 Your Online Newspaper for the Merseyside Area. |
|
| Latest Edition |
 |
Archive |
|
PLEASE NOTE THAT SOME SECTIONS OF THIS PAGE ARE NO LONGER WORKING THIS PAGE IS NOW ARCHIVED FOR HISTORIC RECORD. |
|
> |
|
|
||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Headlines and reports on this page = 4 news items. Page - 11. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
'Step Out For Stroke Walk' event at Dunes Leisure Centre
THE annual Step out for Stoke event was held by the Stroke Association, on Wednesday, 1 June 2016, at Dunes Leisure Centre. This years event was a walk that was about 1 mile, starting and ending at the Centre. For stroke survivors, this challenge often marks their 1st steps since their stroke. There are more than 14,600 strokes each year in the North West and over 157,370 people living with the effects of stroke. If you missed this event please take a look at the Stroke Association's website to find out more about 'Step out for Stroke' and also how to take part in other events like this one. Congratulations to all who took part in this years Southport event. Body found in Southport Marine Lake MERSEYSIDE Police believe they have identified a male whose body was found in Southport Marine Lake, on Saturday, 4 June 2016. We have been told that Officers attended the location after:- "a call was received from a member of the public who reported seeing a body in the water, at around 8:55am." Police, Ambulance and Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service, all attended the location and the body of a man was recovered from the water. Sadly the male was then pronounced deceased. Officers now are attempting to trace the next of kin of the male, believed to be a 58 year old man, who is said to be from the Merseyside area, so they can confirm the identification. The man was described as white, around 5ft 8in tall, with short light hair, medium build with a prominent belly. He was fitted with a catheter, and has bushy eyebrows, light stubble, and was wearing a dark grey / black jumper, a purple and white hooped polo shirt underneath, dark blue jeans, with a brown belt, grey socks, and blue Nike trainers, approximately size 10. Detective Inspector Robbie Moss from Sefton CID said:- "Our enquiries remain ongoing to establish the full circumstances of his death." Anyone with information are encouraged to call Sefton CID on:- 0151 7773059, or call Crimestoppers anonymously on:- 0800 555 111. Large search taken place for a Missing boy on Formby Beach ON Sunday, 5 June 2016, a 6 years old, and is described as white, with auburn hair, went missing at around 4pm. As a result a large search was undertaken by local emergency services. Tasked with locating the boy, who up to that point was last seen in blue swimming trunks, with a red waistband, where Southport Offshore Rescue Trust ((SORT) Southport Lifeboat), along with Crosby and Southport Coastguard Rescue teams, RNLI Lifeguards, Sefton Rangers, New Brighton Lifeboat, New Brighton Hovercraft, Merseyside Police, Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service and the Police Helicopter. We are told that Southport Lifeboat and Quads tasked to help search for missing boy at between Ainsdale and Hightown, as the boat searched the tide line between Southport and Formby, along with both the Fire Service and the RNLI. Thankfully the child was located safe and well by the Police in Victoria Road car park shortly after 6:15pm. Well done to everyone involved and the emergency services would like to thank the public for assisting them in search as well. |
 |
Win tickets to the Woodvale Rally and read about why the Vulcan motorcar is heading home!
IT'S believed to be the oldest
surviving Vulcan motorcar in the world and its about to make a nostalgic trip
back to its hometown when it takes centre stage, at the 2016 Woodvale Rally, in
Southport. The Woodvale Rally takes place over 18 June 18 and 19 June 2016, on
Victoria Park, home of the Southport Flower Show. The 10hp, twin cylinder
model with 2 seats, manufactured in Southport, in 1904, by the Vulcan Motor and
Engineering Company, will be travelling from Oxford to Southport for the event
on the Sunday, 19 June 2016. This will be the 1st time the vehicle, which
has only been owned by 2 families and now belongs to Howard Day, will go on
display at the Woodvale Rally. The visit will mark a century since the 1st
owner Captain Archibald Cumberland Eyton, of Eyton Hall in Shropshire, last used
the car as a recruiting officer in the 1st World War. He died in 1954 and an
auction followed in '55 when the Vulcan was purchased by Howard’s Dad, Derek. It
is also 60 years since Derek restored and had the car back on the road and fit
to take part in the 1956 London to Brighton Veteran Car Run, after it spent
years in a stable yard left to fall apart, from 1916 until 1956. Howard says:-
"We have been meaning to bring the car to the rally as it looks like a
great event and we wanted to do it in this nostalgic year for us. My mum is 96
and with the other anniversaries we thought it would be the perfect time. With
the Southport connection we would love to speak to anyone on the Sunday who had
relatives who worked at the factory. It would be great to meet them." Also attending on the Sunday will be Miss
Liverpool 2016, Molly Mcentee-Morris... |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
