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  • Walk in memory of Ava-Marie

    COLLEAGUES and service users at St Helens YMCA took on a 19.1-mile walk to Southport to help bereaved families. Daniel Thompson, who works at the YMCA, set up charity Ava-Marie Foundation in memory of his daughter who died last year at nine days

  • Declan, 11, celebrates North West MMA title

    MEET 11-year-old Declan Rigby who is celebrating a north west MMA title belt. Declan trains at the town centre-based Hamma Academy of Mixed Martial Arts under the tutelage of Sean Martin, Conah Martin and Coner Hignett. The youngster from Sutton

  • St Helens Darts Academy celebrates latest success stories

    THE St Helens Darts Academy has expressed its delight after another series of success stories. Four youngsters from the academy will be going to Gibraltar for the Junior Darts Corporation (JDC) finals later this month. Jack Boardman, Harry

  • Snapshots from the town’s past

    THESE beautiful postcards of St Helens in bygone times have been sent in by Star reader Sheila King. Sheila, who lives in Allerton, Liverpool, was only 16 when she received the postcards from her grandmother in the 1950s. Sheila said: “I got

  • Flats plans above former bar given green light

    PLANS to develop the former Havana bar building have been approved. Proposals were submitted to St Helens Council for the building at 8 to 12 Ormskirk Street, St Helens. The application, drawn up by Clifford White, sought the conversion of

  • Councillor recalls how RNLI saved her life as a child

    COUNCILLOR Jeanie Bell is aiming to highlight the fantastic work done by the RNLI by recalling a harrowing ordeal as a child during which she and her sister were trapped beneath a capsized boat. This week the RNLI has been criticised on the Mail