Liverpool Echo from Liverpool, Merseyside, England • 3

£200,000 plan for a city facelift Part of Liverpool is to get a face-lift which may cost £200.000 as part of an unusual experiment. The aim of the experiment, organised by Liverpool Corporation and the Home Office, is to make life brighter for the people living in the Brunswick area. The Home Office has agreed to pay 75 per cent of social improvements providing the Corporation agrees to spend up to £150,000 on improving the physical environment. Yesterday the Corporation's Policy and Finance Committee agreed to spend 1100.000 on social improvements and about £119,000 environmental improvements. The Brunswick area covers about 160 acres south of the city centre, and is bounded by Sefton Street, St.

James Place and Park Road, Parliament Street and Park Street. Among the schemes which will now be submitted to the Home Office are the following: A new central play complex in Leighton View a day care centre for the old in Brunswick district centre and cornmunity rooms in Caryl Gardens (0.000) and Warwick Gardens orporat ion schemes include: Landscaping vacant sites repairs to roads and pavements (122.000); a replacement laundry in Stable Street and indoor toilets at Northumberland Street special school Speke children's plea for Please help us find our mother pleaded seen children to-day Their mother, Mrs. Evelyn McGorian, aged 33, left her home in Heaton Close. Speke eight weeks ago. and they lime not heard from her since.

The eldest girl, Kathleen, (15), and Joan (14). have been looking after the family, but they cannot cope any longer. Their father, Mr. George McGorian. aged 44, said the children may have to be taken into care.

The other children are Josephine, Gerard (11). Mary (nine). Pauline (seten), Jacqueline GIVO IG 414 141) OF Of 14 ANG Woodworm and Dry Rot too! Get your tree survey and quOtat Ons plus guarantees of up to 30 years. nMDC Group Services Suite 34 Burton Chambers 46 Church Street Liverpool LI 3DO 051-709 7657 mother (five). Kathleen, said: "I'm taking 0 levels this year, but I have just not had anv time to work.

"After I come home I have to cook the tea and clean the house and when my father is working on an afternoon shift. I have to stay up to midnight to cook his meal when he comes in." Mr. McGorian said: of my friends hale suggested that I should give up my job, but then there just woild not be enough money for the family to cope. "I can go several days without seeing my chil- dren, but due to the hors I work. I just cannot look after them myself." Soccer finals Tuebrook Junior Sports League will be holding its football finals on the next two Sundays.

At both the matches, the on April 23, and the Challenge Cup final on April 30. the presentations will be made by Liverpool and Everton football players. GOOD PAI APEX AT 'YOUR PAINT SHOP FOR THE SUPER NEW APEX SHADECARD 7Z ..7 1k Youth orchestra to play for Co ncerts by Merseyside Youth Orchestra, which comes of age next month, have raised nearly /20.000 for charities. But next Wednesday night in the Philharmonic Hall it will play to aid its own fund. This is to enable the players to represent Britain at the International Festival of Youth Orchestras in Lausanne in July and, with 1,000 young musicians from five continents, to rehearse under four famous conductors.

Contributions to its fund from London and Manchester show that the orchestra has admirers outside Merseyside. The Northern Arts and Sciences Foundation. Manchester-based, a guaranteed a substantial sum. "Money is coming in satisfactorily," said Mr. Kenneth Stern, the orchestra's chairman.

"If the rate is maintained and I would like to see a bigger response from By Howard Channon Merseyside there will be no risk of having to decline the invitation to represent Britain as happened in 1970." That year an orchestra from the South took the M.Y.O.'s place and appeared before international TV cameras. £8,240, this including the cost of a return flight from Liverpool to Geneva for 95 players and their instruments. Indicative of Phil players' interest in the concert was the offer of Oliver Vella, principal cellist, to be soloist. The choir of Wirral County Grammar School for Girls which has also represented Britain the William Morris This time, the young rseyside musicians, though many of them are together promised £3,150 towards the total bill of Guests at yesterday's luncheon of the Liverpool and District branch of the Institute of Export, held at the Carlton Rooms, Eberle Street, included, from the left, Mr. 'for Axworthy, manager of the overseas branch of the Midland Bank, Mr.

A. E. Kemp. secretary, Mr. Frank Allen, public relations officer for British Railways in Liverpool, who was guest speaker, and Mr.

Kenneth MeGuffie, of John Dewar Sons. Henry's garden is a washout Mr. Henry Crocket has spent many hours cultivating the garden at his new home in Tothale Turn. Netherley, but few flowers will grow there this year For every time there is heavy rain, Mr. Crocket's garden is flooded by water from an adjoining open space.

He claims that between 15 and 20 tons of water has streamed through his garden fence this year washing away his newly sewn seeds and ruining his flowers. Mr. Crocket said the problem arises because a large lake forms on waste ground at the rear of his garden when it rains. Trench I have repeatedly asked the corporation to do something, but nothing has happened," he added. I have put down 55 bags of soil to soak up the water which on two occasions has almost come into the kitchen, and I have dug a trench over 20ft.

long on the other side of the fence in an attempt to divert the water, but this has been no use." A Housing Department spokesman said that eventually a playground would be built on the open space and they are attending to Mr. Crocket's complaint. Guest of the exporters No licence Derek Hefferman, aged 32, of St. William Road, Crosby, was fined £lO at Liverpool County Magistrates' Court for using an unlicensed car at Seaforth on January 7, and £3 for not having a test rtificate. Hefferman pleaded guilty to both summonses.

Man gaoled for attack on rent officer A Birkenhead crane driver was gaoled for five years for robbery at Liverpool Crown Court. Mr. Recorder Pickles warned him: You and others like you have to learn what happens when you do this sort of thing." He told Michael Patrick O'Loughlin of Davenham Avenue. Birkenhead, that only his hitherto clean character and his good working record saved him from a much heavier sentence. ctive Sergeant Frank Holt of Birkenhead police said in the Birkenhead area there had been 13 robberies, mainly of cash collectors, in 1968, 18 in 1969, 16 in 1970 and the figure had doubled to 32 last year and was already on the increase by the beginning of April this year.

Detective-Sergeant Holt said in the past four or five months estate agents and managers of Industrial premises had been attacked by men wearing stocking masks and in possession of stolen getaway cars. These offences are on the increase. and anyone carrying cash in the town centre of Birkenhead today is at risk," he added. Protect The Recorder commented: "This court will do all A can to protect them." O'L oughl in received five years' imprisonment for robb i Arthur Stanley Jackson, a Birkenhead Corporation rent collector, of five years concurrent for wounding him with intent and six months concurrent for taking a motor car i tho authority. He was disqualified from driving for seven years.

O'Loughlin, who pleaded not guilty to all the charges saying he was not near the scene of the robbery, persisted in his innocence after the jury's verdict. Anthony Bernard Armstrong, 22-y ear -o labourer, stated to be separated from his wife and living at his mother's home in Quigley Street, Tranmere, pleaded guilty to the robbery and to unlawful wounding and denied taking the car. He was convicted of wounding with intent and taking the car and was remanded in custody for a medical report at the request of Mr. John Gilchrist, defending. Mr.

Oliver Jones, prosecuting, said the two men with a third man were seen hiding on the staircase of Corporation flats at Quigley Street on the morning of February 11 all wearing nylon stockings over their faces. They crept up on the rent collector after he called at a flat and attacked him, one with an iron bar, beating him about the head and causing wounds requiring 22 stitiches. They pulled his money bag from around his neck and escaped in a car which had been taken in Birkenhead earlier the same day. Later the police found £2 in coins scattered where Mr. Jackson was attacked and blood on the walls and floor.

Passing sentence the Recorder told O'Loughlin: This was a very bad case of robbery. Wearing hideous stocking masks you waylaid this man with a very heavy iron bar. You might have killed him." Park for 2,000 cars in Brownlow Hill Despite doubt about the future of a proposed car park in Brownlow Hill, Liverpool, it has been announced that Concrete (Northern) Limited are to build a multi-storey park for the Corporation there to accommodate nearly 2,000 cars. The actual cost of the car park is 11,272,751, but other costs take the total cost up to 11,800,000. It is expected that at least 500 spaces will be in use by December next year.

The land will cost £300,000, with 155,000 for sewer diversions and roadworks. Another has to be added for extra items. Access to the car park will eventually be pos- sible from the inner motorway. Car-parking costs are going up all the time. That in Paradise Street, now under construction, will cost £496 a space and will take 1.136 cars.

Each of the 2.000 spaces at Brownlow Hill will cost £638. The difference is mainly due to inflation. National Car Parks, who were to have built a multi-storey car park, offices and hotel on Brownlow Hill, abandoned the plans in July last year after long negotiations. Then the Corporation announced they were taking over. The estimated cost of the scheme then was £1,400,000.

Boost for industry at Ormskirk The news that Ormskirk has been declared an assisted area by the Government has come as a shot in the arm to industry in the town. It means that firms of all sizes will now be given an incentive to expand, members of Ormskrik and Skelmersda le Employment Committee were told. Under the new scheme grants will be given by the Department of Employment to new firms in the area or to existing firms who wish to expand, to assist them to train local poeple to fill additional jobs. i nancial assistance will also be given to firms training local people of 45 and over. Grants Grants to those who qualify will be £l5 a week for a man and £l2 a week for a woman.

For a youth under 18 it will be £8 and fora girl under 18, £7. Grants will also be administed by industrial training boards to mote technician training, and also for machinery and equipment. A spokesman for the 0 rmskirk Employment Exchange said: We are hoping the scheme will reduce unemployment in the area." its own Singers and the West Lancashire Masonic Male Voice Choir will be taking part. One work will be conducted by Geof Cowie, who played in the orchestra. Youngest member is Penny Callow, aged 13, of Oxton, who plays the cello.

The Faulkner family of Orrell Park has four members in the orchestra: Catherine, aged 24 (violin and horn), Michael, aged 20 Early start for Crosby's marina scheme The last major contract for the construction of Crosby's marina scheme will be awarded shortly, and work will start early next month. The contract is for the excavation of 500,000 cubic yards of sand from the lake basin, and tipping on the 16(1-acre site to bring contours up to required levels. Some of the excavated sand will be used to form an embankment to screen the adjoining massive Seaforth dock complex. When the marina is completed, next summer, it will become the envy of the country, according to Councillor Miss Jenny Kemp, chairman of the foreshore committee. It has already received a major r.

tional award for "vision and imagination" from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors. Councillor Miss Kemp commented: "The scheme is on schedule, and by next spring the recreational areas will ing up a scheme for a have been soiled over and seeded." She also praised the tolerance of Waterloo residents who have been inconvenienced by the construction. Visitors to the marina will have a promenade walk along the sea wall, and will be able to view shipping in the Queen's Channel. The recent auction of council-owned land at Crosby has provided much-needed funds for the marina, which is expected to cost £1,000,000. Planners are now drawclub house and sailing facilities for local clubs and organisations, costing and the entire marina will be floodlit at a cost of The original lay-out has been modified particularly where recreational facilities are involved.

The most noticeable change has been a reduction in size of a pitch and putt course, so that a toddlers' play area can be created. Drop resort from new MP Mr. Simon Mahon, Bootle's M.P wants Southport dropped from District 11A of the proposed Merseyside Metropolitan Council. He believes the recent revision of the council's District 11A was a grave mistake, an would prefer the original towns proposed in the first scheme to be accepted. This would mean District 11A consisting of Bootle, Crosby, Litherland, Maghull and other areas, but excluding the seaside of Southport.

He suggested consideration could be given to Liverpool, Bootle and Crosby being put into one Merseyside district council, rather than the present set up with Bootle and Southport. Looking around Piayfield go-ahead Lancashire Education Committee has approved increased expenditure of £23,000 for playing fields at St. Richard's R.C. omprehensive School, Skelmersdale. We spend less After rising in each of the three previous quarters, spending in Britain in the first quarter of 1972 fell £35 million compared with the last quarter of 1971.

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No chalets West Lancashire Rural Council planning committee, has turned down an application to erect 100 chalets at the Riverside caravan site, Southport New Road, Tarleton. Wildlife week Next week will be Wildlife Week in Heswall. As part of the activities 50 works of artistic merit are to be selected for a London West End showing from the Festival of Painting and Graphic Art at the Presbyterian Church Hall, Telegraph Road, Heswall. Echo, Thursday, April 20, 43 Experts probe death blaze Experts were to-day investigating a fire in which an 80-years-old Liverpool woman died last night. Mrs.

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