Archive

  • Weekend raises £100,000 for Mose Masoe campaign

    A WEEKEND of Rugby League across the UK and Australia dedicated to supporting former player Mose Masoe has raised more than £100,000 for his family. The Rugby League community came together over the Easter weekend with fans in UK urged to buy ‘

  • Restaurant owner submits plans for wine bar

    A TOWN centre restaurant owner has submitted plans for a wine bar nearby. The Dean on Barrow Street was launched in 2019 at the former Willowbrook Hospice shop by couple Eddie Dean and Victoria Zsigmond Dean. And during the current lockdown

  • Cyclists do not belong on a pavement

    FOLLOWING a letter from one of your correspondents last week, I too have issues with cyclists on the pavement – the fact that they are there at all. What they wear or display shouldn’t matter to pedestrians; the fact is that they do not belong

  • Man jailed for breaching restraining order twice

    A TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD man has been sent to jail for breaching a restraining order via social media messages through a third party. Robert Lee Boulsover, of Ghyll Grove, Moss Bank was given a prison sentence at Liverpool, Knowsley and St Helens

  • Police discover stolen car with false plates

    A STOLEN car found with false number plates has been seized by police. Officers on targeted patrols discovered the Ford ST in Braemar Close, Whiston on Saturday night. An investigation into the theft is ongoing, with police saying the crime

  • Cheshire service station ranked among the WORST in country

    THE best and worst motorway service stations in the country have been revealed - and it's not good news for one in Cheshire. Sandbach services - located between junctions 16 and 17 on the M6 - is ranked among the worst five analysed by consumer

  • QUIZ: Skipper of Saints B from a famous sporting family?

    A QUICK pictorial puzzler for all Saints buffs out there. The skipper pictured here in the 1960s has just led the Saints 'B' team to St Helens Cup success. A member of one of the town's famous sporting families, who went on to play first team

  • A decent pay rise would help protect the NHS

    EVERY day NHS staff working in the St Helens and Knowsley are putting their health and wellbeing on the line to provide care in exceptionally difficult circumstances. Yet after the most difficult year in living memory for NHS staff, the UK Government

  • Friends to start mammoth challenge for Willowbrook today

    TWO friends will today begin their mountainous challenge in aid of Willowbrook Hospice. Jack Bolan and Jonathon Ward, both 19, have set themselves an ambitious challenge during the upcoming month of April. They will be climbing four mountains