St Helens | Archive | 2006 | April
Tries: Scott Davies (2), Danny Heaton, Jordan Unsworth. Goals: Joshua Jackson (2), Jordan Unsworth more...
A NEW music night featuring some of the country's hottest new talent will launch this month at The Citadel. more...
CHRIS AMERY reviews Bell XI at the Academy, Manchester more...
MAKING a welcome return to St Helens this weekend will be the sensational Steve Gibbons Band. more...
IT is over 25 years since Cheryl Baker shot to fame winning Eurovision Song Contest with Bucks Fizz - famously having her skirt ripped off during the performance of 'Making your mind up'. more...
ENJOY a walk down memory lane with Motown favourites The Drifters who will be performing their greatest hits in a special show. more...
A US rock stalwart will be heading to St Helens next week with his latest band. more...
SATURDAY'S 2006 John Smith Grand National meeting is set to be the busiest yet - beating last year's record breaking attendances. more...
SATURDAY'S 2006 John Smith Grand National meeting is set to be the busiest yet - beating last year's record breaking attendances. more...
THEY all knew him as 'Wac' Foster - which is easily explained when you realise that his string of forenames were William Arthur Clifford. The nickname sprang from the three initial letters. more...
I AM writing in response to your article 'Not Good Enough' (Star front page March 16). more...
AS a working mother of four children, who has never sat back and allowed the good honest tax paying public to pay for me or my children, I am now angry to find that the place I work, Whiston Hospital, will from April 1 be introducing car parking rates of £10 per month for those of us who work 20 hours or more. This will be taken out of our wages every month, although we are told that we are still not guaranteed a car space. more...
AS a regular passenger on Liverpool - St Helens buses (No's 10 and 10A) I am writing to share two recent experiences I have had concerning vandalism and intimidating behaviour perpetrated by teenagers travelling on this route. more...
AS we are in Springtime and approaching Easter - a traditional time to send flowers to relatives and friends to brighten their mood and bring cheer. I should like to warn you all not to send flowers to anyone unfortunate enough to find themselves in Whiston Hospital as they will be refused delivery. more...
MAY I through your page say a BIG thank you to Sue Potts from Da'Liviaz Beauty Salon on High Street in Prescot. We are so often quick to complain for bad service these days so credit where credit is due. more...
MY name is Elsie Flynn and I am 90 years of age. I cannot walk around unaided and cannot climb the stairs, I am also registered partially sighted and am hard of hearing. My husband has to do all the work around the house as well as helping me wash and dress, he also takes me out in my wheelchair. more...
PERHAPS there is an element of truth in Alex Whamond's suggestion that opinions regarding the Parkside development are politically coloured, 'Home truths over Parkside plans' (Dear Star March 30). more...
I WOULD just like to say that I have been a Socialist all my life and I would like to ask is there any Socialists left in this so called New Labour party that we have? The reason I am saying this is as follows. more...
AS a taxpayer in this town and a resident for more than 30 years I was disgusted to hear that the council have decided to put up rates for the use of Haydock Sports Centre. more...
MY, how times have changed in St Helens. The Labour Party now taking full page adverts in the local press to attack the Liberal Democrats (with not even a mention of the Tories). more...
MAKING a welcome return to St Helens this weekend will be the sensational Steve Gibbons Band. more...
ONE YEAR ago Sean Bailey lay paralysed on a football pitch. more...
A GANG of teenagers stood by and laughed while one of their friends attacked two 12-year-old girls in St Helens town centre on Saturday afternoon. more...
TOUGH-TACKLING Christopher Foster has been hailed as possibly the only junior rugby league player in the world with Down's syndrome. more...
ROBBERS armed with a knife and brick who held up a bookies are believed to be behind a string of similar crimes across the region. more...
CRUEL conmen burgled the home of a 101-year-old man after one of them claimed to be council worker who needed to check the house's water supply. more...
A LOCAL play club spearheading a charity's appeal to gain funding from the National Lottery became stars on GMTV this Tuesday. more...
A TEENAGE fisherman was punched in the head and stomach after an argument with a man on a canal bank. more...
COUNCIL chiefs say positive meetings are being held with the organisation tasked with providing mental health care for the St Helens borough to ensure the services will be improved. more...
A MAN was rescued by firefighters last Thursday evening after trapping himself in a portaloo! more...
THREE dynamic fundraisers are joining forces for a challenging six-day triathlon over Easter, to help their school accommodate kids with special needs. more...
AN ANGRY mother has warned townsfolk to be on their guard after bogus callers turned up at her house when only her two sons were home. more...
AN exceptional lady got a Mothers Day present to remember as she was named a Mum in a Million in a special competition. more...
THE upgrading of a much loved local park and the creation of a major link road has helped St Helens Council pick up two more national awards. more...
THE short highway, which took eleven years to complete, was finally officially opened on December 13, 1950. Which rounds off the answer to an earlier query, asking when work on the Rainford Bypass was finally finished. more...
SAINTS have been paired at home to reigning champions Bradford Bulls in the next round of the Powergen Challenge Cup. more...
EVERY game provides a different challenge, but we got the job done against Doncaster without playing too well, particularly in the first 20 minutes. more...
19 minutes: After a jittery opening quarter it took a route one blast over the line from hooker Keiron Cunningham to start the scoring. Jamie Lyon converted, 6-0. more...
A SECOND half defensive shut-out combined with some highly effective attacking play throughout lay at the foundations of St Helens opening game in the Junior Championship. more...
ST Helens Swimming Club claimed the Merseyside & District Swimming League Title at Crosby on Saturday following another terrific performance. more...
ON a heavy pitch and in high winds both sides knew this would be a tough game but it was Hunslet who made the most of their chances and made sure of the points in the last quarter. more...
NEEDING a 14-point victory to take the NWCL Division Four title, Brook seconds got off to the perfect start with a try after only five minutes. more...
Frank Martin's ARL round-up more...
WEST Park's scheduled trip to Middlesborough on Saturday fell victim to a waterlogged pitch the second time the league game has had to be postponed, the first time on March 4 due to a snow covered pitch, promising even more fixture congestion with only three league Saturday's available if one includes Easter Saturday which was originally scheduled as an open date. more...
DAVID Forrester removed Ian Edwards' 13 year old club record for an under 17 3000m when he recorded 8.53.1 to finish second in the Northern Coaching match at Wavertree. more...
AS LSH approach the final two games of the season, this Saturday at Tyldesley followed a fortnight later by a home game against Rossendale, the club can reflect on a satisfactory campaign resulting in a likely top six finish and importantly, a halt to their slide down the divisions. more...
LOCAL swimming club Team St Helens took part in the last gala of the Merseyside & District League on April 1. more...
DOWN the years Town have found Glossop's Surrey Street venue a happy hunting ground where goals have been plentiful. more...
An 87th minute goal from Carl Rendell earned Prescot a midweek UniBond Premier League double over Whitby and gave Prescot their first win in six outings and to move them up into 8th place in the league. more...
DUE to the closure of Ruskin Leisure football pitches because of waterlogging, both Hospital Cup semi finals were postponed on Saturday. more...
SPOTTING my recent piece about the unbeatable piemakers of St Helens, two readers now pop up with tales from the hot oven. more...
THE ancient mission hall was full to bursting for the premiere screening of a look-back video of village times. The film cranked back the calendar to a time when Moss Bank was very much a sleepy village with scattered farming, a humble rail track, historic dwellings and deep family pride. more...
QUITE a few readers were intrigued by the term 'bally-ann days' in an item last week. more...
THEY all knew him as 'Wac' Foster - which is easily explained when you realise that his string of forenames were William Arthur Clifford. The nickname sprang from the three initial letters. more...
IT was the hot-pot treat that went totally cold! The story comes from Gill Edwards who had her memory jogged by my recent 'Hard-up times' piece. more...
AFTER praising this column's yedscratters as "having memories better than an elephant", reader Joan Pickett comes up with a puzzler of her own. more...
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