Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England) back issues from November 2007:
Just let us bring Gary home; Law means body may stay in Spain.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: By GREG O'KEEFFE AN OLD Spanish law is preventing Gary Dunne's parents getting their murdered son's body back from Spain. Yesterday the ECHO revealed how the grieving family were told the remains could not be returned within the next four years unless they ...
Probe on DVD scam claims.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... TWO British Transport police staff members are under investigation for allegedly copying pirate DVDs at Lime Street station. The civilian pair, a man and woman, have been questioned by BTP's Professional Standards department about the illegal operation. It is alleged ...
08 card is a winner!(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... PEOPLE who sign up to Liverpool's 08 card scheme today could win opera tickets. The first 100 shoppers who sign up to the Livesmart VIP card at Metquarter from 6pm to 9pm will get ...
Man arrested after seven-hour siege.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... DOZENS of people were finally allowed back into their homes in Eiiesmere Port after police evacuated homes when a man barricaded himself in a house. Neighbours said they believed the man had been protesting about being unable to see his children. The seven-hour siege ...
TRAVEL BOSS FINALLY FREE OF DRUG SHAME; Name cleared after probe shows prosecution withheld crucial evidence in trial.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: By BEN ROSSINGTON Crime Reporter A TRAVEL company director who spent nine years in jail was today rebuilding his life after his name was cleared. Trevor Haskayne, 67, was sentenced to 18 years in prison in 1995 after a jury convicted him of a pounds 6m drug ...
Dinner date for Rhys fund.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... CROXTETH Park councillor Rose Bailey is putting on a fundraising dinner in memory of Rhys Jones. Cllr Bailey has organised a hot pot supper at the Devonshire House Hotel, Edge Lane, on Saturday November 10. Billy Butler will compere the evening and entertainment will ...
Charity sale.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... A FUN night auction at Heswall Hall for the Wirral branch of the Multiple Sclerosis Society raised pounds 2,617. ...
Tears for birthday girl Ellie; Dad closes web message board over 'idiots'.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: By LUKE TRAYNOR A TRIBUTE website to Ellie Lawrenson was frozen in the runup to what would have been her sixth birthday. The Gone Too Soon site has been visited more than 87,000 times by well-wishers of the youngster who was killed by her uncle's pitbull ...
Cops up to speed.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... POLICE are trying out a hi-tech solution to motorway congestion. Merseyside police and the Highways Agency are using state-of-the-art technology, including GPS satellites, to keep the M62 moving. The technology means officers can clear debris and make a virtual map ...
District News Central.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... CITY CENTRE: At the start of their 08 season Liverpool Welsh Choral welcome the Royal Edinburgh Choral to combine into a choir ofmore than 200 singers to perform a Cathedral Classics Spectacular at 7.30pm in Liverpool Cathedral on Saturday, November 10. Tickets, pounds 10, from 0151-652 ...
pounds 2.5m to restore mosque; Tribute to city's Islamic first.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: By MARY MURTAGH A pounds 2.5m project has been launched to restore Britain's first mosque. The derelict grade II listed Georgian Brougham Terrace in Tuebrook is set to be transformed into a heritage and education centre. The project is a tribute to ...
Shaken up by a ghost writer!(Features)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: Pete Price DEAR Peter," the letter began, "I must remain anonymous; the reason will become clear." I read on for a few lines and the hairs on the back of my neck started to stick up. By the time I got to the bottom, my hands were shaking. If this man was who ...
Look at me now, ma! Lilly's parents thank Alder Hey.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: By ADRIAN BUTLER THE parents of a baby girl who was saved by Alder Hey heart surgeons are raising money for the hospital. Lilly McManus was born with a large hole in her heart and had the life-saving surgery at just three-and-a-half months old. At ...
It's spooky, but it's fun!(Features)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: By BEN TURNER LIVERPOOL was lit up last night as crowds converged on Sefton Park for its annual Hallowe'en lanternparade. Organisers the Liverpool Lantern Company estimated around 10,000 people turned out for the free "celebration of creativity". ...
A NEW START; City blaze family move over road.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: By BEN ROSSINGTON A LIVERPOOL family, left homeless after a sparkler blaze, have been rehoused. Jenny Ion, her partner John Marr and their five children moved into a house across the road from their old home in Kirkdale on Sunday. Their Stirling ...
City centre clinic to fight sex disease plight.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... A SEXUAL health clinic to tackle Liverpool's rocketing infection rates will open on Monday in the city centre. The surgery, on Great Charlotte Street near the St Johns Centre, will give walk-in treatment seven days a week. It will open at midday and close late twice a ...
Ambulance rap as fall woman, 93 waits 2 hrs.(Features)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: By ADRIAN BUTLER AMBULANCE bosses have launched an investigation after a 93-year-old woman was forced to wait in agony for more than two hours. The woman had fallen over in the Tuebrook branch of Iceland and an ambulance was called by staff. But while they ...
food & drink: Why I'm a VEGAN.(Features)
Nov 01, 2007 ... MOST restaurants now cater for vegetarians, but take away eggs, butter, milk and cheese and many chefs are left quaking in their boots. A vegan diet can present problems when eating out, but, Scouseveg, a networking group for Merseyside vegetarians and vegans, aims to change all ...
You read it here first: Print will see off the competition; Tasie Tesit Jade Wright is smitten by the chunky chips as she samples the food and the atmosphere at Print.(Features)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: Jade Wright STROLLING around the city centre, it seems a new restaurant opens its doors each week. But Print on Stanley Street promises to be something different. The bar/restaurant, with a hotel above and nightclub below, created a splash when ...
Emma's local knowledge earns chefs award.(Features)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: Fiona Ennys CHEF Emma Wombwell is certainly onto a winner with the new menus she has been creating at a Wirral pub. Emma, 23, from Little Neston, is the Merseyside Young Chef of the Year 2008 after impressing judges with a series of dishes using ...
Liquid News: Great food? We'll drink to that...(Features)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: Fiona Ennys SOME combinations are just meant to be - gin and tonic, vodka and coke ... And where there's drink there surely has to be food. With that in mind it should come as no surprise that there's a new book featuring alcohol as a key recipe ...
Crowning glory to a day meant for beer; Your Pub Paddy Shennan is reunited with an old friend for the weekend.(Features)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: Paddy Shennan FRIDAY was on my mind. This was because ... it was Friday. As in Friday, I'm in love, that Friday feeling and thank flip it's Friday. Why do we all put ourselves through the daily misery of going to work? Just so we can enjoy the buzz of Fridays, ...
Why Phil says sky's the limit on Bonfire Night; Chef's Special Treats for Bonfire Night from celebrity chef Phil Vickery.(Features)
Nov 01, 2007 ... PHIL Vickery is planning tocelebrate Bonfire Night withhis family. But he'll need to be careful. "Wewill let off a few fireworks in the garden on November 5,"he says, "but we've gotabit of livestockso wewill need to try and keep them all in!" He andwife, ...
My Last Supper.(Features)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: by actress Lindzi Germain LIVERPOOL actress Lindzi Germainmust surely beontrack tostardom. Lindzi,who recently appeared at the Royal Court in the acclaimed production, Lost Souls, is feted for her theatre work and that could soon be followed by TV. ...
Our Family Favourite.(Features)
Nov 01, 2007 ... EMMAOWEN isabig fanof the sport of kings and, asmarketing manager for Aintree, she has the chanceto indulge her passion. Emma, 29,who is currently putting in long hours organising one of the most prestigious events in the course's calendar, the Northwest Racing Masters, loves ...
You tell us how proud you are of Mersey Marvels; It's your ECHO Have YOUR say on your favourite newspaper.(Features)(Awards list)
Nov 01, 2007 ... ONE annual event in the ECHO'S calendar guaranteed to leave not a dry-eye in the house is our Mersey Marvels awards ceremony. And this year's was no exception as the star-studded awards ceremony to praise our unsung heroes was held this week at the city's Crowne Plaza hotel. ...
Letter: Short points - Central station.(Letters)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: BD ON a number occasions, I have alighted the Wirral line train at Central station and found the up escalators out of service, while two going down were operative. Once, I was accompanying a friend with breathing difficulties and when she reached the top was ...
Letter: Short points - Royal Hospital.(Letters)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: G Miller (Mrs) I WISH to thank ward 9X at the Royal Hospital. I am a regular patient on this ward and all the medical and nursing team are so caring and look after me so well. G ...
Letter: Short points - Liverpool School.(Letters)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: Mark Bill FOR nearly two weeks, the road outside the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has been down to a single lane, while repaying of the street takes place. Every time I go past, no work is taking place ....
Letter: Short points - Lime Street.(Letters)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: Ms Barbara Price ON Saturday early evening, I tripped running for a bus in Lime Street and fell guite heavily. Although I was not badly hurt, my situation was much eased by the attention I was given by a young man and a mum out with her children. I ...
Letter: You say - No more tax.(Letters)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: John Cotton I READ Cllr Anderson's letter in the ECHO recently about how London pays extra for police by paying pounds 100 more in council tax. He also said that the police reported that crime was down in Merseyside. Well, it's not where I live and police on ...
Letter: You say - Tackling gun crime.(Letters)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: Mr J Methuen I WRITE following comments by the chairman of the Merseyside police authority. He says the police committee has, in the past few weeks, made investments into tackling gun crime. I and I would assume that most residents of Merseyside, welcome any ...
Letter: You say - Baggage problems.(Letters)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: Mrs Sue Millard ON Sunday, October 14, my husband and I booked a flight to Palma, Mallorca, with bmibaby Sticking to the 20kg each rule, we packed our clothes into one suitcase weighing 25kg. We checked in, only to be told that we were supposed to have one ...
Letter: You say - Croxteth Hall.(Letters)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: Ann & John Vaughan THE Spooky Nights family event at Croxteth Hall was so enjoyable, such fun - despite scaring us all witless ....
Letter: You say - Speke Garston issues.(Letters)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: Gary Thomas IF anyone has seen a councillor in the Speke Garston area lately, could you tell them that the old shopping precinct is now empty and can be pulled down at their leisure, otherwise they can let the vandals do the job for them. Is this going to be ...
Your Poem; What's become of God's wonderful world?(Features)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: by Morgan GOD made the earth, God made the sea, God made you And God made me. When everyone was praying, A nasty little man Convinced them all to turn on God And showed them how they can. ...
Tourism bid to get rid of 'eyesore'.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: By HELEN HUNT CAMPAIGNERS want to replace a "deformed concrete mushroom" with a national tourist attraction. The crumbling Seaforth radar tower is regarded as an eyesore by many people in the area. Now the Mersey Basin Campain wants to build an ...
Cash for libraries.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... TWO Mersey libraries are among 15 in the north west to get a share of a pounds 12.9m Big Lottery Fund grant. Toxteth library is to be redesigned thanks to a pounds 1.2m windfall and Run-corn's ...
Offers flood in to aid Liam club; Delight at response after tragedy pals had kit stolen.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: By MICHELLE FIDDLER Chief Reporter THE football club where schoolboy Liam Costello was a star player has been overwhelmed by public generosity after kits were stolen. Thieves stole 30 football shirts and rain jackets belonging to Woolton FC, as club officials ...
Ian really loves our dress sense.(Features)
Nov 01, 2007 ... EVERYScouser knows the famous Liverpool generosity canstretchto giving someone the shirt off your back. But nowone of the world's best known Mancunians isabeliever too. Legendary former Stone Roses singer IanBrown (pictured)was in the city for his gig at Liverpool ...
John and Kitten Liz are having a ball.(Features)
Nov 01, 2007 ... NO-ONE can doubt John Barnes' commitment to this season's Strictly Come Dancing competition. Heattended the glitzy launch of Living Ventures latest venue Gus to Bar and Restaurant in He swall and while everyone else enjoyed ...
Weighting game? We won it . .(Features)
Nov 01, 2007 ... ARSENAL and Liverpool top brass went he ad to head in apre-game grudge match before Sunday's big footy clash. Gunners boss Arsene Wenger was showing off his a thleticprowess in the Arkhealt hand fitness club of the Radisson hotel on Saturday evening when one of the key US ...
Made up with APt help.(Features)
Nov 01, 2007 ... THE National Television Awards is the glitziest date in the tellycalendar, so why wouldn't the stars want to look theirbest? And even the beautiful need a little help some times,which is why the gorgeous girlsand boys from Hollyoaks were spotted at Apt (Age Perfecting ...
Having a bit of a bad hair day, Billi?(Features)
Nov 01, 2007 ... WOMEN are known for their last minute hair emergencies ... but men? Insider hears that image-obsessed Big Brother housemate Billi Bhatti hada very girlie disaster en route to the opening of a new hair salon in Liverpool. Our source reveals: "One of Billi's hair ...
Spotted.(Features)
Nov 01, 2007 ... ENGLISH soul and R&Bdiva Beverley Knight (pictured) checking in to Liverpool's Radisson SAS hotel before her gig at the Empire LANKY Liverpool striker Peter Crouch also in the lobby of the Radisson waiting for a photo shoot with a magazine HOLLYOAKS actor James ...
Top cop's Kop stop.(Features)
Nov 01, 2007 ... EVEN when you' reembr oiled in high level political probing, there's still time for as pot of dinner and footy. Insider ...
Triple awards joy at Birchwood Park.(Business)
Nov 01, 2007 ... THREE property awards in as many weeks have confirmed the status of MEPC Birchwood Park in Warrington as a leading north west office development. The park took the prizes against competition from Manchester and Leeds. The Property Executive North of England office ...
DRIVE TO MAKE CAR ACCESSIBLE TO ALL; I can do that! In association with.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: BY TOM DOWLING THERE is no denying the massive benefits of being able to drive if you have problems walking. But just getting yourself in and out of vehicles can be a real pain for tens of thousands of people. If, like me, you also have to take a ...
Ear health appeal by Miss England; I can do that! In association with.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... MISS England is calling on the country to lend their ears to a very good cause. Georgia Horsley, who was crowned Miss England this year and is profoundly deaf in her right ear, stepped into London's Leicester Square to launch the Ear of the Year awards and encourage passers-by ...
Pick of the day.(Features)
Nov 01, 2007 ... BBC1 EastEnders (7.30pm) Hour-long episode. Stacey and Bradley's big day arrives, but Sean is determined the wedding will not go ahead until she comes clean about her affair with Max. At the Vic, Ronnie plans to use some of the money Peggy gave her for the bailiffs to take ...
FILM O F THE DAY; Internal Affairs (Sky Movies Action/Thriller, 10.50pm).(Features)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Crooked cop Richard Gere, an opportunist who uses his badge and uniform as a cover for assorted unsavoury moneymaking schemes, meets ...
PICK OF THE DAY; Live Premier League Snooker (Sky Sports 3, 7.30pm).(Features)
Nov 01, 2007 ... On target: JimmyWhite, Live Premier League Snooker The eighth meeting of the season comes from the Guildford Spectrum, where the featured matches see Jimmy White take on John Higgins and Steve Davis clash with Ding Junhui. World champion Higgins made a poor start to the campaign ...
CATCH THE ACTION; Golf Night (Sky Sports 2, 7.30pm).(Features)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Di Stewart reviews the latest tournaments from around the world, with special focus turned to the European and US Tours. Plus, updates on the day's scoring, interviews with players making the headlines and a preview of forthcoming events. ...
A HANDSHAKE ALONG THE PATH FOR PEACE; Colin and Wendy Parry share platform with Gerry Adams.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: By THOMAS MARTIN COLIN Parry shook hands with Gerry Adams as they shared a peace platform. Mr Parry's 12-year-old son Tim was killed in an IRA bomb attack in Warrington in March 1993. He and his wife Wendy set up a peace foundation in memory of the ...
MRSA down but fears over c.diff continue.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... CASES of the super bug MRSA have dropped significantly in north west hospitals. Levels of the clostridium difficile (c.diff) have also fallen, according to today's figures for April to June. Regional infection expert Dr Catherine Quigley said she was "cautiously ...
ECHO Arena pulls them in.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... MORE than 2,500 hotel room nights have already been booked for the MTV Europe Music Awards in Liverpool. It was announced yesterday that the awards ceremony would be hosted at the ECHO Arena on November 6 2008. Liverpool can expect at least pounds 33mof free publicity ...
Win tickets for the Everton v Nuremberg match.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... THE ECHO is offering one lucky fan a pair of exclusive tickets for Everton's Uefa Cup match against Nuremberg in Germany next Thursday. The prize includes flights, transfers, tickets to the match, and one night in a 5-star hotel. To enter simply answer the following ...
'Our cultural hour has finally come'.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... ECHO Arts Editor Joe Riley gave his unique take on Liverpool's claim to Capital of Culture status in the latest of the city's Roscoe Lecture series. Joe pulled no punches before 1,200 guests at St George's hall as he gave an extensive look at the question "Does Liverpool ...
Pals gather in tribute to bus tragedy boy.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: By CAROLINE INNES FRIENDS have paid tribute to the 15-year-old boy they saw knocked down and killed by a bus. Daniel Baxendaie died at the scene of the accident in Mather Avenue. Dozens of friends gathered to remember the boy they all knewasDids. ...
St Helens bank 'at centre of pounds 15m scam'.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... A GROUP of businessmen defrauded a Merseyside bank out of more than pounds 15m, a court was told. The money was transferred from the Natwest branch in St Helens before being moved to banks in Riga, Latvia, and then to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, it was alleged at ...
Trains delayed.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... TRAIN services were disrupted last night after a man ...
News Briefs: Blackout hits 20,000 homes.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... A POLICE investigation was under way today after a blackout left 20,000 homes without power. Parts of ...
News Briefs: Police bike death.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... A MAN is his 60s was knocked down and killed by a police motorbike. The ...
News Briefs: Winston's woes.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... THE ageing Winston Churchill's battles with cabinet colleagues during his ...
News Briefs: Bernie's Benz.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... A MERCEDES Benz from the collection of Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone sold for almost pounds 4m ...