Liverpool, England News

A kung fu teacher has been convicted of sexually assaulting two young girls in anti-rape classes in Merseyside.

On Easter Sunday in 1964, Tom Lodge and his friends found themselves aboard an old ferry ship anchored a bit more than three miles off the southeastern coast of Great Britain.

UNEMPLOYMENT across the city region fell to its lowest level for six months as the local economy continues to show resilience despite the worst recession in decades.

A former crown court judge who was stopped on the M6 while nearly three times over the legal alcohol limit has been fined 1,200. Officers pulled over Bruce Macmillan, 63, near Chorley when they spotted him driving erratically on 27 August.

A MAN has appeared in court charged with possession of an illegal firearm after allegedly throwing a gun from a car while being followed by police.

THE body of a Merseyside soldier shot dead by a rogue Afghan policeman was repatriated to the UK.

LIVERPOOL'S future economic success is dependent on revitalising the north of the city, an inquiry has found.

MERSEY MPs have urged Gordon Brown not to axe childcare tax breaks worth up to 2,400 a year - warning the move will punish women and force many out of work.

A MERSEY MP has called for a directly-elected mayor to give real power to the Liverpool "city- region" - branding the current set- up a toothless "cosy cabal". Walton MP Peter Kilfoyle commissioned his own independent research to analyse the failings of an arrangement he claims is letting down Merseyside.

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.

ARMED robbers escaped with thousands of pounds after holding up a Liverpool bank today.

THE devastated parents of a Merseyside soldier gunned down by a rogue policeman insist they do not want British troops to pull out of Afghanistan.

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.

A GANG of robbers held up a Liverpool bank using fireworks. The gang of four, all wearing dark clothes and masks to cover their faces, attacked a cash delivery being made to the Lloyds TSB branch in Longmoor Lane, Walton Vale, yesterday.

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

THE director of a Liverpool social enterprise was not expecting much from the unveiling of the Hidden Honcho scheme.

A LIVERPOOL shop owner who bought two stolen laptops was caught after computer experts tracked him down through remote technology and took a snap of him on a webcam.

IMAGES of work by the man who painted Paul McCartney's psychedelic Magic Piano have been put on display in a Liverpool bar.

MARTIAL arts masters united to support a charity set up in the memory of tragic Francesca Bimpson.