DAILY POST
L I V E R P O O L
No. 47,829 Friday, June 16, 2006
Who wears short
shorts? Not me
Valerie Hill on a fashion classic/ P12
INSIDE
Fine-dodgers
to be named
. to cost
HUNDREDS of people in
Merseyside and Cheshire
who do not pay court fines
are to be named and
shamed in the local press
as part of new government
plans.
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Tunnel drama
A MERSEYSIDE police
officer averted tragedy in
the Birkenhead tunnel
after a man collapsed at
the wheel of his car.
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Homes claim
LIVERPOOL is repeating
the slum-clearance
mistakes of the 1960s by
agreeing to the demolition
of 1,800 terraced homes,
campaigners warned last
night.
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Crash victim
THE man who died when
the stolen car he was
driving crashed on the
Formby bypass was
named by police
yesterday, as a makeshift
shrine took shape around
the crash site.
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CONTENTS
Business .................. 19-21
Comment ................. 10-11
Crosswords ............. 22-23
Restaurants ............. 20-21
Sport ........................ 30-40
TV & Radio .............. 26-28
Weather .......................... 2
Liverpool duo bring England victory
Liverpool’s Peter Crouch, left, and Steven Gerrard celebrate their goals
which gave England a 2-0 World Cup victory over Trinidad & Tobago in
Nuremberg yesterday
Glassworkers will know their fate in the autumn
HUNDREDS of workers at
Europe’s largest container
glass factory, who faced losing
their jobs because of an
invalid pollution certificate,
have been reprieved by top
judges.
The massive plant at Elton,
near Chester, was built
without the required planning
permission and faced
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There’s more to me
than Three Lions
Ian Broudie looks back/ Box Office
WORLD CUP: PAGES 6-7, 36-40
BY JAMES BREWSTER operators, Quinn Glass Ltd,
Daily Post Correspondent yesterday lost their appeal
against that ruling but Lord
immediate closure, with up to Justice Buxton nevertheless
200 job losses, after a judge threw the beleaguered
ruled last year that a workforce a lifeline.
Pollution Prevention and The judge, sitting with Lord
Control Permit (PPC) had Justice Richards and Sir
been unlawfully granted. Christopher Staughton, ruled
that the PPC permit, although
The plant’s Ireland-based
invalid, would remain in
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Everton
stadium
£250m
Liverpool council plans crisis
talks to avert Kirkby move
EVERTON’S proposed move
to a new stadium in Kirkby
would be part of a
development costing £250m,
a confidential report leaked
to the Daily Post reveals.
The document, prepared by
Knowsley chief executive
Sheena Ramsey, also shows
the council is considering
handing over £50m-worth of
land in return for a share in
the management company
operating the stadium or the
income it generates.
Last night, Liverpool
council leader Warren
Bradley upped the stakes by
revealing his council is also
offering the club two prime
pieces of land in the city on
which to build a new ground.
place, at least until Chester
City Council has a chance to
decide whether or not to issue
a fresh permit.
That still leaves a question
mark over the plant’s future
as it cannot operate without
the required permit.
The workforce at the Elton
plant will not learn their fate
until September, Chester City
45p
BY SAM LISTER
Daily Post Staff
He will hold talks with
Everton chief executive Keith
Wyness and chairman Bill
Kenwright over the next week
to thrash out proposals for a
new city stadium.
The Daily Post exclusively
revealed last month that
neighbouring Knowsley
council was making a
sustained attempt to lure the
club to the borough.
Yesterday, it emerged that
supermarket giants Tesco,
headed by Evertonian Terry
Leahy, have entered the
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Council said last night.
A spokesman for the
authority said: “The council
will consider in detail the
Court of Appeal’s rejection of
Quinn Glass’s appeal, and its
ruling to quash the permit
with effect from the time the
council determines the
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