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Street Cred drive goes Continental
by Craig manning OPERATION Street Cred - the Wirral police operation aimed at curbing youth disorder in partnership with the Globe - has gone European. A group of police and youth service workers from the borough went on exchange with a similar group
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Man scoops £9m lottery
A JCB driver from Eastham celebrated the New Year with a party after scooping a £9m National Lottery jackpot. Damien Madden claimed the top prize in the Christmas Lotto draw, but did not check the ticket until a week later. The father-of-three, who is
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Giving up the weed is hypnotic experience
by Emma Callaghan BART Simpson echoed my sentiments on smoking when he said: "I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it and I don't know why I'll do it again." Sixty-nine per cent of us want to give it up - apparently - but more disturbing
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Hopes for hospital deal
THE DISPUTE that has disrupted Wirral Hospital NHS Trust may be one step closer to being resolved. Management and unions held talks on Monday after which the three unions agreed to put the new deal to workers at series mass meetings due to start next
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Row over cash cuts - by Eric Munn
PLANS are being made to close public toilets and reduce the number of free buses for school children. Wirral's Labour group want to keep the council tax rise to a minimum, but it means £8 million of cuts are on the way. Liberal Democrats and Conservatives
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Backing for campaign to help kids - by Michelle Corbett
WE'RE just one week into our appeal to raise cash for a sensory garden for special needs kids, and already our big-hearted readers are digging deep to make the dream come true! Lyndale Avenue Primary is hoping to put a smile on their pupil's faces with
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Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra - Small World, Big Band (Volume Two) More Friends (Warn
THE inimitable Mr Holland is joined by his big band and a galaxy of stars for a cracking second volume of rock, ballad and instrumental. A cool and sassy mix of saxophone, piano, guitar and trumpet, which reminds you that there is more to the music world
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The Rat Pack - Christmas With... (Capitol) album
Christmas albums can be the most boring and short lived purchases you are ever likely to make. In my case there are two notable exceptions - It's a Reggae Christmas and Christmas With The Rat Pack. I bought the first about three-years-ago for £2 and I
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Eminem - Lose Yourself (Interscope) single
Lose Yourself is the title track from Eminem's new movie '8-Mile' to be released in the UK on December 17. The single has gone straight to number one in the charts - a testament to the rappers enduring popularity. Lose Yourself has a hard rock beat much
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Gareth Gates: What My Heart Wants To Say (19 Music) single
THE spiky-haired second placed pop idol returns with a bland and uninspiring title track that would be very welcome at any karaoke party. Also included on this bumper festive package is a video and, because it's that time of year, a very soppy seasonal
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Elton John: Greatest Hits 1970-2000 (Mercury) ALBUM
BIZARRE is a word I would have used to describe Elton John before I heard this two CD compilation, now I would use the term to describe my reaction to it. I knew I liked a couple of his early '70s songs but I used to think his style had slowly decayed
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Holly Valance - Naughty Girl (London Records 90 Ltd) single
DOWN boy! You might want to give this young lady a Kiss Kiss but I'm sorry to say she's been a Naughty Girl! Miss Valance is in a contrite mood in her latest release from her debut album 'Footprints', crooning a grovelling apology for her misbehaviour
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George Harrison - Brainwashed (EMI) album
Brainwashed is a bittersweet collection of tracks lost deep in the theme of spiritualism and woven through gentle Rock & Roll, Blues, and slide guitar. George died in November before the album could be finished, but it rarely sounds incomplete. There
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Peter Gabriel - More Than This (Virgin)
Taken from his latest album, this single is classic Gabriel and a showcase for his seeming wealth of endless talent after all he wrote, produced and even sings on it. This smooth combination of keyboard, guitar and lyrics delivered with a cool and laid
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Sigur Ros - '( )' (Fat Cat Records)
Nothing, inserted in parentheses, is an attention-grabbing, if not pretentious, title for a remarkable album. '( )' is the third album from the Icelandic band Sigur Ros, and one that is hard to bracket. The band sings in an invented language called 'hopelandish
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Jay-Z - The Blueprint 2 The Gift and The Curse (Rockafella Records)
Jay-Z's last album The Blueprint was one of the most successful and innovative albums of 2001, The Blueprint 2 sees Jay-Z team up with Lenny Kravitz and others for an album that is pure gangsta/pop crossover and equally impressive. This double album provides
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Wheelie greatfarm invention
by Eric Munn PIG FARMERS in Wirral have adopted a novel way of helping poorly animals. By attaching nipple drinkers to Wheelie bins, the farmers can get medicine to the animals that need it rather than pouring the drugs into the communal water supply.
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Trust appoints new directors
WIRRAL Hospital NHS Trust has appointed two new non-executive directors. Frances Street and Eric Smethurst will both hold their positions for a four-year period and bring with them a wealth of experience from various areas. Ms Street is a Justice of the
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Martial artist in cancer research fund-raise night
MORE than £2,000 was raised for Cancer Research UK with a charity fight night organised by one of Wirral's - and Britain's - top martial arts experts. Lee Charles put the amazing night together after his nan, Lillian Charles, died of cancer earlier this
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Best of both worlds for talented teacher
A MULTI-TALENTED teacher from Greasby really has got the best of both worlds after landing a part in her own play. Actress, author and director Madelaine Murthwaite plays Donna in The First Time - a one-act play looking at a young woman's development
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Pet injured by fishhook
by Craig manning A SEACOMBE woman is warning of the dangers of discarded fishhooks, after her dog accidentally swallowed one during a Sunday morning walk. Emma Niblock's daughter Nina was walking with 19-month-old cross Collie Lulu on New Brighton beach
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Tributes paid to valued sport centre campaigner
by Emma Callaghan TRIBUTES have been flooding in following the sudden death of a former Cammell Lairds worker from Wallasey who helped to save Leasowe Recreation Centre. William Michael Prowse, aged 66 years, suffered a massive heart attack while walking
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Six from Wirral in NY honours list
A FORMER Birkenhead schoolboy who founded a national newspaper and became a prominent figure in film censorship is one of six Wirralians rewarded in the Queen's New Year's honours list. Andreas Whittam-Smith - founder editor of The Independent newspaper
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Laird's in staff row
CAMMELL Laird's new owner has defended its decision to recruit foreign workers instead of local labour as new refit work begins. Southampton-based shiprepairer A&P has recruited a team of Portuguese workers, through a sub-contractor, to start refit
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Increases in breast cancer screening
by Eric Munn ALL WOMEN aged between 50 and 70 who live in Wirral will be invited for a routine mammogram every three years. Previously invitations to attend the Breast Centre at Elm House, Clatterbridge, were only sent to those up to the age of 64. Now
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Record calls over violence in the home
by Emma Callaghan A RECORD number of calls reporting domestic violence to police in Wirral have been recorded, as women speak out against their abusers. And co-ordinators of the Christmas crack-down on violence in the home, Operation Goodwill, say there
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Darius - Dive In (Mecury) album
I cannot believe I'm about to write this but 'Dive In' is a smashing collection of optimistic acoustic-pop. No! Wait! Don't go! Hear me out first before you pigeonhole my music tastes in with your toe-tapping-mother and hormone-loaded teenage sister.
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Liberty X - Holding On For You (V2) single
The best thing to come out of any reality pop show phenomenon, Liberty X continue their run of quality singles with this little Christmas effort. It is a rising ballad with gentle R&B roots, which has an edge on the rest of the seasonal efforts by
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David Grey: The Other Side (IHT) single
DAVID Grey's music is nice in the same way that kittens and cups of tea are nice. His music is homely but entirely uninspired. The Other Side is taken from David Grey's new album A New Day at Midnight , the follow up to the seven times platinum White
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Oxygen - Am I On Your Mind? (Switch Records) Single
While some forms of dance music are progressing in new, interesting and entertaining ways, others simply aren't. Oxygen's Am I On Your Mind? is an uninspired example of the phenomenon and more suited to 1998 than early 2003. The track features singer
