A COUNCIL MAGAZINE FOR RESIDENTS OF HALEWOOD, HUYTON, KIRKBY, PRESCOT, WHISTON AND SURROUNDING AREAS Issue 4 Winter 2005 www.knowsley.gov.uk It’s a mini adventure Children sign up to warden scheme PPLUSLUS AANTI-RACISMNTI-RACISM CCAMPAIGNAMPAIGN CCHRISTMASHRISTMAS AADVICEDVICE SSPECIALPECIAL FFOUROUR EEXCLUSIVEXCLUSIVE CCOMPETITIONSOMPETITIONS E2715E2715 KnowsleyKnowsley News.inddNews.indd 1 111/23/051/23/05 44:43:21:43:21 PMPM EE27152715 KnowsleyKnowsley NNews.inddews.indd 2 111/23/051/23/05 110:19:150:19:15 AMAM In this issue Welcome Regulars News 4,8,14 Round Your Way 6 Keeping trouble out My Knowsley 9 Sylvia Gore Ask the Expert 12 Christmas Special HELLO and welcome to the winter edition of Knowsley News. Your Health 15 I’d like to start by thanking Smiles better everyone who turned out to the launch of the Knowsley Against Racism campaign at the Memory Lane 17 King George V Sports Centre, How Kirkby got to where it is 6 Huyton. The launch event was a huge Shelf Life 18 success and just underlined Book and DVD highlights that the people of the borough 13 are really getting behind the campaign and are determined What’s On 19 to stamp out this unacceptable behaviour. There’s a double Sport 22 page feature on the campaign 10 on pages10-11. This issue also focuses on the Competitions 24 council’s drive to improve the Win leisure club membership borough’s neighbourhoods. or a hamper Some residents have already 17 benefi ted from this including those in Youatt Avenue, Prescot, as featured in this Features issue’s Round Your Way section. Zero tolerance on 10 I want to ensure that every racism resident benefi ts from this 8 campaign and if there’s a problem in your area, I want to hear about it. You can contact me through 14 the magazine at the address on the bottom left of this page. I’d also like to hear from you on any council-related issue, including your opinions and suggestions for Knowsley News. Finally, I’d like to wish everyone a merry Christmas and a happy New Year – enjoy 10 yourself! Knowsley News is produced by Knowsley Council four Knowsley News is also available in other formats including times a year and distributed to all households in the borough. The next edition will be published in March. Braille, large print and audiotape. If you are registered blind or Cllr Ron Round If you have any comments or feedback – visually impaired you should receive an audiotape version of the or would like to write a letter for publication – Leader of Knowsley Council please contact the editor, Gareth Roberts, at: magazine. Telephone customer services on 0151 443 3197 Knowsley News, Municipal Buildings, PO Box 21, Huyton, Knowsley, L36 9YU. Tel: 0151 443 3397. or email: [email protected] Fax: 0151 443 3507. Email: [email protected]. Edited, designed and printed by Limehouse www.limehouse.co.uk EE27152715 KnowsleyKnowsley NNews.inddews.indd 3 111/23/051/23/05 110:19:190:19:19 AMAM News Borough in brief Smoking ban vote KNOWSLEY’S Councillors have voted overwhelmingly in favour of supporting a Merseyside Bill that would ban smoking in all enclosed workplaces. Cllr Ron Round, Leader of Knowsley Council, said: “We have already been working hard to encourage businesses in Knowsley to sign up to a smoke-free environment, and many have already EARLY START been rewarded with a Roy Castle Lung Cancer IF THE CAP FITS: Jessica Jones took part Foundations National FOR BOROUGH in Knowsley’s mini-warden scheme. She Clean Air Award.” is pictured here with Ian Gibb, Assistant Manager of the Neighbourhood Warden Anthony WARDENS Scheme in Prescot. Walker fund A FUND has been CHILDREN in Knowsley took part in a ground- established in memory of Anthony Walker, who was breaking Mini Wardens’ Scheme this year By Vicki Gianelli murdered in Huyton in July. Donations, payable Th e Mini Wardens’ Scheme is By completing the Mini Ian Gibb, Assistant Manager to ‘LCVS Anthony Walker one of the fi rst of its kind in the Wardens’ Scheme, the children of the Neighbourhood Warden Memorial Fund’ should country. Children are involved in are half way to achieving the full Scheme in Prescot said: “Th e be sent to: Liverpool clean-up projects and the scheme Mayor of Knowsley Award which scheme has proven to be very Charity and Voluntary encourages them to take pride in is a programme of practical, successful. Services, 14 Castle the borough at an early age. cultural and adventurous activities “Th e new link with the awards Street, Liverpool, L2 0NJ. Neighbourhood Wardens to help young people develop. team means that we can keep in For more information run the scheme which gets local Th e Mini Warden Scheme was touch with the children aft erwards about the memorial children involved in a summer set up four years ago by Tower Hill and do something worthwhile fund please contact Ken programme of activity to highlight wardens and has now been rolled with them which will keep them Martin, LCVS Charity the important work the wardens do. out borough wide. off the streets.” Services Co-ordinator, on 236 7728. Cleaner Knowsley Business park boost A CRACKDOWN on fl y- KICKING THE DRUG HABIT tippers and litter louts in DERELICT land at the heart of Knowsley Knowsley is paying off. DRUG users who have turned to crime to fund their Industrial Estate is to be transformed into A zero-tolerance policy habit can receive help to change their lives for the better a prestigious business park – creating introduced by the council thanks to a new scheme in Knowsley. more than 300 jobs – after millions of and supported by the Th e Drugs Intervention Programme - run by Knowsley pounds of public sector funding was police has resulted in Council in partnership with Lighthouse Project - aims approved. two arrests for illegal to help adult addicts kick the habit while benefi ting the The 28-acre Alchemy site is considered dumping. community by reducing drug-related crime. one of the most important business parks And two people have Th e programme fi rst provides medical support to in Merseyside. been issued with fi xed help users get over the physical symptoms of addiction. There will be 10 new workspace units penalty notices after Support and advice is then off ered to enable them to directed towards small and medium sized being caught on camera return to training or work and help with housing businesses as well as a new access road from the A580 East Lancashire Road, dropping litter from a car. and benefi ts. comprehensive landscaping and extensive The tough approach Clients can be referred to the programme by includes covert security measures. the police, their parole offi cer, health workers, surveillance and council The site is in the Approach 580 Strategic family or can choose to self-refer. offi cers sifting through Investment Area, one of eight such areas rubbish looking for To contact Knowsley’s Intervention across Merseyside, where investment evidence to point to Programme direct, telephone is being concentrated to help economic criminals who illegally 0151 480 5398 during offi ce hours. development. dump. 4 BETTER WORK AND LEISURE OPPORTUNITIES FOR EVERYONE EE27152715 KnowsleyKnowsley NNews.inddews.indd 4 111/23/051/23/05 110:19:330:19:33 AMAM FAMOUS FACE: Jon Culshaw with Brian Forrester, Danielle McCaffery, Danielle Byrne, Hayley Kiernan and Rachael Duffy at the offi cial opening of All Saints’ News new Sixth Form Centre. Borough in brief Grants for business If you’re interested in becoming self-employed or starting your own business, take advice from a road show that will soon be touring the borough. What’s more, you may qualify for a grant of up to £500. The grant scheme is part of a major drive to attract budding entrepreneurs TV STAR GOES BACK TO SCHOOL By Gemma Melling to the area and help create as many as 270 new businesses. TV COMIC Jon Culshaw made a big impression For more information call Mercy Chaita on at the opening of a new Kirkby sixth-form centre 477 4000 or call in to Th e Ormskirk-born star of further education courses and for the current sixth-form students Knowsley Business small screen hit shows including boasts modern classrooms, who achieved the best-ever GCSE Resource Centre, Admin Road, Knowsley Dead Ringers, 2DTV and Th e an offi ce and a social area for results in the school’s history. Industrial Park, Kirkby. Impressionable Jon Culshaw cut students, as well as wireless All Saints head, Brendan the ribbon on the new learning technology allowing the use McLoughlin, said: “We’ve always Kirkby kids have say facility at All Saints RC High Sixth of laptop computers and video believed this new facility would YOUNG people in Kirkby Form Centre. conferencing. make an enormous diff erence to have had their say on a Th e centre caters for students It has already proved to be an the attitude and motivation of our project to improve lives in studying A-levels and other inspirational learning environment students”. their community. The Communities That Care (CTC) programme links local people, agencies APPEAL FOR HELP and organisations to WINTER WARMTH promote healthy personal TO BEAT THE CHEATS and social development KNOWSLEY’S Counter-Fraud Unit is encouraging TWO schemes are available to help Knowsley among young people, while residents to blow the whistle on benefi t cheats. residents heat their homes this winter. reducing the risks of youth Th e unit is working hard to meet the Government Warm Front provides grants to make homes crime, drug abuse, school target of reducing fraud and error, by 25%, by 2006.