LOVELY 'look back in time' shot from reader Marie Barton (nee Rogers) featuring 37 of the girls at Rivington Road School, St Helens, almost 60 years ago. Whatever became of them all? Marie listed all the names - see beneath the picture - all from memory
TOWNSFOLK are being asked to nominate our best new buildings for a major award. Leading urban charity, The Civic Trust, is asking community groups to identify the best new buildings in St Helens to go forward for a Civic Trust Award. The Awards team is
WORK on the £5million redevelopment of St Helens Central train station is due to begin in early autumn, around five months behind schedule. Construction at the Shaw Street site had been set to begin In April, however, protracted negotiations between Merseytravel
A YOUNGSTER has shown an incredible flair for fashion by winning a prize in a design competition. Alysha Ibbotson entered a nationwide Father's Day competition looking for fashion designers of the future. The five-year-old had to design a special pair
A GLAMOUR model who admitted unlawfully claiming benefits amounting to almost £15,000 has been spared a jail term and instead ordered to do community work for a charity. Magistrates in St Helens sentenced Louise Glover, 22, to a 240 hour community service
REVEREND Chris Woods, Vicar of St Helens Parish Church is pictured supervising the re-burial of bones unearthed last week by workmen who had been renovating Church Square. It's believed that the bones came from an ancient cemetery around the church, which
YOUNG volunteers who unselfishly devote part of their leisure time to helping others were given a pat on the back when St Helens College catering student Claire Shaw (pictured) received a Young Citizen of the Year Award for her many hours of unpaid service
WHAT an achievement ! When Mary Simpson , who now lives at Greenfields, celebrated her ninetieth birthday yesterday, she had her three brothers and two sisters lifting their glasses to toast her health. And all six are aged from 80 to 90! A remarkable
GREAT to hear that one of our treasured lorries from the 1970-80s is still being lovingly cared for in faraway Lincolnshire. Neil Cross submits his picture, alongside the preserved ERF lorry - a type once common of the streets of St Helens, where Neil
THE day when an American aircraft plummeted down on Moss Bank, ripping out a fence and a 300yard stretch of oats is recalled by South Lancashire aviation research. It goes back to the time in May 1944 when farmer Dick Forster, well known for his abrasive
A THUG robbed alcohol from a pub after a landlady refused to give him any beer because she was locking up the pub. Police say the man only arrived at the Coach and Horses pub, Rainhill, as the landlady was closing at 11.30pm, on Tuesday, August 9. He
A BIG Issue seller who is a familiar face to many town centre shoppers was threatened by a thief with a contaminated syringe dripping with blood during a mugging attempt near St Helens Central railway station... now Philip Shaw is claiming that police
YOUNG volunteers who unselfishly devote part of their leisure time to helping others were given a pat on the back when St Helens College catering student Claire Shaw (pictured) received a Young Citizen of the Year Award for her many hours of unpaid service
