The Liverpool Times

Gets red lighted and stopped in his tracks.

A man who roams Liverpool and beyond, and who likes to stalk and feel the muscles of young lads, has failed to overturn the injunction which stops him touching up any passing lad with a well formed calf muscle.

Akinwale Arobieke, better known as ‘Purple Aki’, is a bit of a twisted pervert and an intimidating one at that. At 6 foot five inches high and weighing in at 20 stone, he looks intimidating enough to grown men let alone the younger lads he picks on.

Like many criminals these days, he sees himself as the victim. A victim of oppressive laws and so on. His right to grope people has been curtailed.

Oh! the injustices of the times we live in!

On a serious matter (and one that needs confirmation) Purple Aki was also reported as being in the vicinity of an accident resulting in the death of a young teenage lad named Gary Kelly. The young man is reported as having fled from Purple Aki onto a live electrical railway line at Runcorn or New Brighton. The story needs confirming as there are literally thousands of Purple Aki anecdotes which are out there. Some of the stories are obviously made up such as Aki slashing buttocks with the initials AK. Exaggerations aside, your man Purple Aki, is definitely some you’d like to avoid.

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Includes football coaching session by two former Everton players!

Plus Olympic gymnastics coaches!

Plus celebration of The Beatles AND the Summer Fete!

Below is the news of a busy school still keeping up the old traditions and throwing a few new ones into the melting pot of traditions!

Thanks Miss!….

“Tomorrow, Thursday 3/7/08 St John Fisher Catholic Primary School is having a Lambanana day. This combines our school health week with the Capital of Culture, culminating in a sponsored walk in school tomorrow afternoon. As part of this children (and staff!) will be dressing as a Lambanana (or as close to it wearing yellow). The pupils are very excited by this, as are parents who have been invited to join in.

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News that Terry Field has sadly passed away is an awful tragedy for his family and close friends.

Terry was elected as a Labour MP for Broad green in 1983, and was part of the intake that included one Anthony Blair.

Terry never wavered in his support for people who will always be at the margins of society. He retained his political principles up to his expulsion from labour for allegedly supporting a proscribed organisation.

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It is not only MPs who are pulling in vast salaries and expenses from the hard pressed taxpayer, there is another less well known group who are rolling in the cash as the secret rulers of new labour.

The names of Sir Michael Lyons, Lord Turner Adair, Adam Crozier and Sir David Henshaw are not on everyone’s lips. Yet they ought to be. They wield enormous influence on our every day life, and are all paid handsomely by the taxpayer

These four individuals are key drivers in new labours managerial stranglehold on most of our public service’s

All attract vast financial reward’s implementing new labours alien revolution.

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Firstly can I introduce myself, I am Peter Duggan the 2 Company Commander of the Army Cadets in Merseyside ,which includes the whole of the Knowsley area, St. Helens and one unit in Liverpool.

We recruit young people , male and female, between the ages of 12 years and 18, our primary aim is to make good citizens and instill pride in our young people enabling them to achieve their full potential in what ever walk of life they choose.

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Our Friends in Malaysia

The Kirkby College Alumni Association is planning to organise a Grand 55th Kirkby Reunion this coming 29 November 2008 at the Putrajaya International Convention Center at Putrajaya, Malaysia.

The organiser is in the process of inviting all parties (individuals or their offspring’s, groups or institutionals) that were in contact with or in any way once had an association with the Malayan Teachers Training College at Kirkby Liverpool or popularly known as Kirkby College way back in 1951 - 1962. Please send your interest to participate in this Reunion to ‘zuberzain (place an AT here) yohoo.com’

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PLUS – free easy guide to the Kirkby Wildflowers with each flower pictured and named. (cheers to everyone we nicked the actual images from!)

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As reported a while back, the woods in Northwood, the Old Rough Woods, were dug up in designated areas so that wildflower seeds could be sown. This was done by workers and volunteers from the National Wildlife Centre, here in Knowsley. Local people also turned up to plant the seeds.

Anyone who planted some of the seeds, especially parents who took young children along, will be pleased to hear that the fruits of their labour are now there for all to see.

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A request for help.

A reader writes….

I have a son aged 32 with learning disabilities. Could you help me in find a suitable riding school around the Kirkby area that would be able to accommodate him please.

Thank you for your help

Name withheld.

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37-yr-old arrested on strength of CCTV footage. Sectioned under mental health act.

(apologies for late inclusion)

Abdo Sa’eed al-Selwi, 47 was the shopkeeper who had recently taken over the running of Carol’s Newsagent and General Store in Page Moss Parade, Huyton. He was subletting the small store and working a reported 100 hours a week. Such are the sacrifices the hard working family man will cheerfully make.

The store is also in the Borough of Knowsley.

Mr Abdo Sa’eed al-Selwi was from the Yemen in Saudi Arabia. A father-of-eleven and with two wives (he is a Muslim) he had worked the store for around 9 months, and was said to be a nice man by locals. Sadly, the kindness that Liverpool was once famed for is now tarnished, not for the first time, as Abdo’s service to the community ended in his death.

The poor man was also a target of 5 previous robberies or raids on his store during his short stay there. The sixth was the last fatal ‘raid’. We’d call it an assassination - if the killer was sane than is.

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Self explanatory…

“Hello,

I was just wondering if you could please provide us with some information?
My name is Katie and I work within our Finance department. Some of our prisoners have given some money towards the Jamie Bulger Appeal however we have been unsuccessful in contacting anybody from the charity so we can send on our donations or do a presentation.

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Another member of the notorious Dobbie family, who stole £32,000 pounds of taxpayers money between 1999 - 2005, has been elected to Knowsley Council.

This now brings the family numbers on the Council to two.

They are now (legally) each trousering £10,000 of public money in expenses.

The family were out in strength on the election night, led by the matriarch who masterminded the fraud against the Knowsley council taxpayer.

Observers said they resembled the Clampitt family from the Beverly hillbillies.

Also on parade on election night, all booted and suited, was the convicted benefit cheat, and x labour councillor, Thomas Barry Ryan.

He was convicted in 1997 of cheating the DSS out of £14, 000 – whilst a serving Councillor. He avoided a custodial sentence by pleading guilty, thus saving the taxpayer the cost of a Crown Court trial.

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A reader of The Kirkby Times has emailed us warning us about YouTube hosting a sickening video with accompanying song, mocking the murder of James Bulger.

The person who emailed us has contacted Merseyside Police, who have not, as yet, replied.

A YouTube user, aptly named ‘poowizard1’, thinks that creating a video which mocks the murder of James Bulger, and makes light of his murderers, is perfectly acceptable. So do YouTube, who thrive on sickness, giving a platform to the world’s misfits, and shifty characters - racists, perverts, bullies and trash of all colour and race and creeds.

The video is entitled ‘Hey Robert’. Viewers are advised not to view or listen to it– because the video begins with an animated photo image of James from the word go. The lyrics accompanying the song are appalling.

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Most Angels would come down from heaven, but some were here all along.

The original article here has been removed due to the facts regarding the case not being as simple as we thought.

A number of people have commented on the matter, and whilst we can’t take the comments as fact - the photo of the van at the scene is proof that the driver never fled in the van.

Given the van is there, that covers the forensics which will help the police be able to work out exactly what happened.

There are more in the comments for this article - feel free to add anything or protest if you think anything said is not legal or proper.

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Since new labour seized power in 1997 they have devised different schemes to increase voter turnout. All out Postal Voting was introduced in 2004. It resulted in numerous prosecutions for people interfering with the voting process.

It is illegal to use some ones postal vote without their permission. In new labours kingdom of Knowsley it was reported that a Kirkby based new labour man was seen depositing a large envelope full of postal votes into a public collection box in the local Council building. At the same time a residential home in Kirkby ordered 48 postal votes for residents, it was only after they were visited by an independent candidate that the Home returned only 8 postal votes, avoiding a possible investigation into why postal votes had been ordered for people suffering various stages of Dementia and Alzheimer’s.

The man who deposited the votes in the Council building was believed to have been the same man involved in the care homes postal votes. For legal reasons we cannot name him, however his identity is known to the authorities charged with the upholding the conduct of local elections. In these two examples of questionable conduct the Councillor concerned emerged unscathed.

Many leading figures in the judiciary have expressed fears about the safety of postal voting.

Now it has emerged that Knowsley Council face charges of breaching the guidelines of the Electoral Commission on publicity during the recent local elections.

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Justice for All.

“And you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.” John; Ch.8, v.32

“Now, 75 seconds after the evacuation began, the fire erupted. In an instant, clear air was replaced by an impenetrable wall of black smoke, laced with carbon monoxide. It brought with it instant death, killing 19 by the turnstiles before they reached an exit, 18 by the nearest exit and six more beyond it.” Martin Fletcher, aged 12 in 1985 and at the Bradford Fire. His father, uncle and grandfather were all killed at the Bradford Football Disaster of 1985.

The police are generally first to be held to account for the Hillsborough Football Disaster. It cannot be denied that the police command on the day was inadequate and you cannot really make excuses for cops who looked at men, woman and children turning blue, and turned away. You cannot defend cops who saw the disaster as an opportunity to line their own pockets with massive pay-outs or the hierarchy that chose to blacken the name of the fans rather than admit their own failings in the aftermath or the cover-up.

Worse still is the concerted attempted to not only cover up the disaster but another less obvious cover up in which the police, who had the strongest line of defence, were used to shield other parties, whose line of defence would have fallen to shreds.

Today is the 23rd Anniversary of the Bradford City Fire Disaster. Our thoughts, prayers and good wishes go out to those who suffered bereavement, and those poor souls injured and traumatised by the fire.

It is hard to think of the fire without thinking about the rescuers who were involved that day. Compared to Hillsborough, the task of anyone trying to save those poor souls at Bradford was infinitely more dangerous. Despite this, both police and fans acted with courage, with 50 or so named individuals who were verified by third parties as having saved lives.

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Plus, 1st for Kirkby success.

In Knowsley, the turnout for local elections was a disappointing 25%. This included a large number of postal votes, many of which were issued yet not returned.

It seems that postal votes, once a trickle specific to Brits abroad and a few housebound and ill and the armed forces overseas, has now turned into a quite a chunk of the overall percentage of votes cast with the process being made ten times as easy to perform. This is being abused up and down the country, which we will return to in another article.

The biggest turnout in Knowsley was in the wealthiest area of Knowsley, Roby; with a 36% turnout. This little island of comparative wealth amidst the social deprivation of surrounding wards even saw the Tories grab 42% of the vote with the new lab party, grabbing the prize with 46% of the vote.

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