FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 26 FEB - 3 MARCH 1974
This week's many stories include the result of the General Election in St Helens, a new library is planned for Blackbrook, complaints that Dentons Green Lane had been turned into a danger zone, the preservation plans for four historic Eccleston cottages, Sutton Manor Colliery miners' mercy coal shipment to Northern Ireland and the Vicar of St Peter's Church in Parr criticises the parents of children that vandalise his churchyard.