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Message A tooth that could have been from Fred Flintstone's daughter Pebbles has been identified as the oldest human remains ever found in Europe. The milk-tooth - from a young "hominid" caveman ancestor of human beings - was discovered during excavations at a site in Southern Spain. Tests have shown that the tooth is the molar...
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12/03/2013 @ 10:03 (2 months ago)
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Message NAPA members Mercury Press are celebrating after Ofcom awared the local TV licence for Liverpool to its partner company Bay TV Liverpool. Bay TV Liverpool is expected to be on the air at Channel 8 on Freeview later this year with the licence granted for a period of 12 years . It will be one of the new breed of Digital Terrestrial...
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21/02/2013 @ 11:02 (3 months ago)
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Soccer star Joey Barton has threatened to "boil alive" thieves who marred his son's first birthday. While Barton, 30, was celebrating with his son Cassius burglars broke into the family home of his partner Georgia McNeil in Liverpool. The raiders got away with a safe and a haul of valuables from the house owned by Georgina's mother...
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04/01/2013 @ 12:01 (5 months ago)
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Message A BBC presenter has quit her job accusing top decision makers of imposing "apartheid" on the nationwide network of local radio stations. Ex-soap star Phina Oruche has called for an overhaul of programming with claims the BBC promotes racial segregation rather than diversity and equality. Over the past two years the host of...
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03/01/2013 @ 18:01 (5 months ago)
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By Mercury Press and Media Ltd
Message Staff at Comet have been arrested and had their homes searched by police looking for expensive goods swiped from stores facing closure. A spate of thefts has prompted strict security controls at outlets for the electrical retailer who have gone into administration after losing their grip on high street shoppers. Around 1,500 jobs...
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26/11/2012 @ 11:11 (6 months ago)
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A former senior Lib/Dem councillor in Liverpool has been found dead in a
beach-side apartment hotel in Cambodia.
The body of Chris Newby, 55, was discovered in a room at the Cambodian
resort of Sihanoukville.
A Cambodian newspaper reported police as saying the death is being
attributed to a heart attack and that his remains had been...
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12/11/2012 @ 20:11 (6 months ago)
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By Mercury Press and Media Ltd
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The British Society for Nanomedicine is being launched by
scientists from the University of Liverpool as part of Liverpool’s Knowledge
Festival.As the potential global benefits offered by nanomedicines grow
each year, the British Society for Nanomedicine has been created to help
industry, academia and the public stay...
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31/10/2012 @ 11:10 (7 months ago)
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A controversial statue of the African explorer who
uttered the immortal words "Dr Livingstone, I presume?" has been
defaced.
The bronze sculpture of Sir Henry Morton Stanley
was erected last year in his birthplace, the town of Denbigh, North Wales.
where opinions are divided on its most famous...
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30/10/2012 @ 13:10 (7 months ago)
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Researchers have opened a 750 year-old "murder
case" after discovering an important knight died from a previously undetected
sword injury.
The skeleton of the 13th century aristocrat was
unearthe in the ruins of Halton Priory - a former monastery church in
Cheshire.
It had long been assumed the man...
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26/10/2012 @ 16:10 (7 months ago)
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A green fingered artist has seen his reputation bloom after a creating an intricate line of pictures with an all natural canvas.
Theses stunning scenes cut from leaves were carefully cultivated with a scalpel and a steady hand by Spanish artist Lorenzo Duran.
He selects the perfect leaf for each piece before washing, drying, molding and...
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21/07/2011 @ 09:07 (2 years ago)
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A telescope that belonged to the captain of the Titanic has been found lying in a dusty old attic.
The brass eyepiece, kept in an old whisky bottle box, bears the name "Edward John Smith" who was the master of the ill-fated ocean liner that sank in 1912.
It also carries an engraved image of the Titanic's sister ship - RMS Olympic - which...
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11/07/2011 @ 12:07 (2 years ago)
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This is probably Britain’s most hard-working student - an undergraduate who juggles academic life with runing a £1m business empire.
Jerome Banjoko, 22, a student at Wolverhampton University, dedicates 60 hours a WEEK to his part-time job as motivational speaker.
Despite spending three days-a-week in lectures, he travels up to 3,000 miles...
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07/07/2011 @ 20:07 (2 years ago)
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By Mercury Press and Media Ltd
Dubbed "the perfect snowdrop" it is as pretty as a picture.... and worth more than its weight in gold after a single bulb being sold for a whopping £357.
The pure white snowdrop, named 'EA Bowles', was discovered in Middlesex and it is rare since only a small number have yet been successfully grown-on.
But rock garden enthusiasts have been...
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23/02/2011 @ 19:02 (2 years ago)
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By Mercury Press and Media Ltd
A clever parrot that survived sub-zero temperatures by hanging-out with chickens has been re-united with his owners.
Jack the Blue-fronted Amazon Parrot went missing before the Big Freeze and astonished experts his resilience to the British winter weather.
But when Jack started clucking like a chicken his rescuers realised that the clever...
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23/02/2011 @ 19:02 (2 years ago)
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By Mercury Press and Media Ltd
University boffins have cried foul over penalty shoot-outs with research to prove that the side taking the first shot has a real advantage.
Prof Ignacio Palacios-Huerta, of the LSE, studied shoot-outs in major national and international competitions between 1970 and 2008.
Along with Prof Jose Apesteguia, of Barcelona's Pompeu Fabra...
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11/01/2011 @ 17:01 (2 years ago)
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By Mercury Press and Media Ltd
A pretty-boy plasterer has swapped overalls for designer threads in a bid to take the Italian fashion world by storm.
Daniel Whittaker, 19, has been hand-picked to become the new face of Milan-based fashion stalwarts Dolce and Gabbana and Versace.
The fresh-faced teenager, from Liverpool, was snapped up by modelling agency Pulse after his...
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11/01/2011 @ 17:01 (2 years ago)
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By Mercury Press and Media Ltd
Christians are up-in-arms over "deviant" Advent calendars that feature sex-crazed VAMPIRES in a count-down to Christmas.
Church campaigners have condemned the sultry Twilight calendars that have appeared on supermarkets shelves alongside traditional festive scenes.
The shock calendars are themed on the film "Twilight:Eclipse" and are sold...
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27/11/2010 @ 21:11 (2 years ago)
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By Mercury Press and Media Ltd
A traffic cop has won £5,000 in damages from the force after he arrested in a row over parking in the road in front of his OWN house.
PC Roderick Lund, 40, was locked-up when he refused to move his black Range Rover from the road outside his detached home in Lancashire in October 2009.
Next-door neighbour, Anthony Green - a retired...
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28/10/2010 @ 16:10 (3 years ago)
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By Mercury Press and Media Ltd
The last resting place of the Mona Lisa is this old rubbish dump in Italy, it has been revealed.
Researchers had hoped that they might find the tomb or gravestone of the Mona Lisa when they established her true identity in Florence.
It will be to the horror art lovers, who view her portrait in the Louvre gallery, in Paris, that the earthly...
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21/10/2010 @ 19:10 (3 years ago)
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By Mercury Press and Media Ltd
Kerry Katona's outfits have often graced the 'What were you thinking?' magazine pages, so she seemed an unlikely choice to front a fashion show.
But the ex-Atomic Kitten singer proved critics wrong when she showed off her catwalk credentials as she launched Liverpool Fashion Week.
The troubled star appeared to have put her infamous yo-yo...
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21/10/2010 @ 18:10 (3 years ago)
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By Mercury Press and Media Ltd
Police were forced to shut down the official MOBOs aftershow party as violent brawls erupted at the star-studded event.
Armoured vans and dog units descended on the Hilton Hotel in Liverpool, at around 1am on Thurs 2st October, as violence erupted with glasses being hurled and blood splattered on the floor.
Johnny Collins, 26, a DJ from...
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21/10/2010 @ 18:10 (3 years ago)
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By Mercury Press and Media Ltd
A teenager who beat a life-threatening heart defect to become an overnight singing sensation was set to perform at one of America's biggest charity galas.
Amelia O'Connell, 13, was chosen to sing to an audience of thousands at the annual celebration of Paul Newman's Hole in the Wall Camps in New York on Thurs 21st Oct.
Hole in the Wall, and...
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21/10/2010 @ 16:10 (3 years ago)
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By Mercury Press and Media Ltd
Meet Supermouse... the mouse who thinks he's a squirrel!
The brazen creature ventures out in broad daylight to feast on nuts and oats in a garden bird feeder that is mean to be pest-proof.
The 3-inch long-tailed field mouse (latin name Apodemus sylvaticus) even shows off his acrobatic skills, balancing on the narrow perch with only his tail...
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05/08/2010 @ 11:08 (3 years ago)
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By Mercury Press and Media Ltd
Five men accused of stealing a priceless painting by Leonardo Da Vinci, in the UK's largest ever art theft, have been cleared by a jury at Edinburgh High Court.
John Doyle, Robert Graham, Marshall Ronald, Calum Jones and David Boyce all walked free from court to Fomer pipe fitter John Doyle and ex-pub landlord Robert Graham claimed they were...
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26/05/2010 @ 10:05 (3 years ago)
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By Mercury Press and Media Ltd
Top soccer WAG Alex Curran fuelled the rumour-mill, when she appeared in public without her wedding and engagement rings.
A glum-looking Alex - wife of Liverpool and England soccer star Steven Gerrard - wore dark sunglasses as she exited Liverpool's "Neighbourhood" cafe.
Normally, mother-of-two, Alex wears a platinum wedding ring and...
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23/05/2010 @ 09:05 (3 years ago)
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By Mercury Press and Media Ltd
After revelations that a bumper crop of dandelions is emerging alongside Britain's highways, scientists have warned that the summer plant is under threat from a foreign invader... a plant which thrives on road salt.
Record amounts of grit were spread on UK highways this winter and that has given an added boost to "Danish Scurvy Grass" which is...
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28/04/2010 @ 18:04 (3 years ago)
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By Mercury Press and Media Ltd
Liverpool fans are calling for headstones to be erected to mark the forlorn graves of the founding fathers of the famous Spion Kop.
Researchers have found that Liverpool's first successful manager, Tom Watson, and his favourite goalkeeper Ted Doig, are both buried in unmarked graves in Anfield Cemetery.
And there are calls for tombstones to...
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28/04/2010 @ 14:04 (3 years ago)
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By Mercury Press and Media Ltd
The Isle of Man government are to set up new letter boxes, exclusively for sending letters to fairies.
The tiny island, which is steeped in folklore, is famous for its "Fairy Bridge" - said to be the home of fairies - and locals believe it is unlucky not to say hello to the fairies when crossing the bridge.
But Manx government minister David...
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28/04/2010 @ 14:04 (3 years ago)
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