New hunt for signs of Jimmy Savile abuse in Mersey hospitals
Hospital managers are investigating three fresh allegations that Jimmy Savile abused hospital patients on Merseyside over 35 years ago. The Mersey Care NHS Trust has already spent £21,373 checking five...
View ArticleBanana Walk rape was false alarm
Six months after a jogger said she was grabbed and raped at night near a canal bridge, Greater Manchester Police have closed the case. A young woman claimed last September that she had been attacked...
View ArticleLegal & General buy into MediaCityUK
The London-based insurance and pension giant Legal & General Capital has bought a half share in MediaCityUK, dockland home of the BBC and ITV in the North of England. Peel Group, controlled from...
View ArticleLancaster Bomber flies south with Wainwright in brewery deal
Thwaites announced today a deal to sell part of their beer division to Wolverhampton-based Marston’s for £25.1 million. Two top brands of their real ale, Wainwright Golden and Lancaster Bomber, will be...
View ArticleLifelong Tory stands in Northern rebellion under raven banner of the Vikings
A ‘lifelong Conservative’ will stand for Parliament in her home town for a new party attempting a home rule rebellion in the North of England. Former Fylde borough councillor Elizabeth Clarkson...
View ArticleSoames Urges Frack for Gas in Queen Elizabeth’s Favourite Valley
Winston Churchill’s grandson has called for oil and gas firms to drill experimental fracking wells in the Queen’s favourite Lancashire valley. Sir Nicholas Soames, standing for re-election as Tory MP...
View ArticleFracking fear for Tory safe seat
Rival candidates marched together this weekend in a safe Tory constituency where the former MP refuses to support a ban on drilling for oil and gas. Bob Dennett of the Greens joined Elizabeth Clarkson...
View ArticleGrim week for Lancashire’s paedophile hunters
The two best known married couples fighting sex abuse in Lancashire announced their retirement from hunting paedophiles last week. Simon Danczuk, MP for Rochdale since 2010, co-author of the book that...
View ArticleLancashire loses another paedophile hunter
One week after the Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk and the Oldham sex abuse investigator Steven Walker-Roberts announced they had retired from hunting for paedophiles, Channel 4’s television vigilante...
View ArticleSealed bids for empty Georgian house but no word from Berlin
Lord Derby, ‘seventeenth earl and King of Lancashire 1865-1948’, and his pre-war prime minister Mr Stanley Baldwin, both resided at times behind the massive eighteenth century walls of Higher House in...
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