St Helens | Archive | 2006 | July
HAYDOCK'S fine mid season form continued with a five wicket win at Halsall West End. This fourth win of the season moves them up to fourth in the table. more...
RAINFORD returned to winning form in emphatic style with a nine wicket demolition of former Liverpool Competition side, Caldy. more...
LAST weekend saw Sutton take on Skelmersdale both of whom promoted to the top flight last season. more...
ECLECTICA, one of the North of England's most exciting, innovative and up-and-coming summer music festivals, has unveiled an exceptional line up for this year's event in St Helens. more...
PERFORMING at The Citadel on Friday 7 and Saturday 8 July will be will be the very best in young St Helens acting talent as the 14+ St Helens Millennium Youth Theatre takes to stage with their rendition of A Midsummer Night's Dream. more...
HUNDREDS of top-quality prints are currently on show at The World of Glass in the annual exhibition by Lancashire & Cheshire Photographic Union. more...
LOCAL R&B favourites The Swampstompers will be bringing their electrifying mix of rock, soul and Chicago Blues to The Bell and Barrel in St Helens town centre on Friday 7 July. Admission is free. more...
I AM writing to respond to issues raised by some of your readers in your letters page of June 29, regarding the Parkside rail freight development. more...
I WRITE in response to Bill Bradbury's letter 'Over to you on Parkside Councillor Spencer' (Dear Star). Bill I am so envious of your ability to exist in a world populated by stereotypes - e.g. anyone who has the nerve to oppose council plans must be comfortably off and living in a posh house. Please wake up and re-engage with reality before it's too late. more...
I WRITE in response to the letter entitled 'Shining example' (Dear Star). Instead of being sarcastic and judgemental I would invite the resident to consider the reasons why dog walkers are forced to use the area formerly used as a bowling green. more...
PLEASE could you say a massive thank you to the staff at Pet Aid Hospital (Vets now) in Huyton, especially Maria and the nursing team and also to vet Alison King, Craig and all staff at Rutland House Vetinary Surgery in St Helens. more...
I AM writing to urge the council for more security in our parks. more...
MAY I take this opportunity to respond to the Resident of Rainford 'Watch out or you'll put your foot in it!' (Dear Star) more...
COULD any person reading this who works for the St Helens police or paramedics please tell me why both of these public services have taken to haring round our roads with both blues and two's on, especially late at night and in the early hours. I realise that they are required to advise other road users that an emergency vehicle is approaching but I have witnessed both hurtling through Billinge with not another vehicle on the road with the sirens doing nothing but waking up local residents like myself. more...
WITH reference to the letter from Terry Walling 'Faggots? They were Savory Ducks!' (Dear Star). The chippy I would nominate was the chippy in Chancery Lane, Parr. It was run by two sisters Stella and Daphnie Daniels. more...
I JUST want to tell you that as a resident of St Helens how embarrassed, yes that's right, embarrassed and ashamed I am of St Helens if my nieces and their friends came to visit from France. more...
IN reply to the letter by Mr Renshall 'Walk and ride' (Dear Star, June 15) I agree with his observations on why the parking meters have been put in place in the car park that serves Dane Court, Rainhill. more...
I AM writing about the latest idea of the Lib Dem and Conservative alliance. After putting the scotch in on the jobs at Parkside are they really so much against the idea of more jobs for the people in Newton? more...
ON Friday I went to Earlestown for a change. I had a lovely day mixing with happy shoppers round the market, visited a few charity shops, had a nice lunch and arrived back to St Helens at 3.50pm. By 4.15pm my purse was stolen. more...
TWO newly-qualified midwives, frustrated by the lack of local jobs, may have to commute to London to pursue their dream career. more...
THE Labour Party has hit back over allegations of irregularities in the former council leader's election expenses. more...
ACTING on a tip-off from a worried member of the public, police cordoned off streets in Islands Brow as they arrested a man at his home who it was alleged was keeping a gun at the property. more...
ARRIVA is to hold talks with Town Hall chiefs on changes to town bus services. more...
A 38-YEAR-old man was attacked on Duke Street, St Helens town centre, in the early hours of Sunday, July 2. more...
ARSONISTS destroyed a car on Collingwood Road, Newton-le-Willows on Saturday, July 1. more...
A FIVE week knife amnesty across Merseyside has seen 219 weapons handed into police in St Helens. The campaign, which ended at the end of June, was described as encouraging by top cops. Weapons ranging from martial arts blades, swords and machetes were handed in. more...
WILLOWBROOK Hospice are looking to recruit people to collect money for them in St Helens town centre on their annual Flag Day, which will take place on Saturday, August 5. more...
A MAN has been charged with theft after a CCTV camera was stolen from Merseyside Probation Service, Church Street, St Helens. Brian Gill, 33, of Morgan Street, Parr was due to appear at St Helens Magistrates Court yesterday (Wednesday, July 5) more...
AFTER our front-page story about Alex Walsh, the disabled mum who was warned by Tesco to speed up her shopping or face a £150 fine, the Star has been bombarded with calls from other worried customers. more...
DOZENS of pensioners, living in sheltered accommodation, were last week left with no hot water, heating or gas for the seventh time in as many months. more...
A STAR reader from Leach Lane contacted us to report a water leak that has been affecting people in Sutton Leach since April. more...
ANGRY parents claim police ignored their calls for help three times after their son's treasured bike was stolen from their back garden. more...
THEY thought their first open-air social event might be a bright one-off occasion. But 28 years later, the Moss Bank Gala is still going ... stronger, bigger and better! more...
By Mike Critchley more...
SUPER League leading Saints have a mounting injury list ahead of Friday night's visit of Les Catalans. more...
ST Helens has a new national champion - in the controversial and uncompromisingly tough sport of cage fighting. more...
SEVEN members of Sutton Harriers have been chosen to to compete in this weekend's English Schools Track and Field Championships in Gateshead. Six of those are pictured at the track Andrew McDonagh (Cheshire), Samantha Fraser (Cheshire), Josie Barrow (Merseyside), Thaddeus Anim-Somuah (Merseyside), David Forrester (Greater Manchester) and Luke Williams (Merseyside). Also selected is Mike Jukes (Cheshire). more...
LIVERPOOL St Helens' preparations for the new season in North 2 West are well under way with full training now resumed. more...
Newton-le-Willows AA, match & fishery news more...
AFTER eight weeks of league bowling fixtures, only three teams can boast 100 per cent record, British Plate in Division One, Green Dragon in Division Four and Sprayhurst in Division Six. more...
WHEN Haydock professional golfer Barry Taylor returned from the European Denmark Open in which he finished a creditable 30th out of a professional field of 160, he could not have envisaged what was to happen next. more...
SUTTON Leach gymnast Rachel Letsche struck gold at the recent Junior European Tumbling Championships in France. Rachel, aged 14, was part of the winning Great Britain team comprising Zara McLean, Jennifer Dawes and Sarah Turner which won team title in Metz, overcoming a strong challenge from Ukraine in second position and Russia in third. more...
Thatto Heath & District 301 Darts League, Sponsored by A180.co.uk more...
Thatto Heath Fourges more...
ON Saturday St Helens Recs hosted Northop Hall, looking to bounce back from their first defeat of the season. Winning the toss Recs batted first on a baking hot day. more...
THE distinguished-looking civil servant always stepped into his favourite 'local' wearing his immaculate collar, tie and smart trilby hat. more...
YOUNG John Lyon used to huddle under the kitchen table whenever the air-raid siren wailed out its warnings of a German bombing attack. more...
A BRIGHT and extraordinary light has gone out with the death of Edie Carter, lady of many parts and proud to have been referred to as a member of the 'naughty nineties.' more...
KEEN trencherman Stan Roberts was licking his lips when he spotted mention of the great pie-makers of St Helens on this page. more...
IT'S a quiet, tree-fringed woodland spot now, with little signs of earlier activity. And yet the old Stanley Bank area, on the track leading from Blackbrook to Carr Mill, was once an amazing hive of industry. more...
WITH the curtain about to finally come down on the famous old Jagger's School, a special event is being prepared. more...
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