Daily Post (Liverpool, England) back issues from July 2008:
Tragic end to toddler's first school day.(News)
Jul 01, 2008 ... FULL STORY: PAGE 2 CAPTION(S): Bethany Wood, aged two, who was run over and killed just yards from her ...
Green village plan is unveiled; pounds 85m city scheme to create 800 jobs and 356 new homes EXCLUSIVE.(News)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY DAVID BARTLETT Daily Post Staff A NEW pounds 85m eco-friendly housing development, creating 800 jobs, is set to be built on an eyesore site on the edge of Liverpool city centre. The Via Verde development behind Leeds Street, alongside the award-winning ...
Smoking ban helps thousands to kick the habit.(News)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY LIZA WILLIAMS and RICHARD DOWN Daily Post Staff THE smoking ban has prompted thousands of people to give up the habit in Merseyside and Cheshire. Figures released one year after the law was introduced show every borough except Wirral has seen a rise in the ...
Floral tributes for 'a little princess' Toddler run over yards from home.(News)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY RICHARD DOWN Daily Post Staff A TODDLER described as a "beautiful princess" was run over and killed yards from her mother in a tight-knit Wirral cul-de-sac yesterday. Tributes, flowers and teddy bears laid down by neighbours mark the spot on Wilkes Avenue ...
We asked for speed bumps, but were turned down, say residents.(News)
Jul 01, 2008 ... BETHANY'S neighbours on Wilkes Avenue last night revealed that they had called for speed bumps in the cul-de-sac, but had been turned down. The death of the toddler was not the result of speeding, neighbours say, but they remain concerned for other children on the close. ...
IN BRIEF: Student dies in fall from Majorca hotel.(News)
Jul 01, 2008 ... A 20-YEAR-OLD British student died after falling out of a hotel window in Majorca. The man, named in reports as Mark David Day, was staying at the Majorca Beach hotel in Magaluf. A spokesman for Thomas Cook said: "Thomas Cook can confirm the tragic death of one of ...
IN BRIEF: Brown still under siege.(News)
Jul 01, 2008 ... GORDON BROWN'S latest fightback was in danger of being derailed last night by internal rows and fears over Labour's dire finances. As the Prime Minister unveiled a major overhaul of the NHS to mark its 60th birthday, a former party treasurer warned that its books were in the worst state ...
IN BRIEF: 999 charge.(News)
Jul 01, 2008 ... A TEENAGER was last night charged with making a hoax call to the fire service following an incident in which a woman died and her 10-year-old daughter was left critically ill when their car ...
IN BRIEF: Camera binned.(News)
Jul 01, 2008 ... A SPY camera that was hidden among rubbish bags in order to catch fly-tippers in the act was destroyed when council workers threw away the wrong bags. Refuse workers ...
Liverpool football chief determined to stay put; University honour for Rick Parry.(News)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY LAURA SHARPE Daily Post Staff LIVERPOOL FC chief executive Rick Parry yesterday said he still saw his future at "the best club in the world" as he picked up an honorary degree. Parry donned a cap and gown yesterday to pick up his honour from the University ...
Jealous boyfriend guilty of attack.(News)
Jul 01, 2008 ... A FRENCHMAN has been found guilty of beating his glamorous singer-girlfriend. Frederic Poullain strangled and pushed musician Natalie Reeves while in a jealous rage after a party at her luxury dockside flat at Waterloo Warehouse. The market trader was found guilty of ...
Liverpool will host Rhys Jones trial, judge decides; Home-based jury will not be more prejudiced.(News)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY CHLOE GRIFFITHS Daily Post Staff THE teenager accused of murdering schoolboy Rhys Jones will face trial in Liverpool. Representatives of the 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were bidding to get his trial and that of six others charged ...
IN BRIEF: Police arrest suspect over 1994 killings.(News)
Jul 01, 2008 ... DETECTIVES probing a loyalist pub killing in Northern Ireland which left six men dead made an arrest last night. The 45-year-old man was detained in Maidstone, Kent, in connection with the 1994 Ulster ...
IN BRIEF: Charles brings in extra pounds 1m.(News)
Jul 01, 2008 ... THE Prince of Wales has slashed his carbon footprint and seen his personal income rise by more than a pounds 1m to pounds 16.2m. Charles' household cut its carbon dioxide emissions by almost 20% to 2,795 tonnes ...
IN BRIEF: Removals up.(News)
Jul 01, 2008 ... MORE than a dozen killers and nearly 140 sex offenders have been deported from Britain since the start of the year. Immigration minister Liam Byrne revealed the figures as part of ...
IN BRIEF: Web justice.(News)
Jul 01, 2008 ... A NEW pounds 40,000 website was launched by the Government to give the public a better understanding of community sentences. The online project allows web surfers to acts as the "judge" and decide the ...
IN BRIEF: Evicted.(News)
Jul 01, 2008 ... SQUATTERS have been evicted from a historic house reputed to be the inspiration behind Ratty's home in Wind In The Willows, ...
Mersey shipyard clinches pounds 180maircraft carrier deal; MoD signals contract go-ahead to service Fleet Auxiliary ships.(News)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY BILL GLEESON Daily Post Business Editor A BIRKENHEAD shipyard is in line to build parts of Britain's next generation of aircraft carriers. The former Cammell Laird shipyard has been approved as a "second-tier" supplier to the main contractors of the pounds ...
Club devastated by death of talented athlete, aged 15.(News)
Jul 01, 2008 ... A TALENTED young sportswoman has been found hanged in a Wirral park. Georja Busetto, 15, from Port Sunlight, was a member of Wirral Athletics Club, and had taken part in the UKA Young Athletes League, in Bebington, on June 1. She won the U-17s 1500m race and the ...
Police respond to gun TV show.(News)
Jul 01, 2008 ... MERSEYSIDE Police have defended actions to fight gun crime, after the BBC aired a documentary on Liverpool's gang culture last night. Panorama's Young Guns showed how children as young as nine are arming themselves with guns. Crime expert Graham Johnson spent seven ...
Pub closed.(News)
Jul 01, 2008 ... A LIVERPOOL pub has been closed for allegedly employing an unlicensed doorman. Joey Orrs Bar, on Rice Lane, Walton Vale, has been issued with a closure notice following a ...
The time was right to have a healthier lifestyle . . . money goes further, too; TWELVE MONTHS ON IMPACT OF PUB SMOKING BAN.(News)
Jul 01, 2008 ... DAVID HIND, 39, from West Derby, had smoked 20 a day for 22 years, until January when he decided to quit. Mr Hind, who has one daughter Sophie, 16, and two step-children, says the ban helped because there were fewer opportunities tempting him to light up. He had tried five times ...
Sales may be down in some of our pubs and others have lost that 'zest' . . . but smoking ban has many positive side-effects; TWELVE MONTHS ON IMPACT OF PUB SMOKING BAN.(News)
Jul 01, 2008 ... SOME licensees in Liverpool have lost money after the smoking ban, but most are surprisingly happy with its effects. Those without beer gardens have been most severely hit, with traders reporting anything from a 10% to 20% drop in takings. But the cleanliness and ...
Architect brings Mann Island waterside 'wedges' vision to life.(News)
Jul 01, 2008 ... AN IMPRESSIVE new model revealing the plans for one of Liverpool's emerging waterfront sites was unveiled yesterday as the centrepiece of a major exhibition. The Making of Mann Island, which opened at the Renew Rooms, in Wood Street, yesterday, explains how the controversial ...
Quality the keyword in NHS hospitals shake - up; Ten-year plan to put patients in control.(News)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY ROB MERRICK Political Correspondent HOSPITALS will receive a bonus of up to pounds 9m if patients say they were well-treated and enjoyed their stay, under a radical 10-year plan for the NHS unveiled yesterday. The shake-up will see hospitals paid according ...
Young get the chance to Shine.(News)
Jul 01, 2008 ... MORE than 70 Merseyside Schools have kicked off the week with the UK's first national schools' Shine festival. The festival challenges schools to find and celebrate a talent in every one of their pupils. Events across the country will run until Friday showcasing ...
Appeal for witnesses.(News)
Jul 01, 2008 ... A PEDESTRIAN suffered serious head injuries after a car crash in Southport. The 30-year-old woman is being treated in hospital following a collision with a Volkswagen Beetle at the junction ...
Fresh blow for stadium as NWDA withholds pounds 9m; Liverpool FC must prove it has funding.(Business)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY DAVID BARTLETT Daily Post Staff THE Northwest Development Agency has refused to hand over a pounds 9m grant for Liverpool FC's new stadium project until the club proves it has got the money for the pounds 350m scheme. Steve Broomhead, chief executive of the ...
Murder confession 'was to protect sister under threat'.(Business)
Jul 01, 2008 ... A MERSEYSIDE man has told how he pretended he had murdered his sister's partner to protect her from the real killers. Daniel Breaks is alleged to have beaten his sister Gwyneth's boyfriend Simon Sutton to death with a pool cue, while ordering her sons to stamp on his body. But ...
Rugby star admits attack.(Business)
Jul 01, 2008 ... RUGBY League star Iafeta Paleaaesina was yesterday sentenced to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work after being convicted of punching a bus driver to the ground. The 17-stone prop, who plays for Wigan Warriors, left victim James Campbell with a broken jaw after the confrontation ...
Birds make comeback.(Business)
Jul 01, 2008 ... A PAIR of rare birds have started to breed in England for the first time in 150 years. The pair of Cornish Choughs are one of only two breeding pairs in ...
Bringing fresh heart to our city.(Features)
Jul 01, 2008 ... TODAY brings yet more evidence of growing economic confidence on Merseyside. For, even as Northwestern Shipbuilders and Ship Builders was confirming it had landed a lucrative new contract with the Royal Navy - as revealed in Saturday's Daily Post - there was further good news in the ...
THE DAILY POST & YOU.(Features)
Jul 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: Big Brother is law unto itself.(Letters)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Byline: GH CAN someone tell me what it will have to take for the television bosses to take Big Brother off the air? A serious assault? A murder? From what I can gather, and I am not watching the series (this is from what I read in the papers) there has been some ...
Letter: Let down by Bishop.(Letters)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Byline: Johanna Niccolls IN RESPONSE to your recent article about Ss Peter and Pauls Church in New Brighton, I felt I had to write. As a member of Ss Peter and Paul's Church for more than 28 years, I feel let down by the Bishop of Shrewsbury and other Priests that ...
Letter: Story of Soviets.(Letters)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Byline: Sam Watts IN REPLY to Phillip Griffith, UKIP (Letters, June 25). He states that, had it not been for the help of the Americans in World War II, Europe would not have been liberated. I would refer him to Rodric Braithwaite, ambassador to Moscow, and his book, ...
Letter: Don't forget seamen.(Letters)
Jul 01, 2008 ... LAST week it was Veterans Day, and we heard a lot about the Armed Forces being remembered for all they are doing and what they have done in the past. Being a retried Merchant seaman of over 40 years' service, I do find it sad that the veteran seafarers are very seldom mentioned ....
Letter: Wartime training.(Letters)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Byline: A Gelder YOUR article "Learn to be a fuel miser" (Daily Post, June 25) will mean nothing to most motorists today. They may start to learn when we are paying pounds 2 a litre. I am reminded of the period from 1941 to 1946 in the Second Tactical Air Force. Then ...
Letter: Year for the people.(Letters)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Byline: Peter Killen I WAS very interested to read the article in Monday's Daily Post about how the Friends of Liverpool Monuments have set up a website to hold photographs of every street in Liverpool. This seems another example of local people acting on their own to ...
Letter: No city cover.(Letters)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Byline: S Parker RE: "DECLINING Service" (Letters, Daily Post, June 26). I agree with David Highet and other correspondents of your Letters page that Granada is not doing its bit to cover Liverpool and the wider region, but I do not think they are alone in this. ...
Letter: Liverpool is buzzing.(Letters)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Byline: Gee Curtis I ATTENDED the launch of the Liverpool Independent Fringe Festival, and would like to congratulate all who have made this possible. The Lord Mayor and Warren Bradley gave speeches, and I was overwhelmed with the passion and knowledge Warren put into ...
Letter: Paying for a penny.(Letters)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Byline: G Etherington LIVERPOOL, the city of culture where you now have to pay 30p to use the toilets at Lime Street Station, and now, at the new shopping precinct in Paradise Street, it is 20p to use the toilets there. I don't always have loose change on me, so when ...
Letter: 'Evil little wretches'.(Letters)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Byline: S Lowe I WISH I could say that I found the words of your letter writer M Laidlaw (Letters, Friday), who described children these days as feral and evil little wretches very harsh, but I cannot. The ...
Letter: Pigeon plan disturbs.(Letters)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Byline: Cris Iles I AM very concerned to hear of plans to kill pigeons. There's organisations that specialise in ...
OBITUARY.(Features)(Obituary)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Byline: John Wright BEFORE the coming of the natural diplomat, who bowled a cunning left-armed spinner - hence his nickname of Lefty Wright - Irish cricket had dwelt in a charming, sepia land of myth, memory and dark beer, in which the conversation often drifted back to the ...
THE DAILY POSTCARD.(Features)
Jul 01, 2008 ... To order copies of pictures in the Daily Post, contact Photosales on 0151 472 2549 CAPTION(S): One of the ...
Breaking barriers; MR BROCKLEBANK.(Features)
Jul 01, 2008 ... SINGER Cliff Hall, recently deceased of The Spinners, an adopted son of Liverpool, born in Cuba and raised in Jamaica, was congratulated by interviewer Peter Grant on helping to break racial barriers and asked if he had personally encountered racial prejudice. Hall murmured that he had ...
THOUGHT for the DAY.(Features)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Byline: Rev Harry Ross WHEN you read through the Old Testament books of 1 & 2 Samuel, you will find they are full of interesting characters. There are well-known names such as Eli, Samuel, Saul and David. Each one, in his own way, was a great man, but in the main, ...
City's culture party set to cost pounds 112m; LIVERPOOL 08 SIX MONTHS OF CULTURE TODAY, Liverpool is exactly halfway through its year as European Capital of Culture. In his second special report, David Bartlett looks at the huge amount of money being spent to change perceptions.(News)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Byline: David Bartlett WHEN the curtain finally falls on Liverpool's year as European Capital of Culture, the most expensive cultural budget in the city's history will have been spent. More than pounds 112m to be exact. While the figure is impressive, only around ...
Jon Egan, of October Communications, handled the PR strategy for the latter stages of the Culture bid. He writes about the 'missed opportunity' of 2008.(News)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Byline: Jon Egan PHIL REDMOND'S 08 half term report presents a litany of positive and welcome statistics, including better than predicted visitor numbers and record attendance levels at all our cultural venues. The Culture Company and its partners have delivered a ...
Prof David Robertson, of the Public Policy Institute, Liverpool JMU, asks if 2008 will leave a lasting economic benefit; LIVERPOOL 08 SIX MONTHS OF CULTURE.(News)
Jul 01, 2008 ... IF YOU choose to make the effort, you can feast on Culture nearly every night this year. Take music. Over the last few days, there was Britten's War Requiem at the Anglican Cathedral; cross to the Phil for blues with Buddy Guy or Westlife at the Arena; head over to Clayton ...
Law firm goes in-house to advise on crunch job cuts; Expert help offered on redundancy options.(News)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY BEN SCHOFIELD A WIRRAL law firm is taking a proactive approach to guard their clients from legal pitfalls created by the credit crunch. DGB Solicitors, based in Heswall, is going in-house with small firms to shore them up in case they need to make ...
Lawyers shrug off poor weather conditions in charity triple challenge.(News)
Jul 01, 2008 ... ENERGETIC members of Liverpool's legal community were put through their paces at the weekend during the 12-hour Langdale Valley Charity Challenge. The event, organised by Brabners Chaffe Street, saw participants cycle for 30 miles, canoe for six miles and walk another 10 miles ...
OPINION: Paul Beck on why the Equality Bill should apply to both public and private sectors.(News)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Byline: Paul Beck THE White Paper produced by the Equalities Minister Harriet Harman last week paved the way for legislation that will require all public bodies to reveal what they are doing to close the gender pay gap. The White Paper also aims to ban "gagging ...
Police release footage of attack which jailed Barton.(News)
Jul 01, 2008 ... POLICE CCTV footage of the alcohol-fuelled violence which saw Joey Barton jailed in May was released by officers last night. The 25-year-old was captured on CCTV in Liverpool punching one man up to 20 times before a second attack which left a teenage boy with broken teeth. ...
Barton admits: I attacked City team-mate.(News)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY LUCY COLLINS PREMIER League footballer Joey Barton will be sentenced today after pleading guilty to assaulting a former team-mate. The Huyton-born player punched Ousmane Dabo, a former colleague at Manchester City, knocking him unconscious, and continued to ...
Culture Diary: Win pair of tickets to catch the Crows.(Features)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Byline: Philip Key AMERICAN favourites Counting Crows come to Liverpool to play a date at the Summer Pops next week, and we have two pairs of tickets to give away. As part of a competition running throughout the Pops, the Daily Post is giving away tickets for every ...
Culture Diary: Stop shopping, go home and dream; Liverpool 08 EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE.(Features)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY VICKY ANDERSON Daily Post Staff 'Perfect artist' inspires and provokes ideas THE playful and thought provoking work of Swiss artist Pipilloti Rist is already causing a sensation at Fact. With two UK premieres and a small retrospective throughout ...
Culture Diary: THEATRE Hello Dolly/ Liverpool Empire.(Features)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Byline: PETER GRANT THIS is a jolly Dolly day. It's not the best production of the famous stage and screen musical you will ever see - but its heart is in the right place. There are times when the show, at two and three quarter hours, does surprisingly drag a little ....
Culture Diary: KEY Events; THE ARTS EDITOR'S PICK OF THE DAY.(Features)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Byline: Philip Key MUSIC: Former Lipa student Sandi Thom, above, returns to her old stomping ground of Liverpool to check if she's been forgiven by the music police for wishing she was a punk rocker with flowers in her hair. Find out at the Barfly on Seel Street, tonight. ...
Culture Diary: NOW BOOKING.(Features)(Theater review)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Byline: Philip Key RIOT, by Peter Mortimer, revolves around the Yemeni seamen's riots in South Shields in 1930. A mix of the serious and the comic in semi-naturalistic style, with the narrative ...
Mortgage approvals slump to record low; Sizeable house price falls forecast.(News)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY NICKY BURRIDGE Daily Post Correspondent THE number of mortgages approved for house purchase hit a new record low during May, suggesting the current housing market downturn is intensifying, figures showed yesterday. Loan approvals for people buying a new ...
End knife crime, says victim's TV star sister.(News)
Jul 01, 2008 ... A FORMER EastEnders star made an emotional plea for young people to put down their knives yesterday after her teenage brother became the latest victim of youth violence on Britain's streets. Popular GCSE student and budding actor Ben Kinsella, 16, was stabbed to death when he ...
Prisoner remake.(News)
Jul 01, 2008 ... BOSSES at ITV confirmed last night that Sir Ian McKellen and Jim Caviezel will star in the network's remake of 1960s classic cult thriller, The Prisoner, slated to premiere in 2009. American actor Caviezel, who appeared in The ...
Betting shop raid overheard by police.(News)
Jul 01, 2008 ... A DRAMATIC 999 call captured the moment armed raider struck at a betting shop. The manager of a St Helens William Hill store was on the phone to the police when gunman Gareth Hunter burst into the shop. The screams and sobs of the bookies' employees were recorded as ...