Bootle, England News

TOURISM plays a key part in Millom's economy. Reporter JONATHAN HUMPHRIES met the two new tourism bosses tasked with leading a new programme of events across South Copeland TWO new key players at South Copeland Tourism Community Interest Company are set to boost plans for an ambitious three-year project.

A sawn-off shotgun and a large supply of ammunition have been seized in a drugs raid at a house.

TEENAGERS who built a BMX and skateboard track in a disused factory say they have "nothing to do" after it was boarded up.

The tragic death of headteacher Helen Mann, while awaiting with dread a visit from Ofsted, will come as no surprise to teachers at all levels of the profession .

The 15-year-olds were injured at about 20:30 BST in Bootle on Monday, a Merseyside Police spokesman said.

Fifty-five bales of donated fodder were delivered to the hill farmers of south Cumbria who lost thousands of sheep in snow blizzards and are seriously running low on food to give to their stock.

Thames Valley Police has doubled its reward for information provided anonymously about the murder of Kevin Lavelle in Grimsbury, Banbury in June 2004.