Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England) back issues from January 2008:
2008 IT'S OUR YEAR.(News)
Jan 01, 2008 ... NOW LET THE PARTY ...
Here we go, the Big Dig is about to give way to the Big Gig! IT'S 2008 AT LAST, AND CITY GEARS UP FOR ITS FIRST CAPITAL OF CULTURE EXTRAVAGANZA NEXT WEEKEND Countdown to opening.(News)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: By CATHERINE JONES Culture Reporter THE countdown begins today to Capital of Culture's grand opening weekend. Ringo Starr will lead the celebrations over two nights in the city. The ex-Beatle will appear on top of St George's Hall on January 11 as ...
Fireworks and songs at city's cathedral; IT'S 2008 AT LAST, AND CITY GEARS UP FOR ITS FIRST CAPITAL OF CULTURE EXTRAVAGANZA NEXT WEEKEND.(News)
Jan 01, 2008 ... LIVERPOOL'S Capital of Culture year was born in fire to mark the start of 2008. The date was spelt out in spectacular firewriting as fireworks cascaded from the roof of Liverpool Cathedral at midnight. Searchlights also illuminated the side of the sandstone cathedral ...
What's going on, and where... IT'S 2008 AT LAST, AND CITY GEARS UP FOR ITS FIRST CAPITAL OF CULTURE EXTRAVAGANZA NEXT WEEKEND.(News)
Jan 01, 2008 ... JANUARY 11 ST GEORGE'S Hall: 8.30pm-11pm - the venue's heritage centre will be open to take visitors on a journey back to the Victorian era. World Museum: 8.30pm-10pm - National Museums Liverpool and charity Plan International launch a new international twinning ...
News Briefs: 700,000 ring in New Year.(News)
Jan 01, 2008 ... THOUSANDS of New Year's Eve revellers took to the streets of London to welcome in 2008. Up to 700,000 partygoers lined ...
News Briefs: Greening arrest.(News)
Jan 01, 2008 ... A MAN has been arrested in connection with the death of DJ Kevin ...
News Briefs: Chainsaw threat.(News)
Jan 01, 2008 ... POLICE are investigating a man for threatening a group of youths with a running chainsaw. Devon ...
News Briefs: Fire rethink plea.(News)
Jan 01, 2008 ... PLANS to close England's 46 fire control centres and build nine regional ...
News Briefs: ECHO arena 50 facts.(News)
Jan 01, 2008 ... WHEN MTV hold their Europe Music Awards at the Echo Arena Liverpool in ...
News Briefs: Balls facing inquiry.(News)
Jan 01, 2008 ... CHILDREN'S Secretary Ed Balls faces a Parliamentary inguiry into his plans to open ...
News Briefs: O'Donnell wait.(News)
Jan 01, 2008 ... THE grieving family of footballer Phil O'Donnell were today awaiting the ...
News Briefs: Monkeying around.(News)
Jan 01, 2008 ... LAUGHTER was not developed first by humans but by our ...
News Briefs: Mysterious ways.(News)
Jan 01, 2008 ... THE Bishop of Shrewsbury has welcomed the arrival of "mystery worshippers" in pews across the Midlands ....
News Briefs: Irish turf war.(News)
Jan 01, 2008 ... IRISH beauticians using turf as a new skincare treatment are being forced to import peat ...
POLICEWOMAN SHOT BY THIEF; Officer 'lucky to survive' shotgun blast.(News)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: By LIZA WILLIAMS A POLICEWOMAN was shot in one of three gun attacks being investigated by detectives. PC Katie Johnson, from Ormskirk, had 12 shotgun pellets removed from her leg after she confronted an armed robber at a Lancashire pub. Meanwhile, ...
Two men injured in separate shootings.(News)
Jan 01, 2008 ... TWO men were shot in Liverpool on Sunday night in separate attacks. Police are not linking the incidents in Toxteth and Broadgreen, but believe the second incident was a targeted attack. In the first shooting, at 7.30pm in Solway Street, a 22-year-old man was shot in ...
Firefighters prevent suicide bid in garage.(News)
Jan 01, 2008 ... FIREFIGHTERS foiled an attempted suicide bid at a garage in Liverpool. Crews cut through the metal doors of a premises in Old Swan to find a man sitting in a car with the engine running. The firefighters were called to the scene just after 8pm yesterday after ...
Hospital stay after pub fire.(News)
Jan 01, 2008 ... TWO people started the New Year in hospital after a pub fire in Wirral. The victims, a 16-year-old boy and a 55-year-old woman, suffered smoke inhalation and as a precaution were taken to Arrowe Park hospital during the early hours of the morning. ...
Teen arrested as guns found.(News)
Jan 01, 2008 ... A 15-YEAR-OLD girl has been arrested after two guns were found at a house in Huyton. The teenager was bailed along with a ...
Burning paper starts flat fire.(News)
Jan 01, 2008 ... ARSONISTS are being blamed for a fire at a derelict flat in Kirkdale. Firefighters took an hour to control the ...
Botox gives Callum a new lease of life; Boy who could only crawl now learns to swim.(News)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: By LUKE TRAYNOR THE three-year-old boy who doctors said would never walk is defying the odds. Callum Boan has been treated with Botox to allow him lead a normal life The St Helens boy has cerebral palsy spastic diplegia, which affects the muscles in his legs ...
Dodd stops the show after minor surgery.(News)(Concert review)
Jan 01, 2008 ... KEN DODD has been forced to cancel his New Year Happiness show tonight after having minor surgery. The 80-year-old comedian was taken to the Royal hospital yesterday morning after completing two sell-out performances at the Philharmonic Hall on Friday and Sunday night. ...
Doctor's three peaks challenge.(News)
Jan 01, 2008 ... A FAMILY doctor has raised nearly pounds 2,000 for Whiston hospital's Lilac Centre to thank them for their care. Dr Colin Garvey raised pounds 1,884 by taking part in the Three Peaks Challenge. The challenge ...
Drink-drive test catches one in 10.(News)
Jan 01, 2008 ... ONE in 10 motorists failed drink-drive tests since police in Cheshire began their Christmas campaign. ...
Caring Mary sees in her 103rd year.(News)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: By MARY MURTAGH A LIFETIME of caring for others is the secret to a long and happy life, according to 103-year-oldMaryMurray. The great great-grandmother celebrates her birthday today with five generations of her family around her. Mrs Murray, of ...
Tip-off on alcohol for teens.(News)
Jan 01, 2008 ... TWO off-licences in Kirkdale have been fined for selling alcohol to children. Police swooped after a community tip-off that booze was being sold to youngsters. A 16-year-old volunteer was able to purchase alcohol from two of three premises identified to police. ...
Packaging targeted.(News)
Jan 01, 2008 ... ST HELENS council bosses said high street shops that sell excessively packaged goods will be hit hard. A survey carried out in the town discovered six in ten retailers were selling items in ...
Can we help? ECHO ACTION.(News)
Jan 01, 2008 ... DO YOU have a problem you just can't resolve, or do you run a voluntary organisation in desperate need of help? ECHO Action is here to help. You could be the victim of an injustice, or know something that needs investigation. On the other hand, your youth ...
we'll help you all recover floods hell; Officials in pledge after mains burst.(News)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: By NICK COLIGAN Political Reporter VICTIMS of the flooding which wrecked up to 100 Merseyside homes were today promised all the help they need to recover. Council officials believe they have spoken to every family caught up in the deluge caused when a huge ...
BARTON CLINK; Star's New Year in cells.(News)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: By GREG O'KEEFFE JAILED footballer Joey Barton saw in the new year locked in a prison cell after being charged over a brawl in Liverpool city centre. Sources at Walton prison said New Year's Eve in the jail was treated like any ordinary day for inmates, an ...
Hello, hello, hello or 'Hi there kids!' Cops' tips on youth chat.(News)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: By BEN ROSSINGTON Crime Reporter EVERY police officer on Merseyside is to be trained on how to speak to children. In the past year, youngsters made 40 formal complaints to the Chief Constable about rudeness from his officers. Despite the low ...
House fire arrest.(News)
Jan 01, 2008 ... A MAN was arrested after a fire in the hallway of a house in Old Swan. The fire is believed to have started in the house in Newenham Crescent at 8.25pm on Sunday, but was out before fire crews arrived. The man ...
Medicines lost.(News)
Jan 01, 2008 ... MEDICINE that is potentially lethal has gone missing in Birkenhead. The medication was mislaid on the number 407 or 472 bus on Friday afternoon between Laird Street and Moreton Street. The lost drugs include eight quasapine tablets, eight ...
Now's the time to show pride in our great city.. Voice of the ECHO.(Features)
Jan 01, 2008 ... AT LAST-Liverpool's long-awaited date with destiny has arrived. The first chapter of a new beginning as European Capital of Culture. Today, we mark the end of a nine-year pilgrimage of preparation. We start an open-ended journey of fulfilment. Without doubt, this ...
City's Culture limelight; 08 DAYS A WEEK.(Features)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: By CATHERINE JONES Culture Reporter MUSIC giants, acting legends and flocks of Superlambananas will lead the stampede of entertainment during Capital of Culture year. Hundreds of events are planned across the city over the next 12 months. They take ...
ARE you doing anything to celebrate 2008; 08 DAYS A WEEK.(Features)
Jan 01, 2008 ... ARE you doing anything to celebrate 2008 Capital of Culture? If so we want to hear about it. Our promise for 2008 is to cover all your events ...
Thought for 08 ... 08 DAYS A WEEK.(Features)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: ALASTAIR MACHRAY Liverpool ECHO Editor I CAME to Merseyside house hunting just before I joined the ECHO in 1994. As we drove around the city centre my wife was weeping silently in the seat beside me. In my first few days I was asked to entertain some VIPS and ...
Mike Williams was brought to you by Cultural Clearing, part of the Open Culture project; 08 DAYS A WEEK.(Features)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: Mike Williams HIS witty and irreverent cartoons have delighted readers over a 40 year career. Now Mike Williams is to turn his attention to Liverpool's Capital of Culture year. The 67-year-old former Quarry Bank High school pupil will be bringing ...
City takes lead role in opera; 08 DAYS A WEEK.(Features)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: JOE RILEY Arts Editor A CITY set among mountains and forests - that's how one of Italy's most famous composers of opera saw Liverpool. Gaetano Donizetti's Emilia di Liverpool (Emily of Liverpool) fuelled the romantic 19th century notion of Liverpool as a ...
District News North.(News)
Jan 01, 2008 ... ST HELENS: A retrospective exhibition celebrating the work of the late St Helens artist Colin J Callon (1932 - 2007) will be held at the town's Godfrey Pilking-ton art gallery from January 12 (11am - 3pm) until January 26. ST HELENS: Fundraisers who took part in the Diabetes UK ...
THE PRICE OF SUCCESS; NEWHEARTLANDS SCHEME RAISES THE COST OF HOMES.(News)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: By NICK COLIGAN Political Reporter AVERAGE house prices have more than doubled in some of Merseyside's poorest areas. New figures show the cost of a property in streets allocated for demolition and rebuilding by regeneration body NewHeartlands have gone up by ...
We thought all was lost when it was bedsit land; NEWHEARTLANDS SCHEME RAISES THE COST OF HOMES.(News)
Jan 01, 2008 ... JACK Costello moved into Keble Road, Bootle, in 1940 and thought he would never leave. But in May, the 74-year-old grandfather and his wife Pauline, 69, made the short but significant move just around the corner, to a new house in Queens Road. Their five-bedroom home ...
One-stop clinic to cut patients' pre-op wait.(News)
Jan 01, 2008 ... A LIVERPOOL hospital has launched a new one-stop pre-operation clinic for patients with colorectal problems. The move is being carried out by Fazakerley hospital and will speed up the amount of time patients take having their treatment. Lisa Griffiths, outpatient ...
Alert over theft of roof lead.(News)
Jan 01, 2008 ... DETECTIVES are investigating a spate of thefts of lead from churches and schools in St Helens. Police are currently dealing with 86 reports of metal being stolen from church and school roofs within the past three months. The substantial global increase in the price of ...
MP slams fuel charges.(News)
Jan 01, 2008 ... ELLESMERE Port and Neston MP Andrew Miller condemned power companies who force low-income families to use prepayment meters. He said that such families pay on average pounds 127 more annually for their gas and ...
A sporting chance for Lotto millions!(Features)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: By NEIL HODGSON Industry Reporter TWO Liverpool community centres are competing for a slice of a pounds 30m lottery grant. Toxteth sports centre and Grove Mount community centre, in Penny Lane, Allerton, were chosen by the council to take part in the national ...
Patients wait 4 months for a hearing aid.(Features)
Jan 01, 2008 ... LIVERPOOL NHS patients wait on average over four months for hearing aids - but those in Sefton wait only one and a half weeks to be assessed. New figures revealed by the Department of Health show even bigger "post code lotteries" in help for the hard of hearing beyond ...
Billy in crash.(Features)
Jan 01, 2008 ... COMEDIAN Billy Connolly escaped unhurt after his car crashed at the weekend, on the A939 ...
Time Off: Totally tropical; Luke Traynor samples the chills and thrills of the island of St Lucia.(Features)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: Luke Traynor DID the earth move for you darling?'drawled one of my mischievous companions to a reclining American lady as a 7.5 Richter scale earthquake gently shook the beach of Anse Chastenet in St Lucia, while chunks of the cliffside plunged into the sea. ...
Look: I'd Saga be on holiday; Foreign Travel.(Features)
Jan 01, 2008 ... SEEMS like the stresses and strains of Christmas on today's over-50s means they need a holiday to recover. In a survey commissioned by Saga Holidays, it emerged that an over whelming majority of people questioned - 79% - find Christmas stressful. More than half said ...
Look: Lap it up ... Foreign Travel.(Features)
Jan 01, 2008 ... BEAT those winter blues with a holiday to Levi in Lapland this February taking in the annual Arctic Hot-Air Balloon Adventure. From February 7 - 12, up to 15 hot air balloons will soar over the slopes of Levi, Finland's largest ski area. Combine your ski days with ...
Look: Pilgrims' progress; Foreign Travel.(Features)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: Kevin Pilley THE giant candles kept on arriving. Wheelchairs stacked up along the banks of the Gave river. Nuns and nurses kissed the ground. A hunched-up old lady in a black shawl whispered to the wall, petitioning the rockface. Pushed towards the ...
UK Travel: Whisky and the wild life.(Features)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: Peter Sharpies TODAY'S nature tourists are prepared to pay a small fortune travelling the world fora glimpse of life in the raw. Whether it's a big game trip to Africa or the chance to see the unique creatures of the Galapagos, wildlife tourism has become big ...
UK Travel: Cream of the English Riviera.(Features)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: Peter Woodman DEVON is a delight - moors and coasts mix with clotted cream to make an enticing, relaxing cocktail. Given the almost endless sunshine we enjoyed on ourtrip, it's also a destination to rival anything the continent has to offer. Our ...
KIDS IN FEAR OF SCHOOLS; Figures reveal extent of bullying.(News)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: By BEN TURNER Education Reporter ONE in six comprehensive students and a more than a quarter of Knowsley's primary pupils fear going to school. The alarming statistics were released in the first annual report from Knowsley's Safeguarding Children Board (KCSB) ....
Drug help group is awinner.(News)
Jan 01, 2008 ... A WIRRAL group that helps criminals put their lives of drug use and crime behind them has been praised at a national awards ceremony. The Pier Project was a regional finalist in the team category at this year's home ...
Crime call rate is up.(News)
Jan 01, 2008 ... CALLS to Crimestoppers in Cheshire have risen by over a third, new figures revealed today. A six-week campaign has led to a 37%increase in the county, with calls to the charity hotline ...
Revealed - the bald truth about the real Mii ...(Features)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: Dawn Collinson ALL those people who weren't fortunate enough to have Santa squeezing his portly frame down their chimneys, armed with a Nintendo Wii, look away now ... God, they're brilliant. I can't tell you what a fantastic time I and count lesss ...
Letter: Short points.(Letters)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: Mrs Pat Sanders ON Friday December 21, at 11.15pm, our son's 14-month-old Boxer Lennox was stolen from his garden in West Derby. What is disgusting is that the persons who committed this crime had to climb over a six-foot wall, as this is the only way in and out of the ...
Letter: Short points.(Letters)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: Mrs D. Woods I READ with great upset the story of brother and sister Ella and Sam Wright and their setback in finding a bone marrow donor (ECHO, Dec 28). I would urge anyone who is not already registered ...
Letter: Short points.(Letters)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: D.W WHEN I lost my cash card in Thornton's, Birkenhead (on Thursday December 20) some kind lady found it. I would like to thank her sincerely for her honesty D.W., Wallasey ...
Letter: Short points.(Letters)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: Mike Logan EVERY time I open the ECHO nowadays I see some article about Herbert Howe's luxury lifestyle. A recent piece on him (Dec 27) stated that he had purchased a luxury holiday home in Turkey, along with a luxury yacht. I have three children ...
Your Poem: Passing Show In Bold Street.(Features)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: by Ned Burke Walking up and down, they go Young and old Tall and short Some with kids Some without Hustle and bustle Quiet talk or raucous shout Carrying goods in plastic ...
Letter: You say - WHY are Kirkby.(Letters)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: Del Samuel WHY are Kirkby residents being treated as though they don't matter? All the people I have spoken to say they don't ...
Letter: You say - The forgotten famous.(Letters)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: Ron Brown I WRITE to express my concern that the following are not included in any great Mersey siders list so far compiled, specially the Spirit of Merseyside wall of fame proposed for the ECHO Arena. Jet of Iada, buried in Calderstones Park, was awarded the ...