Chorley's star striker Terry Fearns has been charged on suspicion of drugs offences following a series of police raids.

NINE men have been charged with conspiracy to supply Class A drugs following a joint operation between Merseyside Police and Tayside Police.

TWO hundred staff who walked out of HMP Liverpool say they can count on the support of union members from 20 different prisons today.

SHOPPERS watched on in terror as three men took a whizzer to a cash machine in Maghull.

THE end of season is stocking time on the golf season, a time for a reckoning of the triumphs and missed opportunities and perhaps golf oddities, like a hole-in-one - and a remarkable happening for Paul Kinnear.

THE Maghull and Aughton Rotary Club celebrated their 31st Charter dinner this month, as they prepared for their charity fund raising Christmas float.

HEARTED shoppers in Ormskirk have helped collect over 13,000 "comfort parcels" for soldiers in Afghanistan.

Mary Elizabeth Potter, 89, died after the lounge ceiling of Maghull Group's St Michael's Manor care home, Allerton, crashed down on her and five other pensioners A CEILING that collapsed on elderly people in a care home, killing a woman and hurting several others, could have fallen at any moment, an inquest heard yesterday.

Ceiling collapse: Mary Potter, 89, died when a bay window ceiling crashed down while she was sitting in the lounge at her nursing home An elderly woman was killed when a ceiling collapsed on her and five elderly residents at a care home.

A PENSIONER was killed after a ceiling collapsed on her and five elderly residents at a Liverpool care home.

Moors murderer Ian Brady claims it has cost the taxpayer 3m to keep him alive on his hunger strike.

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THIS week's favourite film was chosen by David Roberts, who is retired, and from Maghull.

A LYDIATE teenager has become one of the youngest pilots in the world. Ben Bowker dreams of flying a Eurofighter Jet for the RAF and passed his flying test on his 17th birthday.

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A WANNABE Merseyside pilot has become one of the youngest people in the world to get a pilot's licence.

UP TO 460 full and part time jobs could be lost after Lloyds Banking Group today agreed to sell its Halifax Estate Agencies division for 1. The sale of the loss-making business to Your Move owner LSL Property Services will see the closure of 121 banking counters within the agency's 218 offices - including 12 across Merseyside - next January.

CONTRACTORS designing the proposed Thornton to Switch Island link road have been carrying out important ground tests.

OUR MPs return to Westminster today with the expenses issue in the headlines again.

ALMOST half of all primary school pupils are driven to school, despite the majority living about a mile from the gates, according to new research.