Liverpool Newswire Archive

17-07-2006 14:06 | 1 comment

Merseyside Ambulance Staff in Second 24hr Strike

Ambulance workers across Merseyside and Cheshire are preparing for a second 24 hour strike in a dispute over pay. Technicians, who assist paramedics in ambulances, began a series of three walkouts last Thursday after the collapse of talks with their bosses. Read more >>

17-07-2006 13:05

PUBLIC MEETING - CROSSING JORDAN

At the beginning of May 2006, members of the Iraq Solidarity Campaign and Middle East Cultural Association returned for the third time to Baqa’a – a Palestine Refugee Camp, which is located in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

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17-07-2006 12:08 | 3 comments

PALESTINE & LEBANON VIGIL IN LIVERPOOL

WEDNESDAY 19th JULY

OUTSIDE ST GEORGES HALL AT 6pm Read more >>

14-07-2006 09:44 | 4 comments

Liverpool gap between rich and poor highest in UK

Anyone have any ideas where this 2 billion plus that is comign into the area is going?
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13-07-2006 19:35

Hospital Staff Protest In Southport and Ormskirk

Health workers will demonstrate outside Southport and Ormskirk hospitals in response to its latest round of job cuts. Amicus and other unions will mount two protests next week after the NHS trust revealed it will sack more than eighty staff in coming months. Read more >>

13-07-2006 17:08 | 1 comment

Ambulance Staff Strike Back

Ambulance workers across Merseyside and Cheshire have gone on strike in a dispute over pay. Technicians, who assist paramedics in ambulances, began a 24-hour walkout on Thursday after the collapse of pay talks on Wednesday night. Read more >>

12-07-2006 09:49 | 4 additions | 4 comments

National Demonstration - 'No Trident Replacement,' 'Don't Attack Iran'

23 September, Manchester: CND and the Stop the War Coalition are holding a national “No Trident Replacement, Don’t Attack Iran” demonstration on the eve of the Labour Party conference. Please join us to say NO to another war of aggression in the Middle East.

Saturday 23 September 1pm
Albert Square, Manchester Read more >>

11-07-2006 14:53

No Pasaran! - Commemorating the Spanish Revolution

Liverpool Social Forum presents a night of film and talk commemorating the Spanish Revolution and its heroic struggle for equality and freedom, against fascism and militarism. Read more >>

11-07-2006 13:00 | 3 comments

The Regeneration Game

The DVD video that the elitists don't want you to see! Read more >>

11-07-2006 12:30

Mersey Ambulance Strike More Likely

An ambulance strike on Merseyside looks more likely this afternoon, after there no deal was agreed in pay talks yesterday. Ambulance Service Union leaders last night agreed to meet their employers one last time within the next 48 hours, after they submitted a list of demands through negotiators Acas. Read more >>

11-07-2006 12:10

Nerve Magazine Party in Aigburth

'Nerve' - Liverpool's grassroots arts and politics magazine held a fundraising party on Friday 7th July. Everyone seemed to have a great time, and we made lots of money, which we will use this to continue taking the fight to the culture of capital! Read more >>

09-07-2006 15:45 | 2 comments

School Students Picnic for Peace!

On Saturday 8th July, 10 school students from around Liverpool met in a city center park, to picnic for peace! The picnic, which was organised by newly set-up Liverpool School Students Against War (SSAW), began at 1pm and was based around the slogan "Hands up for Peace". Read more >>

08-07-2006 11:46

Ribble Campaigners Call For Objections To Preston Quarry

Local campaign group "Save The Ribble" are calling for people and organisations to object to proposals for a Quarry at Lower Brockholes, intended to supply concrete to the 'Riverworks' Ribble Barrage. Read more >>

07-07-2006 14:37

Asylum System Claims Another Victim

A 35-year-old man was found dead at a home for asylum seekers in Greenbank Drive on Wednesday morning. Read more >>

07-07-2006 12:39

Patients Dying To Balance Books in Southport and Ormskirk

83 people will be sacked and many unnamed patients will die, because Southport and Ormskirk NHS Trust have been ordered to claw back fourteen million pounds over two years. Read more >>

06-07-2006 09:17 | 3 comments

….And People Say Scousers Are Thieving Bastards

New Home Secretary John Reid Visits Liverpool: Hurray. News on police and kettles. Read more >>

04-07-2006 21:42

Toxteth - 25 Years On

More than £400m has been spent trying to pretty up Toxteth since the riots 25 years ago, with another £130m earmarked for the near future. But unemployment and health problems are still rife, a few trees along Princes Avenue haven't made much difference. Read more >>

04-07-2006 17:20 | 1 comment

Liverpool Culture Fiasco

Robyn Archer has resigned as artistic director of the Liverpool Culture Company - who are responsible for organising the city's Capital of Culture celebrations in 2008. Read more >>

04-07-2006 14:21

This Month's 'News Not Profit' from Liverpool

Read all about it! Smithdown Against Demolition, Walmart, Flyposting, Jerry Springer and much much more.

More content than the Echo and infinitely cheaper! Print up and distribute! Read more >>

04-07-2006 03:10 | 25 comments

BPP in collapse as Sid W gives up

Mind the door... Read more >>