Burscough, England News

With only hours to go before club was in breach of contract with the FA for having no ground for the coming season, Burscough FC opened its doors and welcomed them into Victoria Park for a two year ground share.

WITH summer set to continue, residents across West Lancashire are being offered a chance make the most of it by striding out and joining health walks in two of the borough's parks.

BREAD making has risen in popularity throughout Ormskirk as people rush to book themselves on Burscough's bakery day courses.

A team of 15, including former Coronation Street star Sean Wilson, will complete the skydive on June 8 to raise vital funds to help a Burscough family.

At around 8.30am on May 8, the youngster was walking to school when he was stopped on the corner of Hesketh Lane and Latham Crescent by a man in a dark blue car.

Sean Shanahan from Rufford, Burscough Priory School pupil Gabbi Ofuya, Alyssa Collins from Burscough , Tarleton singer and guitarist John Butler, and Ellen Grice, a student at the CD School of Music in Rufford, were among superb acts who wowed an audience of hundreds at the final.

A TALENTED Scarisbrick songstress is said to be "over the moon" after securing her place in the final of a nation singing competition.

Police in West Lancashire are urging people to be on their guard as they continue to investigate an incident in Tarleton where an 11 year old boy was approached by a man in a car.

ON September 3 1939, the very day war was declared on Germany, Oberleutnant Fritz-Julius Lemp U-30 sank the passenger steamer SS Athenia with the loss of 117 passengers and crew.

A LIVERPOOL man and his wife who live in Oklahoma today told of the destruction caused after a mile-wide tornado ripped through the county.