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Boys pick up needles
8:52am Thursday 24th July 2008
A PERIL-PACKED carpet of filthy blood-encrusted syringes and drugs gear covers back alleys where children play barely a stone’s throw from St Helens Town Hall. One seven-year-old picked up a needle and took it home.
Comments (0)Police concerned for missing woman
10:19am Thursday 24th July 2008
A 52-year old woman from Newton-Le-Willows has gone missing, say police.
My little bit of justice for Helen
8:55am Thursday 24th July 2008
A MOVING memorial has been created in a churchyard as a tribute to murder victim Helen McCourt, whose body has still not been discovered more than 20 years since her disappearance.
Sutton High head leaves post
11:24am Thursday 24th July 2008
A SECONDARY school headteacher has resigned after a critical Ofsted report and a primary school head has also left his job as a mounting series of problems hangs over the education authority in St Helens.
Judge relaxes Aki conditions
4:46pm Thursday 24th July 2008
AKINWALE Arobieke who served a jail term for his predatory harassment of young sportsmen in town, will now be allowed to travel directly through St Helens after the terms of a Sexual Offences Prevention Order were amended.
£5m stadium grant to be announced
6:00pm Thursday 24th July 2008
APPROVAL of a grant in the region of £5-million from the North West Development Agency towards the redevelopment of the former United Glass site at Peasley Cross for Saints’ new rugby league stadium and a Tesco supermarket is expected to be announced this week.
‘A huge blow for Newton’
5:09pm Thursday 24th July 2008
A POPULAR three-day music festival, due to take place last weekend, had to be cancelled at the eleventh hour due to ‘unforeseen circumstances’.
Boozed-up man gets in a jam
12:07pm Thursday 24th July 2008
A DRUNKEN man had to be freed by firefighters after getting his leg trapped in a park fence.
UPDATED: Police examine CCTV after shots fired at bus
8:40am Wednesday 23rd July 2008
A BUS driver escaped unharmed after two pellets were fired through a side window as he drove along a busy street in St Helens.
Susan simply had to do something to help
4:00pm Wednesday 23rd July 2008
A WOMAN stricken with terminal cancer said she is determined to plough what little time she has left into raising money for charity.
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Adams blames DUP for stalemate
Updated 1:19am Friday 25th July 2008
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams accused the DUP of pushing Northern Ireland's power-sharing government toward crisis.
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UPDATED: Police examine CCTV after shots fired at bus
A BUS driver escaped unharmed after two pellets were fired through a side window as he drove along a busy street in St Helens.
Susan simply had to do something to help
A WOMAN stricken with terminal cancer said she is determined to plough what little time she has left into raising money for charity.
Morrisons boss blasts Blears for not calling Saints stadium inquiry
A MORRISONS supermarket director has heaped criticism on Hazel Blears, the Secretary of State for Local Government and Communities, for not calling a public inquiry into plans for a new Saints stadium and Tesco supermarket.
Message from a true Yicker
CHEERFUL letter from Enid Hart, “a Yicker at heart”, who now lives in Grappenhall.
Darts ace Alan Tabern through to quarter-final
ST HELENS' Alan Tabern has won through to the quarter-finals of the Stan James World Matchplay darts tournament after beating world champion John Part this afternoon.
Bikes doing 120mph on bypass
I WAS interested to read your article 'New speed limit for bypass’ (Star July 3) regarding the speed limit on the bypass.
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