Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England) back issues from December 2007:
Forget the bingo, we're playing on our new Wii; EXCLUSIVE Pensioners use games console to keep fit.(Features)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: By GREG O'KEEFFE LIVERPOOL pensioners are playing the latest video games console in a bid to keep fit. Elderly residents are hooked on the Nintendo Wii after a charity encouraged them to try the must-have Christmas toy. And the console is proving ...
District News South.(News)
Dec 01, 2007 ... HUYTON: Merseyside BioBank, a new records centre that will hold all information on the animals, plants and habitats in Merseyside, has been opened. The pounds 1.4m centre at the national Wildflower Centre, Huyton, is Heritage Lottery and European funded. MOSSLEY HILL: Dovedale ...
Time runs out for historic building.(News)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: By CATHERINE JONES A 200-YEAR-OLD Liverpool city centre building is to be demolished, despite efforts to save it. Jamaica House in Dale Street, originally a warehouse but more recently known as an hotel, will be knocked down before Christmas. ...
House history.(News)
Dec 01, 2007 ... JAMAICA House was built around 1800 as a wine and spirit warehouse during a road widening scheme and is one of only a handful of surviving Georgian buildings on Dale Street. It is also one of the city's earliest surviving purpose-built warehouses. By 1845 it had ...
pounds 200K DRUGS SEIZED IN RADS; Cops pleased by haul.(News)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: By MICHELLE FIDDLER Chief Reporter DRUGS with a street value of nearly pounds 200,000 and weapons were seized during a series of police raids. Four addresses were searched in Birkenhead and Bebington as part of the ongoing Operation Hawk. Officers ...
Doctor is cleared of misconduct.(News)
Dec 01, 2007 ... A DOCTOR who switched off vital equipment during surgery as a training exercise has been cleared of misconduct. Dr James Murphy, 49, turned off the power supply to anaesthetics machinery and told junior colleagues he was going on a coffee break before walking out of the ...
Immigrant letter was fake.(News)
Dec 01, 2007 ... AN ILLEGAL Chinese immigrant was found in possession of a bogus Home Office letter. Liverpool Crown Court heard that Xiou Chen later told police he had borrowed money and been smuggled into the UK by the notorious Snakeheads gang. He was arrested after police arrived ...
Monday meeting.(News)
Dec 01, 2007 ... A PUBLIC meeting, to demand Gordon Brown calls a vote over the proposed EU reform treaty, ...
Bradley leads bid to save Remploy.(News)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: By IAN HERNON Political Correspondent LIVERPOOL'S council leader has stepped in to try and save 71 jobs at the closure threatened Aintree Remploy factory. It is one of three Merseyside Remploy plants earmarked to close, the government has confirmed. ...
I feel sick at the sight of more sick; SIX in the City.(News)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: JADE WRIGHT THERE'S a mettlesome epidemic at large in society today - TV bulimia. Actors, actresses and even occasionally real people seem to be losing their lunch as casually as if they were catwalk models. Now, call me old-fashioned but if I want ...
Shop Rhys's murderer and we WILL protect you; Police chief's pledge.(News)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: By BEN ROSSINGTON Crime Reporter WITNESSES in the Rhys Jones murder investigation will be protected by the best in the business, police have pledged. Merseyside police's Witness Assistance Unit has scooped a national award for protecting witnesses during a ...
Gun death accused in court.(News)
Dec 01, 2007 ... A 20-YEAR-OLD Croxteth man accused of killing a man near a busy Liverpool cinema has appeared for the first time at Liverpool Crown Court. Paul Holland, of Portlemouth Road, is alleged to have killed Michael Wright in December last year. ...
Lecture over Iraqi Oil control.(News)
Dec 01, 2007 ... IRAQI journalist Ewa Jasiewicz is the speaker at a Wirral Trades Unions Council meeting at the Mersey Advice centre in Birkenhead's St Anne Street on Thursday evening, December 13. ...
Football stars help launch city's new smoke-free campaign.(News)
Dec 01, 2007 ... A NEW smoke-free campaign aimed at protecting young people has been launched with support from Liverpool footballing stars. Liverpool and Everton are both backing the SmokeFree Kids campaign, designed to bring home the message that smoking around young people can cause serious ...
SCHOOL JOY AT APPEAL VICTORY.(News)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: By BEN TURNER Education Reporter A SCHOOL which was refused permission to expand is celebrating after the decision was overturned on appeal. In September, Liverpool council told Childwall Church of England Primary it could not develop its premises to take in ...
Heading up.(News)
Dec 01, 2007 ... LIVERPOOL teachers are preparing for life in the school hotseat. The 27 teachers ...
Culture message launches online.(News)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: By CATHERINE JONES Culture Reporter LIVERPOOL'S Open Culture initiative is taking its message to a global audience on the worldwide web. Organisers of the new website - www.culture.org.uk - launched this week, hope it will stimulate debate about culture both ...
Little Acorns on culture trail.(News)
Dec 01, 2007 ... LIVERPOOL tots are getting involved in the city's 2008 celebrations with their own culture initiative. The Little Acorns project will see children at selected Liverpool nurseries and childminders working with artists to explore what culture means to them. They will ...
District News Wirral.(News)
Dec 01, 2007 ... WALLASEY: Wallasey youngsters are producing a DVD to spread the healthy living message to children in schools across the Wirral. Riverside Housing gave pounds 1721 to Wallasey YMCA to hold new media sessions for young people aged 11-16 based on a health kick project. ...
Burglar jailed for taking wedding ring.(News)
Dec 01, 2007 ... A BURGLAR who broke into a woman's home and stole her wedding ring has been jailed for 33 months. Judge Gerald Clifton told Christopher O'Connor: "The burglary in terms of money amounts to very little. In terms of sentimental value it meant a huge amount." O'Connor, ...
Master Minds; Weekend Break.(Features)
Dec 01, 2007 ... 1 What was the name of comic book character Peter Parker's superhero alias? 2 Who was the first man to walk on the moon? 3 Which craft took him there? 4 In what year was Madonna's Like A Virgin album released? 5 What is David Bowie's real name? ...
Church on Liverpool; Weekend Break.(Features)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Where is it? Answer: The golden slave ship which sits on ...
First shot in the American Civil War; Weekend Break.(Features)
Dec 01, 2007 ... DID YOU KNOW? The first shot in the American Civil War was fired ...
Recipe: Dresdner Stollen (makes 2 or 3 to store for Christmas); Weekend Break.(Features)(Recipe)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Ingredients: 1kg (2lb 4oz) plain flour; 200g (7oz) sugar; TlOg (4oz) fresh yeast; 1/2litre (18floz) milk; 1tsp vanilla extract; a few drops of almond extract; a pinch ground nutmeg; a pinch of ground cloves; a pinch of salt; 400g (14oz) unsalted butter, melted and cooled down;11Og (4oz) ...
INCIDENT BOARD; GREAT ECHO MURDER MYSTRY DAY12.(News)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Now you have all the pieces of the puzzle, can you work out who is the killer? Mystery History 1900-2000 During World War II, Merseyside was Adolf Hitler's number one target outside London. It was the most heavily bombed area outside the capital and the ...
Thanks from the Mistress of Murder.(Features)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: JOY SWIFT I'D like to thank so many people who made my special Murder Mystery possible, writes JOY SWIFT. Thanks to Alastair Machray and the editorial team at the Liverpool ECHO for inviting me to write it in the first place. And thanks to all the ...
Now name the killer and win a 7-day cruise for two; The GREAT MURDER MYSTERY.(Competition/Offers)
Dec 01, 2007 ... OUR top sleuth can enjoy the thrill of cruising on the Mediterranean on the amazing "Navigator of the Seas". This famous liner comes complete with rock climbing wall, ice rink, Royal Promenade and an amazing choice of dining. One detective will win two tickets for the ...
When in Rome (or Sudan or Tehran) do as they do.(Features)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: Ian Hernon OF course it was outrageous that Liverpool schoolteacher Gillian Gibbons (pictured)this week faced the threat of a public flogging in Sudan. The 54-year-old is clearly an innocent-though naive-victim of the strictest interpretation of Islamic law. ...
Letter: Short Points.(Letters)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: Graham Agg SOMEONE from the Liverpool FC hierarchy needs to inform Messrs Tom Hicks and George Gillett that spurting out inane and disrespectful comments about Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez, while sitting in a ...
Letter: Short Points.(Letters)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: Tony Hendley I WOULD like to draw attention to the fact that we haven't a public slip way accessible for small craft at low water or high water into the Mersey on Liverpool's side of the river. We have ...
Letter: Short Points.(Letters)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: John Ball CAN all our pensioners who get free bus passes be banned from using the service during December? On Friday people were getting on the bus with all their Christmas presents and could not get a seat due to the amount of pensioners just sitting on the ...
Letter: Your Say - Cemetery 'Dogwatch'.(Letters)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: Sheila B. THANK you Joan Burns (E CH0 Letters, Nov 24) for pointing out the dog ban in Anfield cemetery I visit the cemetery with my dog on a daily basis to look for graves, as I have a website for Anfield cemetery and have helped hundreds of people from all ...
Letter: Your Say - A cause for complaint.(Letters)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: Pete Molloy I THOUGHT the comments made by Louis Emerick in the E CH0 (Nov 21) about there being no black actors in Jimmy McGovern's BBC drama series The Street, were typical when a white person wants to do any project that just concentrates on their own community - and ...
Letter: Your Say - Wheelchair misery.(Letters)
Dec 01, 2007 ... I HAVE been looking through the magazine that is delivered free about the city of Liverpool and the '08 Culture. I have looked through each item and there is no mention of disabled people. Several shops in Liverpool are inaccessible to wheelchair-users. What really ...
Letter: Your Say - Police spoiled our day.(Letters)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: Sam Gill ON Sunday my girlfriend was dropping me off on Dale Street, close to a well-known rehearsal studio, with a large amount of heavy musical equipment. As I lifted the items from the car the police came and issued her with a pounds 60 fine, three points ...
Letter: Your Say - OUR PM is claiming that.(Letters)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: Jason Smith OUR PM is claiming that "the proper place to scrutinise such legislation (ie. The EU Treaty) is in Parliament". The man must surely know that ...
Your Poem The Automated Robotic Voice.(Features)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: by Darryl Ashton 'Your call's important to us' said the voice 'We thank you for still holding on 'We'll answer your query as soon as we can 'That's if you're still there and not gone!' Ah well, there's the rub, as The ...
Preview: ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN Carling Academy Liverpool.(Features)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: by Jade Wright ECHO and the Bunnymen defined the sound of a generation with their bittersweet lyrics and haunting melodies. The Liverpool legends attracted a massive cult following, and they remain a seminal influence for a host of today's best-known bands. ...
TV Choice: WATCH IT; Cranford (BBC1, 9pm).(Features)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: Peter Grant WHEN Dr Harrison's housekeeper, Mrs Rose, discovers a leg of mutton has been stolen from the kitchen window on the very same night that Mr Johnson, the owner of the town's most ...
TV Choice: TAPE IT; Long Way Down (BBC2, 9pm).(Features)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: Peter Grant ALL good things must come to an end, and this week the old mates briefly go their separate ways when Ewan ...
TV Choice: GO TO BED; All Star Family For tunes (ITV1, 8.25pm).(Features)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: Peter Grant MAGICIAN Stephen Mulhern and ...
Pick of the day.(Features)
Dec 01, 2007 ... BBC1 Match of the Day (10.30pm) Highlights of this afternoon's Premier League clashes, including Aston Villa v Arsenal and Chelsea against West Ham United. BBC2 The Company (9.40pm) Jack is stationed in Hungary, where an English ...
FILM OF THE DAY; Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Sky Movies Premiere, 8.00pm).(Features)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Premiere. Sacha Baron Cohen stars as a hapless Kazakhstani journalist who travels to the ...
PICK OF THE DAY; Live Football Special (Sky Sports 1, 12.30pm).(Features)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Chelsea v West Ham United (Kick-off 12.45pm). Coverage of the Premier League London derby at Stamford Bridge, where the visitors go in search of an unlikely victory. The Blues have won the last five meetings between the sides, including a 1-0 win here last season courtesy of a goal by ...
CATCH THE ACTION.(Features)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Live Saturday Night Football (Sky Sports 1, 5.15pm) Watford v Bristol City (Kick-off 5.20pm). Coverage of this evening's Championship encounter comes from Vicarage Road, as two of the pacesetters face each other. Watford's place at the top of the table is of little surprise, but ...
Sunday: FILM OF THE DAY; Nacho Libre (Sky Movies Premiere, 9.30pm).(Features)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Comedy starring Jack Black as an Mexican friar working as a cook in the orphanage where he grew up. When he learns of a wrestling tournament, he ...
Sunday: PICK OF THE DAY; Live Super Sunday (Sky Sports 1, 3.30pm).(Features)
Dec 01, 2007 ... The Premier League fixture at White Hart Lane sees Tottenham Hotspur face a struggling Birmingham City, with Juande Ramos looking for further improvements from the hosts. The former Sevilla boss has had plenty of time to assess his squad since taking over from Martin Jol and will be ...
Sunday: CATCH THE ACTION.(Features)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Live Football Special (Sky Sports 1, 1.00pm) England XI v Rest of the World XI (Kickoff 1.30pm). Coverage of the PFA Centenary match at the City of Manchester Stadium, featuring sides managed by Terry Venables and Sven- Goran Eriksson. Live Test Cricket (Sky Sports ...
Sunday: Pick of the day.(Features)
Dec 01, 2007 ... BBC1 Antiques Roadshow (8.00pm) The team travel to Powis Castle in Wales and value a host of treasures including an original Dr Who script and a broken piece of pottery. BBC2 Long Way Down (9.00pm) The duo briefly go their separate ...
One could be a jolly good comedienne.(News)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: Paddy Shennan EVER let it be said gain that work-that most offensive of four-letter words-and the royal family are total strangers. It was there for all to see during the first programme in the new five-part documentary series: Monarchy: The Royal Family At ...
Millionaire puts price on friendship.(News)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: Paddy Shennan THERE'S obviously something very artificial and random about The Secret Millionaire (Channel 4, Wednesday). Then again, the undercover millionaires involved only have a few days to find a few deserving individuals to splash some of their cash ...
The week ahead.(News)(Calendar)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: Paddy Shennan MONDAY Live At The Apollo (BBC1,10.35pm) Southport-born comic Lee Mack (pictured), with a stand-up DVD intheshops in time for Christmas and fresh from his latest series of Not Going Out, joins fellow comedian Sean Lock for a night of laughs. ...
Jimmy McGovern.(News)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: Paddy Shennan LIFE is never black and white on The Street (BBC1, Thursday), but, at times, it does appear to be unremittingly grey. And grim. And miserable. As soon as its soft, sweet theme tune strikes up, you would be well-advised to steel yourself - and ...
Flash back: Look who's back in town.(Features)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Ahead of Monday's Royal Variety Performance at the Liverpool Empire, ECHO Chief FeatureWriter Paddy Shennan reflects on some of the Queen's previous visits to the city. Turn to Page 30 for more pictures ...
Rock of ages.(News)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: Jade Wright 1964 A Hard Day's Night - The Beatles The Beatles third album - and their first to feature entirely original compositions - topped the charts for 21 weeks back in 1964. Released on July 10 as the soundtrack to their first film of the ...
Liverpool, circa 1907; Maritime TALES.(News)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: STEPHEN GUY SHIPS of all sizes can be seen around the waterfront in the stunning aerial oil painted view of the bustling port called Modern Liverpool 1907. The city panorama was painted by Walter Richards as part of Liverpool's 700th anniversary celebrations ....
Old Pals.(News)
Dec 01, 2007 ... I WOULD like to contact the relatives of an old mate, the late SAC Alan Ledson, RAF Fire Service. He sadly passed away in an aircraft accident at RAF Tengah, Singapore on April 231957 and was buried in the Bukit Timah Military Cemetery. I believe his family live in ...
Modern day Vikings; How experts are tracing descendants DISCOVERING YOUR FAMILY HISTORY.(News)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: MARTIN RIGBY THEY came to raid and settle in the North West ... and they are still here! A remarkable study about our Viking ancestors has revealed that many of their genetic descendants are alive and well, and living in Wirral and West Lancashire. ...
On This Weekend; December1/December2.(News)
Dec 01, 2007 ... FORMER city trader Nick Leeson was jailed for six and a half years on December 21995 for his part in the collapse of Britain's oldest merchant bank Barings. The 28-year-old futures trader admitted to two charges of fraud connected with Barings Bank's pounds 860m demise. ...
The haunted Bentley.(Features)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: Tom Slemen ONE feverishly warm evening in the oven-hot summer of 1976, a middle-aged Wavertree woman named Edna Johnson was walking up Wellington Road when she saw an old-fashioned maroon car approaching at high speed. A cat crept off the pavement kerb, but ...
Royal appointment.(Features)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: PS LOOK who's heading backto Liverpool! The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, who recently celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary, will be in the city this Monday for the Royal Variety Performance at the Empire Theatre. They will be entertained by a ...
First lady's city link; Paddy Shennan on a book which reveals a wartime link between Liverpool and The White House.(News)
Dec 01, 2007 ... HEARD the one about the American president's wife and Liverpool's Dock Road? No, it isn't a joke. And no, it doesn't involve George W. Bush's missus Laura flogging stuff at that Scouse institution, the Sunday Heritage Market. This is the story of former president's ...
Rewind: Were you wide awake for Timmy's Wacaday? Wacaday (ITV, 1985-1992) Flash back.(Features)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: Amy Salter KIDS'TV presenters have to be somewhat 'wacky', but back in the eighties one man lived and breathed the concept more than most. Timmy Mallett, or the "utterly brilliant Timmy Mallett" as fans knew him, was the face of Wacaday, which aired during ...
Letter: Feed back; Flash back.(Letters)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: Marian Edwards IT was with great interest that we American Dealeys read your article "JFK shot in plaza named after Scouse-born tycoon" that appeared in the ECHO (Oct 13) written by Martin Rigby. There is quite a group of us Dealey descendants who have been ...
Letter: Feed back; Flash back.(Letters)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Byline: Mrs Beryl Cooper WHEN we did our football "dream team" at work, I called my team The Back Entry Diddlers after the cartoon strip, that was in the ECHO just after the war. This caused a few laughs and raised eyebrows, because in today's ...