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MERSEYSIDE united to pay respects to our fallen war dead today. Moving services were held across the region to mark Remembrance Sunday, 70 years on from the start of World War Two.

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A brave shop boss has told how he feared for his and his fellow victims' lives after they were terrorised by hatchet-wielding robbers in fright masks.

HE was beaten within inches of his life in one of the most savage and shocking crimes St Helens has witnessed in recent years.

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A CONTROVERSIAL vote over plans for two new academies in Wirral will not be re-run, it appeared last night.

A POLICE community support officer who groomed a 15-year-old girl hoping to get her into bed has been jailed for 15 months.

LAKE COUNTY The holiday season is upon us and The Salvation Army is seeking volunteers for its Red Kettle Program.

THE girlfriend of a soldier killed in an ambush by an Afghan policeman has described the loss of her "rock". Corporal Steven Boote, 22, of the Royal Military Police, was a Territorial Army volunteer who put himself forward for duty in Helmand Province.

A St Helens man who was arrested for an armed raid after a tip-off from his girlfriend has been jailed for attacking her with a hammer.

Born in Chennai in 1941, Pete Best, the original drummer of The Beatles, has been living in Liverpool from 1945, but the musician still has an Indian connect and loves to gorge on biryani.

Dramatic new evidence could free the businessman convicted of the 'beauty in the bath' murder, it was claimed last night.

Relatives of a Territorial Army soldier from Merseyside who was killed in an attack by an Afghan police officer have said he will "always be our hero". Cpl Steven Boote, 22, of Birkenhead, is understood to have only been two weeks into a tour of Afghanistan when he was shot dead with four others on Tuesday.

November 04, 2009 CORONATION Street star Kym Marsh hasa been named Celebrity Mum of the Year.

AN ELDERLY woman had to be cut free from her car after it was involved in a two-vehicle collision in Meols this afternoon.

A DRAMATIC new twist in the notorious a oeBeauty in the Batha killing will see a fresh attempt made to overturn the conviction of the man found guilty of murder.

A fugitive drug dealer is being hunted in Wigan. Peter Prendergast is known to have links with Orrell and officers from the neighbouring Lancashire force today appealed for locals to be vigilant.

"He will be greatly missed by all his family and many friends. We cannot believe he has gone in these tragic circumstances." Sharon Ashbrook A young Wigan motorist has admitted causing a grandfather's death while under the influence of drugs or drink.

ASSAULTED NURSE: Drugs and alcohol played a part in an assault on a staff nurse at Arrowe Park Hospital, Wirral Magistrates were told.

Two men who murdered their friend and dumped his battered body in Cheshire woodland have been jailed for life.