Good morning, these are the latest ECHO headlines today.
Man shot multiple times in drive-by attack on busy road
A man was shot multiple times in a drive-by style attack on a busy Wirral road.
The 23-year-old victim was walking with a friend on Hoole Road, in Woodchurch, at around 6.30pm on Tuesday. A dark coloured car is believed to have driven along side the pair before a gunman shot one man a number of times.
The car then sped off from the scene in the direction of Houghton Road. In a statement, Merseyside Police confirmed that a shortly time later the man turned up at hospital with multiple gunshot wounds.
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He is receiving treatment but is believed to be in a serious condition. A spokesperson for the force told the ECHO : "At around 6.30pm this evening (Tuesday 22 March) officers were called to a report of a shooting on Hoole Road in Wirral.
"A 23-year-old man presented at hospital a short time later with gunshot wounds. He remains in a serious condition.
"Officers believe that the male offender was on board a dark coloured vehicle that made off at speed towards Houghton Road. An investigation is currently underway."
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Dealer 'about all day and night' says crack cocaine wasn't on the menu
A drug dealer said texts telling addicts he was "about all day and night" were only offering cannabis and ketamine for sale.
Convicted cocaine and heroin dealer Alex Nicholson was stopped by police in a Renault Megane, in Everite Road in Widnes, on January 16 this year. Officers searched the car and didn't find any drugs, but in the 29-year-old's jacket pocket discovered a Nokia described as a "burner type mobile phone".
Liverpool Crown Court heard the device was found to contain outgoing "flare" messages, offering drugs for sale, to known addicts in Northwich, Cheshire. One message sent out on New Year's Eve read: "About all day and night, 40s, two for 70, three for 100." Another, sent on January 6, read: "New work, on now."
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Nicholson, of Lakenheath Road, Halewood, was charged with two offences of being concerned in the supply of Class A drugs, namely crack cocaine and heroin. However, when he appeared at court in February, he indicated he would be willing to plead guilty in relation to the Class B drugs cannabis and ketamine instead.
Kyra Badman, prosecuting, today said the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) had reconsidered the case and now asked to prefer a new indictment consisting of two offences of offering to supply Class B drugs, which Nicholson then admitted. Ms Badman explained it was the contents of Nicholson's phone that formed the evidence in the case and while there were flare messages advertising drugs for sale, they did not specify the type of drug.
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Mother and son ran site where waste was burned illegally
A mother and son who ran a waste yard where rubbish was illegally stored and burned have been jailed.
Police and the Environment Agency (EA) took part in raids at MWM Recycling Ltd in August 2018. Two men were arrested and several vehicles seized at the site on Redfern Street in Kirkdale. Now two people have been jailed after they pleaded guilty to a number of waste crime offences in relation to the management of the site.
Patricia Hills ,69, of Moss Delph Lane, Aughton was jailed for one year. Her son Mark Hills, 44, of Turn Pike Road, Aughton, was jailed for eight months.
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Patricia Hills was in control of the site and Mark was responsible for its day-to-day running. A spokesperson for the EA said that MVM Recycling's environmental permit was revoked after a number of breaches, and they were issued with an enforcement notice.
But despite this waste continued to be stored and illegally burnt on site. Mrs Hills has also been banned from being a company director for five years, a spokesperson said.
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