Good evening, these are the latest ECHO headlines.
Schoolgirl swung around by hair in vicious fight filmed on phone
Shocking video footage shows a girl being swung around by the hair in a fight before school.
The vicious altercation was reported to have taken place on Monday morning, April 25, on Walton Vale near to the Windsor Pub. Merseyside Police are appealing for information following the fight, which was filmed on a mobile phone and shared widely on social media.
It involved two girls, thought to be in their early teens, one of whom is a pupil at Archbishop Beck Catholic Sports College. Onlookers can be heard egging the girls on in the video, as one woman shouts "smash her into the wall."
A passerby attempts to stop the girls from fighting as she shouts "oi give it a rest." The woman then tells another onlooker "you're as bad as they are love", to which she replies "I know bye".
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Road known as 'Sleepy Hollow' rocked by shooting at cannabis farm
A road known as "Sleepy Hollow" was rocked by a shooting at a cannabis farm in Stoneycroft.
Emergency services were called after report that two men on electric bikes shot at a house night on The Beechwalk shortly before midnight on Monday. Once at the scene, police found a cannabis farm inside the house.
At this stage officers are treating the shooting as targeted. Today two bullet holes could be seen in the front window of a semi-detached house.
A woman who lives on the road said: "I heard two electric scooters going past, and then a couple of pops. I then heard the scooters going past my house again. By the time I looked out they were gone. "
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Girl, 14, born with condition which stopped her moving as a baby
A girl has undergone numerous surgeries throughout her life after she was born with a condition that prevented her from moving.
Heidi Rogerson was born with developmental dysplasia of the hip which meant as a baby she couldn't move or crawl. She was later diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome - a condition which causes all her joints to dislocate.
In the following years the 14-year-old from North Wales was further diagnosed with Beals-Hecht Syndrome, cerebral palsy, scoliosis of the spine and miserable malalignment syndrome. Heidi has undergone a number of surgeries throughout her life at Alder Hey Children's Hospital but has still been told it would be an "impossible feat" to follow her dreams.
But the teenager has defied the odds stacked against her to prove her doubters wrong by learning to swim. Her proud family hope her story will inspire other children to achieve their goals with Heidi aiming for Paralympic success in the future.
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