IT'S every Manchester United fan's dream to lead the home team out at Old Trafford. And for one Golborne youngster his dream came true when he joined captain Roy Keane in the tunnel minutes before kick off against local rivals Blackburn Rovers. Ten-year-old
As the Star celebrates its 30th birthday, here's a memory-jerker from the early eighties, featuring a group of our readers 'invading' Altea on the Costa Blanca. Among them, two of the then Star staff, Paula Comerford and Marlene Johnson (standing left
Firefighters tackled the toxic fumes.
BUTCHER Big John Herbert reckons he's got a right result... For the shopping zone where he trades is to benefit from a major security upgrade just three weeks after an exclusive St Helens Star front page story exposed shopkeepers' misery at having to
SHAUN Woodward is standing firmly behind the government's controversial tuition fee proposals, insisting it is the fairest way to fund university education. Labour's St Helens South MP said the plans to allow universities and colleges to charge top-up
A ROYAL Marine has appeared at Liverpool Crown Court accused of raping a woman beneath railway arches near St Helens Central Station. It is alleged Neil Roberts, 19, of Providence Street, Parr, raped a 48-year-old woman in the early hours of Sunday, October
COUNCIL chiefs have appointed a firm to investigate what lies beneath an old chemical dump zone where developers now want to build a huge housing development. Details of the probe emerged as campaigners who are fighting a planning application to erect
DESPITE the biting November weather, townsfolk and visitors from neighbour towns turned up in their thousands to sample the smells and sounds of St Helens first-ever continental market. The waft of garlic, freshly baked bread potato provencale and cheese
YOUNG dancers swept the board at a regional competition after impressing judges with their twinkle-toed moves. Kathryn Cooper and Gemma Crowe won a host of awards at the North West Allied Dancing Association contest. Kathryn, aged 15, from All Saints
A LIVELY teenager has died just days after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of leukaemia. Daniel Videan, aged 13, of Mill Lane, Heatley, Lymm, died holding his mother and sister's hands at Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool on Sunday. He first fell
The women said they wanted to create a memorial to Jan Verney, who died last year after being diagnosed with cancer of the pancreas. Mrs Verney, 58, formerly of Glebelands Road, Knutsford, was the first woman chairman of the Tatton Conservative Association
SEND your Christmas greetings electronically and support old folk. That's the invitation from Help The Aged. "Taking the hassle out of shopping and posting, e-cards are a far more convenient and environmentally friendly way of sending a greeting," said
GREAT minds, it seems, think alike. Even when they're thousands of miles apart! I was astonished, while scanning through my e-mails, to discover that a fan from Ontario and another from St Helens had both hit upon the same topic - kiddies' street games
ALL the innocence of childhood is encapsulated by this memory-stirring photograph (right) from immediate post-war times. And it marks a special day in the history of Lowe House Church, St Helens, being the one-and-only time when boys replaced girls as
SAINTS boss Ian Millward expects to bolster his squad with at least one more recruit in time for the start of Super League IX. Millward revealed that he had been watching and talking to players of both rugby codes during his break Down Under. He said:
TWO Halton schools are going for a top environmental award. Palace Fields Primary in Runcorn and St. Gerrard's Primary in Widnes have submitted entries for the BAE systems environmental action award.
MEMBERS of Lowe House Boxing Club are mourning the death of a former fighter, trainer and leader who gave a lifetime of service to the Halefield Street 'stable', writes Denis Whittle. Albert Freeman (72) died in Warrington General Hospital on Sunday after
A WOMAN is lucky to be alive this week after robbers are reported to have driven a car straight at her tossing their victim into the air. The callous thieves are then alleged to have stolen her handbag as she lay injured. The victim, thought to be aged
PARISHIONERS at an Orford church welcomed the return of a very special friend at the weekend when the Archbishop of York, a former vicar of St Andrew's, dropped in. The Most Rev Dr David Hope was vicar at the Orford church from 1970 to 1974 and has described
A SACK full of community spirit and an appearance from the man in red helped to make Golborne's seasonal Christmas light switch-on a memorable event for everyone. Father Christmas parked his sleigh at Peter Kane Square on Friday and joined in the fun
PUPILS put their green fingers to the test when they helped to plant 37,000 new trees to help turn a landfill site into a country park. The group of 20, 14 to 15-year-olds from Newton Community High School visited the Lyme and Wood site on Vista Road
