Two women 'caught trying to smuggle dead relative on to passenger jet at Liverpool airport'
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In a scene reminiscent of the film 'Weekend at Bernie's', the corpse was pushed in on a wheelchair - complete with sunglasses - to try to fool staff at the check in desk at Liverpool John Lennon Airport, it is claimed. The man's body had been driven to the airport in a taxi after the women told the driver he was asleep. The women, aged 41 and 66, were travelling with two young children and arrived by taxi for the easyJet flight to Berlin at around 11am on Saturday. Astoundingly, the party had pre-booked assistance for their 'disabled' relative,...
Published on Wednesday 8th of September 2010 09:52:25 PM
UK: 'Terror gang' may have been 'plotting to blow up shopping centre and nightclub'
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Dramatic daylight terror raids on a university may have been linked to a plot to blow up a shopping centre or nightclub, police fear. Students at Liverpool John Moores University watched in shock yesterday as two men were hauled outside and forced to the ground by armed police. Witnesses said the duo - students at the university's Business School - were wearing combat trousers and hiking jackets, and claimed there were rumours of 'a bomb' on the premises. (edit) The raid was one of a series carried out simultaneously across the North-West in which 12 suspects believed to be...
Published on Wednesday 8th of September 2010 09:52:25 PM
BBC: Ringo 'too busy' for autographs (other details)
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Sculpture Starr, who released his most recent album Liverpool 8 in January, recently completed a tour of the US and Canada. The musician currently divides his time between Los Angeles, the South of France and his UK home in Surrey. In April, a foliage sculpture of Starr outside a railway station in Liverpool was beheaded by vandals. The performer had reportedly angered some locals when he told the BBC's Jonathan Ross he missed nothing about the city.
Published on Wednesday 8th of September 2010 09:52:25 PM
Proof Of Liverpool's Viking Past
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Proof of Liverpool's Viking past James Randerson, science correspondent Monday December 3, 2007 The Guardian (UK) The region around Liverpool was once a major Viking settlement, according to a genetic study of men living in the area. The research tapped into this Viking ancestry by focusing on people whose surnames were recorded in the area before its population underwent a huge expansion during the industrial revolution. Among men with these "original" surnames, 50% have Norse ancestry. The find backs up historical evidence from place names and archaeological finds of Viking treasure which suggests significant numbers of Norwegian Vikings settled in...
Published on Wednesday 8th of September 2010 09:52:25 PM
Device Explodes On Merseyside
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Breaking NewsDevice Explodes On Merseyside Updated: 18:28, Friday September 21, 2007 A device has exploded at a school in Liverpool, according to Merseyside police. It went off under a car outside St Edward's, a Catholic school in the Sandfield Park area of West Derby. Sky News correspondent Mike McCarthy said roads near the school had been blocked off by police. Inspector Michael O'Callaghan said: "There was an explosion under a car at the school this afternoon." "What caused the explosion and the reasons behind it we are investigating. "Nobody has been injured and there has been no collateral damage," he...
Published on Wednesday 8th of September 2010 09:52:25 PM
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