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Pounds 160m Vision for City Revealed ; Central Station Plan Includes New 38-Storey Skyscraper

A SPECTACULAR pounds 160m shopping, residential and leisure development that will transform part of Liverpool city centre was unveiled yesterday. The scheme will include a 38-storey residential tower, a three or four star hotel, shops and offices and 350 car parking spaces behind Central Station.

Game Shooter or a Terrorist ; Police Get Guidance On Spotting the Difference

A COUNTRY sports group has issued guidance to police telling them how to distinguish game shooters from terrorists and gangsters. The British Association of Shooting and Conservation (BASC) is worried its members could fall victim to the police's shoot-to-kill policy amid the country's heightened security concerns.

Our School Fizzy Drinks Scandal

THE Daily Post today exposes the North Wales schools which encourage children to buy fatty snacks and fizzy drinks. More than a third of North Wales secondary schools have vending machines selling pop, crisps and chocolate, our investigation has revealed.

Private Firms Cut Waiting Lists, Says Gp

A LIVERPOOL GP yesterday hailed the use of private firms for improving NHS patient care, insisting critics of the policy were wrong. Dr Suraj Sharma, a delegate at the Brighton conference, said the so-called privatisation was bringing down NHS waiting lists and improving access to treatment in poorer areas.

Labour Apology to Ejected Walter, 82

THE Labour Party last night apologised to an 82-year-old member who was thrown out of its annual conference after heckling Foreign Secretary Jack Straw about the Iraq War. Veteran activist Walter Wolfgang was then stopped by police using powers under the Prevention of Terrorism Act as he tried to re- enter the conference venue in Brighton, and had his pass confiscated.

Murdered Model - Two Men Released

DETECTIVES investigating the murder of model Sally Anne Bowman have released two men without charge. Three out of the four men arrested in connection with her killing, including Sally Anne's 20-year-old ex-boyfriend, have been released with no further action.

Farmers May Ban Army

Dispute Ends

Lowry On View

Lottery

TWO winners scooped last night's pounds 3.2m Lottery jackpot, operator Camelot said, winning pounds 1,628,360 each. Winning numbers were 46, 21, 32, 41, 43, 42 and the bonus number was 17. No one won Lotto Extra, in which the numbers drawn were 28, 47, 30, 0814, and 16. In Thunderball, there was one winner of the pounds 250,000 top prize, with the numbers 10, 18, 31, 12 and 01 and the Thunderball number was 05.

At the Heart of the Country: Spellbound Witnesses to Vanishing Art

AN immutable law of the countryside is that, as a practice becomes redundant, so it becomes more romantic. Commercial hand-shearing of sheep was never my idea of fun. It was a hard, messy, thankless task that is remembered with affection only by those who recall the friendships struck during communal shearing, and the humour that got shearers through another 12-hour shift.

Youngsters Show How Much They Can Handle

YOUNG cattle experts showed their mettle in the annual North Wales Holstein Young Breeders calf show. Seven new exhibitors - some as young as eight years old - were among the 25 young handlers who entered 44 calves at Groudd Hall, Cerrigydrudion, home of Peter and Jane Lewis.

Eu Ready to Lift British Beef Ban

BRITISH beef should be back on continental dinner plates early next year. It follows a favourable report by EU vets into the country's BSE controls. The report was published yesterday in the wake of a visit made by the EC's food and veterinary office to Britain last June.

Look Out If Luminous Sheep Are About

SHEEP roaming free in an ancient swathe of forest could be daubed with fluorescent paint in an attempt to stop them being run over by motorists. More than 2,000 sheep forage throughout the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire due to an ancient right bestowed upon foresters from Norman times.

Pm Silent Over Anti-Welsh Claims

DOWNING Street was last night staying tight-lipped about a police probe into an alleged anti-Welsh outburst by Tony Blair six years ago. North Wales Police has confirmed it was investigating a complaint Mr Blair shouted "f***ing Welsh".

Please Let Our Only Doctor Stay ; Cover for Huge Area at Stake

VILLAGERS last night pleaded with health bosses to allow their GP who has served them for 20 years to continue in his post. The long-running row over medical cover in a large part of rural Cerrigydrudion reaches a crucial stage tomorrow. And patients are hoping for a u-turn by Conwy Local Health board chiefs who want Dr Dermot Norton to go.

Hain to Stop Ams 'Distorting' Mandate

REGIONAL Assembly Members will be banned from presenting themselves as local politicians in a move which plunged the institution into bitter confrontation with Whitehall. Welsh Secretary Peter Hain yesterday vowed to prevent AMs elected from the party list from "dishonestly posing as constituency AMs".

Ofcom Plans to Slash Cost of 0870 Calls

CALLS to 0870 phone numbers would cost the same as national rate landlines under new proposals. Ofcom says the change would slash prices and stop businesses getting a cut of revenue generated by the 0870 calls.

Man, 34, Held Over Vice Zone Murder

A 34-YEAR-OLD man was arrested last night on suspicion of the murder of grandmother Anne Marie Foy. The man, from the Runcorn area, is due to be questioned by detectives this morning after being held in custody overnight.

Cherie Reveals First Kiss From the Boy Next Door

THIS is the cheeky schoolboy, centre, top, who stole the heart of the Prime Minister's wife with her first kiss. He was the boy next door, and she was the prettiest girl in school back in the days when Cherie Booth lived in Waterloo. So when they were walking under the railway bridge close to their homes on Ferndale Road, Steve Smerdon saw his chance and kissed her.