOUSE prices have suffered their first annual fall for 12 years as the market continues to be hit by the fallout from the credit crunch, figures showed yesterday. The average cost of a home dropped for the six month in ...