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100 Years Of Remembrance Exhibition
THE Ainsdale Methodist Church opened doors on a
Remembrance Exhibition, on Saturday, 10 November 2018. The event is part of
Ainsdale Village's act of Remembrance for those who died in World War 1.
Over Saturday, and Sunday, 11 November 2018, businesses and property around
the Village Centre along with Village War Memorial, located on the Green,
had Poppies on trees and lamp posts along with...
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British public urged to
beware of poppy merchandise scams
WITH just a few days to go before
Remembrance, The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) is urging members of the
British public to be extra vigilant when buying poppy merchandise for
Remembrance this year. Their donations are intended to support Armed...
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Charity Christmas Craft Fair
at Southport Hospital
ON Sunday, 9 December, a Christmas Craft Fair, will be
held at Southport Hospital. Stalls will be located in the Gymnasium area of the
Northwest Regional Spinal Injuries Centre, from 12 to 4pm. Local crafts people
are welcome to sign up for a table at a cost of ₤10 each. Come along to...
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GMB brand the slashing of 300 jobs at
Cammell Laird Shipyard, Birkenhead, as:- "Outrageous!"
THE GMB Union have issued a press
release on Friday, 9 November 2018, to the UK media. In it the GMB Union states
that:- "GMB members, within Cammell Laird Shipyard, Birkenhead, have voted
to take industrial action to oppose redundancies and defend their jobs, along
with the future..."
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Firefighters attend less deliberate
fires, but more dangerous bonfires, than in 2017
FIREFIGHTERS attended over 35% more potentially
dangerous bonfires across Merseyside on Bonfire Night, Monday, 5 November 2018,
than on the same date in 2017. Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service attended 23...
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Government needs to act now on Police
funding
THE Government needs to act now on
Police funding; that's the stark message sent out by a Commons Committee in a
damning report on the financial sustainability of the Police Service.
The report, released by the Public Accounts Committee, comes after an oral
evidence session at which Merseyside's Police Commissioner Jane Kennedy was...
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BTR Liverpool Santa Dash Chosen For
National TV Campaign
THE 15th Annual BTR Liverpool Santa Dash has been
named as the official fundraising event...
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Dock Road in Liverpool to close for 4
weeks
LIVERPOOL'S "dock road" is to close for 4 weeks
from Monday, 12 November 2018, to enable vital works to take place to support
the City's new Isle of Man Ferry Terminal, located at Liverpool Waters. The
Waterloo Road/Regent Road corridor is to be closed in both directions from the
Junction, at:- Paisley Street, through to Blackstone Street in the heart of
North Liverpool's Ten Streets District....
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Ion announce projection of Wilfred Owen
at Liverpool Lime Street for Remembrance weekend
DEVELOPERS, Ion, announce artist
Anthony Brown's portrait of Wilfred Owen:- 'The Soldier's Story' is to be
projected on Liverpool Lime Street....
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Walking to save hair
FOLLOWING on from the report, back in October 2018, about scalp coolers and walk
the walk charity we conducted 2 phone interviews with representatives of the
charity to find out more about the charity and also scalp coolers. Walk the Walk
is best known for its famous:- 'Moon Walks,' when walkers take on
marathon challenges in London, Edinburgh and Iceland at Midnight wearing
brightly decorated bras...
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New figures for black and white licences in Southport revealed
NEW figures released by UK's TV Licensing show that
after more than 50 years of colour transmissions, over 7000 black and white TV
Licences are still in force across the UK, although numbers are steadily
declining. 7 households in Southport are still watching television via black...
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S Club to switch on Southport Christmas Lights
2018
ON Sunday, 18 November 2018, Southport BID have
announced a huge line up for Southport's Big Switch On event! Headliner's for
2018 are 90's/00's superstars S Club, backed by massive boy band 911 and house
legends Livin' Joy! The event we are told will be packed full of:- "huge
surprises making it Southport's biggest Christmas Light Switch On to date!"
Headliners S Club - Jo, Bradley and Tina, between...
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WW1 - Pages of the Sea by Danny Boyle - Formby
THE 11 November 2018 marks 100 years since Armistice
and the end of the First World War. To mark the occasion Formby will be taking
part in a unique public commemorative event. The....
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Fake Liverpool ONE Christmas Lights Switch On event notice
FACEBOOK users have been mislead after a post popped
up on peoples walls that suggested the Liverpool ONE Christmas Lights Switch On
event was on 8 November. the event notice even appeared on peoples
walls, without the account holders...
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The Social Media and the Impact
MANY news outlets have recognised the potential of
social media as a journalistic tool and have used this to their advantage to
attract a larger scale online audience. This rise in social media use, has also
led to concerns within the media of how credible stories are that are being
shared to the public. From a press regulatory point of view should the media
being doing more to control...
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Schools in Liverpool welcome
knife crime awareness
SECONDARY Schools
within Liverpool are hosting assemblies dedicated to the awareness of knife
crime and how young people can help prevent themselves from becoming victims of
knife crime whilst discouraging them from considering carrying a knife. Working
with partners at Merseyside Police, a mobile knife arch will be brought to these
assemblies to familiarise young people with how the arches work and what they
look like. The knife arch is used to show 1 of the ways that Officers tackle
knife crime. Senior...
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Steve Rotheram Urges
Employers to Pay Real Living Wage
STEVE Rotheram, Metro Mayor of the Liverpool City
Region, is marking National Living Wage Week by writing to the City Region's 50
biggest employers, asking them to introduce the Real Living Wage for their
employees. Across the Liverpool City Region, 155,000 people; more than a
quarter of the workforce; are paid less than the Real Living Wage.A report from
The Smith Institute, published in September 2018, showed that paying the
Real Living Wage to just a ¼ of those currently paid
less would provide a 1 off dividend to the local economy of ₤30 million, with an
ongoing
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Nationwide Boosts Local Housing
Causes in North West and North Midlands by ₤500,000
COMMUNITY housing projects and charities are being
urged to put their case forward as Nationwide; the UK's biggest building
society; makes ₤500,000 available to help make a difference to communities
across the North West and North Midlands. The Society is inviting applications
for grants of up to ₤50,000 for housing projects that will strengthen local
communities by supporting the most vulnerable, that find new approaches to
increasing the supply of housing or by reinventing renting for both tenants and
landlords...
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Trash for cash
BIG hearted street cleaners in
Liverpool have become real life alchemists by turning fly tipped junk into
charity gold. And in the process they've salvaged a cool ₤20,000 for a City
cause that works with children with life threatening conditions.
Liverpool Street Scene Limited's (LSSL) fly tipping team are called out to clean
up after irresponsible tippers every day of the week. At any 1 time up 15
Officers are at work taking unsightly and potentially dangerous heaps of junk
away from communities across Liverpool. The thrifty team makes sure that junk
such as:- old fridges, cookers, tyres and wood are sent away to be recycled. But
until fairly recently any....
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Care Workers Across the North West Face
"Life Changing" Cuts to their Incomes
THOUSANDS of low paid workers who
provide care for adults with learning difficulties have a worrying Christmas
ahead after being told by their employers that they face big pay cuts, said
UNISON.
So called:- 'top up' payments are made by care providers to staff who work
sleep in shifts to ensure that their average hourly pay reaches the National
Minimum Wage rate. The payments are worth ₤30 to ₤40 per sleep in shift, and make
up a significant portion of support workers' incomes. Now, 2 care employers
who...
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