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Stories for 6 March 2001

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I WANT TO GO HOME SAYS BUS CRASH JAMIE

A SCHOOLBOY is waiting for the all-clear from Austrian doctors after a journey home from a skiing trip spun into a nightmare.   more...

News in Brief

A LOCAL legal firm is expanding to include a new department.  more...

Rock on...

A CONCERT featuring one of Britain's best loved comedy duos will help to see a Wallasey church restored.  more...

Historic dock ready for new future

ONE HUNDRED and sixty years of history has been preserved at Wirral's Cammell Laird shipyard.  more...

Drug addict gets six life sentences

A VIOLENT robber who carried out a catalogue of attacks, including hi-jacking a woman motorist at knife-point and leaving an elderly man with a fractured skull in a revenge assault, has received six concurrent life sentences.  more...

Wirral hopes to escape foot and mouth

AS FOOT and mouth disease threatens to grow to epidemic proportions, a Moreton vet has warned the public to keep away from local farms.  more...

Don't knock down buildings plea

HOYLAKE could lose much of its character if developers get their way - that's the claim of conservation groups in the town.  more...

Louts disrupt crisis forum

A BRICK was thrown through a Noctorum off-licence window as a public meeting on the problems of policing in the area was held in the pub next door.  more...

Town honours its war dead

WALLASEY civilians who died in World War Two have been honoured in a new memorial unveiled by the Mayor of Wirral.  more...

Police praise crime-busting Globe Carwatch campaign

THIS week sees the last in the Wirral Globe and Merseyside Police's successful Car Watch campaign.  more...

Shoppers say 'non' to Euro

WIRRAL shoppers want to keep the pound in their pocket and not the Euro, according to Wallasey's Cllr Lesley Rennie.  more...

MP quizzed over improper use of House stationery

WIRRAL West MP Stephen Hesford has been called to a meeting with the parliamentary authorities over the "improper use" of House of Commons stationery.  more...

Hospital defends patient privacy record

WIRRAL Hospital NHS Trust has hit back at a national newspaper's story about a collection of medical records relating to Arrowe Park Hospital that were dumped in Heswall's Tesco car park.  more...

  
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