These are the latest ECHO headlines this morning.
'Sleepy' village in shadow of nuclear plant with no shop or pub
A "sleepy" village with no shop, pub or bus sits in the shadow of a nuclear plant.
Capenhurst, with more than 300 residents, is the type of village where strangers invite you into their homes for a cup of tea. Kids play on the village green beside the sandstone pinfold, an animal enclosure from the 10th century.
Cyclists zoom past, with the occasional sound of cars passing along the road to Ellesmere Port, just a mile away. George Hitchell, 87, said: "It's very peaceful. I was lying in bed last night and I said to my wife, 'Isn't it quiet?'. You don't hear anything, which is nice."
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Originally from Birkenhead, he and his wife moved here 54 years ago, raising five children in a house provided by the Atomic Energy Authority when George was employed as a project engineer at its recently reactivated uranium enrichment plant. The government research organisation owned a row of "factory houses" on one side of the green, with cottages, council houses, and the village's 129-year-old school further down on the other side.
The plant is now owned by Urenco, a British-Dutch consortium. Some of the village's older residents who lived in Capenhurst when the government owned the site are gone and young families have arrived in their place to raise children. But little else has visibly changed in this conservation area, George said as he sat in an armchair with a view of the tall, protected trees behind his two-story house.
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Mum thought she would never be able to walk down street sober
Never in her "wildest dreams" could Lynsey Brownless imagine walking down the street sober a few years ago.
But now, she's giving lectures to students at Liverpool John Moores and Hope University, and is about to start a degree in adult nursing herself. It's from inside a shop on County Road in Walton that people like Lynsey are turning their lives around.
The premises are home to AP Coaching and Mentoring Academy CIC, which has helped over 200 people to stay clean from drug and alcohol addiction and go on to build a life for themselves.
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Angela Preston started the academy three years ago, which she now runs with the help of a team of coaches, project managers, students and volunteers. Having watched a member of her own family suffer from addiction, Angela set out to bridge the gap between other recovery and support services in the city with the launch of a ten week accredited personal development programme.
Angela, 54, told the ECHO : "Addiction can hit anyone at all, my life is torn apart by it. This city is horrendous for drugs.
"I didn't want other families to go through what we've gone through and I thought surely there's more that needs to be done here."
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Faces of ten people jailed in Merseyside this week
These are the people jailed this week for crimes linked to Merseyside.
They include a dad cleared of murder but found guilty of manslaughter after he brutally killed a burglar who had targeted his home.
Others jailed at Liverpool Crown Court this week include a paedophile caught with indecent images of children for the fourth time and a man who subjected his neighbour to weeks of abuse before stabbing him.
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Two stalkers who subjected their ex-girlfriends to separate campaigns were also jailed, as was a burglar who stole items intended to be sent to help people displaced by the war in Ukraine.
These are the people jailed in Liverpool this week.
