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The enslaved men carried heavy stakes and hammers as they walked the field.
Their master had always been fussy and humorless—they knew that. But these days he seemed increasingly fragile, too.
As ever, lost in his own strange calculus.
He was tall, their master, with long limbs, but seemed to shrink a bit in the July sun. Pushing back a clump of damp and unruly hair, he pointed to a spot, and there one of his enslaved men promptly drove a stake.
The old man grunted his approval, then kept on walking.
The field was not quite 300 yards in length and sloped dramatically downward from north to south. Its soil had once grown corn for the just-inaugurate president, James Monroe. Now it was to be cleared for something new.
A bustling village of sorts—an academical village—where teachers and students lived and studied together. He could see them now, striding across the lawn, earnestly debating something in Greek or Latin.
His friends might roll their eyes at such republican idealism. But he had a knack for bringing them along anyway.
To them he gave the task of getting it all figured out in Richmond, of pushing the necessary bills through the General Assembly.
For his part, he would build. Right here in this old cornfield.
Or at least his slaves would.
As the mountains looked down from a distance, one of the black men heaved his hammer up overhead and drove another spike.
The top tier being a state university.
Jefferson and Cabell were already trustees of something called the Albemarle Academy, which recently had been chartered as Central College. Neither school existed, except on paper. And in Jefferson's head.
Call it whatever you want, I imagine Jefferson thinking. This was going to be that state university.
And so he set about building it.
His ten enslaved men spent the summer clearing rocks from Monroe's old cornfield, chopping down trees, and otherwise preparing the site. Then, on October 6, a group of plumed and ruffled dignitaries all came together and with full Masonic rites laid a cornerstone. It's hidden away somewhere at the site of what would become Pavilion VII.
Edmund Bacon, Jefferson's overseer at Monticello, described the day's events. James Madison and President Monroe, were both there, he reported, with the latter delivering a few short remarks.
As for Bacon's boss: "Mr. Jefferson—poor old man!—I can see his white head just as he stood there and looked on."
Meanwhile, back in Richmond, Cabell's bill failed. There would be no public educational system in Virginia, at least not yet.
As a compromise, though, the General Assembly agreed to appropriate $15,000 for a university and appointed a distinguished commission to select a site. On August 1, 1818, said commission met at Rockfish Gap, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and quickly elected Jefferson its president.
It should come as no surprise, then, that the site on which the commissioners settled just happened to be "in the neighborhood" of Jefferson's beloved Monticello. Not only that, it was a site on which the ground had already been broken.
The assembly made it official on January 25, 1819. The school that had once been called Albemarle Academy and then Central College was now once and for all the University of Virginia.
One that encompassed harmony, proportion, and strength.
But he also understood the way in which design could serve important practical purposes. William and Mary, in the west end of Williamsburg, was contained within three wretched structures, the oldest of which was build back in the 1690s. Jefferson considered them to be ugly. He once wrote they were "maledictions over this land."
But he also worried that such close quarters made the school unnecessarily vulnerable to fire and contagious disease. Why not spread out a bit?
Over time his design began to take shape. The Academical Village, as he called it, would be arranged in a U-shaped configuration around that long-wide, now-terraced lawn. At its head would stand a library. On the sides, pavilions would serve as both professors' lodgings and classrooms. And they all would be connected by colonnades of single-room student dormitories.
Jefferson's design would be practical and, of course, beautiful. But it would also operate on the level of symbol. In the context of an Academical Village, it would manifest those very classical qualities in which he hoped to educate his students. It would be a model, a kind of textbook even.
The Rotunda, of course, was key to all of that. So much so that Jefferson's original sketch of it has since become the university's logo. It's remarkable, then, that such a defining feature of the school's design was not even in Jefferson's original plan. In fact, it wasn't even Jefferson's idea.
To his credit, Jefferson had from the start sought advice. In particular, he reached out to two professional architects—William Thornton and Benjamin Henry Latrobe. He had not told either man he was talking to the other because they were, as one historian has put it, "ferocious enemies."
Thornton had come up with the design for the United States Capitol and Latrobe was put in charge of building it. When design and reality clashed, so too did these men.
Anyway, Latrobe is the one who suggested a domed structure at the head of the Lawn. That was in 1817, the same year the cornerstone was laid. Over the next two years Jefferson ran with the idea, taking inspiration from the Pantheon in Rome and from Latrobe's own drawings.
So important was Latrobe that Jefferson actually wrote his name in the upper right-hand corner of this drawing before crossing it out for some reason.
Latrobe is credited on another drawing too, on which Jefferson wrote, "Latrobe's Rotunda, reduced to the proportions of the Pantheon." But he scribbled that out, as well.
Latrobe had recently crossed swords with Jefferson's good friend President Monroe over his work on the Capitol. As a result, he had resigned from the project. Perhaps Monroe wouldn't have looked kindly on Latrobe being too involved in the university.
So Jefferson, ever the astute politician, just took credit himself.
That word logo, by the way, comes from the Greek logos, which encompasses the idea that man's reasoning power can be found in the universe writ large. Everything has meaning, and that meaning derives from logos.
The University of Virginia's logo, in other words, is the Rotunda.
Yet again Jefferson's design had become symbol. Its harmony, proportion, and strength represented nothing less than the meaning of life or, in our perhaps less idealistic days, just really effective marketing.
A brief word here on something that we all know but something that it's important not to forget: Enslaved men and women built the University of Virginia.
As we've seen, they cleared the land on which it was built.
They formed the timber and raised it into place. They forged the nails and hammered them in. They baked clay into bricks by the tens of thousands in order to raise the Rotunda. A man named Carpenter Sam did tinwork and a man called Elijah quarried stone. William Green was a blacksmith.
Jefferson once wrote from France that a university was critical to the new republic: "No other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom, and happiness. If any body thinks that kings, nobles, or priests are good conservators of public happiness, send them here."
So this foundation for the preservation of freedom was built by slaves.
Europe was a mess, Jefferson had written. Rotten with "kings, nobles, or priests." And he was right by the way, having penned those lines just before the storming of the Bastille.
Still, it's ironic that years later when he went looking for professors, he went to Europe. Well, actually he sent Francis Walker Gilmer to Europe. Well, actually Gilmer only made it to England. There, according to his instructions, he was to find "characters of due degree of science, and of talents for instruction, and of correct habits and morals."
Dr. Robley Dunglison, professor of medicine.
They set sail from London in October 1824 but bad weather on the Thames and storms in the Atlantic stretched a typical four- to five-week jaunt into an arduous fourteen-week journey.
At one point—and this according to Dunglison's later recollection—a nasty squall off Cape Hatteras brought Bonnycastle rushing onto deck, "almost in puris naturalibis, with his nightcap on, and his appearance was so droll as to excite the laughter of the sailors."
Their late arrival postponed the start of classes until March 7, 1825.
John Patten Emmet, a nephew of an executed Irish rebel. He taught chemistry.
Soon there would be professors of Latin and Greek and law.
So here's the big question: What was the point of such an education? Why was the University of Virginia such an obsession for Jefferson—his last great project? And why did the state chip in $15,000?
"No other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom, and happiness" than a university. "If any body thinks that kings, nobles, or priests are good conservators of public happiness, send them" to Europe.
(b) to produce something other than kings, nobles, and priests.
The roots of democracy and republicanism came from Greece and Rome. So an education in the classics—Jefferson believed—in Latin and Greek and history, would teach young men politics and virtue. It would teach them to lead the state and the new nation.
Science was critical in the operation of a working plantation, he said more than once. But other subjects ought to be taught, too, in case men had to, as he put it, "resort to professions." God forbid.
So there was medicine and law.
And there was no religion.
The idea was to create gentlemen fit to lead the world as it was in 1825. And obviously that was in the state's interest, too.
I want to emphasize the word gentlemen here, too. This was not public education as we see it today. The General Assembly had not passed such a plan. This was elite education and education for elites.
But the world would change, obviously. And so too would the university.
We're going to take a step back in time now, about thirty years. It's August 6, 1784, and the recent widower Thomas Jefferson, his twelve-year-old daughter Martha, and their slave James Hemings have just arrived in Paris, France. You may already know that Jefferson represented the United States there for a number of years. You also may have heard that Martha's younger sister soon joined them, along with Hemings's younger sister, Sally. Who was also Martha's half aunt. But that's another story.
But to anyplace in America. Anyplace in the world, really.
Or about fifteen times the population of Philadelphia.
And its elites looked like this.
Puffed, primmed, and pampered to the extreme.
This was no environment for a motherless young Virginia girl. Jefferson knew that.
And he found just the place.
We can find it here on this 1784 map of Paris. It's near the Seine on Rue de Grenelle.
The Abbaye Royale de Panthemont.
Filled with old-world Catholic grandeur.
And also nuns. The first nuns Martha had likely ever seen.
Although I'm pretty sure they didn't have green eyes!
As the scholar Catherine Kerrison has noted, it was "one of the most fashionable schools in Paris—and by a mile the most expensive."
That it was Catholic must have given him pause. Pretty much all organized religion gave him pause.
Including the daughters of French noblemen and even three bona-fide princesses, who were set apart by the blue ribbons they wore.
She would be immersed in the French language. She studied French grammar, French literature, Italian, natural science, geography, history, music, drawing, arithmetic, needlework and embroidery, and letter-writing.
This curriculum was—in many important respects—quite different from anything in America at the time.
Education for women back home, and especially in Virginia, was minimal at best. And yet it served an important purpose.
And he'd hired a dancing master from Paris to tutor Martha.
He'd hired a virtuoso organist and harpsichordist to give her music lessons.
And a Swiss engraver to help her draw.
Remember: Fashionable and expensive were his watchwords.
Such as the one, dated November 28, 1783, where he wrote her out a schedule to follow in her studies.
This was a seven-day-a-week schedule, by the way.
Which meant no time for socializing, or hanging out with friends, or going to church.
Jefferson also created a reading list for her.
What was the purpose of such a program?
"The chance that in marriage she will draw a blockhead I calculate at about fourteen to one …"
I'm convinced he ran the numbers. This guy literally had no sense of humor.
He was quite worried that his daughter would be running a plantation while married to some dumb guy. He wanted to make sure she had enough education for the both of them.
But there were other reasons for educating Martha that seem to have been just as important to Jefferson.
"The acquirement which I hope you will make under the tutors I have provided for you," he wrote, "will render you more worthy of my love."
This is one of those sentiments that, awful as it might sound, also might live in the hearts of more than a few parents. It's really ugly to hear it said out loud, though!
More than that, Jefferson built a curriculum around it.
He suggested that French, for instance, was a neat trick. It sounded beautiful and so befit a daughter and a lady.
And speaking of what befit a lady: "Take care you never spell a word wrong," he wrote, because "it produces great praise to a lady to spell well."
I don't think I'm over-reading here to say that the point is not that you communicate clearly via proper spelling. What's important is that you win praise.
What we have here, then, is a complicated set of motivations behind educating women.
They should draw well, spell well, speak French well, play music well—both because these were enjoyable pursuits and because it made them more attractive to men.
They also should dance because, for the elite in Virginia, dances were how men and women met. A woman who did not dance may as well resign herself to spinsterhood.
Finally, at least for Martha, an education was a kind of insurance policy against future blockheads.
Perhaps this last one is why Jefferson chose a school like Abbaye Royale de Panthemont. It provided much more than the traditional American curriculum.
You'll recall, for instance, that in Paris Martha studied natural science—from this book, as it happens. And geography, history, and math.
The scholar Catherine Kerrison notes that many early histories "have dismissed this curriculum as providing not much more than 'vernis d'urbanité,' or the veneer of polished manners."
She says these historians ignore the seriousness with which both the nuns and their students took female education. In France, at least, such an education signified elite status and even gave women some ability to exert political influence.
One subject in particular was significant in the way it helped form female identity.
That subject, Kerrison says, was letter writing.
Students like Martha read collections of letters—from daughters to their mothers, sisters to their siblings, mothers to their daughters.
They learned the importance of those various roles and how to enact them out—in the world and in writing.
As we have seen, the school also exposed Martha to the Catholic Church.
Concerned that his daughter might be subject to an unwanted conversion, Jefferson kept a close eye on the school and its nuns. He wrote often and even periodically stopped by. There were a number of English girls at the school, and some have suggested that the nuns—understanding well the business of tuition-based education—kept religion away from the Protestants.
And yet Martha seems to have been susceptible to the temptations of Catholic ritual.
There were no church buildings in Charlottesville at this time. The first one wasn't built until 1825. So imagine twelve-year-old Martha attending a solemn ceremony in which a young nun received the habit and made her lifetime vows.
She was reduced to tears.
Family legend has it that Martha wrote her father that she intended to convert to Catholicism and he promptly showed up at the school and removed his daughters from the nuns' charges.
"At your age, I believed most religiously that it was the only road to heaven, and looked forward with fear and terror to the possibility of never again having it in my power"—because of her imminent return home—"to profess my self a member of that church which I believed the true, and original."
This seems an apt and, I think, rather sad metaphor for Martha Jefferson's entire educational experience.
Her father put her in a convent school but forbade her from the religion.
He understood that she would return to a world where such knowledge was largely useless for a woman.
Not admitting women under equal terms as men until 1970. And only then under the threat of a lawsuit.
Jefferson's daughter, however, had other ideas about her education. Martha became infatuated with learning. Using her father's library, she taught herself Greek and Latin and thoroughly explored the classics.
Even as the world they lived in had no idea what to do with such learning.
Jefferson himself wrote, not long after the family's return from Paris: "I know no such useless bauble in a house as a girl of mere city education."
Education for men served to improve their citizenship and their contributions to the state, and to preserve their rank.
Education for women served … well, it served only men.
And that was the tragedy of Martha Jefferson Randolph. When she educated her granddaughter Ellen better than most men, she rendered the girl unfit for an ordinary destiny. That's how Ellen herself put it.
But such a life simply wasn't possible for a woman then.
One more point—and I don't want to make too much of it.
But you remember James Hemings, the enslaved man who traveled to Paris with Jefferson and Martha? He was Sally Hemings's older brother and Martha's half-uncle.
Cooking, as you might imagine, only the most fashionable and most expensive food.
And remarkably Jefferson granted it. Hemings went on to cook in a roadside tavern, of all places, and when President Jefferson offered him a job at the White House he refused.
A few months later—this was in 1801—James Hemings killed himself.
Only to find that the reality of life got in the way.
Strayed, strayed, run away, strayed.
Run away from the Subscriber, about two Months ago, a likely Mulatto Lad named ISAAC BEE, formerly the Property of the late President Blair, and is well known about Williamsburg, where I am informed he has been several Times since his Elopement. He is between eighteen and nineteen Years of Age, low of Stature, and thinks he has a Right to his Freedom, because his Father was a Freeman, and I suppose will endeavor to pass for one. He can read, but I do not know that he can write; however, he may easily get some One to forge a Pass for him. I cannot undertake to describe his Apparel, as he has a Variety, and it is probable he may have changed them. Whoever apprehends the said Slave and delivers him to me, or to Mrs. Burwell, in Williamsburg, shall have 40s. All Masters of Vessels are forewarned from carrying him out of the Country.
This ad introduces us to an enslaved man named Isaac Bee.
I want to say we know nothing about Bee, but let's change that to very little.
(1) He's mulatto. In fact, he's so light skinned he could pass as white.
(2) His father was free—although it's unclear if that means he was white.
(5) And owned first by the powerful politician John Blair, who died in 1771, and then by the not quite as powerful Lewis Burwell.
Thinks he has a right to his own freedom. This really seems to stick in Burwell's craw. How impudent of Bee to think he deserved to be free?
It's actually quite a lot. For every James Hemings, there are thousands of men, women, and children for whom we are lucky to have a name and maybe a birth date. That's it.
But precisely because of Isaac Bee's impudence, for him we have much more than that. And what I want to call our attention to in particular is the fact that he could read.
It means that he was educated.
As it happens Isaac Bee's name appeared in the historical record ten years earlier. As a boy of eight or nine he attended something called the Bray School in Williamsburg. It was a school for enslaved children located, at least for a time, in the house of a man named Dudley Digges.
The house still stands, by the way, on Prince George Street. The College of William and Mary's department of military science is housed there.
The Bray School was funded by the Associates of Dr. Bray. This was a philanthropic group founded in 1724 by the English clergyman Thomas Bray. Their mission was to educate enslaved African Americans in the British North American colonies.
They did this at first by sending itinerant missionaries around, supplying them with books, and putting them in contact with local slaveholders.
This had only limited success. And it was actually Benjamin Franklin who suggested they open up a school. Their first was in Philadelphia. When that went well, Franklin arranged for Bray schools to be opened in New York; Newport, Rhode Island; and Williamsburg. Another one eventually opened in Fredericksburg.
It says something about the geography of slavery in 1757 that half of these were in what we call now the North.
Anyway, the Bray school in Williamsburg operated from 1760 to 1774.
At first the slaveholders used the school as a kind of babysitting service. Here, take these kids while their mothers are working in the house or the fields.
So the school instituted some rules.
Each students needed to attend for three years.
As well as how to be "faithful & obedient."
So back to Isaac Bee.
"He can read, but I do not know that he can write."
Until very recently—by which I mean late last year—it was assumed by pretty much everyone that the Bray schools taught slaves to read and write. That's part of our modern conception of what an education is, after all.
Then an English professor at William and Mary looked more closely at the evidence, including this ad. If they taught writing at the school, he asked, then why did Burwell suspect that Bee could not write?
The professor looked at the evidence again, reached out to various scholars, and walked away with a consensus opinion: the school did not teach writing.
Why does this matter? I mean, beyond the fact that we still need to adjust the wording of a few entries in Encyclopedia Virginia?
It matters because it gets to the heart of why slaveholders were interested in educating slaves in the first place.
I mean, what was the point exactly?
To teach them to be better slaves.
To give them the ability to read the Bible.
And to instruct them in how to be "faithful & obedient."
It does not mean teaching them to write, however.
"He can read, but I do not know that he can write; however, he may easily get some One to forge a Pass for him."
Slaves who could write were dangerous because they could more easily maneuver in the white world. As it was, teaching them to read was a calculated risk. The advantages of religion—this was the thinking for a time, at least—outweighed the dis-advantages of being to read a newspaper.
Anyway, education here, as at the University of Virginia, as at the Abbaye Royale de Panthemont, was in service to the status quo. It was not your ticket out, as they say. To the contrary, it was a way of keeping you in.
And that could be good or bad, depending on your circumstances.
He didn't get it, though. He was recaptured and presumably remained a slave the rest of his life.
That's a dark way to end things, so I want to offer up an example—two actually—where education served to subvert the status quo.
John's hardware store did well supplying the construction project at the University of Virginia and he earned enough to purchase this giant mansion on East Gracie Street, in the Church Hill neighborhood, just across the street from the church.
This is where Elizabeth grew up.
Today it's an elementary school.
Which, considering this morning's theme, seems perfectly appropriate.
Through wealth, proper conduct, and an investment in slaves, the Van Lews had insinuated themselves into Richmond society. This was not such an easy thing to do in the South, especially if you were a northerner.
So it's interesting that lurking not too far in the past were some—how shall we say—impolitic relatives.
Or at least there was one: Van Lew's maternal grandfather, Hilary Baker.
He was an accomplished man. The mayor of Philadelphia. A delegate to Pennsylvania's constitutional convention.
But he also was one of the first members of the pioneering Pennsylvania Abolition Society, whose president was Benjamin Franklin.
By this time—which is to say, the early 1830s—the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society had been founded. This was the group that accepted Henry Box Brown's package in 1849. Hilary Baker's Abolition Society still existed, but this new group was more radical.
In fact, Philadelphia was what one scholar called "a hothouse for moral reform societies." It would have been shocking had Van Lew not been exposed to antislavery activity. Rumor has it that even one of her governesses was an abolitionist.
Few specific details of her education survive except that Van Lew was considered an excellent student.
She described her mother, meanwhile, as an "intellectual" who read ceaselessly. And apparently she passed that love on to her daughter, whose library at the time of her death was extensive.
Elizabeth Van Lew, in other words, was steeped in learning. But it wasn't the kind meant to preserve one's rank or the status quo.
Quite the opposite, it seems.
All this while, though, the Van Lews owned slaves. When John Van Lew died, in 1843, he left a will that stipulated those slaves not be freed.
As it happens, that's exactly what Elizabeth and her mother seemed inclined to do. Over the next nearly twenty years, tiptoeing around the will and state law, they did everything but.
They hired their enslaved men and women out to decent jobs. Found them decent places to live.
And in one particular case, they provided an education.
That slave's name was Mary Jane. She was born around 1841. And in 1846 she was baptized at nearby Saint John's Church.
While it was not unheard-of for a slave to be baptized in a church, it was extremely rare for this to happen in a white church. And especially a church as, for lack of a better word, hoity-toity as Saint John's.
Already we can see the Van Lews, absent perhaps the more conventional father, bucking the system.
Either to Philadelphia or to Princeton, New Jersey.
It was extraordinary that the Van Lews had baptized Mary Jane at Saint John's Church. It was extraordinary that they had sent her north to be educated. What made that last act even more unusual is that Virginia law specifically prohibited any African American who left the state to be educated from returning.
There was a reason for this, of course. The state wanted to control what people learned, how they learned. It was a post–Bray school environment. Schools for slaves were outlawed. And in 1831, after the Nat Turner revolt, the General Assembly made it a criminal offense for any person to receive a salary for teaching enslaved people. It also prohibited assembling classes of free blacks for the purpose of teaching them.
I mentioned earlier that teaching slaves was seen as a calculated risk. The advantages of religion were seen to outweigh the disadvantages of, saying, being able to read a newspaper.
So this was a big deal, sending Mary Jane to be educated. And it was a big deal that she returned to Virginia and put that education to use.
How did she put it to use?
First she served as a missionary to Liberia, as part of the colonization movement. This was founded upon the idea that the best way to rid the United States of slavery would be to gradually emancipate the slaves and then send them back to Africa.
So Mary Jane went to Africa but didn't much to take to it. Why should she have? It was not her home or her culture.
So she returned and then the Civil War started.
And here I'm going to be a little bit cruel.
Rather than tell you the whole story I'm going to tease you.
Both Mary Jane and Elizabeth became spies, using their wits in service of the Union. Mary Jane worked as a servant in the Confederate White House, Elizabeth as a purveyor of information and even as a jail-break artist.
You can read more in our entries on them, which I've linked to at our class page.
We started with the question: What was the purpose of an education?
There's no one answer to that, obviously. It was to defend the status quo and to preserve one's rank. But it also was to subvert the status quo and upset the system.
Either way, I hope it provides a useful lens for looking at these lives and thinking about these stories.


Patna: The RJD on Monday released its manifesto, titled 'Pratibadhta Patra', promising reservation for SCs, STs, EBC and OBCs in proportion of their population in the private sector and the higher judiciary.
"If our (party's) government is formed in Bihar, then we will remove the 'illegal' tag on toddy and make it 'legal'....The move to make toddy illegal has rendered many belonging to economically weaker sections jobless. My father Lalu Prasad, when he was the chief minister, had abolished tax on toddy," the RJD leader said.
The seven-phase election in Bihar is scheduled from 11 April to 19 May.


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Aleksandr Arkadyevich Tuchkin (born 15 July 1964) is a Russian team handball player and Olympic champion from 2000 in Sydney.  He received a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens with the Russian national team.

He participated on the Soviet team that won gold medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.

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In New York, the criminal charge of Forcible touching is classified as a Class A misdemeanor.
The New York code § 130.52 defines one degrees of the crime forcible touching, each with associated punishments. The degree of the crime depends on the specifics of the crime committed, with higher degrees of the charge generally receiving harsher punishments.
Forcible touching is a charge that is unique to New York. Crimes that would be prosecuted as forcible touching in New York will be prosecuted under a different statute depending on the state in which the crime takes place.


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Public Safety after Las Vegas
Beyond Obamacare: Bridging the Political Divide?
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Escaping the Military Budget Quagmire
Independent Updates
1) Public Safety after Las Vegas
What, if anything, could have prevented the Las Vegas massacre? Learning the full answer will require serious study, not political talking points. It's already clear, however, that improvements in public safety at large-scale events warrant greater imagination from "ordinary citizens, organizations that sponsor events, and state and local authorities," writes Independent Institute Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook in an op-ed published in the Sacramento Bee and elsewhere.
What this means is that, for example, event promoters may sometimes need to hire security firms using trained snipers, placed in strategic locations, to ensure public safety. In the case of the Las Vegas massacre, "Had two or three riflemen been on duty with the right equipment, they might have been able quickly to spot the room from which [the killer] was shooting and dispatch him," Halbrook writes.
Getting more imaginative (and, paradoxically, more real) about risk assessment also means recognizing the limitations of gun control laws. The European Union's diktats against law-abiding gun owners, Halbrook notes, did nothing to prevent a single terrorist from using a cargo truck to mow down 86 people in Nice, France, on Bastille Day in 2016. Stronger gun control therefore may give us a dangerously false sense of security while eroding the ultimate check on the abuses of would-be tyrants. "Just like our response to 9/11, our reaction to the Las Vegas massacre should be that we continue to live and stand strong as free Americans," Halbrook concludes.
Gun Control Laws Won't Stop Las Vegas-Type Massacres, by Stephen P. Halbrook (Sacramento Bee and numerous Tribune papers, 10/12/17)
The Founders' Second Amendment: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms, by Stephen P. Halbrook
Gun Control in the Third Reich: Disarming the Jews and "Enemies of the State", by Stephen P. Halbrook
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2) Beyond Obamacare: Bridging the Political Divide?
Will President Donald Trump and the Democrats ever bridge the divide over healthcare policy? Not unless (1) Democrats find a way to move beyond Obamacare without alienating constituents who support it, and (2) Republicans explain to the public how their favored reforms would actually improve people's lives. Absent either condition, significant health reform legislation is a no-go. Fortunately, according to Independent Institute Senior Fellow John C. Goodman in his latest column at Forbes, there is a policy proposal compatible with crossing these obstacles.
It's the policy reform advocated by Sen. John McCain—and former Obama health policy advisor Zeke Emanuel, M.D.—during the 2008 presidential race. Here, in Goodman's words, is how it works: "Take all the government spending and tax subsidies for private health insurance, divide it up, and give every American an equal share. (Medicare and Medicaid and other government program enrollees are excluded.) People could only use the money to pay premiums and make deposits to Health Savings Accounts."
Such a policy should win support from Democrats because it's so much more progressive than the current system. Today, the top 20 percent of income earners enjoy six times the benefit of the tax subsidies for those with employer-provided coverage as those in the bottom 20 percent. "Under the McCain proposal, everyone would get the same number of dollars, regardless of income," Goodman writes. Republicans should favor such a policy since it would give the same tax treatment to both group insurance policies and individual coverage, and it would make it easy for employers to help workers get personal coverage that travels with them from job to job. "If Donald Trump and Chuck Schumer want to make progress on health reform, that would be a good place to start," Goodman concludes.
Can Donald Trump Cut a Deal with Democrats on Health Care? Maybe., by John C. Goodman (Forbes, 10/9/17)
Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis, by John C. Goodman
A Better Choice: Healthcare Solutions for America, by John C. Goodman
3) Puerto Rico, the Jones Act, and Cronyism
President Trump's (temporary) waiver of the Jones Act was welcomed relief for the people of hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico. The law, which is often suspended after natural disasters, requires that shipments between U.S. ports are carried only by U.S.-built, U.S.-operated, and U.S.-flagged vessels. Enacted in 1920, the Jones Act was supposed to strengthen the U.S. shipping industry by protecting it from foreign competition (although today only 91 vessels comply with that law). It's main effect, however, has been to harm American consumers, explains Independent Institute Senior Fellow William F. Shughart II in a piece for American Thinker.
"Studies suggest that energy prices for consumers on the east coast are one-third to one-half higher than they would be [without the Jones Act]," Shughart writes. "Hawaiians are harmed, too, along with the residents of Guam and other outlying U.S. territories."
Puerto Ricans, anyone who claims sympathy for them, and anyone who wants to "Make America Great Again" should call for Congress to abolish the Jones Act once and for all. "Trump's action proves the rule that economic nationalism benefits a handful of cronies at the expense of everyone else, including Puerto Ricans," Shughart writes. "Rather than depending on benevolent chief executives to waive the Jones Act selectively and temporarily, the law should summarily be repealed, a step that only the U.S. Congress can take."
The Jones Act Must Be Repealed, by William F. Shughart II (American Thinker, 10/11/17)
How Debt Is Keeping the Lights Off in Puerto Rico, by Craig Eyermann (MyGovCost News & Blog, 10/16/17)
4) Escaping the Military Budget Quagmire
Congress has recently authorized a U.S defense budget of $700 billion—$81 billion more than last year and even more than the Pentagon had requested. Unfortunately, none of this increase guarantees that Americans will sleep any easier. As usual, national security is marred by budgetary choices that favor pork for local economies at the expense of troop readiness and other inputs of genuine defense. "Essentially, the military is like a fleet of expensive sports cars that is short on money for gas, repair, and maintenance," writes Independent Institute Senior Fellow Ivan Eland in his latest column for the Huffington Post.
At a time when the national debt has climbed past $20 trillion, it's imperative that the U.S. government provide security at lower cost. To do so, we could slash pork spending, close unneeded bases at home (as the Pentagon has long requested), and pull back from bases overseas. Repealing Congress's two authorizations for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq would go a long way toward promoting this ideal.
Ending the air and drone wars in Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, Syria, and Libya would also enable lower military spending while reducing the risk of American lives. But unless such changes are made, the U.S. defense budget—which accounts for half of all military spending on the planet—will continue to slow the growth of the American economy, and without providing much in the way of genuine security for the American people.
National Defense Authorization Act Should Not Be Sacrosanct, by Ivan Eland (Huffington Post, 10/11/17)
Recarving Rushmore: Ranking the Presidents on Peace, Prosperity, and Liberty, by Ivan Eland
Forthcoming book: Eleven Presidents: Promises vs. Results in Achieving Limited Government, by Ivan Eland
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Spanish Central Government Threatens Catalonia
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How Debt Is Keeping the Lights Off in Puerto Rico
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Three Augusta Health nurses share what makes them passionate about their jobs.
FISHERSVILLE - Taking a square plastic container, Augusta Health nurse Linda Freed punctures holes in its sides, fills it with bandages and inserts a catheter.
It's one thing to read about what procedure you have to follow for the next patient, but Freed knows nurses like to get a hands-on practice run in before they have to treat someone — that, and a love of crafts and sewing, is what inspired her idea for simulating changing the dressing and IV line on a chest wound with a plastic container.
"We become creative," she said with a chuckle. "Being able to simulate anything we can prior to a nurse doing it to a patient — nurses want to be the best before they do it for their patients."
That's Freed's role at Augusta Health. In everything she does, Freed wants the nurses at the hospital to have all the knowledge and situational confidence to be able to give their patients the best care possible.
"I like to think about it as critical nursing," she said. "I want to be there for the nurses when they need me."
Freed, who lives in Waynesboro, has been a clinical education nurse in the hospital's intensive care unit for the past six to eight years and just got an award from Augusta Health for her outstanding work, which she said meant a lot to her because it's her passion.
Being a nurse is a tough job — you have to hold onto a lot of information for different care situations all while dealing with suffering people who may die, Freed said, which means you have to be competent, empathetic, sympathetic and thick-skinned. What takes those attributes a step further, is passion, she says with serious eyes.
"That's what makes excellence – I believe passion is essential," she said.
Freed is one of five nurses at Augusta Health who the hospital recognized as innovators in their work — which is key to keeping the "complex organism" that is Augusta Health humming with life, says Dr. Joe Ranzini, a wound care specialist who chairs the quality and safety subcommittee of the hospital board.
"As soon as you think you've got it solved, something else is going to come along" so "we're all learning and we're talking about a constant improvement process," he said. "Medicine changes, you just have to move along with it."
Dylan Fix, an obstetrics nurse, saw a problem on the horizon. Three women with the same last name were scheduled to give birth to children of the same gender on the same day — which would have meant when their babies were born, all three would have had the same identifiers in the computer system.
That's because standard naming practice for new-borns at the hospital had been "baby [gender] [last name]," i.e. "baby girl Smith."
Fix saw this issue and pushed for the change to "[gender] [mother's name]," i.e. "male Trish," to avoid the confusion and they got the system switch approved in time to be able to deal with that looming problematic day with three births by the three mother's with the same last name.
As a nurse, you always have to remember that you don't know everything, she said, and should ask, "why do we do things the way we do?"
Augusta Health recognized her for innovation in nursing research for her idea to change the baby naming system, which to Fix shows that there always could be a better way to do something, she said.
"You're always learning and you have to be open to that," she said.
She packs a lot of learning into her weeks, finishing up a bachelor's degree at the Murphy Deming College of Health Sciences through online classes while working three 12-hour shifts per week as an obstetrics nurse and commuting from her family's farm in Lexington.
"I think one thing that all nurses are really good at is multi-tasking," she said with a smile.
"Multi-tasking" might be a good way to describe Vickie Taylor's role at Augusta Health.
She marries the management, business and clinical aspects of nursing at the hospital, balancing patient and community needs with the needs of staff and physicians as the administrative director of surgical services and women's health.
"No two days are the same – that's why I love my job," she said. She spends time making sure the seven departments she oversees are running smoothly and also steps in to support her team as a clinical nurse when needed.
She led the way on the launch of the hospitals surgical robotics team in October 2016, training her team with the new technology and working about one case per week initially.
The new equipment is crucial for surgeons to get into small areas and handle things that are delicate with precision, Ranzini said, and previously Augusta Health surgeons had to treat their patients at the University of Virginia Medical Center on the weekends.
Taylor was instrumental in implementing the technology at Augusta Health, he said, which netted her a nursing leadership award from the hospital.
"The fine detail ability to manipulate things is marvelous," he said. "Once you have the machine, it doesn't do much good to have it sitting in a room."
To Taylor, who lives in Churchville, being a nurse is all about "giving yourself for someone else" — it's that mindset that makes an excellent nurse and makes her love the job.


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James C. Hathaway, the James E. and Sarah A. Degan Professor of Law and Director of the Program in Refugee and Asylum Law at the University of Michigan since 1998, is a leading authority on international refugee law whose work is regularly cited by the most senior courts of the common law world. He is also Distinguished Visiting Professor of International Refugee Law at the University of Amsterdam and Professorial Fellow of the University of Melbourne. From 2008 until 2010 Hathaway was on leave from the University of Michigan to serve as the Dean of Law and William Hearn Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne, where he established Australia's first all-graduate legal education program. He previously held positions as Professor of Law and Associate Dean of the Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada (1984-1998), Counsel on Special Legal Assistance for the Disadvantaged to the Government of Canada (1983-1984), and Professeur adjoint de droit at the Université de Moncton, Canada (1980-1983). He has been appointed a visiting professor at the American University in Cairo, and at the Universities of California, Macerata, San Francisco, Stanford, Tokyo, and Toronto.
Hathaway's publications include more than eighty journal articles and chapters, a leading treatise on the refugee definition (The Law of Refugee Status, second edition 2014 with M. Foster; first edition 1991 republished in both Japanese and Russian); of an interdisciplinary study of models for refugee law reform (Reconceiving International Refugee Law, 1997); and of The Rights of Refugees under International Law (2005), the first comprehensive analysis of the human rights of refugees set by the UN Refugee Convention. He is Counsel on International Protection to the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants and Senior Advisor to Asylum Access, a non-profit organization committed to delivering innovative legal aid to refugees in the global South. Professor Hathaway regularly advises and provides training on refugee law to academic, non-governmental, and official audiences around the world. – See more at: Editorial Advisory Panel


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Q: Google Analytics don't seem to be firing I've tried to look around many threads here around GA, I feel like I've done what's required. My site consist of HTML5 and angular.js, the page is structured roughly as follow (through ng-include)
index.html
|-header
--|-navigation
|-content
|-footer

when a link from navigation bar is clicked, the content will change (partials page in angular), header, footer stays the same.
The last script tag in my < head > is as follow (inside index.html)
<script type="text/javascript">
        var globalLanguage = 'en';

        // GA tracking variable
        var _gaq = [['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-X'], ['_trackPageview']];
</script>

and at the bottom part of index.html, before the closing < / body > tag:
<script type="text/javascript">
    (function(d, t) {
        var g = d.createElement(t), s = d.getElementsByTagName(t)[0];
        g.async = 1;
        g.src = '//www.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
        g.type = 'text/javascript';
        s.parentNode.insertBefore(g, s);
    }(document, 'script'));
</script>

All my angular controller function, call a common function as described in Tracking Google Analytics Page Views with Angular.js
function gaqPageView($scope, $location, $window) {
    console.log('triggering google analytics');
    $scope.$on('$viewContentLoaded', function(event) {
        console.log('event triggered, tracking: ' + $location.path());
        $window._gaq.push([ '_trackPageview', $location.path() ]);
    });
}

I do see the console log statements, there's no error in the console either.
When I print out the content of _gaq, I do get an array that grows as I navigate around the page (which mean my _gaq.push call is working just fine).
However, in my the network call (in chrome dev tool), I don't see any _utm.gif call to Google Analytics. (Basics of Debugging Google Analytics Code: GA Chrome Debugger and other tools).
What am I missing here? seems like the google analytics is not firing off the event and reporting it?
Edit: I am pretty sure I am silly here, the _gaq variable itself is just a normal javascript array, so of course _gaq.push work just fine. But what am I missing to get Google Analytics to kick in and start sending the content of that _gaq?

A: Are you currently running your server on localhost, or an intranet name without a "." -- the tracking GIF request doesn't get made for localhost servers by default.
See Google Analytics GIF request not sent.

Another idea: Usually _gaq is defined as an array only if it's not already defined. If ga.js has already executed, you might be overwriting the _gaq object. It doesn't seem likely from your code organization, but...
Try replacing
var _gaq = [['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-X'], ['_trackPageview']];

with
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-X'], ['_trackPageview']);

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The prophet Jeremiah speaks about honesty and integrity. In a world which is flooded with misleading and biased information, Christians are called to witness to the truth and to live lives of integrity. The life of Jesus is a model of integrity, as there was nothing in the way that he acted that clashed with the beliefs and values he proclaimed. It is so easy to fall into the ways of speaking and acting that we see in the world around us and for our thoughts to wander away from the faith we have received. So the call for us in the gospel is to "stay awake"; to be spiritually attuned to God's will and to follow in the footsteps of Jesus. Let us pray that Holy Spirit will guide our thoughts and actions as we enter into the joyful season of Advent.
Monday 10th December.- all places now taken.
Worsbrough Brass will perform a selection of carols and contemporary festive music on Thursday 13th December (doors open at 7.00pm for 7.30pm start). Tickets costs £6.00 or you can pay on the door. The price includes refreshments. The will also be raffle for our famous Christmas Hamper and other prizes.
Sun 16th Dec 4.00pm Readings & Carols (at St Peters).


We are half way through 2018 and there has already been a lot of movement within the Canadian communications and public relations industry.
Over the course of June 2018 we saw a lot of new hiring with brands such as ALDO Group, Grainger, Region of Peel and City of Mississauga within their public relations departments. Pomp & Circumstance has quickly figured out a major key to their growth and success and solidified their future with a major promotion.


Electric insulation is the containment of electric currents or voltage by materials (electrical insulators) that offer a high resistance to current flow, will withstand high voltages without breaking down, and will not deteriorate with age. Resistance to sunlight, rain, flame, or abrasion may also be important. The electrical resistance of insulators usually falls with temperature (paper and asbestos being exceptions) and if chemical impurities are present. The mechanical properties desired vary with the application: cables require flexible coatings, such as polyvinyl chloride, while glass or porcelain are used for rigid mountings, such as the insulators used to support power cables. In general, good thermal insulators are also good electrical ones.


Whether you have your own kids or you're just the cool aunt or uncle, you have the opportunity to act as a role model so here is an article on how to teach your kids financial literacy.
While some of these—like financial literacy, credit and protecting your identify may not seem like fun, they are valuable life lessons that can help the kiddos make and keep their money.
Out of all the conversations we have with children, finances may be one of the most important. Early lessons about personal finance and money management can help them avoid issues later in life.
Schools don't always offer courses on personal finance and credit, so make sure you take ownership of teaching your kids about money matters. Read on for useful tips to help educate children early and set them up for future financial success.
Part of how to teach your kids financial literacy is to help them build budgets for meals, events, and other extracurricular activities. This shows them how planning ensures they'll have money for the things they want and need.
Part of how to teach your kids financial literacy is to show them how to compare different credit card features, costs, and finance charges.
Introduce the costs of owning a credit card, such as Annual Percentage Rate (APR) interest rates, and annual fees.
Teach them to check their credit reports regularly regularly, what is included (e.g. personal information, accounts, inquiries), and how that information can impact your credit scores.
You can go to any and all of the three credit reporting agencies to get credit reports and for an extra fee, you will receive your FICO score. Annualcreditreport.com is the only agency that allows you access to your credit reports once per year, and you can discover what the three credit bureaus, Experian, Trans Union and Equifax, are reporting and whether you notice any errors.
Now is the perfect time to help your child understand how to protect their personal information which is another part of how to teach your kids financial literacy.


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2004-01-31 00:00:00 KNOCKOUT SALES IN FIRST WEEK AT LITTLEDALE 5 IN KIRKBY
(Photographs by Patrick Trollope) THE opening of the new showhome at Westbury Homes
2004-01-31 00:00:00 Kids Show Red Card To Litter!
SCHOOL CHILDREN across Liverpool are getting 'in a flap' about a new project which encourages them to play an active role in keeping the city tidy in the wake of the forthcoming Capital Culture Celebrations due to hit the city in 2008 as part of Liverpool
2004-01-31 00:00:00 TWO MORE STARS JOIN POPS LINE-UP
AMERICAN legend Bonnie Raitt and jazz sensation Jamie Cullum have been confirmed for the Summer Pops as a parade of stars prepares to appear at the Kings Dock later this year. Once again the Big Top Arena will play host to over 30 shows featuring some
2004-01-31 00:00:00 Mersey Waterfront project to light up the River
SPECTACULAR special lighting effects are set to flood the Mersey, transforming it into a River of Light with funding from Mersey Waterfront Lighting designers from around the world are being invited to submit plans that will light-up large stretches on
2004-01-31 00:00:00 Council funding up
LOCAL SERVICES will get an extra
2004-01-31 00:00:00 BRITAIN TO CELEBRATE AUSTRALIA DAY THE TIM TAM WAY
PEOPLE across Britain celebrated Australia Day this year by joining a world record attempt on the Tim Tam Slam. Some 30,000 were thought to have simultaneously dunked and sucked the renowned Australian biscuit at 48 Walkabout venues across the country
2004-01-31 00:00:00 1,000 Muslims celebrate Eid in Sefton Park
MORE than 1,000 Muslims are coming together at Sefton Park to celebrate the festival of Eid. It is the first time in the history of Liverpool that the Eid prayers are being held at a major public venue in addition to the city's mosques. The hosting of the
2004-01-31 00:00:00 Merseyrail's Electrifying History
(Report by Chris Amery) MERSEYRAIL have confirmed with us that plans are underway for the centenary celebration of the electrification of the Northern Line, which runs from Liverpool to Southport. Early estimates suggest that the celebration may occur
2004-01-31 00:00:00 Adam Bomb to Tour UK
HONOURARY Scouser and lead guitarist Adam Bomb will be performing with his band on the Third World Roar 2004 Tour across the UK during January through March of 2004. Tour dates are as follows:-
2004-01-31 00:00:00 Litherland Church Event
ON FEBRUARY 7, AT 7:30pm, at the St Paul's Church in Litherland, Jannis English and United Christian Broadcast Representative Peter Barton will be attending a night of fellowship and song. The price of admission is
2004-01-31 00:00:00 Missing - Michael Rose
(Photograph via Merseyside Police) MERSEYSIDE Police are becoming increasingly concerned about the welfare of Michael Rose, 38, who has been missing from home since Wednesday 21 January. Michael was staying with his parents in the Gateacre area and was
2004-01-31 00:00:00 Strikes Hit Civil Service Where It Hurts
DESPITE freezing temperatures, members of the Public and Commercial Services Union protested throughout the UK on 29 and 30 January following a series of below inflation and expectation of pay offers. In Liverpool, the picketing battle lines were drawn
2004-01-31 00:00:00 DO YOU WANT A JOB?
TOP ATTRACTION Pleasureland is seeking staff for full time, part time and weekend work in the following departments
2004-01-31 00:00:00 JOB ADVERT:- MORSES LTD, TEMPORARY MANAGERS ASSISTANT (Southport)
MORSES Ltd, part of the ShopDirect Group require a temporary Managers Assistant to support the Branch Management team in selling merchandise and financial products and collecting of weekly
2004-01-31 00:00:00 STAY SAFE IN THE WINTER WEATHER, URGE RAC PATROLS
THE Motoring organisation RAC's and its 1,500 patrols are urging motorists to take extra care and ensure that they know how to handle their vehicle in the winter weather for the forthcoming
2004-01-31 00:00:00 Letters to Editor:- Drink Driving
"Dear Editor... I like a lot of other folk with an Interest in Derek Acorah are wondering what happened in regards to his alleged Drink Driving hearing scheduled for the 20th January. I use the Most Haunted programs Forum and there are
2004-01-31 00:00:00 All at the Carling Academy
LOUD SESSIONS:- Monthly @ Carling Academy 2
2004-01-31 00:00:00 Army offers unique management training opportunity in the North West
THE ARMY in the North West is offering a unique opportunity to between 30 and 40 suitably qualified young men and women in the region to attend an intensive part-time management and leadership course which will commence in April this year.
2004-01-31 00:00:00 (JUST LIKE) STARTING OVER
THE transformation of Beatle John Lennon's old school reached a major landmark this week as the historic Quarry Bank Hall, which lent its name to Lennon's original band, "The Quarry Men", opened its doors to a new generation of pupils who will
2004-01-31 00:00:00 MANPOWER DRIVING WINS NATIONAL CONTRACT
MANPOWER DRIVING was delighted to announce a new contract appointed by Saint Gobain this week, as the supplier of all their temporary drivers across the UK. The contract will see Manpower providing Saint Gobain with Category C class drivers to its
2004-01-31 00:00:00 SOUTHPORT PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
the CHAMPION PRINT CLUB OF THE UK 2003/2004 WINNERS AT THE RECENT P.A.G.B. CHAMPIONSHIPS (FROM 1100 CLUBS IN ALL)
2004-01-31 00:00:00 Feeling Safe? Liverpool Better Than Southport... Manchester at Bottom.
(Report by Chris Amery BSc(Hons)) A SURVEY we conducted this week, looking at the crime rate of the local area, has shown very different perceptions of Liverpool, Southport and Manchester. We aimed our survey at finding out the opinions of safety in the
2004-01-31 00:00:00 Arriva Approach Public Consultation With An Open Mind
(Report by Chris Amery BSc(Hons)) A PUBLIC consultation into concerns of local people about the proposed cancellation of Arriva's 47 loop service was attended by over 200 local residents on the 27 and 28 January. The consultation, held by Arriva in
2004-01-31 00:00:00 Safer Schools Partnership Goes to Downing Street
(Report with thanks to Merseyside Police) CONSTABLE Mike Ward, based in Parklands School in Speke, is off to meet the Prime Minister in London this week, at a reception to mark the fifth anniversary of the Youth Justice Board. Mike, who is based at
2004-01-31 00:00:00 Jobs on the horizon at Merseyside firm
NEW JOBS could soon be up for grabs at a fast growing Merseyside firm which is aiming to increase its turnover to
2004-01-31 00:00:00 Local school one of 14 finalists across the UK
ST. EDWARD'S COLLEGE in Liverpool has been announced as a Schools Question Time Challenge finalist. Only 14 schools across the UK have reached the final stage and won a
2004-01-31 00:00:00 Scottish Opera returns to Liverpool with two stunning productions
SCOTTISH OPERA returns to Liverpool on March 10 after a 13 year absence with two of the world's best loved operas; Verdi's Aida and Mozart's The Magic Flute. Part-time pantomime, part-journey to philosophical enlightment, The Magic Flute features one of
2004-01-31 00:00:00 LOCATION... LOCATION... LOCATION...
THEY ARE back for the eigth series and they're hungrier than ever. Professional property hunters Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer are taking on the challenge of finding properties in the Southport area. The new series will be broadcast on
2004-01-31 00:00:00 BACK TO BUSINESS
THE REQUIREMENT for UK workers to get back to business as quickly as possible in January 2004 has caused one restaurant chain to extend its opening hours to cope with the demand. Little Chef Restaurants in St Helens have ended their winter opening hours
2004-01-31 00:00:00 TUC statement on dispute at SERCO Metrolink Manchester
THE TUC DISPUTES COMMITTEE met yesterday to consider a complaint brought by the T&G regarding ASLEF and matters concerning recognition at SERCO Metrolink Manchester. As part of the agreed settlement, ASLEF's planned industrial action will not take place a
2004-01-31 00:00:00 13 YEARS FOR NORTH WEST COCAINE PAIR
TWO Rochdale men were jailed today for a total of 13 years after pleading guilty to smuggling over
2004-01-31 00:00:00 SWITCHED ON THIS WEEK - THE BEST BITS ON TV
Written by Caren Clark of TV and Satellite Week Magazine. For the week Saturday 31 January to Friday 6 February. 1. CSI:- Miami Five Saturday 9pm... NEW SERIES... The Florida crime team returns for a second series and while the they investigate the hit
2004-01-31 00:00:00 TACKLING ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR
LIVERPOOL City Council is welcoming three interim anti-social behaviour orders, which have been placed on an eleven year old boy and two twelve year old boys in the city. The interim ASBOs place restrictions on the three, which stop them entering shops
2004-01-31 00:00:00 NEW START FOR TRANSPENNINE EXPRESS
MANAGING director of TransPennine Express Vernon Barker, and Gary Backler, director, Northern and LNE Franchise Management of the Strategic Rail Authority, will officially flag away a TransPennine Express service to mark the start of the new TransPennine
2004-01-31 00:00:00 'Pocket' fireworks to be banned
NEW rules were unveiled last week by the government to ban air bombs and other cheap 'pocket money' fireworks. They are often used by "anti-social louts commonly use on streets and housing estates." according to the government.
2004-01-31 00:00:00 Kung Hei Fat Choy 4207
ON the 22 of January we said Kung Hei Fat Choy (Happy New Year). For the UK on 24 of January it was not an important day, but for the Chinese it was, as it was the end of the new year celebrations. It is now year 4207 the year of the Monkey. If you were
2004-01-31 00:00:00 FAME Heat 2!
"It just gets hotter as the weather outside gets colder!" WHAT a fantastic night that was held at Casablanca on the 29 of January. We now have to ask just how far away will the events contestants come from at the next one? The second part of the
2004-01-31 00:00:00 HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY
IT WAS on the 25 January that the "Laying of Flowers", a Liverpool custom, in St George
2004-01-31 00:00:00 Student Gas Tour is more than 'Hot Air'!
LEADING Liverpool-based gas and electrical appliance manufacturer, Robinson Willey, has for the second year running provided practical training support for a total of 70 students studying a 32-week NVQ Level 2 in Gas Installation at Southport College.
2004-01-24 00:00:00 'Safety' Funds on Offer
EFFORTS to involve young people in improving community safety in Sefton have received a New Year boost with an invitation to local organisations to apply for valuable project funding. More than
2004-01-24 00:00:00 ANIMAL MAGIC
ANIMAL Magic, a small display at the Lady Lever Art Gallery from 31 January to 16 May 2004, features a range of ceramics including stoneware, porcelain and earthenware dating from the eighteenth century to the present day. All have one thing in common;
2004-01-24 00:00:00 IT'S LIVE....
OUR FIRST live camera is working 24 hours a day in the center of Liverpool. This is the first camera in our network of web cams. You can hit here to see what is going on in Liverpool now!
2004-01-24 00:00:00 CAMERAS ROLLING!
NEW FIGURES show that Liverpool's film and TV industry broke all records in 2003 after statistics from the city council's Film Office disclosed their latest findings. Statistics from the city council's Film Office reveal they organised the equivalent of
2004-01-24 00:00:00 MORETON'S STARS OF THE FUTURE
FROM rap to writing and sport to singing, teenagers in Moreton could be soon be hitting the stars for fame thanks to their after-school club Yew Tree After School Club being one of the first in the country to gain official Make Space Status! Make Space is
2004-01-24 00:00:00 URBAN DESIGN CHAMPION HONOURED
LIVERPOOL'S Urban Design Champion has been honoured for her work in promoting good design. Councillor Beatrice Fraenkel received one of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment's Festive Five which are given to individuals 'whose forward
2004-01-24 00:00:00 FIGHTING CRIME THE BIG APPLE WAY
LIVERPOOL has been chosen to pilot a new scheme, which will bring American style justice to the heart of the community. Home Secretary David Blunkett announced on a recent visit to the city, that Liverpool has been chosen to run the first Community
2004-01-24 00:00:00 Songscribbler launches songwriter website
SOUTHPORT BASED Songscribbler is launching a website where songwriters can promote and sell their unpublished music, and listeners can hear and download original, new songs. Music lovers can listen to new music from the pre-published market for
2004-01-24 00:00:00 Tennis legends serve into heart of community
TENNIS legends Mansour Bahrami and Peter McNamara are the latest players to sign up with Northern Vision Ltd for the 2004 Liverpool International Tennis Tournament. And together with Ilie Nastase and Guillermo Vilas, Bahrami and McNamara are teaming up
2004-01-24 00:00:00 NHS Blunder to Compensate Hepatitis sufferers
HEPATITIS C sufferers who contracted the disease through infected NHS blood are to receive at least
2004-01-24 00:00:00 LOCAL SCHOOL WINS
LEASOWE Primary School in Leasowe Wirral has won a
TOP ATTRACTION Pleasureland is seeking staff for full time, part time and weekend work in the following departments:-
2004-01-24 00:00:00 CONSERVATION CENTRE GETS RESEARCH GRANT
THE pioneering research at Liverpool's Conservation Centre received a major boost this week with a grant of
2004-01-24 00:00:00 SHARPY HELPS CHRISTMAS CARD CAMPAIGN REACH ITS GOAL
EVERTON legend Graeme Sharp urged people to continue to make recycling their goal when he gave a helping hand to support a national campaign to recycle Christmas cards. The Goodison great gave a half-time boost to the campaign launched this month by
2004-01-24 00:00:00 Armed Robbery at William Hill Bookmakers
MERSEYSIDE Police have released a CCTV image of a man they would like to speak to in connection with a robbery which took place at William Hill bookmakers in Breck Road, Everton, on Saturday, 27 December. A man walked into the bookmakers at about
2004-01-24 00:00:00 Attempted Robbery at a Spar Shop in Birkdale Village
MERSEYSIDE Police are appealing for information about an attempted robbery in Birkdale Village. At about 9:45pm on Wednesday 21 January, two men entered the Spar on Liverpool Road. One man stood at the door and the other approached the counter and threate
2004-01-24 00:00:00 SEARCH IS ON FOR LIVERPOOL'S MOST DESERVING
DO you have a friend or neighbour in the Liverpool area who deserves recognition for the fantastic job they do bringing up a family on his or her own? Then why not enter them for the Gingerbread / Eurocamp Lone Parent of the Year award to be in with a
2004-01-24 00:00:00 Liverpool to mark Slavery Remembrance Day
LIVERPOOL is to become one of the first cities in Europe to make International Slavery Remembrance Day an official part of its cultural calendar. The city council is expected to agree today to formally adopt 23 August - the International Day for the
2004-01-24 00:00:00 COUNCIL TAX TO RISE ONLY BY INFLATION
LIVERPOOL'S council tax is set to rise by just the rate of inflation - for the second consecutive year. At a meeting of the full council last night, councillors voted in favour of a resolution put forward by Executive member for
2004-01-24 00:00:00 MERSEY TV BACKS THE FESTIVAL OF SKILLS AT AINTREE
GREATER MERSEYSIDE'S biggest skills fair have attracted more than 10 of the major local employers together with several local colleges and other learning providers during its time, is now set to get a new addition to its accolade in the form of drama
2004-01-24 00:00:00 City unites to remember Holocaust
HUNDREDS of people will gather at St. George's Hall as the city remembers the Holocaust. Civic leaders will join representatives of Jewish and other communities in Liverpool, and unite in recognition of National Holocaust Memorial Day. The event is part
2004-01-24 00:00:00 "Fame" hit Southport's Pleasureland again...
(Photographs by Patrick Trollope BA(Hons) LBPPA) THE HIT competition "Fame" Search for a Star is running again and is held in the Casablanca Entertainment Centre and showcasing the finest singers from the North West and beyond. The fist heat was on
2004-01-24 00:00:00 BT CHIEF MEETS GREATER MERSEYSIDE LEADERS
CHIEF EXECUTIVE of BT Wholesale, Paul Reynolds held a meeting with Knowsley Council leaders and businessmen earlier this week to establish a greater foothold within the city to promote greater business links. The company has been avidly promoting its
2004-01-24 00:00:00 Formby Parish Council Election Results 2004
ON the 22 January not only was it Chinese New Year, but it was the start of a new era for Formby as it held it's first Parish Council Elections. One voter said "It is very interest to me how badly advertised this election was. Most people did not know
2004-01-17 00:00:00 Congratulations From Merseyside St John Ambulance
(Photograph by Patrick Trollope.) MERSEYSIDE St John Ambulance has said congratulations to one of it's many devoted members. Mrs Mary Myfanwy Platt who is the founder of the St Helens division of the St John Fellowship was awarded the M.B.E. She told us
2004-01-17 00:00:00 Grant Bonanza for Local Communities
VOLUNTARY and community groups in Liverpool and Knowsley are being encouraged to make last minute bids for their share of a
2004-01-17 00:00:00 Director Alex Cox takes Revenge on Q&A's
ALEX COX, Director of cult movies Sid & Nancy and Repro Man and presenter of 90's film review program 'Moviedrome', talks about the making of his latest film Revengers Tragedy, starring Christopher Eccleston, Derek Jacobi and Edie Izzard, talks about his
2004-01-17 00:00:00 OFSTED DELIVERS GLOWING REPORT OF LIVERPOOL
EDUCATION may have been one of the landmarks of the Labour party manifesto in their return to power in the mid-nineties, but the message has certainly proved to have rung home in Liverpool after a stunning transformation of the city's education service
2004-01-17 00:00:00 RAC OUTRAGE AT COUNCIL FUNDING REFORMS
THE announcement earlier this week by the Local Government Association that they would like additional powers for local authorities to introduce congestion charging schemes as a means of supplementing council taxes has provoked serious questions of
2004-01-17 00:00:00 Suspicious Man In Crosby
MERSEYSIDE Police is appealing for witnesses after a report was received that a man tried to entice a young girl into his car in Crosby on Monday morning (12th January). At about 8am the 14 year old girl was walking to school, along Kimberly Road, when
2004-01-17 00:00:00 PETS AT HOME FERRET FRENZY
(Photographs by Patrick Trollope.) THE Exotic Animal Welfare Trust and some of its furry ferret friends were at the Pets at Home store in Southport on the and 11 January. Peter Heathcote of the Exotic Animal Welfare Trust as well as his owl and ferrets
2004-01-17 00:00:00 LAST CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR THE TEACHING AWARDS 2004
WITH less than a month left to nominate the unsung stars of the classroom for the Teaching Awards 2004, parents, pupils, former pupils, governors and colleagues are urged to put forward an inspiring headteacher, teacher or teaching assistant online at
2004-01-17 00:00:00 BORE DRAW AS SOUTHPORT STRUGGLE
(Report and Photographs By Sally Devine) COLD comforts were the only greetings that Haigh road gave the Sandgrounders as the weather ran rampant over the seaside football team, stuttering their Unibond ambitions lying in tenth position of the league and
2004-01-17 00:00:00 GREASE MANIA HITS LIVERPOOL
THE smash hit musical Grease is breaking Box Office records ahead of its return to the Liverpool Empire. With a month still left to go before the start of the week-only run, this production of Grease has already taken more than the previous visits have
2004-01-17 00:00:00 Mersey Waterfront Lights up Southport's Marine Parade Bridge
THE MERSEY WATERFRONT has approved
2004-01-17 00:00:00 Powergen fails Merseyside consumers on power advice
RESEARCH from the industry regulator Ofgem reveals that the quality of energy efficiency advice has improved over the last year but more could be
2004-01-17 00:00:00 NORTH WESTERNERS TIGHTEN THEIR BELTS
AS we tighten our belts in January after Christmas over spending, spending yet more money on luxury meals dining out is the last thing on our minds. But Celebrity chef Brian Turner reminds us that adventurous food is not just for those that dine out
2004-01-17 00:00:00 NEW FACE TO HEAD UP learndirect IN THE NORTH WEST
UFI Ltd, the company behind learndirect - the UK's largest e-learning network - has appointed a new Head of Region in the North West. Michelle Lofthouse will lead the team which co-ordinates the region's 8 hubs, 220 learndirect centres and more than 500
2004-01-17 00:00:00 THE CHINESE STATE CIRCUS @ THE SOUTHPORT THEATER
THE amazing and unforgettable show, The Chinese State Circus will role in to Southport and perform on the 27 and 28 January at the Southport Theater. Call the booking office on 0870 607 7560 NOW...
2004-01-17 00:00:00 The Murder Investigation of Susan and Ellen Peters
(Photograph supplied by Merseyside Police) MERSEYSIDE Police is appealing for help from members of the public after the bodies of 29-year-old Susan Peters and her three-year-old daughter Ellen were found at their home in Dudley Road, Wallasey at 11am on
2004-01-17 00:00:00 TYPETALK DISABLES DISCRIMINATION
RNID TYPETALK, the national relay telephone service for people with communication difficulties, is offering free on-site training to businesses in the Wirral area to bring them into compliance with the
2004-01-17 00:00:00 North West College Restaurants Top of the Class
INDUSTRY bible Restaurant magazine has declared three North West college restaurants as the best in the North of England, and staff and students are now hoping to go on to the national finals in February next year. Already popular with the local
(Written by Caren Clark from TV and Satellite Week Magazine) ON TV for Saturday 17 January to Friday 23 January. 1. Britain's Best Sitcom, BBC2, Saturday 9.10pm
2004-01-17 00:00:00 21st Century tribute to Holocaust victims
FROM MONDAY people will be able to post their message of remembrance in the city's Book of Commitment via the internet. Liverpool people will be able to record their thoughts and feelings about the Holocaust with the click of a mouse as Liverpool launches
2004-01-17 00:00:00 Lord Mayor Rock 'n' Rolls into the States
THE Lord Mayor of Liverpool is heading Stateside next week to lead the celebrations of 50 years of rock 'n' roll music to represent the city at the world launch of the anniversary on January 21 in New York. 2004 marks half a century since Elvis Presley
2004-01-17 00:00:00 COTTARS CANCELLED
SOUTHPORT Arts Center's Young Canadian folk sensation The Cottars have, unfortunately, had to cancel their visit Southport Arts Centre due to ill-health. The youngsters, aged 13 to 16, were due to visit the UK to for the prestigious Celtic Connections
2004-01-17 00:00:00 Faith Launch Lifts the Roof
(Photograph by Patrick Trollope) ONE OF the biggest multi-faith choirs broke into song earlier this week as the Faith in One City celebrations gathered a 250-strong multi-faith choir from of all ages raising the roof of the Anglican Cathedral of Liverpool
2004-01-10 00:00:00 Appeal for Next of Kin - Albert Minnards
SEFTON Coroner's Officers are appealing for the next of kin of a man who died in Waterloo to come forward. Albert Minnards, aged 72, died at his home in Cambridge Road in Waterloo on 27th December 2003. There are no suspicious circumstances surrounding
2004-01-10 00:00:00 More than 3,000 people to unite for spectacular multi-faith event
SIMON WESTON OBE will give an inspirational message of faith and hope to the people of the city at the launch of Faith in One City 2004. The Falklands war veteran will lead thousands of people, including faith and community groups, schoolchildren and
2004-01-10 00:00:00 CLIPPER 2005 to 2006 UNDER STARTER'S ORDERS
THE date has been set at Sunday, 18 September 2005, with the starting gun to be fired at midday on the River Mersey. The fifth Clipper event will be divided into 12 individual races in all, taking its crews on the longest route of all round the world race
2004-01-10 00:00:00 Local course throws light on UK Tax Credits
ONE Parent Families is offering Liverpool professionals and volunteers a handful of free places on its forthcoming tax credits course. Aimed at staff who work with single parents, but do not have a detailed knowledge of the benefits system, the courses in
2004-01-10 00:00:00 Virgin takes take top national business travel award for best rail network
VIRGIN Trains yesterday beat Eurostar and Heathrow Express to win first prize for its state-of-the-art Voyager and Pendolino trains in the Rail Network category of the prestigious national Business Travel World Awards 2003. These awards, sponsored by the
2004-01-10 00:00:00 CULTURE 'FRIEND SHIP' UNVEILED
A MODEL of the winning design for Liverpool's Capital of Culture 'Friend Ship' was unveiled on Thursday 8 January. Well the Queen Mary 2 may have been lanced lat week but Liverpool designer Jo Pocock revealed her radical design to children at Lister
2004-01-10 00:00:00 A Surprise Win Gets Octel Club FC on to a Winning Streak
THE Wirral Sunday League division two team, Octel Club FC, has received a Christmas surprise, winning a new football strip in a competition organised by 'no fuss' shampoo, Wash & Go. Team manager, Garry Roberts, from Moreton, has been setting his team
2004-01-10 00:00:00 Goods Vehicle Operator's Licence
STREETCARE Ltd. of unit 1, Essex House, Bridle Road, Bootle, L30 4UE , applying for a licence to use Unit 4, Watts Industrial Park, Crowland street, Southport, PR9 7RX as an operating center for 1 goods vehicle and to use Enterprise - Liverpool, Newton Rd
2004-01-10 00:00:00 Letters to Editor:- Murder of Frank Le
"Hi i am looking for any news on the murder of Frank Le on the 1st of January 1994. He was a mini cab driver and was stabbed. I am looking for any relatives he may have had. My ex-wife is his Daughter and she has been looking for him for a few year's and
2004-01-10 00:00:00 Conference to Combat Wildlife Crime
MERSEYSIDE Police is hoted the third Merseyside Partners against Wildlife Crime seminar at Police headquarters on Friday 9 January. The seminar had 60 delegates from 25 different organisations across Merseyside. It was is aimed at sharing information
2004-01-10 00:00:00 SOUTHPORT V BURSCOUGH
(REPORT AND PICTURES BY SALLY DEVINE) A COLD and windy Haig Avenue on the 1st of January saw the first ever League Game of 2004 at the grounds. Southport was hoping to make up ground and gain valuable points to help them stay in the top 10 of the Unibond
2004-01-10 00:00:00 THE SEARCH FOR SPRING BEGINS
IT MAY be the deep mid winter, but the search for spring began this week across the UK with the launch of "Spring into Science". People of all ages will be hunting for the first horse chestnut buds, listening out for the first song thrush and looking for
2004-01-10 00:00:00 Letters to Editor:- Why Can't I Copy?
Dear Southport Reporter... "I was on a photograph taken a few weeks back and I tried to save it, but an error page came up saying it was copyright. Why can't I save my own image. I like the site as you take lots of nice photographs, but you cannot copy
2004-01-10 00:00:00 Letters to Editor:- Dear Readers
"If you
2004-01-10 00:00:00 WIDNES PUB CUSTOMERS WIN VIP DAY AT THE RACES
(Photograph shows The Castle team) EIGHTEEN pub customers from the popular Castle public house in Widnes have been rewarded for their skills in traditional pub games with a VIP all expenses paid day at the races. This was after being named Area Winners in
2004-01-10 00:00:00 Victorian Merchants House Modernised with Smart Home Technology
A FORMER Victorian Merchants house in the Mossley Hill area of Liverpool is being refurbished into luxury apartments with state of the art Smart Home Technology from Siemens. The large Victorian property built in 1875, previously used as a school and most
2004-01-10 00:00:00 Lloyd Webber stages masterclass for Liverpool's future stars
A QUARTET of gifted musicians got some world-class tuition on 6 January when top international musician Julian Lloyd Webber came to town. He is widely regarded as one of the most creative musicians of his generation and he was in the city to give the next
2004-01-10 00:00:00 Junior Fame winner 2003
(Photograph with thank to Pleasureland) THE winner of the Junior FAME contest was 10 year old Stephanie Ann Davis from Merseyside. Stephanie came first from over 100 entrants with her rendition of
2004-01-10 00:00:00 Statement regarding hospital car parking charges increase
A spokesperson for Southport & Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust said:-
2004-01-10 00:00:00 PREMIERSHIP STAR PERFORMED SWITCH ON
(Photograph by Sally Devine) EVERTON star David Unsworth had the honor of switching on the new floodlights at Formby Football Club for their historic game against neighbours Southport in the 1st Round of the NatWest Liverpool Senior Cup on 6th January.
2004-01-10 00:00:00 Sandstormers Match Report
NOT a win but still another good performance by the Rugby League players of Southport. At their previous clash in the North West County Cup Langworthy they were convincing winners 36 to 4. The Southport players are now showing what they are capable of
(Writen by Caren Clark of TV and Satellite Week Magazine) Week Saturday 3 January to Friday 9 January. 1. Richard III Channel 4 Saturday 7pm
2004-01-10 00:00:00 IAM IS PUTTING THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE, SAYS BSM
DRIVER training experts BSM believe the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) is putting the cart before the horse by claiming that "drivers in manual cars could prevent themselves going too fast inadvertently by using the interim gears, especially third
2004-01-10 00:00:00 FIRST NORTH WESTERN LAUNCHES JANUARY TIMETABLE
REGIONAL train operator First North Western is advising passengers to check the times of their journey before travelling, as new timetables come into force from Sunday January 4th until Sunday 22nd May. Denise Lennox, First North Western
2004-01-10 00:00:00 NEW YEAR'S EVE... Take 2, FIREWORKS AND LIGHT SHOW
(Photographs with thanks to David Evens) NEW Year's Eve firework display and the lighting of buildings in Liverpool city center was postponed as we reported last week, but on Friday 2 January the show went on. All the emergency services, the site managers
2004-01-10 00:00:00 SELL OUT SHOW RETURNS
UNDOUBTEDLY the UK
2004-01-10 00:00:00 'It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over'
PAUL Carrack will be on stage in Southport on the 7 February as part of a promotional tour of the UK. Pual Carrack was first bitten by the music bug as a small child back in his native Sheffield, where he would bash away at a home made drumkit up in his
2004-01-10 00:00:00 Mars Express:- no signal from Beagle 2 so far...
ESA's Mars Express orbiter made its first attempt to establish contact with the Beagle 2 lander, after the two spacecraft separated on 19 December 2003. The orbiter made its first pass over the Beagle 2 landing site this week, but could not pick up any
2004-01-10 00:00:00 80% OF MOTORISTS FEAR CAR CRIME.
A NEW RAC study has revealed that whilst most people think car crime is on the increase, the proportion of motorists who have been the victim of a car theft or car break-in has actually fallen since 1995. The increased security of newer cars is reflected
2004-01-10 00:00:00 ICELAND HELPS IN SEARCH FOR BRIAN HESKETH FROM BOOTLE
43 YEAR OLD Brian Hesketh, from Bootle, Merseyside, is the latest missing person to be featured in an initiative by Iceland and the National Missing Persons Helpline. Launched four years ago the partnership aims to raise public awareness of missing people
THE PETS at Home store in Southport' Ocean Plaza invited people to ferret down to the store this on the 10 January, as it played host to the Exotic Animal Welfare Trust and some of its furry ferret friends! While Pets at Home does not sell ferrets, they
2004-01-03 00:00:00 RAC'S 'END OF TERM' TRANSPORT REPORT SHOWS IMPROVING PICTURE FOR UK'S 28 MILLION MOTORISTS
67% OF motorists believe Government should do more to improve road transport as 2003 came to a close. The UK's 28 million motorists have experienced a huge number of new initiatives and pieces of motoring related legislation in 2003, some of which have
2004-01-03 00:00:00 Merseyside's new OBE's, MBE's and Kights.
OUR congratulations to all who received the New Year honors. On Merseyside, these people received Honors:-
2004-01-03 00:00:00 Letter to Editor:- EXPATRIATE VICTIMS OF THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE
Dear Southport Reporter, "IT is estimated that more than one million Britons have retired abroad of which 650,000 have settled on Spain's Mediterranean coasts, with France being second choice and the Republic of Ireland taking up third place. One of the
2004-01-03 00:00:00 CHEQUE OUT THE FUN AT ICELAND STONEDALE
ICELAND's store on Stonedale Park, Liverpool got into the Christmas spirit last week, with a fancy dress cheque presentation to the retailers' charity of the year - Breast Cancer Campaign. Christmas cheer was in abundance, Father Christmas was on the
2004-01-03 00:00:00 LIVERPOOL FOURTH IN UK HEARING LOSS CHART
LIVERPOOL has the fourth highest number of deaf and hard of hearing citizens in the UK according to hearing aid manufacturer, GN Resound. A total of 5,019 people in Liverpool are registered as deaf and with Sefton coming Ninth in the UK with 3,690 people
2004-01-03 00:00:00 FRIENDS OF THE ATKINSON ART GALLERY TALK
ON Wednesday 14 January 2004 at 7.45pm Dr. Emma Roberts will be giving a talk about "Sculpture in the early 20th Century, The Drive Towards Abstraction" Non - Members of the Friends welcome.
2004-01-03 00:00:00 Recycling your old mobile for charity makes Sense
IF you've been lucky enough to get a new mobile phone for Christmas, why riot spread a little festive cheer by donating your old handset to national deafblind charity Sense. Millions of mobiles are sold over the Christmas period and most of the old model
2004-01-03 00:00:00 DON'T DUMP - RECYCLE YOUR CHRISTMAS TREE!
EARLY IN January, most Local Authorities within the Mersey Forest area will be operating the popular free Christmas Tree Recycling Service. People will be able to take their Christmas Trees to one of several convenient places where they will be chipped
2004-01-03 00:00:00 New Years Eve 2003/2004 In Southport and Formby.
2004-01-03 00:00:00 DRINK-DRIVING NOW TABOO FOR OVER 70% OF YOUNG ADULTS IN MERSEYSIDE
SEVEN OUT of ten young adults in Merseyside say they have never driven after drinking, according to a new survey for motoring organisation RAC and responsible drinking campaigners, The Portman Group, released over the festive weeks. However, almost 30%
2004-01-03 00:00:00 North West Housing Market Review 2003
SOUTH LIVERPOOL and Stockton Heath have been highlighted as 2003 property hotpots by Bradford & Bingley Estate Agents with some areas enjoying staggering 50% increases in prices.
2004-01-03 00:00:00 First Course of 2004
ARE you going to make a new year's resolution to improve your driving and live up to the Institute of Advanced Motorists motto of "Skill with responsibility". We run three courses a year starting in January, May and September. They all start with
2004-01-03 00:00:00 WELCOME 2004 for most of the UK
WELL it was a real Frank Spencer start to the year with disasters throughout the special night. Those hardy souls who braved the elements on New Year's Eve, were able to enjoy a thriving club scene, throughout the area. We decided to pop into Formby Pubs