Liverpool Newswire Archive

06-04-2007 18:20

Demolition Derby

Sham consultations, compulsory purchases, mass demolitions and the displacement of entire communities. Call this a housing policy? A look at the government's Pathfinder initiative.
First published in Red Pepper April 2007.
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06-04-2007 18:10 | 2 comments

Toxteth people fear "legalised theft" of homes

Residents of the Granby Triangle fear they will be forced to sell up to Lovell - the council's chosen developer for £27m urban renewal scheme - whether their homes are down for demolition or not. First published in the Big Issue (1/4/07) Read more >>

06-04-2007 14:28 | 2 comments

Help Save The Liverpool Garden Festival Site!

Langtree McLean have been cutting their way through trees at the former Garden Festival site in Liverpool, even though they don't have planning permission yet and they don't own the site yet! Read more >>

05-04-2007 21:43

April edition of Liverpool's News Not Profit

The April edition of Liverpool's News Not Profit has hit the streets, proudly bearing the strapline 'Not yet owned by Rupert Murdoch or Richard Branson'. Read more >>

05-04-2007 21:29

River Barrages are an Expensive Burden on Nature and Communities

An analysis of the potential economic and environmental costs of the Preston Vision Board's 'Riverworks' Barrage scheme, in the light of the experience of the people of Cardiff and the highly expensive Cardiff Bay Barrage.

Barrages are an expensive burden on nature and on communities, but make substantial profits for greedy developers. Read more >>

04-04-2007 21:59 | 1 comment

Protest against Playboy Sunday 8th April 9.45pm

Playboy - Shut it down now Read more >>

04-04-2007 14:28 | 6 comments

200 Private Cops For Liverpool?

It looks like Liverpool will have 200 privately funded police in 2008 – Capital of Culture year. Read more >>

03-04-2007 13:03 | 2 comments

Demonstrate outside Home Office, Liverpool, 4 April, 2pm.

Protest outside racist Home Office. Stop 'failing asylum seekers! Read more >>

03-04-2007 11:05 | 9 comments

A Change is Gonna Come

Here follows a summary of the way out. Read more >>

02-04-2007 22:12 | 1 comment

Privatising the NHS

A private GP practice on Merseyside. Private health care for the paying patients only. Can we afford to let it happen? Read more >>

02-04-2007 15:28 | 1 comment

Bugged Locum Service

The bugging of a patient refferal service reported in todays Echo and a way they could have done it Read more >>

02-04-2007 10:29

Correct Me If I'm Wrong

Transferred from main IMC for local feedback Read more >>

01-04-2007 23:13

Rivers Of Life - Dams Of Death

All round the world, rivers are under threat from greedy developers, keen make money building dams and barrages - yet these dams and barrages have a terrible impact both on the environment and on the people who live nearby, and need vast amounts of money to keep them going. Read more >>

30-03-2007 18:10

Prince Charles to visit Toxteth Town Hall

It seems the rumour on Liverpool Indymedia in February has been confirmed. If recent activity at Toxteth Town Hall is anything to go by, Prince Charles will be visiting on 23rd April. Read more >>

29-03-2007 10:42 | 4 additions | 3 comments

Bailiff shysters

Largest bailiff firm taking on contracts around the uk Read more >>

29-03-2007 04:55 | 4 comments

Spinning the truth - the BPP and the 'White Nationalist' (nazi) Forum

More porkies than people... Read more >>

28-03-2007 19:54 | 4 comments

Refugee family forcibly taken by police in bullet proof vests - urgent action!

At 7 a.m. on Tuesday morning (27th March) Jannatul Chowdhury and her children were suddenly and violently arrested at dawn and taken by van to a cell in Reliance House Water Street where they were held until they were again taken by van to Yarls Wood detention centre where they are currently imprisoned and facing imminent deportation on Sunday April 1st. Such treatment is outrageous in a so-called ‘civilised’ society. Read more >>

28-03-2007 14:42 | 1 comment

Reparations Group Demans Truth from Barclays on Slavery Link

New York/USA -- Considering the 200th anniversary of the British closing of their Transatlantic slave trade, it is fitting that attention is focused on existing British institutions that participated in the practice. There are enormous online resources that help with the task of identifying these parties, and the Restitution Study Group, a New York non-profit, wants to share some with the public. Of particular note in their research of British archive and museum records is information on two prominent slave trading bankers, Benjamin and Arthur Heywood, brothers from Liverpool, England who founded Arthur Heywood, Sons & Co. (Heywoods Bank) in 1773, which merged into Martins Bank in 1883, which merged into Barclays Bank in 1968.
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27-03-2007 21:29 | 5 comments

Justice for the Shrewsbury Pickets Campaign Update

Here is the March 2007 update from Justice For Shrewsbury Pickets, campaigning for an inquiry into the 1972 imprisonment of Ricky Tomlinson and Des Warren, as described on tonight's BBC documentary with Tomlinson. Read more >>

27-03-2007 13:07 | 3 comments

N9S rebrands itself - though it's still nazi

What a difference a name makes - one at all Read more >>