Croxteth

Type: City
Name: Croxteth
First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports
Royal Horticultural Society
Royal Horticultural Society

Mersey gardener completes Chelsea Flower Show medal hat-trick with pupils’ help

He’s the Don of Chelsea Flower Show!A Mersey gardener who tends to his plants eight hours a day has completed a horticultural  hat-trick at Chelsea.But after securing his third consecutive Chelsea Flower Show gold, modest Don Billington said  he would ... [Published Liverpool Echo - May 21 2013]
First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Cobalt to invest £7m in regeneration projects

Almost 100 homes and new retail units are to be built in Liverpool as part of a 6.8m investment to transform derelict land.Cobalt Housing, part of Symphony Housing Group, has secured the capital to invest in the Sparrow Hall and Croxteth areas of the ... [Published Insider Media Limited - May 17 2013]
First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 3 reports

Cobalt handed £6.8m to fund redevelopments

Two derelict sites in north Liverpool are to be redeveloped after Cobalt Housing received £6.8m from the Homes & Communities Agency to build 97 homes and new community amenities.Thirty eight one bedroom flats and 24 two bedroom houses will be built for ... [Published Place North West - May 16 2013]
First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Liverpool Local News: Southport con-men jailed for tricking OAPs into giving them money

TWO teenagers who conned Southport pensioners into giving them money by pretending to raise cash for charity were jailed.Reece Portsmouth-Jones and Ryan Molyneux, both 19, tricked their way into sheltered accomodation in Southport on several occasions ... [Published Liverpool Echo - May 14 2013]
First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Mayor see’s Bosco in 3D

Mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson recently paid a visit to St John Bosco Arts College, Croxteth were he toured the building and saw some lessons in action.A highlight of the tour was in the science department, Year 8 students who were looking at the spread ... [Published Educate Magazine - May 13 2013]
First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports
Flickr
Flickr

Specials Features: Snapshots of a (brief?) summer

Sean Bradbury selects the best of our Flickr group pictures this weekWERE this week's blue skies and bright sunshine early signs of the summer that has eluded us for so long?It might be too good to be true, but the Post's Flickr group grasped the opportunity ... [Published Liverpool Daily Post - May 09 2013]
First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

Liverpool Local News: Liverpool gangs behind clubland street battle

TWO rival gangs were behind a bloody street fight in Liverpool’s clubland.The ECHO understands that members of Norris Green’s Strand Gang clashed with sworn enemies the Croxteth Crew in the city centre in the early hours of Monday.The 18-strong brawl ... [Published Liverpool Echo - May 08 2013]
First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 3 reports

Liverpool landlord could be forced to pay back thousands in housing benefit

An unlicensed Liverpool landlord whose 22-bedroom property breached fire regulations may have to repay £12,000 in housing benefit.Derhim Ahmed Ali Almontasser, of 39 Croxteth Road, Liverpool 8, pleaded guilty before Liverpool magistrates to operating ... [Published 24dash.com - May 02 2013]
First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 2 reports

Gun crime wall of silence as just one of 133 shooting victims cooperates with Merseyside Police

Detective Chief Superintendant Paul Richardson a Glock gunMERSEYSIDE’S top anti-gun cop today urged communities blighted by gang crime: “Stand together against the scum that blight your lives.”In the wake of the 113-year sentences doled out to seven members ... [Published Liverpool Echo - May 01 2013]
First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Gang fuelled by 'postcode tribalism'

They called themselves the Croxteth Young Guns, dealt in drugs and firearms, and carried out arson attacks with petrol bombs made out of Lucozade bottles filled with white spirit.Police said the Liverpool gang members who were put behind bars on Monday ... [Published BBC - Apr 30 2013]
First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Liverpool Gang Jailed For Shootings And Arson

News > Sky NewsSuggested articlesA student at an all-male Catholic high school is said to be critically injured after pulling out a gun in a classroom and shooting himself in an apparent suicide attempt.The chief executive of Lloyds has said the bank ... [Published KL.FM 96.7 - Apr 30 2013]
First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 5 reports

Liverpool Gang Jailed For Shootings And Arson

By Tom Parmenter, Sky News Correspondent Members of the next generation of the Liverpool street gang that killed schoolboy Rhys Jones are beginning jail sentences totalling 113 years.Seven members of the Croxteth Young Guns were sentenced after a series ... [Published Sky News - Apr 30 2013]

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"When we arrested them  the  lads started blaming  each  other, which did not  surprise  me. There is no  honour  amongst thieves. This was a  difficult  investigation due to  the age of  the victims."
Conmen who targeted Southport’s elderly caught on CCTV [Published Liverpool Echo - May 23 2013]
And Don said: "I will be  asking The Royal Horticultural Society if they would make a special medal with the school’s name  engraved in it for their help this year and the year before when each class looked after a small  tree for me."
Mersey gardener completes Chelsea Flower Show medal hat-trick with pupils’ help [Published Liverpool Echo - May 21 2013]
"We're looking forward to being on site and getting started in the next few months."
Cobalt to invest £7m in regeneration projects [Published Insider Media Limited - May 17 2013]
Ann-Louise Gilmore, property services director at Cobalt Housing, said: "The developments represent a major investment in the area and they are great news for north Liverpool. "Not only will they provide new homes for local people, but they will transform previously derelict land and significantly improve our communities. "The homes we are building are precisely those that the area needs, particularly in light of the new welfare changes as there will be a mixture of houses, bungalows and flats to accommodate an increase in demand for smaller properties." Cobalt Housing is a housing association established in 2003 to take ownership of housing stock from Liverpool City Council on the eastern fringes of the city."
Cobalt handed £6.8m to fund redevelopments [Published Place North West - May 16 2013]

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Conmen who targeted Southport’s elderly caught ... [Published Liverpool Echo - May 23 2013]
Mersey gardener completes Chelsea Flower Show m... [Published Liverpool Echo - May 21 2013]
Cobalt to invest £7m in regeneration projects [Published Insider Media Limited - May 17 2013]
Cobalt handed £6.8m to fund redevelopments [Published Place North West - May 16 2013]
Cobalt Housing to invest nearly £7m to build 97... [Published Northern Housing - May 15 2013]
Cobalt builds smaller homes in Liverpool as wel... [Published 24dash.com - May 15 2013]
Liverpool Local News: Southport con-men jailed ... [Published Liverpool Echo - May 14 2013]
Mayor see’s Bosco in 3D [Published Educate Magazine - May 13 2013]
Specials Features: Snapshots of a (brief?) summer [Published Liverpool Daily Post - May 09 2013]
Liverpool Local News: Liverpool gangs behind cl... [Published Liverpool Echo - May 08 2013]
Maghull gardener Don Billington looking for a h... [Published Lancashire Life - May 04 2013]
Liverpool landlord could be forced to pay back ... [Published 24dash.com - May 02 2013]
Liverpool-based soldiers given a heroes’ welcom... [Published Liverpool Echo - May 02 2013]
Liverpool Local News: Liverpool landlord may ha... [Published Liverpool Echo - May 02 2013]
Liverpool landlord may have to pay back $12,000... [Published Liverpool Echo - May 02 2013]
Liverpool Local News: Parts of Liverpool 'in th... [Published Liverpool Echo - May 01 2013]
Liverpool Local News: Gun crime wall of silence... [Published Liverpool Echo - May 01 2013]
Gun crime wall of silence as just one of 133 sh... [Published Liverpool Echo - May 01 2013]
Parts of Liverpool 'in thrall to gun crime' say... [Published Liverpool Echo - May 01 2013]
Gang fuelled by 'postcode tribalism' [Published BBC - Apr 30 2013]
Liverpool Gang Jailed For Shootings And Arson [Published KL.FM 96.7 - Apr 30 2013]
Liverpool Gang Jailed For Shootings And Arson [Published Sky News - Apr 30 2013]
Liverpool Local News: Seven Croxteth Crew gang ... [Published Liverpool Echo - Apr 30 2013]
Gang ringleader jailed for 20 years [Published BBC - Apr 29 2013]
Seven Croxteth Crew gang members jailed for tot... [Published Liverpool Echo - Apr 29 2013]
Liverpool Local News: Seven Croxteth Crew gang ... [Published Liverpool Echo - Apr 29 2013]
Large-scale training exercise by Merseyside Fir... [Published Liverpool Echo - Apr 26 2013]
Parents defeat plans to move Croxteth school to... [Published Liverpool Echo - Apr 22 2013]
The racists have lost: Britain has risen above ... [Published New Statesman - Apr 19 2013]
Scheme to involve community in greening derelic... [Published Horticulture Week - Apr 18 2013]
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