Liverpool Newswire Archive

11-02-2007 19:06

Urgent! Ola and family kidnapped by snatch squads!

Olawumi Alao and her three young children were snatched from their home in Liverpool in the early hours on Thursday 1st February. Please do all you can to help in their release. Read more >>

11-02-2007 08:22

Families Against Corporate Killers in Liverpool

A group of about twenty people attended a meeting about the Families Against Corporate Killers (FACK) campaign on Thursday, 8th February, at the Liverpool John Moores University building on Clarence Street.
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11-02-2007 00:54 | 2 comments

Torchlit March for NHS 22 February Liverpool

Help us fight for our Health Service
Thursday 22nd February
Assemble 5:30 pm Royal Liverpool University Hospital
Torchlit march to St. George's Plateau

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09-02-2007 12:03

Next national climate camp organising gathering Feb 17/18 in Leeds

Climate Camp 2007 will take place from August 14th to 21st. Planning is already well under way and we need everyone to get involved and make it happen.
The next national organising gathering will be in Leeds on Sat and Sun Feb 17th/18th. It will be at The Common Place in Leeds city centre and vegan food, accommodation and creche will be provided (please contact us with accommodation, creche or any other needs though so we can plan ahead).
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03-02-2007 22:43 | 4 comments

Lancaster UAF move house

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02-02-2007 23:26 | 4 additions | 6 comments

Storm Troopers

Police seal off two streets and search every home. Read more >>

02-02-2007 18:15

Defend Public Health March in Liverpool

Merseyside TUC at its meeting on Saturday 20th January agreed to support the NHS Together NW TUC regional demonstration on 3rd March and also to organise a pre-demonstration to be held on: Read more >>

01-02-2007 16:54 | 6 comments

BNP Target Norris Green

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29-01-2007 20:41 | 1 comment

Capitol Of Culture

Next year Liverpool becomes the capitol of culture 08.The photographs attached to this story have had only miminal publicity in Liverpool so i publish the story in IMC UK to attract wider publicity. Read more >>

22-01-2007 19:18 | 2 comments

Fack Corporate Killers

Families Against Corporate Killers (FACK) is a group of families who have been bereaved by work. In Liverpool on 8th February, Three founder members of FACK will speak of their own experiences of their loss, their further victimisation by the criminal justice system, and of possible ways forward for appropriate legal responses to corporate killers. Read more >>

21-01-2007 18:00 | 1 comment

Fire Authority Sticks the Knife In (Symbolically At Least)

The following facts are all we know for certain. A non-union firefighter - who sided with the Fire Authority's cuts agenda last year by crossing the Fire Brigades Union picket line - was badly injured when he tried to put one of his boots on. His foot was sliced open when he brought it down on a Stanley knife blade. Read more >>

19-01-2007 00:24

Liverpool's Colin 'Cover Up' finally admits: "TONY PARRISH TOLD THE TRUTH"

Liverpool city council have finally admitted that Tony Parrish told the truth on his legendary liverpoolevilcabal blog. The admission comes in a confidential report compiled by the city council's own internal audit department and endorsed by chief executive Colin 'Cover Up' (Colin Hilton, ed) Read more >>

19-01-2007 00:03 | 4 comments

Another Horrific Workplace Death on Merseyside

Just two days after the horrible death of a construction worker in Liverpool, another Merseyside worker was killed on the job, in equally unpleasant circumstances. Read more >>

18-01-2007 23:22

Do Merseyside Fire Authority Want A Rematch?

Since the partial defeat of their cuts agenda last summer, Merseyside Fire Authority have been steadily stepping up provocations against the Fire Brigades Union. In November, letters were served to fourteen emergency crew members, calling them to hearings over incidents during the September walkout, including one for 'smiling aggressively'. Then a firefighter got in trouble for drinking a cup of tea. Now management have locked FBU members out of their own meeting at West Derby fire station, forcing them to hold the meeting in the rain! Read more >>

16-01-2007 01:08 | 5 comments

Construction Worker Killed in Liverpool City Centre

It had only been a matter of time before Liverpool City Centre saw a construction worker die on the job. Yesterday, the inevitable happened, and a 120 foot crane collapsed, killing one man and seriously injuring another at Duke Terrace, near Seel Street. Read more >>

13-01-2007 18:03 | 1 comment

Vigil: Styal Prison, Cheshire - 18 January 2007

A vigil will be held outside HMP & YOI Styal, Cheshire
Thursday 18 January 2007, 1.30 pm - 4.00 pm
to mark the 4th anniversary of the death of Sarah Elizabeth Campbell, 18
who died in the so-called care of HMP & YOI Styal on 18.01.03
Reporters & photographers are welcome to attend Read more >>

10-01-2007 21:48 | 1 addition

Are your kids lucky enough to be tagged from birth

A PRIMARY school has become the first to use fingerprint technology.

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09-01-2007 18:46

Advertising Cancer Infects NHS

Yes, you read it right. Now that we have 'choice' in what hospitals we consume (sorry, 'use'), Merseyside NHS hospitals are going to start flaunting their wares in public spaces, in a bid to make you choose Southport General over the Royal Liverpool or whatever. Of course, as with any business, the money spent on advertising will not be available for wages or the actual services. And in hospitals, the services are quite important. Read more >>

09-01-2007 16:16 | 6 comments

Conspiracy Their Arses! Ricky Tomlinson (and Non-Celebrities) Fight Injustice

Of course you know Ricky Tomlinson from his roles in the Royle Family and Brookside. But you may not know he was one of the Shrewsbury pickets imprisoned in the 1970s for 'conspiracy to intimidate' during a building workers dispute. Well now Ricky has donated £1,000 to a campaign for a public inquiry into the blatantly dodgy arrests, trial, and imprisonments. He will also be presenting a TV documentary later this year in a bid to raise awareness. Read more >>

05-01-2007 23:03

Construction Safety Slammed In Liverpool

Outside McDonald’s on Lord Street, the Amicus union launched a campaign against poor safety standards in the construction industry this afternoon. As if to prove their point, Morgan Utilities Ltd were fined £11,000 for a 2005 incident just down the road. Read more >>