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  • Community safety

    LETTERS about community safety in the Kingsway area of Widnes have been distributed in a joint effort by the Police, Halton Council, and community project group UNITASK. Residents are asked to fill in the slip provided and send them back to the address

  • Things that go bump in the night

    COULD St Helens borough be the spookiest place in Britain? Ghost-buster Arthur Adamson certainly thinks it's a leading candidate as he builds up his ever increasing dossier of spirit sightings and eerie happenings. Arthur, a local artist, is currently

  • Alarm scheme comes under fire

    FIREFIGHTERS are being treated like salesman, says a local brigade member. The fireman, who has asked to remain anonymous, said a scheme to fit smoke detectors and do home safety checks was not working. Cheshire Fire Service says it's targeting the right

  • Plans approved

    PLANS to build a three storey office building on phase three of Daresbury Park were approved by councillors last week. Daresbury Park Developments were given the green light as construction of phases one and two on land south of Red Brow Lane is nearing

  • Security van targeted in failed raid

    DETECTIVES are hunting two masked raiders who tried to steal money from a security van at a remote cash point. The attempted robbery happened at 8.38pm, on March 25, when the van stopped at the cash point on Knutsford Road, Latchford. The two men, who

  • INQUEST PROBES SHAFILEA DEATH

    A CORONER has ordered a second post mortem examination in a bid to establish how teenager Shafilea Ahmed was killed. It was ordered by South Lakeland coroner Cyril Prickett at the opening of an inquest into the death of the 17-year-old. The badly decomposed

  • Central figure...

    A NEW man has taken up the reins of the police's St Helens town-centre neighbourhood patch...and he reckons he's got plenty of tactics up his sleeve for the challenge ahead. Inspector Peter Costello, 33, has stepped into the shoes of John Vaudrey to become

  • Hitting home to halt this horror

    "It must be simply horrible to feel safer walking round the streets of St Helens at 3 in the morning because you don't want to go home since you are so terrified of being abused and assaulted there." So says Detective Inspector Jon Dawson. He heads St

  • Did UFO buzz Bold?

    ST HELENS has secured its lasting place in UFO history - via its own official entry in a mysterious X-Files style database. Detective Constable Gary Heseltine, founder of the unique PRUFOS (Police Reporting UFO Sightings) records system, highlighted the

  • UFO mystery deepens

    THE mystery surrounding an apparent sighting of a UFO above a power station 25 years ago deepened further when an amateur radio operator raised the possibility the 'light in the sky' actually landed in a local farmer's field. Robert Bennett revealed how

  • Council wants choir

    COUNCIL staff want to set up a permanent choir after the ongoing success of the Halton Sings concerts by school children, a meeting of Halton Council's education board has heard.

  • Community resolves to put end to problems

    AROUND 200 concerned residents attended a meeting this week to find out how to tackle some of the problems hitting Penketh. The meeting was organised following a spate of recent vandalism that has hit the area and many neighbours turned up to voice their

  • Teenager badly injured in assault

    A TEENAGE student was seriously assaulted while he waited at a bus stop outside St Gregory's High School in Westbrook. The 17-year-old boy suffered a double compound fracture of his jaw following the attack, which happened at around at 1.30pm on Tuesday

  • Biker dies in crash with parked wagon

    A MOTORCYCLIST was killed in Woolston on Wednesday night after colliding with a parked heavy goods vehicle. Thirty-eight-year-old Neil Hines suffered fatal head injuries following the crash at 1.10pm, on Kingsland Grange, near the industrial estate. It

  • Serial drunks could be soon barred from town centre

    DRUNKEN louts who repeatedly cause disorder in and around St Helens' town-centre bars could be banned from the area as part of a police plan to tackle yob behaviour. Already police are gathering evidence ahead of seeking an anti-social behaviour order