Bootle Times from Bootle, Merseyside, England • 1

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CHILD PLACES Book now for THOMSONINTASUN HORIZONSOU AIRTOUR8 SKI 8788 AVAILABLE NOW Cal in and book yours South ShateTuartd TIME ran VISITER SERIES Monday to Saturday 7 am to 7 pm Opwi Sunday 1 Uiiriiil 1 Cro Tat 031 -Ml 2707 091 -Ml 3112 etnS07 ThW No 7138 Thursday May 7 1987 Price 16p Reprieve ryo Jail fo likely for sex case school HEADMASTER of Lydiate RC Primary School which has been threatened with closure for some months is "optimistic 01 that his school will be repnevecLfolIowtng the Secretary of State's announcement this week that small schools could be saved Mr Hugh O'Rourke who has been head teacher of Hall Lane Primary School for less than six months welcomed Mr Kenneth Baker's announcement The 35 pupil school (63) which has just two teachers including Mr Suicide Rourke has been under threat of closure since Sefton Education Comm verdict DUNCAN GIRVAN a 63 year-old taxi driver of Worcester Road Rootle was iailed for 18 months at Liverpool Crown Court on Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to five specimen offences of ittee was told by Mr John Marsden the council's Director of Education that the school was too small to be educationally viable as it could only offer a limited curriculum choice indecent assault ana gross tnacccncy THE fear of returning to prison preyed on the mind of a 34-year-old Bootle Sentencing him Mr Justice Rose told Girvan man so much that after a domestic tiff he decided to a man ol previous good character who had readily commit suicide However Mr ORourke confessed that his was said he thought there was a "good chance of a tragic caw It was not an isolated caw however "reprieve and he had given the child He said: "We have money heard nothing officially Mr David Lynch In fact the note from Mr prosecuting said the Sefton goes to the polls IT is voting day in the Sefton Council elections today (Thursday) The polling Ma lions will be open from 8 am to 9 pm And when the Xs have been put on the ballot papers and the doors of the polling stations have been closed the votes cast in the Bootle and Lilherland wards will be counted in Bootle Town Hall Park and Sudell wards will be counted in Maghutl Town Hall and Molyncux ward in Davenhill School The results from all wards throughout Sefton will be Baker is not expected to incidents occurred over a two-year period and came to light when the girl then reach the education authorities concerned Robert Wareing of Bedford Road had been given a life sentence for the murder of his wife Julie in 1974 and after serving nine years he was allowed out on licence An inquest at Waterloo Town Hall on Friday heard how Mr Wareing had been asked to leave the home of his common-law wife earlier this year following domestic problems which involved the finding of her eldest daughter's handbag in his bedroom Witnesses told the until the end of the week aged ten years com plained to her parents Mr O'Rourke bases his When interviewed Gir- optimism on the fact that by September of neat year Sitting pretty the school roil couio oe increased from 35 to more than 40 van showed great remorse and admitted the offences had occurred on about eight occasions He admitted giving her various sums of money telephoned through to the Floral Hall Southport "When the education where the Southport wards will be counted In the Rootle and Lilherland Wards there are 18 committee met last totalling about £23 candidates in all the Conservatives and Labour each inquest that Mr Wareing December it was found that the school was only have eight the LiberalSDPAlliance one and there is Mr Michael VYohT defending said Girvan who was a widower had now lost his job and the of a teacher short for the numbers at the schooL an Independent candidate Throughout Sefton the election is being contested by a total of 88 candidates there are 29 Conservatives 28 Labour 22 Alliance seven Green Party candidates (in Th nmhlrm hen is respect or his rnends that although financial decisions are made by Sefton Council some Southport wards) and two Independents For the natt 12 months Sefton has had a "hung' Break-in and Miss Aintree Her next venture will be to clinch the Miss Morecambe title in August Her two sisters Emmalene (6) and Sarah (5) are following in Jenny's footsteps on the competition circuit all sporting dresses made by their mother Debbie Our photograph above shows Jenny with the sash and shield hich she won as Sefton's Queen of Spring Picture by Susan Taylor Pretty nine-year-old Jenny McLoughlin has added another title to her already impressive collection that of Sefton Queen of Spring Jenny of Sefton Drive Aintree was selected from a number of hopefuls in the line-up before judges at Bootle Town Hall A pupil at Davenhill Primary Jenny has also won the titles or Miss Radox for which she won her proud family a holiday in Portugal Miss VYirral Miss II u) ton three-quarters of the KING George VI Community Centre in Knowslcy mimic rrwrv I mm tne ncU subsequently nao douis depression as he could not bear the thought of returning to prison after an incident which involved a mugging Mr Wareing made a determined effort to take his own life as he tried on six occasions to screw a clothes hook into the ceiling of his flat before succeeding at the seventh attempt Coroner Mr Gordon Glasgow recorded a suicide verdict council with no single party ha vines majority of the 69 seats The Conservatives have held 29 seats Labour 24 and the LiberalSDPAlliance 16 Footnote: Turn to page three for details of the candidates in the Church Molyncux Park and Sudell Road Bootle was Droien Lancashire District Council area The latter into on Friday and authority funded 17J0OO microwave oven was wards stolen to Set ton in the last financial year so no doubt West Lancashire would THE youngsters at Nortkeote Primary School Walton have been Joining the "boys in Li" vu Umi mwhiJ irnr nofuw rtrnkprt want some say in the tHHT mnni uwtw mk ir 1 mm The three-week course involved nursery infants and 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