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The 100th Ainsdale Flower Show
ON Saturday, 2 July 2022, Ainsdale Horticultural Society held it's 100th
show on Ainsdale Village Green. This event had everything from pet show to
floral exhibitions, even showground entertainment. The event started with the
traditional Queen of the Show Procession, lead by the Skelmerdale Brass Band.
Then came the Crowning of the Floral Queen, by TV presenter and horticulturist,
Christine Walkden. Then the arena was filled with displays, from gymnastics to
dog displays, dance groups and...
UK Hot Cars
Monthly Southport Meet - July 2022
THE Southport based motor vehicle club, UK Hot Cars,
held the monthly car meet on the banks of the Marine Lake, in Southport, on
3 July 2022. Sadly, it is not known how long they will be able to hold this
event at this location, due to the work that is due to take place on the Pier
and the demolition and re-building of...
Support out in
force for SSAFA at Liverpool Central Station
THE sight of a Star Wars
Stormtrooper brandishing his DLT-19 Heavy Blaster Rifle (which looks nothing
like an MG 34) at a railway station might seem a little unusual, but not when it
is Liverpool Central Station, and the soldier of an evil galactic empire is a
fundraiser for the Merseyside branch of SSAFA, the Armed...
Hugh Baird
College launch new Occupational Traineeships in Construction Trades
THE Liverpool City Region's 1st
Occupational Traineeships in Brickwork, Carpentry and Joinery and Painting and
Decorating have been launched by Hugh Baird College in Bootle. Currently, only
41% of Further Education (FE) construction learners join the industry in
apprenticeships or jobs. The new Occupational.
Bill Esterson MP urges
Government to speed up School rebuilding plans
BILL Esterson MP has urged the
Government to:- "get a move on" with the School rebuilding
programme, saying School leaders needed certainty regarding whether their School
was going to benefit from the scheme. Sefton Central MP Mr...
Letter to the
Editor:- "The Government should 'level up' opportunities by making bus travel
free for care leavers"
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Daily testing
saved City's emergency services from Covid catastrophe
KEY workers in Liverpool have been praised for
carrying out daily testing, which prevented Covid19 from crippling emergency
services. New findings published by a major health journal have revealed the
world's 1st testing pilot saved almost 8,000 work days from being lost to self
isolation. At the height of...
Australasian
Paramedics set to join North West Ambulance Service (NWAS)
15 Paramedics who have trained in
Australia and New Zealand will soon begin responding to 999 calls across areas
of the North West as part of a brand new Health Education England (HEE) Ethical
Migratory Pathway. Developed through HEE's Directorate of Global Health...
Local artists
invited to capture City's iconic landmarks with Liverpool 1
ASPIRING artists will have the chance to show off
their talents as Liverpool 1 hosts a massive outdoor sketching and painting
event to mark the Liver Sketching Club's 150th Anniversary. The free
event, which takes place on Saturday, 9 July 2022, will give painters and
sketchers the opportunity to capture both landscape...
Monthly
Sponsor:-
Citizens Advice
are ready to help in tough times, says Bill Esterson MP
BILL Esterson MP is urging residents to reach out to
Citizens Advice if they are struggling with the cost of living crisis, after
hearing that there had been a 103% rise in people in Sefton Central struggling
to meet their energy costs. Mr Esterson, MP for Sefton Central, met with the...
The RedBall
Project comes to Liverpool
ONE of the world's longest running street artworks is
bouncing into Liverpool later this month. 'The RedBall Project'
has already showcased in global locations such as Sydney, Paris and California;-
will take over the City, from Friday, 15 July to Sunday, 24 July 2022.
Across 10 days, the 15ft diameter RedBall Liverpool will appear in different
areas around the...
New films portray
how the Liverpool City Region's Households into Work programme has transformed
people's lives
A series of heart warming new films has revealed how
a programme supporting long term unemployed people commissioned by Mayor Steve
Rotheram is giving Liverpool City Region residents much more than just work
opportunities. 7 people have spoken candidly about the emotional turmoil of
finding...
Pet Pawtection!
80% of pet owners from Liverpool don't know if their
pets have allergies, according to a new study conducted by eyesight experts All
About Vision. This research, which saw 1,000 UK pet owners surveyed, has been
conducted by the eyesight experts to help raise awareness on eye diseases in
pets and how important it is to look after your furry friends' eyes to avoid
irreversible damage. Worryingly, 36% of pet owners from the area revealed they
wouldn't know if their furry...
Heatwave: bathers warned of drowning risk ahead of scorching
temperatures
CASUAL swimmers should be aware
of the risk of drowning when taking a dip in the water during the hot weather,
Council leaders are warning today. The Local Government Association, which
represents Councils across England and Wales, is urging people to keep safe in
the water and learn what do in case of an emergency, ahead of next...
Paymentshield
abseils down Trafford Centres as it raises £15,000 for local Hospice
SOUTHPORT based insurance solutions provider
Paymentshield took on the Trafford Centre last week, as 5 members of its team
abseiled down a 170ft tower at the iconic Manchester landmark to raise money for
Queenscourt...
Hugh Baird
College celebrates T-level students completing their 1st year
IN September 2021, Hugh Baird College became 1 of
the 1st providers in the country to offer T-level qualifications. 1 year on,
they are celebrating their students' achievements in completing the 1st year of
their courses. T-levels are 16 to 19 qualifications, broadly equivalent in size
to 3 A-levels, that focus on technical and...
Donations
urgently needed at Liverpool Blood Donor Centres to help stop summer fall in
stock
BLOOD stocks are falling due to higher levels of
staff and donor illness, mainly linked to the rise in Coronavirus cases.
Donations are also lower in the summer, when people are busy with holidays and
events. While many sessions held in...
Mayor welcomes
£5m partnership to prevent flu Pandemic - on 'momentous day' for
Liverpool City Region innovation
MAYOR Steve Rotheram has hailed
the announcements 3 major developments of as:- 'momentous' for Liverpool City Region. . A 5 year, £5m collaboration was announced between
Liverpool's Pandemic Institute and Speke based...
Platinum
Pudding winner to star at the Southport Flower Show
A home baker from Southport who created the official
pudding for The Queen's Jubilee is to be a star turn at the Southport Flower
Show. Jemma Melvin's Lemon Swiss Roll and Amaretti Trifle recipe beat more than
5,000 desserts to win Fortnum and Mason's Platinum Pudding...
Liverpool seeks
red card on foul play
DOG owners in Liverpool are set to be
guided by new rules on picking up poo and keeping their pet on a lead. Liverpool
City Council is looking to rein in dog owners who let their pets foul in public
places; and then don't bin it. The Council has launched a month long
consultation on a plan to introduce a City wide Public Space Protection Order (PSPO)
that will see owners fined for failing to bag and dispose of dog mess. The draft
proposal...
Supporting
continued improvements to health and care in Sefton
LONG standing plans
to support improvements to health and care in Sefton have reached an
important milestone with the establishment of Sefton Partnership; a
collaboration between the NHS, Sefton Council, Sefton CVS...
MP joins
'Summer Celebration' at Dale Park Care Home
DALE Park Care Home in Southport, Merseyside, was
visited on Friday, 1 July 2022, by Conservative MP for Southport, Damien Moore,
as the home welcomed visitors and guests from the local community to the home to
participate in this year's Care Home Open Week celebrations from 27 June to 3
July 2022...
Interventions
Alliance thanks volunteers helping to stop re-offending and keeping communities
safe
A year on from when the Government
renationalised its offender management and all associated rehabilitation work,
returning it to the Probation Service, Interventions Alliance is celebrating its
1st year of service. Interventions Alliance was launched by the Seetec
Group, after it had quickly identified the gaps in support that the unification
of the service would bring, after it had successfully managed Community
Rehabilitation Companies (CRC) across the South East and South West...
World's 1st Chemo
Drone Delivery Announced on NHS Birthday
NHS cancer patients will be the 1st in the world to
benefit from chemotherapy delivered by drone as part of a new trial, NHS Chief
Executive Amanda Pritchard has announced. The drones, set to make their 1st
flight in the coming weeks, will mean that the lifesaving treatment can be
picked up and dropped to patients on the same day. Announcing the major trial on
the NHS's 74th birthday, NHS chief executive Amanda Pritchard said the drone
deliveries were just the latest:- "extraordinary"
instalment in another year...
Teenager's garden
vision among 34 projects to win support from Mayor's £500,000 Community
Environment Fund
A 15 year old boy's lockdown
vision to turn derelict land into a community garden has been awarded a grant
from Mayor Steve Rotheram's fund for grassroots environment projects. A therapy
garden, food growing, beekeeping, biodiversity and a bike scheme are also among
34 projects that will be supported this summer by the £500,000 Liverpool City
Region Community Environment Fund. Following the success of last year's fund
which brought...
Stagecoach earns
Top 100 Apprenticeship Employer recognition as it leads transport sector on new
starts
STAGECOACH, the UK's largest bus
and coach operator, has been ranked as 1 of the country's top 100 apprenticeship
employers, leading the transport sector on the number of new starts. New
Department of Education figures show there were more than 930 new apprentices in
training at Stagecoach in 2021 to 2022; the highest number of any company in the
transport, travel and logistics sector. Benchmarked against more than 500
employers in multiple sectors of the economy...
Liverpool
Philharmonic Announces 1st Emerging Musicians Fellowship Cohort
LIVERPOOL
Philharmonic is delighted to announce the appointment of 4 musicians
who have been selected for the 1st annual Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic Orchestra Emerging Musicians Fellowship. Earlier this
year, Liverpool Philharmonic received over 350 applications from
musicians at the beginning of their orchestral careers. The
Fellowship, which has no upper age limit, offers musicians a unique,
immersive professional orchestral experience, both on and off the
stage over the course of a...
NSPCC warns of a
tsunami of online child abuse in the North West as grooming crimes more than
double in 4 years2
YOU'D look twice if you saw them
enter a pub together for the big match, so what do Ellie Taylor, Harry Redknapp,
AJ Odudu, Karen Carney and Jermaine Jenas all have in common? They're passionate
fans of football and for this summer's UEFA Women's Euro 2022 they are all
showing their support for the beautiful game by becoming the:- '12th
Woman.' This eclectic all star squad was enlisted by Heineken®, Official
Partner of UEFA Women's Euro 2022...
Scientists use
vaccination to successfully treat Covid19 for 1st time
EXCLUSIVE figures obtained by the NSPCC reveal online
grooming crimes recorded by Police in the North West have more than doubled in 4
years, with an average of 4 reports every day last year.
The 4 forces in the North West recorded 1,465 offences of Sexual Communication
with a Child in 2021/22, up from 565 in 2017/18; an increase of 159%.
Nationally, there were 6,156 Sexual Communication with a Child offences recorded
in 2021/22; an increase on the previous year and almost 120 offences a week on
average...
She Inspires
football tournament reaches its finale
MORE than 90 young women from
across Merseyside competed in the final of the:- 'She Inspires'
football tournament hosted by the Region's Police's Commissioner and Chief
Constable and a squad of top sporting partners, on Sunday, 3 July 2022. Eight
teams came together from all over Merseyside to compete in the tournament's 1st
ever final at the Jeffery Humble playing fields in Aintree. The final was the
culmination of a 2 month project which saw approximately 120 girls, aged
between:- 15 and 18, from...
MPs call for
Chinese CCTV ban
A cross party group of nearly 70
parliamentarians have called on the Government to ban the sale and operation of
widely used CCTV brands linked to human rights abuses in China. The group
includes former:- Conservative Ministers David Davis MP, Lord Bethell, Steve
Baker MP, and Damien Green MP; leading Labour human rights figures Baroness
Chakrabarti and Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws; Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed
Davey; SNP Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Alyn Smith; Green MP Caroline Lucas, and
crossbench peers.
The 67 parliamentarians...
Public vote and
official shortlist announced to choose home of Great British Railways
TRANSPORT Secretary
Grant Shapps has announced that:- Birmingham, Crewe, Derby,
Doncaster, Newcastle Upon Tyne and York will compete for the honour
of being crowned the home of Britain's railways following a
competition that drew applications from 42 Towns and Cities. The
public vote, which will play a crucial role in determining the
chosen location, has officially opened. Members of the public can
choose the Town or City they think makes the best case for this
prestigious honour online here, with the final decision...
Damien Moore MP
meets with Health Minister to discuss increasing the number of available GP
appointments
DAMIEN Moore MP has
met with the Health Minister responsible for Primary Care to discuss
access to GP appointments, and to explore possible ways to increase
patient self referral. Several constituents have raised in Mr.
Moore's weekly Friday surgery that they are struggling to access GP
appointments. In 1 case, Mr. Moore was told that some constituents
were asked to call their GP at 8am, only to be faced with a wait of
several hours on hold. Mr. Moore has...
Aiming Higher
with Hugh Baird University Centre
3 foundation degrees
at the Hugh Baird University Centre have been awarded Higher
Technical Qualification (HTQ) status. Its Foundation Degrees in
Mental Health and Wellbeing, Health and Social Care and Computing,
approved by the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), have all
been accredited with the new HTQ status from the Institute for
Apprenticeships and Technical Education (IFaTE).
HTQ's are Level 4 and 5 technical qualifications that are designed
in partnership with employers and form part of the Government's
focus...
Liverpool pub
installs football tables with female players to show support for Women's Euros
TO celebrate the upcoming Women's
Euros, popular Liverpool City Centre pub, Lime Street Central, has commissioned
and installed a bespoke football table which features all female players. The
all-female installation appeared in the pub this week as part of Greene King's
ongoing commitment to raising awareness of female sports teams, especially ahead
of the Women's Euro 2022 tournament. A recent survey carried out by Greene King
which polled 2,000 people...
Southport
Conservatives Ask Town's Views on Next Prime Minister
ON hearing the Prime
Minister's resignation, Damien Moore MP said:- "I am pleased
that the Prime Minister has done the right thing and resigned. His
position had become untenable, and it is right that for the good of
the country, he has now stepped aside. We now need to hold a
leadership contest to select the next Prime Minister, which I hope
is concluded rapidly." Following the resignation of Boris
Johnson a leadership contest has now been triggered. As the
Conservatives have a...
Protecting radio
astronomy and earth exploration satellite services from interference
OFCOM has set out how
we will protect radio astronomy and earth exploration satellite
services in the 24 GHz band against harmful interference from new
mobile technology, including:- 5G services, which we are planning to
authorise in the 26 GHz band. Radio astronomers, as well as climate
and weather scientists, use the 24 GHz spectrum band (23.6-24.0 GHz)
to carry out sensitive observations and measurements. It is
important to protect these sensitive services against interference...
Oakhill School
Awarded The Gold Sports Mark Award In Sports Activities for Academic Year
2021/22
OAKHILL School in
Whalley, Lancashire, has been awarded the Gold Sports Mark Award for
commitment, engagement and participation in sports activities for
the academic year of 2021/22. The School Games Mark is a Government
led awards scheme, launched in 2012 to reward Schools for their
commitment to the development of competition across their School and
into the community. Following two years spent in lockdown, Oakhill
School continues to emphasise the importance...
New plan calls
for urban wetlands to help 'level up' inequalities in wellbeing
CREATING wildlife
rich wetlands like ponds, streams, wetland parks and rain gardens in
deprived urban communities could help level up inequalities in
wellbeing across the UK, according to a new report. Currently,
people in the poorest urban and ethnic communities are twice as
likely as those in more affluent groups to live in neighbourhoods
without good quality blue or green spaces. Some research suggests
this differing access to nature rich areas could be associated with
health inequalities.
The...
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