FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 29 APRIL - 5 MAY 1974
This week's many stories include the new Haresfinch Social Club, the suicide attempt on Carr Mill Dam, St Helens police's car parking conundrum, Bernard Manning opens a DIY store in Fingerpost, the eggstraordinary deposit at Barclays Bank and the storm over plans to demolish 139 houses in Rainford and Crank.
We begin on the 30th when Lord and Lady Pilkington officially opened the new Haresfinch Social Club. The club had spent two years fundraising in which a committee of fifteen had arranged raffles and held dances. But most of the money to build the club had come from Greenall's brewery, which had agreed to make them a £30,000 loan. Already the club had 1,000 members on its books and membership of its football, darts and snooker teams had reached their limit. Located in Haresfinch Road, the club's facilities included a bar, games room, lounge, and concert hall and eventually they hoped to have their own bowling green.
The St Helens Newspaper wrote on the 30th how police had labelled Tom Ellison a hero after he had twice rescued a man whose car had plunged into Carr Mill Dam. Mr Ellison, a 33-year-old welder from Ennerdale Avenue, said he had been driving near the dam at midnight when he heard another car enter the water and upon getting nearer to the scene had seen the driver. "I shouted to him to hang on a bit", Mr Ellison explained, "and he opened the door and got out. I took my clothes off, went out for him and brought him back."
However, the 28-year-old rescued man went back into the water and Mr Ellison needed to dive in again and bring him back from 150 yards out. "It was a hell of a situation to be in," said Mr Ellison, who the police called "heroic". The rescued man was taken to Rainhill Hospital where he had been a patient. The incident was clearly a suicide attempt. The Newspaper felt it appropriate to name the unfortunate man but I won't.
Six young females from St Helens aged between 15 and 19 appeared at Liverpool Crown Court on May 1st charged with burglary offences. They were each sentenced to either probation or supervision orders and three of them also received fines. The judge was scathing about the lack of detention centres for young females, saying:
"Had you been youths instead of girls the whole lot of you would have gone to a detention centre for three months. For some reason which I and my colleagues do not understand, the Home Office do not provide detention centres for girls although we hope they soon will."
The Price Commission had been established under the Counter Inflation Act of 1973 as part of the government's attempts to control high inflation. The Liverpool Daily Post wrote on the 2nd that councillors in Stoke-on-Trent were referring Pilkingtons to the Price Commission after their tender for glasswork in the city had been raised by 12½%. The St Helens-based firm said they had increased some glass prices with the knowledge of the Price Commission because of increased costs.
On the 2nd and 4th the local thespians 'The Unnamed Players' performed the comedy 'Love And Kisses' at the Theatre Royal.
If I was opening a new store and wanted to have a celebrity doing the business on the first day, I don't think I would have chosen Bernard Manning. But in 1974 Manning was getting good reviews as host of ITV's 'Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club' after his previous appearances on 'The Comedians'. On the 3rd the comic was the "guest celebrity" at the opening of the International Do-it-Yourself store in Fingerpost. The Newspaper later reported that Manning had provided "slick music hall patter" while handing out autographed pictures of himself to customers.
The St Helens Reporter described on the 3rd how Rita Scott from Carr Mill Road had marched into Barclays Bank in Hardshaw Street to make a £1 deposit by cheque. But the paper said what was "eggstraordinary" about the transaction was that the cheque was in the form of a hard-boiled egg and it had been accepted by staff without a murmur. Explained Mrs Scott:
"When I went to the Derwent Road United Reformed Church last Sunday, the lay preacher, Mr Stan Fisher, produced the egg to make a point in his sermon. At the end he told the congregation: “Anyone who has the nerve to cash this egg at Barclay's can have the £1”, so I took it to put towards our organ fund. People thought I was mad walking into the bank with an egg – but the staff could not have been kinder."
Assistant bank manager Paul Smethurst said: "What we had to do is substitute a “dummy” voucher to process the cheque. There's nothing to stop a cheque being written on anything – but we would rather it didn't happen too often." In the past a live cow and a toilet seat are amongst objects that have served as bank cheques. However, these days in order to counter fraud most banks stipulate in their terms and conditions that their customers must use the bank's own cheque book.
The Reporter's lead story concerned the growing fury over plans to demolish 139 houses in Rainford and Crank over the next ten years. On the list were 39 properties in Ormskirk Road, 29 in Church Road and 28 in Bushey Lane, as well as 23 in Crank. Although the houses were over a hundred years old, two-thirds had received improvement grants from the old Rainford Urban District Council with many of them still undergoing building work.
But since local government reorganisation in April, St Helens Council's Housing and Building Committee had taken over responsibility for homes in Rainford and had made the decision to demolish the 139 houses at a meeting in which reporters were excluded. Robert Kilroy-Silk was the MP for Rainford and the Reporter said he had written a "strong letter" about the situation to Tom Taylor, the Chief Executive of St Helens District Council.
On a more positive note about the village, the Reporter described how the Rainford Carnival would be taking place on August 24th and feature over 20 floats, an RAF motorcycle display and numerous sideshows. A procession would march through the village to the recreational field behind the church where the entertainment and displays would take place. A pre-carnival night was also scheduled for July 15th with a performance on the playing fields of the Band of the Irish Guards.
The Reporter also described how St Helens police had been refused concessionary staff parking – because they were considered an outside body. Their new station yard had limited parking space and with yellow lines in College Street, the police wanted to be able to park their vehicles on the adjacent Birchley Street car park at a discount. But the police now came under Merseyside County Council and St Helens Council felt they could only grant such applications if they came from a body linked to themselves.
Kenneth Perks, the town's Director of Technical Services, said: "If we start to give concessions to outside bodies, we could open the floodgates. The car park would then be filled up and not available to members of the public for whom it was intended." I wonder what St Helens police thought of being considered outsiders?
From the 5th 'Love Story' starring Ali MacGraw and Ryan O’Neal began a week's screening at the ABC Savoy. Meanwhile at the Capitol Cinema, 'A Touch Of Class' starring Glenda Jackson was shown.
In the past pub regulars often raised funds for pensioner outings and children's treats. But the elderly regulars at the Railway Inn in Fleet Lane in Parr had more of a DIY approach to such matters. They had held concerts, raffles and collections to pay for their own holiday in Blackpool and this week over 30 of the OAPs left by coach for a week's stay at the seaside.
St Helens Reporter and Newspaper courtesy St Helens Archive Service at Eccleston Library
Next Week's stories will include the teenage terror on the new Four Acre Lane estate, a huge fire hits Pilks' Ravenhead works, the dearth of dentists in St Helens, plans for a bus station are mooted and the overcrowded and grim registry office.
We begin on the 30th when Lord and Lady Pilkington officially opened the new Haresfinch Social Club. The club had spent two years fundraising in which a committee of fifteen had arranged raffles and held dances. But most of the money to build the club had come from Greenall's brewery, which had agreed to make them a £30,000 loan. Already the club had 1,000 members on its books and membership of its football, darts and snooker teams had reached their limit. Located in Haresfinch Road, the club's facilities included a bar, games room, lounge, and concert hall and eventually they hoped to have their own bowling green.
The St Helens Newspaper wrote on the 30th how police had labelled Tom Ellison a hero after he had twice rescued a man whose car had plunged into Carr Mill Dam. Mr Ellison, a 33-year-old welder from Ennerdale Avenue, said he had been driving near the dam at midnight when he heard another car enter the water and upon getting nearer to the scene had seen the driver. "I shouted to him to hang on a bit", Mr Ellison explained, "and he opened the door and got out. I took my clothes off, went out for him and brought him back."
However, the 28-year-old rescued man went back into the water and Mr Ellison needed to dive in again and bring him back from 150 yards out. "It was a hell of a situation to be in," said Mr Ellison, who the police called "heroic". The rescued man was taken to Rainhill Hospital where he had been a patient. The incident was clearly a suicide attempt. The Newspaper felt it appropriate to name the unfortunate man but I won't.
Six young females from St Helens aged between 15 and 19 appeared at Liverpool Crown Court on May 1st charged with burglary offences. They were each sentenced to either probation or supervision orders and three of them also received fines. The judge was scathing about the lack of detention centres for young females, saying:
"Had you been youths instead of girls the whole lot of you would have gone to a detention centre for three months. For some reason which I and my colleagues do not understand, the Home Office do not provide detention centres for girls although we hope they soon will."
The Price Commission had been established under the Counter Inflation Act of 1973 as part of the government's attempts to control high inflation. The Liverpool Daily Post wrote on the 2nd that councillors in Stoke-on-Trent were referring Pilkingtons to the Price Commission after their tender for glasswork in the city had been raised by 12½%. The St Helens-based firm said they had increased some glass prices with the knowledge of the Price Commission because of increased costs.
On the 2nd and 4th the local thespians 'The Unnamed Players' performed the comedy 'Love And Kisses' at the Theatre Royal.
If I was opening a new store and wanted to have a celebrity doing the business on the first day, I don't think I would have chosen Bernard Manning. But in 1974 Manning was getting good reviews as host of ITV's 'Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club' after his previous appearances on 'The Comedians'. On the 3rd the comic was the "guest celebrity" at the opening of the International Do-it-Yourself store in Fingerpost. The Newspaper later reported that Manning had provided "slick music hall patter" while handing out autographed pictures of himself to customers.
The St Helens Reporter described on the 3rd how Rita Scott from Carr Mill Road had marched into Barclays Bank in Hardshaw Street to make a £1 deposit by cheque. But the paper said what was "eggstraordinary" about the transaction was that the cheque was in the form of a hard-boiled egg and it had been accepted by staff without a murmur. Explained Mrs Scott:
"When I went to the Derwent Road United Reformed Church last Sunday, the lay preacher, Mr Stan Fisher, produced the egg to make a point in his sermon. At the end he told the congregation: “Anyone who has the nerve to cash this egg at Barclay's can have the £1”, so I took it to put towards our organ fund. People thought I was mad walking into the bank with an egg – but the staff could not have been kinder."
Assistant bank manager Paul Smethurst said: "What we had to do is substitute a “dummy” voucher to process the cheque. There's nothing to stop a cheque being written on anything – but we would rather it didn't happen too often." In the past a live cow and a toilet seat are amongst objects that have served as bank cheques. However, these days in order to counter fraud most banks stipulate in their terms and conditions that their customers must use the bank's own cheque book.
The Reporter's lead story concerned the growing fury over plans to demolish 139 houses in Rainford and Crank over the next ten years. On the list were 39 properties in Ormskirk Road, 29 in Church Road and 28 in Bushey Lane, as well as 23 in Crank. Although the houses were over a hundred years old, two-thirds had received improvement grants from the old Rainford Urban District Council with many of them still undergoing building work.
But since local government reorganisation in April, St Helens Council's Housing and Building Committee had taken over responsibility for homes in Rainford and had made the decision to demolish the 139 houses at a meeting in which reporters were excluded. Robert Kilroy-Silk was the MP for Rainford and the Reporter said he had written a "strong letter" about the situation to Tom Taylor, the Chief Executive of St Helens District Council.
On a more positive note about the village, the Reporter described how the Rainford Carnival would be taking place on August 24th and feature over 20 floats, an RAF motorcycle display and numerous sideshows. A procession would march through the village to the recreational field behind the church where the entertainment and displays would take place. A pre-carnival night was also scheduled for July 15th with a performance on the playing fields of the Band of the Irish Guards.
Kenneth Perks, the town's Director of Technical Services, said: "If we start to give concessions to outside bodies, we could open the floodgates. The car park would then be filled up and not available to members of the public for whom it was intended." I wonder what St Helens police thought of being considered outsiders?
From the 5th 'Love Story' starring Ali MacGraw and Ryan O’Neal began a week's screening at the ABC Savoy. Meanwhile at the Capitol Cinema, 'A Touch Of Class' starring Glenda Jackson was shown.
In the past pub regulars often raised funds for pensioner outings and children's treats. But the elderly regulars at the Railway Inn in Fleet Lane in Parr had more of a DIY approach to such matters. They had held concerts, raffles and collections to pay for their own holiday in Blackpool and this week over 30 of the OAPs left by coach for a week's stay at the seaside.
St Helens Reporter and Newspaper courtesy St Helens Archive Service at Eccleston Library
Next Week's stories will include the teenage terror on the new Four Acre Lane estate, a huge fire hits Pilks' Ravenhead works, the dearth of dentists in St Helens, plans for a bus station are mooted and the overcrowded and grim registry office.
This week's many stories include the new Haresfinch Social Club, the suicide attempt on Carr Mill Dam, St Helens police's car parking conundrum, Bernard Manning opens a DIY store in Fingerpost, the eggstraordinary deposit at Barclays Bank and the storm over plans to demolish 139 houses in Rainford and Crank.
We begin on the 30th when Lord and Lady Pilkington officially opened the new Haresfinch Social Club.
The club had spent two years fundraising in which a committee of fifteen had arranged raffles and held dances.
But most of the money to build the club had come from Greenall's brewery, which had agreed to make them a £30,000 loan.
Already the club had 1,000 members on its books and membership of its football, darts and snooker teams had reached their limit.
Located in Haresfinch Road, the club's facilities included a bar, games room, lounge, and concert hall and eventually they hoped to have their own bowling green.
The St Helens Newspaper wrote on the 30th how police had labelled Tom Ellison a hero after he had twice rescued a man whose car had plunged into Carr Mill Dam.
Mr Ellison, a 33-year-old welder from Ennerdale Avenue, said he had been driving near the dam at midnight when he heard another car enter the water and upon getting nearer to the scene had seen the driver.
"I shouted to him to hang on a bit", Mr Ellison explained, "and he opened the door and got out. I took my clothes off, went out for him and brought him back."
However, the 28-year-old rescued man went back into the water and Mr Ellison needed to dive in again and bring him back from 150 yards out.
"It was a hell of a situation to be in," said Mr Ellison, who the police called "heroic".
The rescued man was taken to Rainhill Hospital where he had been a patient.
The incident was clearly a suicide attempt. The Newspaper felt it appropriate to name the unfortunate man but I won't.
Six young females from St Helens aged between 15 and 19 appeared at Liverpool Crown Court on May 1st charged with burglary offences.
They were each sentenced to either probation or supervision orders and three of them also received fines. The judge was scathing about the lack of detention centres for young females, saying:
"Had you been youths instead of girls the whole lot of you would have gone to a detention centre for three months.
"For some reason which I and my colleagues do not understand, the Home Office do not provide detention centres for girls although we hope they soon will."
The Price Commission had been established under the Counter Inflation Act of 1973 as part of the government's attempts to control high inflation.
The Liverpool Daily Post wrote on the 2nd that councillors in Stoke-on-Trent were referring Pilkingtons to the Price Commission after their tender for glasswork in the city had been raised by 12½%.
The St Helens-based firm said they had increased some glass prices with the knowledge of the Price Commission because of increased costs.
On the 2nd and 4th the local thespians 'The Unnamed Players' performed the comedy 'Love And Kisses' at the Theatre Royal.
If I was opening a new store and wanted to have a celebrity doing the business on the first day, I don't think I would have chosen Bernard Manning.
But in 1974 Manning was getting good reviews as host of ITV's 'Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club' after his previous appearances on 'The Comedians'.
On the 3rd the comic was the "guest celebrity" at the opening of the International Do-it-Yourself store in Fingerpost.
The Newspaper later reported that Manning had provided "slick music hall patter" while handing out autographed pictures of himself to customers.
The St Helens Reporter described on the 3rd how Rita Scott from Carr Mill Road had marched into Barclays Bank in Hardshaw Street to make a £1 deposit by cheque.
But the paper said what was "eggstraordinary" about the transaction was that the cheque was in the form of a hard-boiled egg and it had been accepted by staff without a murmur. Explained Mrs Scott:
"When I went to the Derwent Road United Reformed Church last Sunday, the lay preacher, Mr Stan Fisher, produced the egg to make a point in his sermon.
"At the end he told the congregation: “Anyone who has the nerve to cash this egg at Barclay's can have the £1”, so I took it to put towards our organ fund.
"People thought I was mad walking into the bank with an egg – but the staff could not have been kinder."
Assistant bank manager Paul Smethurst said: "What we had to do is substitute a “dummy” voucher to process the cheque. There's nothing to stop a cheque being written on anything – but we would rather it didn't happen too often."
In the past a live cow and a toilet seat are amongst objects that have served as bank cheques.
However, these days in order to counter fraud most banks stipulate in their terms and conditions that their customers must use the bank's own cheque book.
The Reporter's lead story concerned the growing fury over plans to demolish 139 houses in Rainford and Crank over the next ten years.
On the list were 39 properties in Ormskirk Road, 29 in Church Road and 28 in Bushey Lane, as well as 23 in Crank.
Although the houses were over a hundred years old, two-thirds had received improvement grants from the old Rainford Urban District Council with many of them still undergoing building work.
But since local government reorganisation in April, St Helens Council's Housing and Building Committee had taken over responsibility for homes in Rainford and had made the decision to demolish the 139 houses at a meeting in which reporters were excluded.
Robert Kilroy-Silk was the MP for Rainford and the Reporter said he had written a "strong letter" about the situation to Tom Taylor, the Chief Executive of St Helens District Council.
On a more positive note about the village, the Reporter described how the Rainford Carnival would be taking place on August 24th and feature over 20 floats, an RAF motorcycle display and numerous sideshows.
A procession would march through the village to the recreational field behind the church where the entertainment and displays would take place.
A pre-carnival night was also scheduled for July 15th with a performance on the playing fields of the Band of the Irish Guards.
The Reporter also described how St Helens police had been refused concessionary staff parking – because they were considered an outside body.
Their new station yard had limited parking space and with yellow lines in College Street, the police wanted to be able to park their vehicles on the adjacent Birchley Street car park at a discount.
But the police now came under Merseyside County Council and St Helens Council felt they could only grant such applications if they came from a body linked to themselves.
Kenneth Perks, the town's Director of Technical Services, said:
"If we start to give concessions to outside bodies, we could open the floodgates. The car park would then be filled up and not available to members of the public for whom it was intended."
I wonder what St Helens police thought of being considered outsiders?
From the 5th 'Love Story' starring Ali MacGraw and Ryan O’Neal began a week's screening at the ABC Savoy. Meanwhile at the Capitol Cinema, 'A Touch Of Class' starring Glenda Jackson was shown.
In the past pub regulars often raised funds for pensioner outings and children's treats.
But the elderly regulars at the Railway Inn in Fleet Lane in Parr had more of a DIY approach to such matters.
They had held concerts, raffles and collections to pay for their own holiday in Blackpool and this week over 30 of the OAPs left by coach for a week's stay at the seaside.
St Helens Reporter and Newspaper courtesy St Helens Archive Service at Eccleston Library
Next Week's stories will include the teenage terror on the new Four Acre Lane estate, a huge fire hits Pilks' Ravenhead works, the dearth of dentists in St Helens, plans for a bus station are mooted and the overcrowded and grim registry office.
We begin on the 30th when Lord and Lady Pilkington officially opened the new Haresfinch Social Club.
The club had spent two years fundraising in which a committee of fifteen had arranged raffles and held dances.
But most of the money to build the club had come from Greenall's brewery, which had agreed to make them a £30,000 loan.
Already the club had 1,000 members on its books and membership of its football, darts and snooker teams had reached their limit.
Located in Haresfinch Road, the club's facilities included a bar, games room, lounge, and concert hall and eventually they hoped to have their own bowling green.
The St Helens Newspaper wrote on the 30th how police had labelled Tom Ellison a hero after he had twice rescued a man whose car had plunged into Carr Mill Dam.
Mr Ellison, a 33-year-old welder from Ennerdale Avenue, said he had been driving near the dam at midnight when he heard another car enter the water and upon getting nearer to the scene had seen the driver.
"I shouted to him to hang on a bit", Mr Ellison explained, "and he opened the door and got out. I took my clothes off, went out for him and brought him back."
However, the 28-year-old rescued man went back into the water and Mr Ellison needed to dive in again and bring him back from 150 yards out.
"It was a hell of a situation to be in," said Mr Ellison, who the police called "heroic".
The rescued man was taken to Rainhill Hospital where he had been a patient.
The incident was clearly a suicide attempt. The Newspaper felt it appropriate to name the unfortunate man but I won't.
Six young females from St Helens aged between 15 and 19 appeared at Liverpool Crown Court on May 1st charged with burglary offences.
They were each sentenced to either probation or supervision orders and three of them also received fines. The judge was scathing about the lack of detention centres for young females, saying:
"Had you been youths instead of girls the whole lot of you would have gone to a detention centre for three months.
"For some reason which I and my colleagues do not understand, the Home Office do not provide detention centres for girls although we hope they soon will."
The Price Commission had been established under the Counter Inflation Act of 1973 as part of the government's attempts to control high inflation.
The Liverpool Daily Post wrote on the 2nd that councillors in Stoke-on-Trent were referring Pilkingtons to the Price Commission after their tender for glasswork in the city had been raised by 12½%.
The St Helens-based firm said they had increased some glass prices with the knowledge of the Price Commission because of increased costs.
On the 2nd and 4th the local thespians 'The Unnamed Players' performed the comedy 'Love And Kisses' at the Theatre Royal.
If I was opening a new store and wanted to have a celebrity doing the business on the first day, I don't think I would have chosen Bernard Manning.
But in 1974 Manning was getting good reviews as host of ITV's 'Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club' after his previous appearances on 'The Comedians'.
On the 3rd the comic was the "guest celebrity" at the opening of the International Do-it-Yourself store in Fingerpost.
The Newspaper later reported that Manning had provided "slick music hall patter" while handing out autographed pictures of himself to customers.
The St Helens Reporter described on the 3rd how Rita Scott from Carr Mill Road had marched into Barclays Bank in Hardshaw Street to make a £1 deposit by cheque.
But the paper said what was "eggstraordinary" about the transaction was that the cheque was in the form of a hard-boiled egg and it had been accepted by staff without a murmur. Explained Mrs Scott:
"When I went to the Derwent Road United Reformed Church last Sunday, the lay preacher, Mr Stan Fisher, produced the egg to make a point in his sermon.
"At the end he told the congregation: “Anyone who has the nerve to cash this egg at Barclay's can have the £1”, so I took it to put towards our organ fund.
"People thought I was mad walking into the bank with an egg – but the staff could not have been kinder."
Assistant bank manager Paul Smethurst said: "What we had to do is substitute a “dummy” voucher to process the cheque. There's nothing to stop a cheque being written on anything – but we would rather it didn't happen too often."
In the past a live cow and a toilet seat are amongst objects that have served as bank cheques.
However, these days in order to counter fraud most banks stipulate in their terms and conditions that their customers must use the bank's own cheque book.
The Reporter's lead story concerned the growing fury over plans to demolish 139 houses in Rainford and Crank over the next ten years.
On the list were 39 properties in Ormskirk Road, 29 in Church Road and 28 in Bushey Lane, as well as 23 in Crank.
Although the houses were over a hundred years old, two-thirds had received improvement grants from the old Rainford Urban District Council with many of them still undergoing building work.
But since local government reorganisation in April, St Helens Council's Housing and Building Committee had taken over responsibility for homes in Rainford and had made the decision to demolish the 139 houses at a meeting in which reporters were excluded.
Robert Kilroy-Silk was the MP for Rainford and the Reporter said he had written a "strong letter" about the situation to Tom Taylor, the Chief Executive of St Helens District Council.
On a more positive note about the village, the Reporter described how the Rainford Carnival would be taking place on August 24th and feature over 20 floats, an RAF motorcycle display and numerous sideshows.
A procession would march through the village to the recreational field behind the church where the entertainment and displays would take place.
A pre-carnival night was also scheduled for July 15th with a performance on the playing fields of the Band of the Irish Guards.
Their new station yard had limited parking space and with yellow lines in College Street, the police wanted to be able to park their vehicles on the adjacent Birchley Street car park at a discount.
But the police now came under Merseyside County Council and St Helens Council felt they could only grant such applications if they came from a body linked to themselves.
Kenneth Perks, the town's Director of Technical Services, said:
"If we start to give concessions to outside bodies, we could open the floodgates. The car park would then be filled up and not available to members of the public for whom it was intended."
I wonder what St Helens police thought of being considered outsiders?
From the 5th 'Love Story' starring Ali MacGraw and Ryan O’Neal began a week's screening at the ABC Savoy. Meanwhile at the Capitol Cinema, 'A Touch Of Class' starring Glenda Jackson was shown.
In the past pub regulars often raised funds for pensioner outings and children's treats.
But the elderly regulars at the Railway Inn in Fleet Lane in Parr had more of a DIY approach to such matters.
They had held concerts, raffles and collections to pay for their own holiday in Blackpool and this week over 30 of the OAPs left by coach for a week's stay at the seaside.
St Helens Reporter and Newspaper courtesy St Helens Archive Service at Eccleston Library
Next Week's stories will include the teenage terror on the new Four Acre Lane estate, a huge fire hits Pilks' Ravenhead works, the dearth of dentists in St Helens, plans for a bus station are mooted and the overcrowded and grim registry office.