All posts tagged "Liverpool"

  • Prescot Theatre Company Resurrects Ancient Ghost for New Fairy Tale Production

    Prescot-based MATE Productions will invoke the ancient woodland spirit Will-o’-the-Wisp for its next show. An enchanting walkabout fairy tale, Willo the Wisp & the Fire Sprite invites audiences to navigate magical forests full of elves, witches and trolls in...

    • Posted September 17, 2018
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  • Reprieve for 139 Bus Users in Prescot & Whiston

    The 139 bus service has become the 239 and will continue along a modified route between Broadgreen Hospital and Prescot, via Huyton. Cumfybus stopped the service in August, but regular passengers across Liverpool and Knowsley complained that...

    • Posted September 11, 2018
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  • 2018 Prescot Festival Short Story Competition Now Open

    (Press release) Are you imaginative? Do you love to tell a good story? Do you have the urge to put pen to paper? Entry to the 2018 Prescot Festival Short Story Competition is FREE and open to...

    • Posted February 23, 2018
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  • Prescot Actress Chosen for Everyman Theatre Company

    Prescot’s Emily Hughes has been chosen from hundreds of candidates to be part of the Liverpool Everyman’s new repertory company. The young actress, who hails from Eccleston Park, will act in four productions at the iconic Liverpool...

    • Posted December 13, 2016
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  • Missing: Prescot Girl Samantha Nutt

    (Update 5 November 2015: Samantha Nutt has been found safe and well.) Merseyside Police is appealing for the public’s help in tracing a 16 year-old girl who has gone missing. Samantha Josephine Nutt was last seen on...

    • Posted September 5, 2015
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  • Rainhill, Liverpool Property Searches over, Terrorism Suspect Remains in Custody

    Counter terrorism searches on properties in Rainhill and Liverpool have come to an end, and a suspect remains in custody. Police, in conjunction with the North West Counter Terrorism Unit, raided the former Rocklands Hotel on View Road,...

    • Posted February 13, 2015
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  • No Immediate Threat after Counter Terrorism Raid on Rainhill House

    Officers from the North West Counter Terrorism Unit and Merseyside Police are searching five addresses, including the former Rocklands Hotel, later a nursery, on View Road, Rainhill. Raids also took place in the Kensington and Old Swan districts...

    • Posted February 11, 2015
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  • Liverpool Pride Commemorates Michael Causer Anniversary

    Liverpool will remember Michael Causer this weekend, when the city’s annual Pride celebrations take place on the sixth anniversary of the Whiston teenager’s death. Michael died of brain injuries on 2 August 2008, a week after being...

    • Posted July 30, 2014
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  • Police Appeal for Witnesses to Fatal Knowsley Crash

    A Liverpool man died after a collision on School Lane, Knowsley, last Friday (25 April). Brian Archbold, 39, from Waterloo, was on his motorbike near the roundabout for Junction 4 of the M57, in the Prescot postcode...

    • Posted April 28, 2014
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  • Actor Ken Jones, 83, Dies at Home in Prescot

    The Liverpool-born actor Ken Jones has passed away at a nursing home in Prescot. A familiar face on TV, he played ‘Horrible’ Bernard Ives opposite Ronnie Barker in the BBC sitcom Porridge. He also appeared as Uncle Dermot...

    • Posted February 16, 2014
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