Daily Post (Liverpool, England) back issues from February 2009:
Guide dog Sid moves on.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... DOZENS of people attended a ceremony in Wirral at the new home of a statue which marks the creation of a national charity, which started from a house in Wallasey 75 years ago. Sid, as the statue is known - after the dog he was modelled on - is already proving a ...
We've picked top sites for waste incinerators; EXCLUSIVE Mersey row brews as preferred locations chosen.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: BY BEN SCHOFIELD Daily Post Staff THE preferred sites of two giant waste incinerators for Merseyside have been identified, it emerged last night. Land within Liverpools on the East Lancs road and within Knowsley at the junction of the M57 and M62 motorways are ...
Teenager behind street gun killing; Victim jailed for unrelated shooting.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: BY RICHARD DOWN Daily Post Staff A FAMILY has been left traumatised by the fatal shooting of a 25-year-old man in Liverpool on Friday Daniel Keatinge was shot four times to the abdomen by a lone teenage gunman on Formosa Road, Fazakerley at about 7.30pm. ...
Knifeman robs shocked pensioner.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... AN 81-YEAR-OLD woman was taken to hospital, suffering from shock, after a man armed with a knife forced his way into her home in St Helens. The pensioner was confronted by the man when she answered the door of her home in Hard Lane at 8.30pm on Saturday. He then ...
IN BRIEF: Octuplet baby mother's 'obsession'.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... THE woman who gave birth to octuplets last week conceived all 14 of her children through in vitro fertilisation, is not married and has been obsessed with having children since she was a teenager, her mother said. Angela Suleman said she was not supportive when her daughter, ...
IN BRIEF: Dr David Fleming.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... IN OUR Brocklebank column on January 27, we misquoted Dr David Fleming, Director of National Museums Liverpool, as saying "most curators and museum staff" are dysfunctional. In fact, in his podcast interview with the ...
IN BRIEF: Airports shut.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... HEAVY snowfall forced Gatwick and London city airports to temporarily close their runways, operators ...
Secret sanctum offers a welcome to the young; Athenaeum looks to the future.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: BY DAVID BARTLETT Daily Post Chief Reporter IT IS Liverpool's oldest private members club, a secret sanctum of tranquillity upholding fine traditions - but now looking to the future, too. The Athenaeum - born of an era long gone - not only survives today but ...
Doctor jailed over child porn.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... A HOSPITAL doctor was caught with "disgusting" child porn after unsuspectingly sending an undercover FBI officer five video files showing children being sexually abused. The policeman in the US had received an unsolicited email from a "British perverted fun" address and when he ...
Tanker blast kills 100-plus.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... HOSPITALS in Kenya were last night overwhelmed with dozens of victims seriously injured when an overturned petrol tanker exploded, killing more than 100 people and injuring 200 others. Authorities expected the death toll to rise and ...
IN BRIEF: Cemetery rape: Latvian man charged.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... A LATVIAN man will appear at North Sefton Magistrates court today charged with the rape of a 24-year-old woman in a Southport cemetery. ...
IN BRIEF: Boxer murder: man charged.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... A 22-YEAR-OLD man was last night charged with the murder of boxer John Abbey, Scotland Yard said. Charles William Acquaah, 22, of Greenside Road, Croydon, south London, will ...
IN BRIEF: Wreck found.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... DEEP-SEA explorers who struck it rich two years ago say they have made another big find - the wreck of a legendary British warship. Odyssey Marine Exploration is still looking for the 100,000 gold coins believed to be aboard ...
IN BRIEF: Sewage power.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... UP TO half the UK's homes could be heated with gas made from waste food or sewage, according to research by National Grid. The analysis suggested biodegradable ...
IN BRIEF: Work survey.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... WOMEN'S increasing economic independence from their male partners is contributing to family breakup which is in turn damaging children, a wide-ranging survey into British childhood will say today. More mothers of ...
BNP accused over leaflet drops; Union leader's neighbours urged to 'confront' him.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: BY RICHARD DOWN Daily Post Staff FAR-RIGHT activists have been accused of "political intimidation" after encouraging neighbours to confront a prominent anti-racist campaigner in his own home. About 20 members of the newly-formed far right group Wirral British ...
McGough in running for Poet Laureate.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... LIVERPOOL poet Roger McGough is a front-runner to succeed Andrew Motion as the next Poet Laureate, it has emerged. McGough's name appeared near the top of a poll conducted by the Poetry Society, which is advising the Government on filling the post when it becomes vacant at the ...
Experts call for GP gifts ban.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... A GROUP of medical experts will recommend that drug firms stop giving promotional gifts to doctors, over fears it could sway their judgment. The Royal College of Physicians led a wide-ranging inquiry into the relationship between the medical profession and the pharmaceutical ...
Guide dog Sid finds new home at Pavilion; Ceremony marks statue's move.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: BY LIAM MURPHY Daily Post Staff IT IS a little piece of history, marking the birthplace of a charity which has made a major difference to thousands of blind people. And now Sid, the bronze statue marking the origins of Guide Dogs for the Blind, has found a new ...
Wirral hailed for recycling.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... WIRRAL has been awarded a three star rating for its environmental performance and named as "the most improved metropolitan borough" for recycling in 2007/08. The star rating from DEFRA - up from two stars - recognises the improvement in recycling from around 14% in 2007 to 35% ...
Football steward swindled pounds 20,000.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... A FOOTBALL steward who swindled more than pounds 20,000 in benefits has been spared prison. For nearly seven years, Harold Ellis, 50, failed to admit he was working at Anfield and Goodison Park. Instead, he continued to fraudulently claim income support and was ...
Milliner's V&A show.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... AN EXHIBITION on hats, organised by Wirral-born milliner Stephen Jones, at London's Victoria and Albert Museum, opens on February 24. Jones - born in West Kirby and now based in London - has designed hats for Madonna and the Princess of Wales, among many others. ...
Creationism warning.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... ATHEISTS who link Darwin's theory of evolution to a "bleak and brutal" view of life are inadvertently fuelling creationist belief, a think-tank claims today. Theos, ...
Lawyer 'still available' after 60 years of work; Yesterday, city solicitor Rex Makin celebrated 60 years on the Law Society roll. He reflected on a colourful career with Ben Schofield E REX MAKIN A LIFE IN THE LAW.(Features)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: Ben Schofield E REX Makin's 60th year as a qualified solicitor did not pass without incident. His run-ins with Merseyside's power brokers and controversial quips were all, if never quite runof-the-mill, routine. But two falls led to the octogenarian being put ...
I made sure Gerry Marsden never walked alone; E REX MAKIN A LIFE IN THE LAW.(Features)
Feb 02, 2009 ... MAKIN and the celebrities "I COULD have, if I wanted, hitched my wagon to the ascending star of The Beatles, but declined to do so. I represented a number of people on the music scene. "I was devastated when the sister of Rory Storm came to see me the day after he ...
LIVERPOOL DAILY POST: Early decision stirs up trouble.(Leaders)(Editorial)
Feb 02, 2009 ... THE Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority (MWDA) has identified two potential sites in the region where it would like to site two giant waste incinerators. They are on the East Lancs road and within Knowsley at the junction of the M57 and M62 motorways. MWDA revealed ...
Letter: More enlightened approach needed.(Letters)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: Evelyn Moore ON SPECIAL occasions and when we have guests for family meals we allow our children to have a small glass of wine - and by that I mean a sherry glass. Throughout my childhood, I was allowed the same, or perhaps cider or a small amount of beer, and my parents ...
More nannying.(Letters)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: Mrs S Walton THE recent proclamation that children under the age of 15 should never ever be allowed alcohol sounds suspiciously like yet more nannying from this Government who, because they can't ...
Moving event.(Letters)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: David Kirwan LAST Wednesday, the Floral Pavilion, at New Brighton, was the scene of commemoration for the Holocaust with the central theme of "standing up to hatred". I congratulate Wirral Council on organising this event for the ninth year running and particularly Marie ...
Meeting a need.(Letters)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: Sylvia Burns I REMEMBER, some years ago, a man coming round to our house to see my sister. During the conversation in the lounge, my elderly mother asked him what he did in a very nice way and he gave his very, important-sounding job title and then my mother asked him ...
Untrue.(Letters)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: Becky Hawkes IT IS entirely untrue that the RSPCA donated money to the Labour Party - as claimed by a Countryside Alliance spokesperson in the Daily Post recently (Letters, January 23). Furthermore, the argument that the law is irrelevant because not many ...
Care contradiction.(Letters)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: RO Buckingham I WROTE to your paper last month because I am saddened and disappointed by the woeful state of care for the elderly in Liverpool as experienced by two of my elderly relatives. I was also angered by a reported statement from a Liverpool City Council ...
A cause of war.(Letters)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: PR Jones I TAKE issue with Philip Ion's letter of January 29, ("Set of morals to live by"). Firstly, socalled " holy wars", past and present, would not have happened or be happening today, were it not for the existence of religion. Contrast that with the fact ...
Hypocrisy?(Letters)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: GH Woods IS IT not hypocritical of St Helens MBC to object to the proposed development in Kirkby of the Tesco and the Everton Stadium when the same MBC is supporting a similar development in St Helens, namely a new Tesco store and ...
Litter capital.(Letters)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: Patricia Molyneux IT WAS interesting to read the letter from Phil Griffiths about the proposed Wirral Borough Council campaign to stop people dropping "smoking related litter". WBC need to deal with this, as well as other problems that we have. Liverpool was ...
OBITUARY Geoffrey Brooke.(Features)
Feb 02, 2009 ... HE WAS a man of noble bearing in the days of stiff lips and patriotism, having been salted in the British naval tradition by his father, a destroyer captain, awarded the DSC in the Great War. In early 1941, the former pupil of the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth was appointed ...
THE DAILY POSTCARD.(Features)
Feb 02, 2009 ... To order copies of pictures in the Daily Post, contact Photosales on 0151 472 2549 CAPTION(S): ...
We've had enough; I don't think revolution's in the air, but people have had enough.(Features)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: JIM HANCOCK THE acclaimed journalist, Anne Applebaum, flew from Budapest last week to give a Roscoe Series lecture on Stalin and Hitler at the Philharmonic Hall. There were many reasons why these two brutal dictatorships developed in the 1930s, but she ...
THOUGHT for the DAY.(Features)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: Terri Whitaker "WHY should I help them? They're not worth it!" How often do we think that? That's what Jonah thought when God asked him to help some people. Instead of going to help them, Jonah promptly jumped on a ship heading in the opposite direction and, ...
QUOTE of the DAY.(Features)(Quotation)
Feb 02, 2009 ... I'VE spent a huge chunk of our marriage trying to convince him to do something more sensible to change the world, like be a head ...
Award out of the blue for city artist.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: BY VICKY ANDERSON Daily Post Staff ALIVERPOOL artist named the winner of one of the country's biggest art prizes has spoken of his surprise at his win. Paul Rooney beat a shortlist of three others, including city contemporary Imogen Stidworthy, to be awarded ...
Table art to add extra at Bluecoat.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... FOUR artists involved in the Next Up exhibition, now on at the Bluecoat, have been commissioned to spread their art a little further than the usual gallery space. They have created unique artworks on four tables in the venue's restaurant bar, Upstairs at the Bluecoat, to reflect ...
MUSIC RLPO/Agrest/Philharmonic Hall.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: GLYN MON HUGHES BORIS GILTBURG must have done something right when he last came to Liverpool. His performance of the Grieg Piano Concerto last season practically brought the house down, so he was back to perform another popular blockbuster - Tchaikovsky's ...
Pick of the Day; THE ARTS EDITOR'S PICK OF THE DAY.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... COMEDY: Controversy magnet Russell Brand, above, is in the city tonight for his biggest stand-up show here to date. Daily Mail readers beware, the "Sachsgate" affair is top of the list of things up for discussion in his no-holdsbarred style. Echo Arena Liverpool, tonight, tickets pounds ...
SmokeFree movie protesters stage demo at film censors' office.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... SMOKEFREE campaigners from Liverpool took a musical message to the capital - to win support to get smoking out of youthrated movies. Young people from DMYST, the Liverpool-based youth activists organisation, travelled to London to stage a protest outside the offices of the ...
Shop a scam to help beat fraudsters.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... COUNCILS across Merseyside will be taking part in the Office of Fair Trading's 2009 Scams Awareness Month. Every year, an estimated 3m UK consumers fall victim to scams by post, email, text, the phone and the net, at a cost of pounds 3.5bn. Wirral, Sefton, and St ...
New skills for our poorest will equip us for future; Message to city delegates.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: BY DAVID BARTLETT Daily Post Chief Reporter LIVERPOOL must improve the skills of its poorest residents to improve their employability and help the city fight the recession, council leader Warren Bradley will tell a top-level conference tomorrow. Building ...
Call for lending action.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... HOUSE prices will fall by 40% from their peak in 2007, unless Government action succeeds in boosting mortgage lending, it was claimed today. The ...
Bar blaze kills 15.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... REVELLERS celebrating a birthday set off fireworks inside a bar, triggering a blaze that killed 15 people and injured 20. ...
A helping hand across the Park; As songs, jokes and insults pepper Wednesday's FA Cup replay preparations, a new book celebrates the lasting affection between football's great rivals, Evertonians and Liverpudlians.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: David Charters reports AH, ON those scrapbook nights of the smoky memory, we see again the Toffee Ladies and the Liver Bird badge, those symbols of the Blues and the Reds in a city, where the magnificent bronze statues of William Ralph "Dixie" Dean and Bill Shankly stand ...
The lessons we must learn from the baby snatcher; Mothers fighting for survival in the Depression were her prey.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: PETER ELSON TODAY'S parents fret over the world's evergrowing dangers to their offspring. Neither were we reassured last week on hearing of Edinburgh social workers forcibly removing two children from their loving grandparents' care and placing them with a ...
Revealed: positive steps in city revival.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: BY RICHARD DOWN Daily Post Staff TWO staircases featured on the Daily Post's spectacular photosharing website reveal two sides to Liverpool. The Flickr picture gallery was set up to celebrate the region's renaissance in 2008, culminating in the Liverpool One ...
Family fitness course begins.(Features)
Feb 02, 2009 ... A PROGRAMME is being launched next month to help overweight children get fitter and healthier. West Lancashire Community Leisure Trust will run the national scheme to tackle childhood obesity. It is a free 10- week healthy lifestyle course for overweight seven to ...
Cybershade head the star prize for travellers in time and Spaceport.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... THE head of a Cybershade - a shaggy variant of Doctor Who nemesis the Cybermen - is now on show at Spaceport, as the Wirral-based attraction extends its successful The Art of Doctor Who exhibition. The Cybershade head was made by Millennium FX, who have designed these and many ...
Strikes look set to spread despite urgent peace bid; 'British jobs' row sparks wildcat walk-outs.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: BY LIAM CHRISTOPHER Daily Post Correspondent WILDCAT strikes are expected to spread today in an escalation of the row over foreign labour, ahead of frantic moves to try to resolve the increasingly bitter dispute. Workers employed by a subcontractor at Fiddlers ...
Lemurs share 'gazes' with us.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... SCIENTISTS studying the human tendency to follow another's gaze have linked the behaviour with that of lemurs, it has emerged. Psychologists at the University of St Andrews said the action is a practical, food-finding skill dating back to the time of the first primates. ...
TIME OUT: LOOKING BACK.(Features)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Send your captioned old photographs to the address on the letters page with a return address on the back Share your Liverpool memories at http://blogs.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/pooloflife CAPTION(S): As icy blasts of snow and sleet direct from Russia are apparently ...
TIME OUT: QUIZ CHALLENGE.(Features)
Feb 02, 2009 ... 1. Whose death occurred at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight in January 1901? 2. Who composed The Barber of Seville? 3. Stella Rimington was the first named head of which organisation? 4. What is the meaning of the word sauros, as ...
Recession fraud warning; Staff 'will be tempted' in troubled times.(Features)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: BY BARRY TURNBULL Business Features Editor MERSEYSIDE businesses can expect an explosion of employee fraud over the course of the year, according to forensic accounting experts. Advisers PKF say the already growing trend of fiddling and theft will be massively ...
SUNDAY TI.PS.(Features)
Feb 02, 2009 ... SUNDAY TELEGRAPH CHESHIRE-BASED condoms to footwear group, SSL, produced a very strong trading update this week. The company trades on a high earnings multiple, but has defensive qualities and good growth potential. The Durex and Scholl parent raised around pounds 90m ...
Uniq puts famous name up for sale.(Features)
Feb 02, 2009 ... PINNEYS, which supplies salmon to the Queen, has been put up for sale by owner Uniq. The Uniq food group is selling a number of its businesses as part of an ongoing structural review, a report said. Earlier this week, Uniq, which supplies sandwiches, ready meals and ...
Economic insight for region's business leaders.(Business)
Feb 02, 2009 ... THE Institute of Directors (IoD), Liverpool branch, is offering North West business leaders the opportunity to hear from IoD chief economist and director of Policy, Graeme Leach, at a key business breakfast at the University of Liverpool. At the event on February 11, Mr Leach ...
Rio seeks Chinese investment.(Business)
Feb 02, 2009 ... MINING giant Rio Tinto is in talks to raise up to EUR9bn (pounds 6.17bn) from the Chinese government, it was reported yesterday. The deal with Chinalco, the state-owned aluminium company, could be one of China's biggest overseas investments outside of the financial sector, ...
Glaxo to slash jobs across the globe.(Business)
Feb 02, 2009 ... DRUGS giant Glaxosmithkline is set to axe thousands of jobs when it announces its fullyear results this week, it has been reported. The pharmaceuticals firm is thought to be planning a worldwide employee cut, potentially including some UK staff, as the industry faces growing ...
Cracklinrosie is on the up.(Sport)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: BY ARGUS MISS CRACKLINROSIE rather flattered to deceive as a juvenile but can kick off her three-year-old career in style at Wolverhampton. Although still a maiden after seven starts, it is fair to predict the John Weymes-trained filly being an interesting ...