AN ambitious blueprint for the future including proposals to transform St Helens' tourism and leisure industry and potentially sparking hundreds of new jobs in town has been published by business leaders. The ideas are part of a ten-year action plan set
ST HELENS is to be a UK pilot for a scheme aimed at tackling urban decline and boosting growth first developed at America's famous Harvard Business School. With the aid of a £275,000 European grant it is hoped it will add fresh impetus to the regeneration
AMBITIOUS new plans have been unveiled to build a health complex and transform a run-down 'gateway' to St Helens town-centre. Vast changes to the Duke Street zone of the town would be made as part of the development, which would have a new health centre
HOSPITALS boasting superb facilities, an NHS supported by thousands more staff, and waiting lists for operations down to just a few weeks. Could this really be the future of health service for the St Helens borough? Well, all that could become reality
A HUGELY impressive £6.5-million new ward at St Helens Hospital is now open... and patients can look forward to swish new facilities which have come a long way from the old-style wards. The 60-bed Elyn Lodge wing is the first step in a £250 million masterplan
COULD St Helens borough be the spookiest place in Britain? Ghost-buster Arthur Adamson certainly thinks it's a leading candidate as he builds up his ever increasing dossier of spirit sightings and eerie happenings. Arthur, a local artist, is currently
DRUNKEN louts who repeatedly cause disorder in and around St Helens' town-centre bars could be banned from the area as part of a police plan to tackle yob behaviour. Already police are gathering evidence ahead of seeking an anti-social behaviour order
"It must be simply horrible to feel safer walking round the streets of St Helens at 3 in the morning because you don't want to go home since you are so terrified of being abused and assaulted there." So says Detective Inspector Jon Dawson. He heads St
A masterplan that aims to attract massive waves of investment to St Helens is to be rolled out in towns and cities across England. Last year St Helens began piloting the City Growth Strategy, a 10-year economic action plan that aims to bring £300 million
MORE than 40 St Helens businesses are helping to develop City Growth St Helens, one of the most ambitious regeneration projects in the country. Businessmen and women met for a networking and consultation dinner at the town's Hilton Hotel to drive forward
A REVOLUTION in health services across St Helens and Knowsley is under way as part of a groundbreaking £228m modernisation programme. Around 500 jobs, including 375 new doctors and nurses will be created, with many more being generated during the construction
ST HELENS has secured its lasting place in UFO history - via its own official entry in a mysterious X-Files style database. Detective Constable Gary Heseltine, founder of the unique PRUFOS (Police Reporting UFO Sightings) records system, highlighted the
THE mystery surrounding an apparent sighting of a UFO above a power station 25 years ago deepened further when an amateur radio operator raised the possibility the 'light in the sky' actually landed in a local farmer's field. Robert Bennett revealed how
YOU can tell a lot about your dog's mood by observing his tail. Everyone knows that dogs wag their tails when they are happy - perhaps at the prospect of going out for a walk, or greeting you back home when you've been out. When a dog is sure of itself
DOGS who constantly cause household destruction by chewing the furniture, shoes, the remote control or the carpets etc, inflict much frustration upon their long suffering owners. But there are ways to tackle such behaviour and hopefully enjoy a happier
A NEW man has taken up the reins of the police's St Helens town-centre neighbourhood patch...and he reckons he's got plenty of tactics up his sleeve for the challenge ahead. Inspector Peter Costello, 33, has stepped into the shoes of John Vaudrey to become
