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Wednesday, November 5, 2008
IN JOHN’S MEMORY
Legion in battle for survival
Family’s charity ball fundraiser See page 3
LIFEBOAT CEREMONY New station officially opened in Hoylake
● Malcolm Upton pictured with poppy wreaths ready to be placed at the cenotaph on Sunday
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THE world’s first Royal British Legion branch is fighting closure. Birkenhead British Legion, based in Birkenhead Park, is desperate to recruit new members to keep it open. Secretary Malcolm Upton said: “We’re trying to save the branch because over the last year some of our members have died and membership has dwindled.” The club, off Park Road East, does not have the same bar and social facilities as others in the area so struggles to attract younger members. The branch also had problems this year to recruit a Poppy Appeal organiser and volunteers to distribute poppies across the town; £35,000 was raised last year. A meeting to discuss the branch’s future will be held on December 16. ● Details of Remembrance Day services on Page 7.
PROBE INTO TIP CLAIMS
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POLITICAL UPDATE
Commercial vans ‘dumped waste at facility without paying’ By LORNA HUGHES
AN investigation is continuing this week into fraud allegations surrounding the dumping of waste at Bidston Waste Management Facility in Wallasey
Lib-Lab pact’s progress See page 10
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Bridge Road.
The inquiry is understood to be focusing on fears hundreds of tonnes of waste could have been dumped at the site without anyone being properly invoiced.
Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority (MWDA) has sus-
pended a member of staff at the centre and informed the police. A complaint was made to the MWDA by a member of the public on October 15, who said he feared lorries have been allowed to dump waste over more than two years. The complainant shot video footage which appears to
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show 32-tonne trucks weighing themselves on the weighbridge then entering the plant to dump their waste. He said lorries were not stopping at the weighbridge when they leave to calculate how much waste was dumped. If the site is not being properly monitored, he said, haz-
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