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		<title>Purple Aki looks for Green light to feel young men’s muscles.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>Gets red lighted and stopped in his tracks.</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>Oh! the injustices of the times we live in!</p>
<p>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. </p>
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<p><img src="http://www.liverpooltimes.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/purple-aki.jpg" alt="Purple Aki" title="purple-aki" width="263" height="350" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1235" /></p>
<p>Purple Aki informs us, via his legal representatives, that he only touches up lads muscles, because he is looking for the next champion body builder. Thankfully, Judge William George was awake in the recent appeal on the 4th of July 2008, and not in the mood for the usual excuses trotted out by almost tearful legal representatives who might empathise with The Purple one’s ambitions to feel those muscles!</p>
<p>The Liverpool Echo reports…</p>
<blockquote><p>“Kenderik (corr) Horne, prosecuting, said he (Purple Aki) would become sexually excited as he groped athletic young boys, performed bear hugs and jumped on their backs. </p>
<p>But Arobieke insisted he had never got any sexual pleasure from the touching and had only been motivated by his desire to find the world’s next body-building champion.”</p></blockquote>
<p>He was motivated by desire alright. A bestial desire that makes him predate and fixate on young teenage males. Almost paedophilic, is it not, for a man well into his forties to do such a thing.<br />
Anyone who wishes to argue whether Purple Aki is a pervert who presents a danger to the youth of the North West of England needs to understand that he was jailed for 6 years for harassment and witness intimidation in 2003.</p>
<p>As per tradition in the UK, he was let out after having served half the sentence. </p>
<p><img src="http://www.liverpooltimes.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/get-out-of-jail-free-card.jpg" alt="Get out of jail free card" title="get-out-of-jail-free-card" width="300" height="188" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1236" /></p>
<p>He was, upon his release from prison in 2006, given an injunction which banned him from his old hunting grounds, plus stopping him approaching anyone under 18, and offering to measure muscles. Asking lads if he can measure their muscles is Purple Aki’s ‘chat up’ line. We’d laugh, but he is touching up and eyeing up kids as young as 14. That makes him a pervert. Nobody is laughing at that stage. </p>
<p>We cannot really take any chances, can we?</p>
<p>Mad or bad, you don’t want him as a neighbour or in your community. But ‘care in the community’ actually means that anyone with a strange hobby, even one that includes touching up your under-age sons – is let loose in the community.</p>
<p>The nature of the beast was revealed once again as the Purple Menace could not resist touching up someone’s muscles in a shopping centre Preston in 2007. He was promptly arrested and thrown back inside jail for breaking the terms of an order.</p>
<p>Purple Aki has been issued a ‘Sexual Offences Prevention Order’, (SOPO) although he has ‘not been convicted of a sexual crime’.</p>
<p>Sadly, groping a 14-yr-old lads muscles, and stalking him, and writing about his obsession in what was described as a ‘stalkers diary’, is not seen as ‘sexual’ by the law.</p>
<p>Aki’s reputation is so infamous that he was banned from St Helens, Widnes and Warrington! He is also banned from entering schools or sports grounds. He is also banned from driving a car as this would turn him into a mobile menace, ready to widen his hunting ground for young flesh. In a car, he would be ready to widen his range and grope the pecs of any lad who is perhaps not acquainted with a certain 6 foot 5, twenty stone black man, with a bald head spinning a yarn about looking for the next champion body builder. </p>
<p>Purple Aki is not accredited with any recognised sporting body – just accredited by the liberal ‘let-it-be’ laws of the UK to grope the bodies of young lads who do a bit of sport. </p>
<p>The Liverpool Echo reports that…</p>
<blockquote><p>”He had pursued his teenage victims for three-and-a-half years, forcing them to let him feel their biceps and making them bend over while he leaned up against their backs.”</p></blockquote>
<p>I suppose some public school educated judges might see this as normal.</p>
<p>A 46-yr-old touching up passing teenagers in the street, in the minds of most people reading this, should be locked away. Be he mad or bad, it’s unfair to expect the youth to be subjected to his antics. We would be forcing them to kill him – and make no mistake; they would do this if we allowed him to roam free. This is not a generation that’s in the mood to bullied by someone just because they are handy or big. Everyone is handy now that guns are part of the equation. Being big matters little.</p>
<p>Alas for Purple Aki, the streets are not as easy to stroll around now that he is known in almost every area. No longer is he the ‘urban myth’ who many thought was just some Scouse Horror Story we made up. The cover is blown and its time for each and every postcode area of Liverpool and anywhere in a 50 mile circumference to take adequate steps to safeguard their young teenage sons from this habitual groper when he gains his freedom to roam again. </p>
<p>Aki will be let loose once again to take up his bus pass, prowl the trains, perhaps pedal bike his way around whilst casting that ‘Purple Aki Eye’ on any passing calf muscle, or your pecs. His gazing eyes on the ‘gluteus maximum’ (your buttocks) does not rest easy in my moral appraisal of the situation. </p>
<p>I’ve heard of a few cases were lads who obviously ‘blimp’ (eye-up) some passing lady, find themselves facing a flurry of punches from a husband who never saw them at the alter being given permission to eye the Missus up – to behold, as it were. Appreciating that a women is beautiful is one thing, drooling and ogling her could get your lights punched out. </p>
<p>Your choice entirely eh lads?</p>
<p>As for the Purple Fellah – a 6 foot five inch black man, weighing 20 stone, stands out when he cruises what seems to be the white working class areas for ‘the laying on of the Purple Aki hands’. Any man would stand out when he hangs around places were young lads gather and asks to feel the muscles. </p>
<p>In Kirkby, surely, such a man would be pretty much cut short in the path of life. </p>
<p>The likelihood of Purple Aki coming back to Kirkby to touch up the lads of Towerhill, Northwood, Westvale or Southdene, is, I am informed, not really going to happen. </p>
<p>The days of asking lads to jump on his back whilst he does sit ups or push ups, is over.</p>
<p>The lads in St Helens should draw on the resolve some of your fathers, grandfathers and great grandfathers, all drew upon when working the mines. The magnificent generations had resolve enough to be found fighting the cops, soldiers, government, councils, and thieving royalty.</p>
<p>They would have thrown Purple Aki down the pit.</p>
<p>Likely as not; 5 minutes after he groped the first lad!</p>
<p>What a cowardly place England has become, that we would let this man or any man roam the nation given the green light to predate upon us.</p>
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		<title>St John Fisher Catholic Primary School Events</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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!&#8230;.
&#8220;Tomorrow, Thursday 3/7/08 St John Fisher Catholic Primary School is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>Includes football coaching session by two former Everton players!</h2>
<h3>Plus Olympic gymnastics coaches!</h3>
<p><strong>Plus celebration of The Beatles AND the Summer Fete!</strong></p>
<p>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!</p>
<p>Thanks Miss!&#8230;.</p>
<p>&#8220;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.</p>
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<p>Below, not St John Fisher pupils, but shows a famous Kirkby mural (way better than Banksy!) and a famous Kirkby headteacher (the inimitable Ken Masters) there with his piece of chalk!</p>
<p><img src="http://www.liverpooltimes.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/st-john-fisher-primary-school1.jpg" alt="St John Fisher Primary School" title="st-john-fisher-primary-school1" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1233" /></p>
<p>Next week we are having a sports week, climaxing in a sports day on Wednesday. </p>
<p>On Monday, two of our classes are attending a coaching session led by Olympic gymnastics coaches. </p>
<p>On Tuesday two Everton coaches (including Steve Johnson, England&#8217;s amputee Football Captain) are coming along to coach classes from right across the school.</p>
<p>In the same week we are also having a Beatles day in honour of our Capital of Culture in which pupils will be dressing up and completing fun &#8216;Beatles&#8217; themed activities. This will take place on Thursday 10/07/08.</p>
<p>On Saturday 12/07/08 we are having our Summer Fete in which we have lots of fun activities and stalls happening - the entire community is welcome.</p>
<p>As you can see we are a very busy school at the moment. Both staff and pupil are very excited and putting a lot of effort into making our last few weeks of term special. We would appreciate it if you could pop down or get in contact to find out what this school is all about!</p>
<p>We hope you accept our invitation and we look forward to seeing you soon!</p>
<p>Yours sincerely</p>
<p>Miss T Toole</p>
<p>School contact: 0151 - 477 - 8590&#8243;</p>
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		<title>Terry Fields ex M.P. Rest In Peace</title>
		<link>http://www.liverpooltimes.net/2008/06/30/terry-fields-ex-mp-rest-in-peace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>News</strong> that Terry Field has sadly passed away is an awful tragedy for his family and close friends.</p>
<p>Terry was elected as a Labour MP  for Broad green in 1983, and was part of the intake that included one Anthony Blair.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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<p><img src="http://www.liverpooltimes.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/terry-fields.jpg" alt="Terry Fields" title="terry-fields" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1229" /></p>
<p>Meanwhile the man who entered Parliament with him, and who was a leading supporter of CND – Blair – saw something in the 1983 election that has had a disastrous impact on the UK and the rest of the world.</p>
<p>In his outstanding book, titled  “Blair’s War’s “ the leading left wing writer John Kampfner exposed Blair for what he really was.</p>
<p>Seeing that the Falklands war in 1982 had made Prime Minister Thatcher popular, he learned something significant about Foreign Policy. When he became Prime Minister 15 years later he took Britain into six wars that has caused so much upset for so many.</p>
<p>Terry Field was a rare bird – he was true to his principles – if Blair had a scrap of these the world would be a safer place.</p>
<p>Those Merseyside MPs who queued up to vote for the six wars should hang their heads in shame.</p>
<p>Those same people who have had their snouts in the trough of expenses and receive pay packets from private companies for “services from the House of Commons” .G Howarth MP gets £30,000 a year from William Hill the bookmaker. </p>
<p>This is on top of £250, 000 a year salary and expenses.</p>
<p>And at a time 25% of his constituents survive on benefits.</p>
<p>Terry Fields, man of principle, Rest in Peace.</p>
<p>Below, the candle of condolence, our prayers are with Terry, and although he may not have been a religious man, he still helped others and did not waste his time here siding with spiritual wickedness in high places, unlike Blair, who must still actually be in confession!</p>
<p>It is right that we say a prayer for him.</p>
<p>Thanks Terry, and our condolences to his family.</p>
<p>NBD (Never Back Down) Motto of the Scouser.</p>
<p>One of Us!</p>
<p><img src="http://www.liverpooltimes.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/hillsborough_animated_candle_90_20.gif" alt="Candle of condolence for Terry Fields" title="hillsborough_animated_candle_90_20" width="20" height="90" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1176" /></p>
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		<title>New Labours Disciples Pull in the Cash</title>
		<link>http://www.liverpooltimes.net/2008/06/28/new-labours-disciples-pull-in-the-cash/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>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.</p>
<p>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</p>
<p>These four individuals are key drivers in new labours managerial stranglehold on most of our public service’s </p>
<p>All attract vast financial reward’s implementing new labours alien revolution.</p>
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<p>Below, a famous painting transformed to reveal the malice and intent of the new labour thugs&#8230;</p>
<p><img src="http://www.liverpooltimes.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/the-disciples-chosen-and-sent-out.jpg" alt="new labour disciples" title="the-disciples-chosen-and-sent-out" width="410" height="503" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1227" /></p>
<p>Lyons, a former local government officer, now heads the pro new labour BBC. </p>
<p>He has regularly pulled in huge payments when wheeled out by new labour to bail out  any of their cronies ( like Henshaw ) who faced “local difficulties” implementing the new labour project. This is exactly what happened two years ago in Liverpool </p>
<p>He been a longstanding sidekick of Sir David Henshaw - conflicts of interest  mean nothing under nulab- who had been given a free hand in Liverpool and Knowsley to map out new labours dismantling of municipal governance. </p>
<p>This was the tried and tested system that had protected the weak and disadvantaged in our society since the inception of the Welfare State. New labour now  expose the weak and disadvantaged to market forces.</p>
<p>Henshaw left Liverpool with huge payoff and ended up in charge of the NHS in the North West.  He is behind the supermarketisation  of GP surgeries, moving them away from local communities. </p>
<p>The corruption in Knowsley- under leader J Keight - was little more than a minor inconvenience, whilst driving forward the real business for new labour.</p>
<p>Lyons knew nothing about TV or Broadcasting, so he is qualified, by new labours warped values, to head up the largest and most prestigious broadcaster in the world.</p>
<p>Henshaw had no background in the NHS-  the perfect qualification for new labour !</p>
<p>Lord Adair ex head of the bosses union – the CBI- is another big favourite of new labour. He is now installed as boss of the Financial Services Authority- FSA- the body the polices the financial services industry</p>
<p>He frequently moves around quangoland  with his payoffs in a wheel barrow.</p>
<p>Adam Crozier made a mess of the FA. while its Chief Executive.<br />
Coming from a world of PR and spin he had no background in Football at any level.</p>
<p>He left with this post with a huge payoff, and was slotted in by new labour to be the new boss of the Royal Mail. </p>
<p>He made a cool £3 million pounds in salary last year as thousands of Post offices were closing, and jobs vanishing quicker than Blair made his millions after leaving  Office as Prime Minister.</p>
<p>All have one thing in common. They have all cleaned up financially thanks to new labour, as we all struggle to our next pay day, whether on wages, salary or benefits</p>
<p>Welcome to the people who are our new secret rulers, who nobody elected and who are living high, like the MPs, from the public purse.</p>
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		<title>Army Cadets first aid assesment day in Westvale, Kirkby</title>
		<link>http://www.liverpooltimes.net/2008/06/25/army-cadets-first-aid-assesment-day-in-westvale-kirkby/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>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.  </p>
<p>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.  </p>
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<p><img src="http://www.liverpooltimes.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/bomber-brown.jpg" alt="Bomber Brown" title="bomber-brown" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1224" /></p>
<p>We use the military training ethos but also we train other subjects including D. Of E., BETEC, and music, we also teach first aid training and over the years many of our cadets have practised the skills they have been taught in live situations.</p>
<p>On Sunday the 28th June we are holding a first aid assessment day at the Cadet Hut in Westvale Kirkby, this is to prepare the cadets for their two week annual camp in Surrey.</p>
<p>In these days when we hear so many negative reports about young people, I must say I am proud to be associated with our cadets who even for an old cynic like myself they are an inspiration.</p>
<p>If I can be of any assistance please do not hesitate to contact me, my mobile telephone number is 07721 391 380.</p>
<p>Regards</p>
<p>Peter Duggan<br />
Captain<br />
O.C. 2 Coy.</p>
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		<title>The Kirkby College Alumni Association Grand 55th Kirkby Reunion in Malaysia 29 Nov 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.liverpooltimes.net/2008/06/23/the-kirkby-college-alumni-association-grand-55th-kirkby-reunion-in-malaysia-29-nov-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s, groups or institutionals) that were in contact with or in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>Our Friends in Malaysia</h2>
<p>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. </p>
<p>The organiser is in the process of inviting all parties (individuals or their offspring&#8217;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 &#8216;zuberzain (place an AT here) yohoo.com&#8217;</p>
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<p><img src="http://www.liverpooltimes.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/kirkby_college_badge.jpg" alt="Kirkby College Badge" title="kirkby_college_badge" width="272" height="320" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1221" /></p>
<p>This invitation was posted up in the comments but deserves an article in itself given the historic importance of the event which commemorates the Malaysian peoples who were educated here in Kirkby!</p>
<p>Many of these young students went back and rose to the tops of their professions. This was the Magnificent Generation that built Malaysia and have turned it into a nation which has surpassed many others who saw the end of British rule as a colony. Some of the older &#8216;boys and girls&#8217; who studied here, have since passed away. The loss is sad perhaps, but the prayers of the people of Kirkby are with them all - as they were when you arrived here.</p>
<p>Never discount the fact that Kirkby was an educational centre of excellence. We made headway in a lot of directions and its a testimony to the excellence of that education when you see the gleaming bright tall shining towers in the Malay cities - and consider that when British troops left there, much of the land was still basic villages!</p>
<p>This is nothing to be ashamed of - and many of us in Kirkby can look at relatives a few generations ago who were in the same conditions.</p>
<p>The Malaysians learnt off us, that they acknowledge, but it seems strange that Liverpool celebrates some &#8216;half decent&#8217; Shopping &#8216;Mall&#8217; and Malaysia is reaching for the skies, with so many buildings that it makes the USA skyline seem tame. </p>
<p>They are far ahead of us now.</p>
<p>You can see what way a city is going by the size of the buildings. Malaysians see their nation as strong, but harbour little ambition in invading other nations. They have ambition, and they do not build giant skyscrapers by the hundreds without seeing them filled with people, working or residential, perhaps both. </p>
<p>Land prices are rocketing, the IQ is getting higher. They are going places.</p>
<p>Many British and Commonwealth soldiers who fought in Malay prior to the handover, recognised that here was a people who could match us and excel us in some departments. The nation itself was known as British Malay from 1874-1946 and is another small nation that has faced various invaders, and the crushing tyranny of occupation and the theft of resources.</p>
<p>The Japanese occupied parts of it in WW2, which will summon up horror stories no doubt, and also no compensation or recognition of Japanese cruelty during WW2. The Germans were led by a lunatic - the Japanese were fighting with medieval battle codes, such as torturing victims needlessly and for their own sick amusement. They were worse than the Nazis were to opposing soldiers.</p>
<p><strong>Malaysian Curry</strong></p>
<p>On another note - reading through my Manual of Army catering Services 1965 Part 2 Recipes. Malay Catering - I see that includes Malaysian or Malay cooking.</p>
<p>More soon for authentic curry, not that 3 for £5 pigswill that has to have a photo of what it looks like, in case your so whacked out that you don&#8217;t actually realise what a chicken curry or beef looks like?</p>
<p>Pretty much the same when its Tesco - &#8216;authentic&#8217; [laugh] curry.</p>
<p>Can we say that?</p>
<p>Can we legally have an opinion anymore?</p>
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		<title>The Old Rough Wood Wildflowers in Kirkby</title>
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<h3Plus - Kirkby Sunset video, released in a cinema, er, on a computer screen, near you!</h3>
<p><em>The images in this image intensive article are linked to by ‘thumbnails’. Simply click on the image to see the bigger picture. Click back on your internet browser to return to the page. </em></p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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.</p>
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<p>Below, Quarry Green in the 50&#8217;s I think.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.liverpooltimes.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/quarry-green.jpg" alt="Quarry Green Kirkby" title="quarry-green" width="400" height="294" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1211" /></p>
<p><strong>Just for a recap – here is what was planted back in March…</strong></p>
<p>35 kilograms of cornfield annuals seed planted, comprising of corncockle (30%) corn marigold (30%) cornflower (20%) poppy (10%) and corn chamomile (10%)</p>
<p>Some 38 kilograms of perenial wildflower was sown which included red campion (20%) ox-eye daisy (5%) lupin (25%) meadow buttercup (20%) evening primrose (10%) wild carrot (10%) and last but not least, field scabious. (10%)</p>
<p>Several local people are now photographing the wildflowers, and local kids taking snaps on the mobile phone cameras. </p>
<p>Several series of photographs have been taken from the original sowing of the seeds to the first sign of the wildflowers coming up. </p>
<p>Below, click on the thumbnail to see an easy guide to the Kirkby Wildflowers with each flower pictured and named.  </p>
<p><a href='http://www.liverpooltimes.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/kirkby-wildflowers-guide-2008.jpg'><img src="http://www.liverpooltimes.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/kirkby-wildflowers-guide-2008-150x150.jpg" alt="Kirkby Wildflowers Guide 2008" title="kirkby-wildflowers-guide-2008" width="150" height="150" class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1212" /></a></p>
<p>Here are the seedlings coming up on the 7th of May 2008. These are the area at the front of the woods, by Roughwood Drive. This does not look &#8216;great&#8217; and you might wonder why someone has not planted some grass. But just wait&#8230;</p>
<p><a href='http://www.liverpooltimes.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/wildflowers-7-may-2008.jpg'><img src="http://www.liverpooltimes.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/wildflowers-7-may-2008-150x150.jpg" alt="Kirkby wildflowers 7 May" title="wildflowers-7-may-2008" width="150" height="150" class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1213" /></a></p>
<p>This photo below, is the same area as above, taken from a distance on the 20th May. You can see a healthy looking growth coming on – but no indication to many that wildflowers will appear in a few weeks time unless your used to the pattern of growth and can recognise a seedling red campion from an ox eye daisy.</p>
<p><a href='http://www.liverpooltimes.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/wildflowers-20-may-2008.jpg'><img src="http://www.liverpooltimes.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/wildflowers-20-may-2008-150x150.jpg" alt="Kirkby wildflowers 20 May 2008" title="wildflowers-20-may-2008" width="150" height="150" class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1214" /></a></p>
<p>Here is the same area on the 24th May. A spate of rain and sunshine, has seen growth come on in leaps and bounds. That and the manure that has been sprayed on a few occasions!</p>
<p><a href='http://www.liverpooltimes.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/wildflowers-24-may-2008.jpg'><img src="http://www.liverpooltimes.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/wildflowers-24-may-2008-150x150.jpg" alt="Kirkby wildflowers 24 May 2008" title="wildflowers-24-may-2008" width="150" height="150" class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1215" /></a></p>
<p>By the 8th of June – things start to get a little bit colourful. The wildflowers we planted are beginning to attract more butterflies, mainly white cabbage butterflies, but also ladybirds, bees and moths. Birds are naturally attracted to the wildflower patches, both feeding and using them as cover from the Kestrel hunting up above.</p>
<p><a href='http://www.liverpooltimes.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/wildflowers-08june-2008-yellow.jpg'><img src="http://www.liverpooltimes.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/wildflowers-08june-2008-yellow-150x150.jpg" alt="Kirkby Wildflowers 8 June 2008" title="wildflowers-08june-2008-yellow" width="150" height="150" class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1216" /></a></p>
<p>These poppies were spotted on the 14th of June. The date of the first poppy to show its red flower was the 10th of June. </p>
<p><a href='http://www.liverpooltimes.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/wildflowers-14june-poppy-2008.jpg'><img src="http://www.liverpooltimes.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/wildflowers-14june-poppy-2008-150x150.jpg" alt="Kirkby Wildflowers 14 June 2008" title="wildflowers-14june-poppy-2008" width="150" height="150" class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1217" /></a></p>
<p>By the 23rd of June, the wildflowers are starting to impress most passers-by, turning heads on the bus which seems to drive a little slower, as do the cars. This display takes on a different look and feel for the early morning or the late evening with the 9.30pm or so setting of the sun.</p>
<p><a href='http://www.liverpooltimes.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/wildflowers-23-june-2008.jpg'><img src="http://www.liverpooltimes.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/wildflowers-23-june-2008-150x150.jpg" alt="Kirkby wildflowers 23 June 2008" title="wildflowers-23-june-2008" width="150" height="150" class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1218" /></a></p>
<p>Over the next few weeks and months, we hope to be able to publish more photos of the wildflowers.</p>
<h2>The Kirkby Sunset</h2>
<p>We also have a video of the Kirkby sunset, which is a Great Sight, and one that sees the town itself almost turn to gold, or a burning red as the final rays dip down somewhere over the Irish Sea. </p>
<p>You can see, from this vantage point, the glimmer of the suns rays on the wind turbines, and perhaps a glint off a ship turning to head in or out. You can see the city itself, with the two cathedrals, the once revolving café, and now radio station, and the gradual shift from city centre to Walton, Anfield, Everton, Norris Green, Croxteth, Fazackerley. </p>
<p>Anyone who eventually sees the video will realise how great we are. </p>
<h2>The best sunset in the world!</h2>
<p>I would say Liverpool has the best sunset in the world – more defined than the big sunset of the nations nearer the equator. Nice though the sunset of the foreign lands might be – we have a sunset you can appreciate in many ways. Not least because we&#8217;re here, in the city that the world has heard about - and a people who nobody could defeat, apart from ourselves!</p>
<p>I guess when you see the sun set over Liverpool, you feel lucky to be part of a Great City and a Great people. Anyone who denies this is the sort of person who prefers pebbledash to the Sistine Chapel’s paintings. </p>
<p><strong>More soon.</strong></p>
<p>Workers and volunteers from the National Wildlife Centre in Knowsley and other organisations are behind this initiative and deserve a thanks for setting up a stall in Northwood, Kirkby to kick this off. They might be able to take on more work next year and start to plant up on any spots locals deem fit to be planted, and with permission of landowners. This might include untended plots in various streets, and more areas which might be suitable such as the borders of schools, maybe by the ugly metal fences which straddle Kirkby.</p>
<p>Tenants groups and so on would be doing their area a favour by using the wildflower gardens method to both tidy up and make Kirkby look nicer.</p>
<p>To help this, its time to bring back park-keepers, who are allocated various patches to look over. A man, given a patch of land, a bit of turf to look over, is a king in his own little kingdom. </p>
<p>Bring back the park keeper!</p>
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		<title>13 British soldiers killed so far this month in Afghanistan War Racket.</title>
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<blockquote><p>“War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses. </p>
<p>I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we&#8217;ll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag. </p>
<p>I wouldn&#8217;t go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket. </p>
<p>And war is the most profitable racket in the world!”  <strong>Former U.S. Marine Major General Smedley Darlington Butler.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>The latest blood sacrifice for the bankers took place when four British servicemen and one female, drove an unarmoured jeep over an IED (improvised explosive device) this Tuesday gone. </p>
<p>Four were killed and one injured.</p>
<p>New labour neatly ducked the issue after being questioned in the House of Commons about the use of unarmoured jeeps in the lands of the united armies of Islam. </p>
<p>Apparently, in the eyes of the highly paid ranks of new labour MPs British soldiers are ‘ok’ playing Afghanistan Roulette in a civilian vehicle which is great for dropping off small supplies for a farmer as long as you keep away from any big holes. The same vehicle is a deathtrap for army patrols which enter unsafe zones.</p>
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<p>Truth be told, even the biggest tanks are pretty much game for those hunting us. If they can be blown up or have a simple bomb costing less than $100 dollars put it and the crew out of action – we might as well just split up into patrols keeping a distance that will give any bombers or snipers, less chance of hitting a few of us. Even then, we’ll still get shot and blown up. We could do this for the next 100 years, which would make the private companies cashing in very happy indeed. </p>
<h2>Dying for the cause.</h2>
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<p>Afghanistan and the disputed Tribal regions bordering Afghanistan and Pakistan, plus Pakistan itself, will supply millions of men willing to die for ‘the cause’, if that’s what it takes. These people actually have a cause – all we have is the price of oil rocketing and British troops sent to the areas which have the most supplies of oil.</p>
<p>That’s not OUR cause. After all, if oil is running out, we’re intelligent enough to find a solution. Stealing your neighbours gas supply because you have run out is theft. Stealing a nations resources to keep a fat population of the West in dunkin doughnuts, cheap booze and posh coffee shops and [ironically] keep fit clubs, is something that the rich can fight for if they so desire. </p>
<p>America steals the food from starving mouths just to dump a third of it in municipal dumps. </p>
<p>Some cause eh? </p>
<p>When the devastating barrages of bombs was released to ‘kick off’ the Iraq or Gulf War 2, the American’s &#8216;back home&#8217; set a new record in ordering pizzas. That says it all about how much the average Yank is sacrificing his or herself for the cause. Managing to shovel an Mexican Spicy Pizza into your gob with a gallon of Diet Coke, and slurping a tub of ice cream, is a real sacrifice indeed, seated as you are on the armchair 10,000 miles away from it all.</p>
<p>Fighting for gluttony and greed, we can only wonder whether we’ll one day have to send the fat Americans off to fight for the extra portions they bought so cheaply over the years. Will they die for extra large fries? Would you die to keep them cracking the pavements?</p>
<p>The soldiers in Afghanistan were lambs to the slaughter and an ‘easy’ target for the local resistance fighters whose eyes and ears are everywhere. Their land has been invaded and despite the cups of tea with the odd British officer and SAS Arab headdress wearing ‘cheerful chap’, don’t imagine for one second that most would not slit our throat as soon as we stepped out of the meeting and bumped into them later in the day. </p>
<p>They won’t kill you while you sip the tea. </p>
<p>They do make a very nice cup of tea, or so it’s said. </p>
<p>Below, it&#8217;s said, they do make a nice cup of tea&#8230;.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.liverpooltimes.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/tea.jpg" alt="Tea with the Afghans" title="tea" width="400" height="173" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1206" /></p>
<p>The title of ‘Taliban’ is given to anyone we kill, even children, but in reality, the Afghanis various tribes and ethnic groups (they are not all Arabs) are a very diverse bunch indeed. That they still have a nation called Afghanistan is testimony to the resilience of the natives and their tribes. They have warred with each other, but generally on the small scale which might be substituted with a game of football in England! </p>
<p>They are not a murderous people given to war, but rather the victims of repeated invasions and a definite dislike of central government doing anything more than building roads, supplying water and the municipal basics. Democracy in the form we have, would naturally push every male to bear arms and shoot every local official who would be seen as a target for any unfair tax or land sale. This keeps a continuity in Afghanistan and families, for example, own their own land by virtue of their residency and historic family links. </p>
<p>They don’t want the bankers divvying up the land – which is why we are there, armed, talking about ‘freeing’ people. As we do!</p>
<h2>Religion</h2>
<p>The religion, need we say, is a unifying force for many Afghans, as it was and is for us. Many of us believe that British soldiers killed in Afghanistan will be living on in eternity, by the Grace of God. The lads and girls killed in conflict have already seen too much of hell in their short time on this earth for God to send them there for eternity. Their ‘sin’ was to believe ‘wiser’ older men and women. </p>
<p>That’s more of a mistake than malice.</p>
<p>The men fighting us today in Afghanistan might well be the latest of many generations who would sooner be raising families, working for a living and so on than fighting wars. They answer a call of duty that we gave them by virtue of our invasion. </p>
<h2>The Call of Duty</h2>
<p>There is no greater call of duty than that of physically defending your nations borders or coastline. At that point, it is a Holy Cause, a righteous cause, a cause for which men would sacrifice themselves willingly. To defeat such an enemy who defends his or her own land calls for an evil which would corrupt whoever chose to embrace it.</p>
<p>The locals in Afghanistan can easily spot the British patrols. Every child in every village – every goat herder and man about the town, will inform the Afghani Resistance fighters about the various routes taken, any habits that might be noticeable or patterns of behaviour that stand out.</p>
<p>The resistance fighters, knowing they are being tracked by silent surveillance drones, plus hi definition cameras of every imaginable kind, creep out under cover of darkness to plant the bombs that keep killing us. The landscape is too big to keep an eye on every nook and cranny. Even if we had 100,000 soldiers, there would be incursions, and more of us to blow up and shoot at.</p>
<h2>Roll-call of the Dead</h2>
<p>The woman killed in Afghanistan was Corporal Sarah Bryant of the Intelligence Corps. She was a native of Liverpool. She had been serving in Afghanistan and Iraq with 15 (UK) Psychological Operations Group, (PSYOPS). </p>
<p>Corporal Sarah Bryant is the second female solider from Liverpool to be killed under new labours rule. This megalomaniac like rule extends from Kirkby to Basra and Kabul - and takes in a million and one villages with 50,000,000 men with the name Mohammed, or variations thereof.</p>
<p>Staff Sergeant Denise Rose, of the Royal Military Police&#8217;s Special Investigation Branch, was found dead on the 31st October 2004 at a military camp in Basra. Verdict = self inflicted. Maybe she was just silenced, which would hardly surprise us in the Land of Hope and Glory, would it?</p>
<p>The three men killed with Corporal Sarah Bryant in Afghanistan were Corporal Sean Robert Reeve of the Royal Signals, Lance Corporal Richard Larkin and Paul Stout, all or some of those men were with the SAS Reserves. Another solider is said to be ‘stable’ which might mean another wheelchair on the parades and less compensation than some female big-wig who endured ‘sexism’ in the city.</p>
<p>The other deaths this month consist of a VBIED, or a vehicle borne improvised explosive device, apparently driven at a foot patrol of paratroopers who were retaking ground by patrolling on foot. </p>
<p>We sometimes hear such acts described as ‘cowardly’ or ‘desperate’, but its no different from Tommy Atkins jumping up a ladder from a trench into 10,000 lead bullets, lined up by the Hun to mow down another few thousand soldiers before mid morning tea.</p>
<p>Soldiers follow orders. There are no ifs or buts. The reasoning behind this can be seen as men who follow orders work as one. This has benefits and obviously downfalls as with the lions led by donkeys, or the brave by inveterate cowards. Either way, it’s always going to be that way in the armed forces and in any situation where men work as a team. </p>
<p>We all have follow some orders - to serve someone or something. Getting the cause right is the trick.</p>
<p>The ‘boots on the ground’ tactic is the rich using the poor and unemployed as gang muscle to intimidate locals into accepting the rule of a foreign power. The real mercenaries are paid a lot more than the soldiers of various nations who are used to clear the ground for these war pimps to operate. </p>
<p>The firms such as Blackwater worldwide, Aegis , Enrys, Armor Group, Haliburton, Control Risks and other profiteers, have seen stocks rise so high that anyone arguing against the fact that war is big business is really on a losing argument.</p>
<p>3 privates were killed as the suicide car bomber or VBIED struck - Privates Nathan Cuthbertson, Daniel Gamble and Charles Murray, all of 2nd Battalion Paratroop Regiment. This regiment has been hard hit in Afghanistan and taken a few losses and injuries. </p>
<p>They would fight to the last man no matter what, which is all the more reason to be careful were we place them. Nobody would deny their fighting prowess, but no foreign army has won in Afghanistan, and not even the Para’s could tame that land, lest they killed every man woman and child. </p>
<p>This they will not do. Even if ordered. </p>
<p>I guess and hope they might kill whoever told them to do such a thing.</p>
<p>The lads were targeted near their Forward Operating Base in the Upper Sangin Valley on Sunday 8 June 2008. A few feet outside the bases, is ground that has to be treated as very dangerous ground. </p>
<p>The other two deaths this month were caused by small arms fire. Lance Corporal James Bateman and Private Jeff Doherty, also of 2 PARA, died on Thursday 12 June 2008 when another foot patrol was targeted by Afghanis north of the base in the Upper Gereshk Valley. (<a href="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-BbmvtIkky8">see video of UK soldiers in the valley in 2007 here</a> )</p>
<h2> We freed them from the tyranny of their own selves</h2>
<p>The video linked to above shows one of the officers informing us that soldiers are there, amongst others things,  ‘to improve the quality of life’ of the natives. We have to put that down as propaganda because any improvements could feasibly be done by Afghanis, supervised by tradesmen in any field they need to learn for themselves.</p>
<p>The officer informs us that the lads blow holes in the doors or walls of the compounds of the natives. This, we are led to believe, is ‘good’ for the Afghanis who will be singing songs about how we freed them from the tyranny of their own selves. </p>
<h2>Biggest Jailbreak in modern history!</h2>
<p>The same natives whose houses were shot up and blown up (sometimes with the residents inside) last year - are now helping the Afghani fighters this year! This was seen in the biggest jailbreak ever seen in modern history, when over 1000 prisoners were freed on June 13 this year. </p>
<p>Readers in Liverpool’s jail can only marvel at the charitable freeing of ordinary criminals who got cell doors opened after most doubtless swore to back the resistance.</p>
<p>A suicide truck bomber rammed his special delivery into the gates of Kandahar jail and armed men stormed the building in an organised manner, quickly defeating or having paid off or convinced most defending the jail to give up. Up to 400 ‘Taliban’ and about 700 ordinary criminals (the ones who could not pay bribes!) were freed as British and other troops were otherwise engaged fighting an enemy which retakes ground a few hours after we leave. </p>
<p>Below, this historic jailbreak ought to be seen as a sign that we&#8217;re losing ground. Literally!</p>
<p><img src="http://www.liverpooltimes.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/kandahar-jail.jpg" alt="Jailbreak in afghanistan" title="kandahar-jail" width="240" height="156" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1207" /></p>
<p>The Afghanis want some order – and they have had order for periods of time notable also for the lack of invasions. They are peaceful enough when left alone and good company when you are an invited guest. </p>
<p>We have no right whatever to even want to meddle with the affairs of people in other nations and ought not to be surprised when they send us home in coffins. We can blast them all to Kingdom Come if they invade us, but the odds of a Muslim army making it within ten nautical miles of the UK coastline, are so slim that they could spilt an atom with it.</p>
<p>Anyone imagining that every Muslim dotted around the world is driven with some Fu Manchu like need to destroy us all is mistaking the plots of several Hollywood movies for reality itself. </p>
<p>The UK soldiers of today are fighting, not for the people of the UK against Muslims who want to invade us, but for the rich and powerful, the bankers, creditors and the wreckers of nations, family, religion and community.</p>
<p>We’re being played for fools, and maybe its always been so with British troops following the flag that is used as a front to hide the real purpose of the then British Empire whose beneficiaries are joined at the hip now with the American Empire. The USA flag fluttering in the breeze in any land is a front for bankers and multinational companies all willing to murder anyone for a few bucks.</p>
<p>Our condolences to the soldiers.</p>
<p>Finally, we offer our sincerest condolences to the families of the men and women whose lives were sacrificed. Our prayers are with all those who are victims of the evil malice of those who rule over us. </p>
<p>We mourn the lives that could have been and pray that Gods Mercy and Grace is extended to those young men and women who have already seen hell here on earth, courtesy of the peoples who slumber whilst others die in some far flung foreign land. The young lads and girls in the armed forces rely on a nation which has the mettle to force the government to do the right thing. </p>
<p>We have clearly let these young lads and girls down.</p>
<p>We could have stopped the war – but most stood by, thereby condemning another generation of British lads to die on foreign lands. I suppose we mourn a nation which has lost its way, sending lads to work out the Arabic for ‘road to hell’ because we’ve enslaved ourselves to the creditors. </p>
<p>The three balls of the pawnbroker might as well be the flag of the nation. Our balls are in the hands of the bankers. And the bankers and their chums are having a ball. </p>
<p>Such is the way it was, is and hopefully won’t be for your grandchildren!</p>
<p>Be it the soldiers who died or some Muslim driving a vehicle borne improvised explosive device, all are victims of the times we live in. We should pray for them all. Let’s hope that God sees those who have already faced hell and carried the burden of society’s failures in a favourable light.</p>
<p>To those who sent those young men and even women to the hell of war, you wicked bas**** are duly served notice.</p>
<p>Fight your own wars you cowardly child murdering widow making, orphan making pieces of trash.</p>
<p>Amen.</p>
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		<title>Horse Riding for Adults with learning disabilities in Kirkby?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A request for help.
A reader writes&#8230;.
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.

Any answers would be appreciated.
Email or better still leave in the comments, and we&#8217;ll get [...]]]></description>
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<p>A reader writes&#8230;.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Thank you for your help</p>
<p>Name withheld.</p>
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<p>Any answers would be appreciated.</p>
<p>Email or better still leave in the comments, and we&#8217;ll get back to the person concerned.</p>
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		<title>Knowsley Environmental Health Manager reply to Sonae concerns.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the email I sent to Knowsley councils environmental  and the reply also.
To whomever it concerns.
I hope this email address is still functioning, if not could you forward this to the environmental protection team. (* note, this is now called the Compliance and Prevention Team)
Dear Sir/Madam.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s the email I sent to Knowsley councils environmental  and the reply also.</p>
<p>To whomever it concerns.</p>
<p>I hope this email address is still functioning, if not could you forward this to the environmental protection team. (* note, this is now called the Compliance and Prevention Team)</p>
<p>Dear Sir/Madam.</p>
<p>There has been a constant smell from the Sonae factory over the past few weeks affecting the Northwood area of Kirkby in particular.</p>
<p>The same smell comes and goes as you have testified in the past, through correspondence with Northwood residents.</p>
<p>What, may I ask, is the environmental protection team (or whatever your called now) doing to monitor the dust levels from Sonae?</p>
<p>I feel that there are not enough proactive measures from the environmental dept over the Sonae pollution.</p>
<p>I would like to know, as a matter of urgency, what you are doing about this pollution.</p>
<p>I have taken photos of the Sonae dust mountains since 2002, and feel that they are a major source of pollution to the town.</p>
<p>Yours sincerely.</p>
<p>Beleaguered Northwood resident.</p>
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<p>Below, Sonae in the background and residential areas of Northwood in the fallout zone&#8230;.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.liverpooltimes.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/sonae-10-june-2008.jpg" alt="Sonae dust piles 10 june 2008" title="sonae-10-june-2008" width="400" height="268" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1201" /></p>
<h2>The Reply part 1</h2>
<p>I have been asked to forward this email reply from Mr Baxter re your Sonae request</p>
<p>Regards</p>
<p>J Jackson</p>
<p>Compliance and Prevention Team</p>
<h2>The Reply part 2</h2>
<p>Dear Sir,</p>
<p>I am writing in response to your e-mail, dated the 26th May 2008.   </p>
<p>The level of particulate matter (dust) emissions from the chimney is monitored quarterly and the results received show compliance with the emission limit of 20mg/m3 imposed on Sonae. </p>
<p>The most recent results were taken in April 2008 and showed a particulate level of 14.9 mg/m3 which as you can see is below the limit.  However, the dust the residents complain about is not, in our opinion, from the chimney.</p>
<p>Below, the sight that greets local schoolkids each morning&#8230;</p>
<p><img src="http://www.liverpooltimes.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/sonae-smoke.jpg" alt="Sonae in Kirkby" title="sonae-smoke" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1200" /></p>
<p>The site has numerous potential sources of dust emissions and some of these have previously been identified through officers monitoring the site, whilst in the area during complaint investigations or when carrying out a site visit. With a site of this size it is important that maintenance and inspection regimes are strictly adhered to.</p>
<p> It is fair to say that over recent years the standards of control have improved. However recently, as a result of the investigations made following the receipt of dust complaints, several sources were identified and an action plan was drawn up by Sonae to address these issues. </p>
<p>A timescale was also assigned for their completion.  </p>
<p>Many of these actions have already been completed but there are still some that require more thought, planning and investment to eliminate them as a potential source of dust.  </p>
<p>Once all the work has been completed a further site visit will be made to check if other emission sources exist and to check on the effectiveness of those measures which have been put in place.</p>
<p> The council has recently located an air quality monitoring station in the Northwood area, which amongst other things continuously monitors the level of breathable dust in the atmosphere.  It is not specifically aimed at monitoring the level of dust from Sonae but it will monitor the level of breathable dust in the area. If higher levels of dust are seen when the wind is in a particular direction then investigations will be made in order to try and find the reason for the increase. Results from the continuous monitors, taken over the last 3 months, have not shown any breaches of the health based National Air Quality Standards.</p>
<p>Officers are aware of the site’s potential for the emission of dust and we will therefore continue to work with residents and Sonae in order to try and prevent these emissions.</p>
<p>With regards to your comment on the dust mountain photographs you have taken I would like to inform you that the majority of the material now stored in the wood yard, visible from Simonswood Lane, is woodchips that have been pre-screened to remove a large proportion of the dust.  </p>
<p>Yours sincerely,</p>
<p>John Baxter</p>
<p>Environmental Health Manager</p>
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