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CHRISTMAS COMES EARLY TO ALDER HEY UNIT
THE Cranial Facial Unit of the Alder Hey Hospital was presented with a brand new laptop this week by Yvonne McDermott, regional director of sales for the North, first2office. This was a mark of appreciation for the hospital's assistance with a recent competition ,which involved the children of several wards designing a set of Christmas cards. The winning designs have been made into cards for office2office plc and its associated companies and have now been sent to thousands of customers who purchase all manner of office consumables.
There were six winning designs, produced by children ranging from three to 14 years of age. Yvonne presented each child with a commemorative wooden art case, a gift voucher and a supply of the cards for their own personal use, as a further token of the company's appreciation. Yvonne said:- "We wanted to produce a corporate Christmas card which was memorable and in so doing, help a good cause. The work done by the Cranial Facial Unit at Alder Hey is world class and it is a great pleasure to be able to provide them with this laptop which will further assist with the unit's ground-breaking work. Our customers have commented on the superb quality of designs produced - after the success of this year's card we will now have to start thinking about our 2005 card even earlier next year!"
ADVANCE WARNING OF SEVERE WEATHER
AT 10:01 on
Christmas Eve, the Met Office issued an advanced warning of Heavy Snow affecting Scotland, Northern Ireland, England and Wales. Despite the rain
forecasters at the met Office continue to predict snow across much of Scotland during Christmas Eve afternoon, followed by heavy snow showers.
The Met Office says that "These snow showers will extend further south into parts of Northern Ireland, northwest England, and Wales by Christmas Eve evening to give significant accumulations of snow in places overnight especially over higher ground.
On Christmas Day there'll be further snow showers, chiefly across north and west Scotland, northern parts of Northern Ireland, west Wales and also northwest England, leading to accumulations of more than 10cm in places to give dangerous driving conditions. Smaller amounts of snow are likely to penetrate further south and east into parts of the Midlands and southern England.
Strengthening winds will bring blizzard conditions to some parts of western Scotland and Northern Ireland on Christmas Eve night.
On Boxing Day, there'll be further snow showers chiefly across northern Scotland, and both eastern and western coastal counties of Britain, although these will gradually die away during the day.
For enquiries regarding this warning - please contact your regional Met Office."
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COASTS AT THE EDGE
Report with thanks to Roisin Rowley-Smith
THE discovery of human and animal footprints found at Formby Point has unearthed clues to the lives of ancient man. This was just one of the subjects discussed when experts gathered at Edge Hill's Ormskirk Campus for the fifth annual geography conference Coasts at the Edge.
Students, lecturers and representatives from the National Trust, the RSBP, Sefton Council, the National Museums and Galleries of Merseyside and the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory met to explore how people interact with the coastal zone in the region.
Gordon Roberts of the National Trust presented plaster casts of human and animal footprints from Formby Point believed to be 5,000 years old. As the coastline erodes, the prints, once covered by sand dunes, are becoming visible. Mr Roberts has spent the last 15 years photographing, measuring and mapping the footprints, as well as taking casts, finding evidence of family activity including prints of children playing, as well as a young pregnant woman.
Annie Worsley is senior lecturer in Physical Geography, she said:- "Mr Roberts' work has led to the unfolding of the story of how people have been using our coastline for thousands of years for hunting, fishing, gathering of foodstuffs and traversing the coastal zone. My part in the work has been to help him reconstruct the local environment through a forensic examination of the sediments and organic remains held within the deposits, discovering material such as charcoal, pollen, spores, roots and leaves."
The conference provided the opportunity for third year degree students to gain valuable experience presenting their final year projects, based on topics ranging from conservation and the Sefton Coastal Partnership, to studies of the salt marshes at Marshside Annie Worsley:-
"The conference provides the perfect platform for presenting geographical findings to a range of experts from north west organisations as well as those from other universities such Wolverhampton and Liverpool."
Explosive Devices Arrest
A 19 Year Old man from Croxteth was arrested on the 22 December on suspicion of manufacturing explosive devices following the discovery of a number of devices on wasteland in Croxteth in June this year.
DI Dave Brunskill, said:- "The arrest today follows a six month Investigation which has been complex and involved a significant amount of painstaking investigation work. We will use every means available to us to gather the evidence which will secure convictions of those who are prepared to resort to manufacturing these devices.
Reckless actions like these put members of the public at risk and damage the reputation of the city. I would like to reassure members of the public that we will not tolerate offences such as these, which have the potential to seriously impact on the safety of the local community."
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