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  • Start for new community hospital in autumn

    THE start of Newton Hospital's transformation to a community hospital will see patients moved to wards in St Helens. St Helens Primary Care Trust will be transferring patients from the Newton site to Pilkington Ward and Seddon Suite at St Helens Hospital

  • Historic hospital chapel will beat the bulldozer

    A HISTORIC chapel at Whiston Hospital has been saved from the bulldozers and will instead be dismantled brick by brick in the hope it could be rebuilt somewhere else. Health chiefs announced that they have agreed with developers working on the multi-million

  • Rotary gang make some new friends in Tanzania

    THOUSANDS of deprived Tanzanian villagers have been handed a vital lifeline by a local fundraising group. Members of Rainhill Rotary Club pulled together to raise £3,000 to buy an ambulance, which could help to save countless lives, after pals Nick Rushbrooke

  • 'Brilliant son' dies in Saudi crash

    TRIBUTES have been paid to a successful telecoms engineer who died in a crash involving three cars while working in Saudi Arabia. Mike Marriott, 47, was taking a taxi ride back to a hotel last month and was due to prepare for a journey back home to his

  • Crossbow turns up in knife truce

    A crossbow is among an arsenal of 45 dangerous weapons that have so far been handed in to police in St Helens during a National Knife Amnesty. Swords, knives and other blades have also now been safely taken out of circulation as the campaign heads towards