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  • Queens Park pool reopening suffers slight delay

    THE scheduled reopening of the swimming pool at Queens Park Health and Fitness has been slightly delayed - with the facility now expected to be back in use by February 5. The council had announced the pool at the Boundary Road premises was to open

  • Weather warning for strong winds overnight

    STRONG winds are set to hit the region overnight and the Met Office is warning there could be power outages and public transport disruption. The yellow warning is in place from around midnight until 9am tomorrow. The warning reads: “Strong

  • Man who had folding knife on him at Tesco spared jail

    A 23-YEAR-OLD man who was caught with a pocket knife in his possession at the Tesco Extra store has been fined. Steven Woods, of Peterlee Close, Thatto Heath was convicted at Liverpool Magistrates' Court of possessing a knife in public on Tuesday

  • Full steam ahead for Cameron’s TV debut

    A FORMER St Helens College student has made his TV debut after featuring on a Channel 4 series, The Biggest Little Railway in the World.Cameron Stephenson, who did an Advanced Diploma in Engineering at St Helens College now runs his own successful heritage

  • Possession of knife charge against boy, 15, withdrawn

    A CHARGE made against a 15-year-old boy accused of possessing a knife in public has been withdrawn. The youth was charged with possession of a korambit knife in a public place after police officers seized the blade on Roby Well Way, Billinge on

  • Could Central Library be moved to the World of Glass?

    CENTRAL Library could be relocated to the World of Glass building, a council meeting heard this morning (Wednesday, January 17). The town centre library, situated in the Gamble Building, has been closed since last March for essential maintenance

  • Man rode motorbike dangerously as pupils were leaving school

    POLICE have welcomed the sentencing of an 18-year-old man who rode an off-road motorbike dangerously near to a secondary school while children were leaving for the day. Nathan Halliwell, of Brookway Lane, Parr, admitted to a charge of driving a

  • New members-only superstore to open its doors next week

    A NEW membership-only superstore which will sell and distribute surplus food and household products is to be opened next week. Company Shop, the UK’s largest redistributor of surplus food and products, is opening the doors of a new flagship store