A UNIQUE archive of material relating to cinema from as far back as the 1930s has been donated to Edge Hill College of Higher Education. The archive is the result of three decades of work by Ormskirk-based film enthusiast Chris Roby. It includes academic and popular periodicals and fanzines...

AWARD-WINNING filmmaker Tomasz Malinowski has joined the teaching team at Edge Hill College of Higher Education. Tomasz is involved in the development of a proposed new degree in Media (Film and Television), which, subject to validation, will start in September 2003. He is already teaching at...

THE management of initial teacher training programmes at Edge Hill College of Higher Education has been praised by Government inspectors. An Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) inspection of primary training provision at the Ormskirk institution gave the top grade - Grade 1 - for...

The Worm Turns for Recycling Council bosses have enlisted an unusual mascot to help them tackle Lancashire's waste mountain - a cartoon earthworm! The Lancashire Waste Partnership is calling on residents to think about composting more garden waste as Spring and Summer approach with a new...

Lancashire County Council's Road Safety Group has a new weapon against excessive speed and road casualties among young drivers. The 'Legal Weapon' production from the Ape Theatre Company confronts issues of inappropriate speed, peer pressure and driver attitudes to encourage young drivers to be...

Liz Chalk was licensed as Lay Reader for Christ Church, Aughton at Liverpool Cathedral on Saturday, 15 March. The task of a lay Reader is mainly one of leading church services and preaching. This involved three years training by the Diocese and included one placement for Liz at St John and James...

TWO charities benefited from the generosity of staff at Edge Hill College of Higher Education. The institution's Staff Social and Welfare Group (SSWG) raised £170 for Child Victims of Crime and a further £170 for Knowsley Domestic Violence Support Services. The money was raised through a...

PRIME PINTER A selection of short plays and classic sketches By Harold Pinter The Rose Theatre, Edge Hill 7.30pm, 3 April 2003 LANCASTER'S Freehold Theatre Company present a rare opportunity to see a specially chosen selection of short plays and revue sketches from England's best living...

PROFESSOR Celia Brackenridge presents an open lecture at Edge Hill College of Higher Education on Thursday, 3 April 2003. Sex Abuse in Sport: Lies, Truth and Justice draws on Professor Brackenridge's groundbreaking book, Spoilsports: Understanding and Preventing Sexual Exploitation in Sport. In...

EDGE Hill College of Higher Education staff and students celebrated Cultural Diversity Awareness Week with a series of special events from March 10 to 14. Elaine Glasby, Equal Opportunities Support Officer, said: "Cultural Diversity Awareness Week is a way for everyone to celebrate the vast...

Skelmersdale & Ormskirk Colleges' recently received a glowing commendation for the quality of its new Construction and Trade Skills Centre, and was then asked to offer advice on how it has achieved its success! The stamp of approval came from Mark Tunnadine, External Verifier for CITB (The...

Do you know the best way to run your business? Do you know what training your staff need to make your business more viable? Are you already in business, and the red tape is getting you down? If so, Skelmersdale & Ormskirk Colleges may have an answer, which is free! Managing Change and IT...

Ormskirk’s Park Pool is looking very clean and tidy after West Lancashire District Council carried out an early ‘spring clean.’ The pool was closed between Christmas and New Year in order for intensive cleaning to take place, using brand new cleaning equipment. The Council has invested in a...

Community safety in Skelmersdale is taking a major step forward this week as the next phase of cameras in the £¾ million West Lancashire Community CCTV scheme start beaming back pictures from three locations in the town. The three new cameras are coming on stream this week - at Skelmersdale...

Pensions advice West Lancashire District Council and the Pension Service are working in partnership to offer more mature residents the chance to get advice and information on their pensions whilst on other business at the Council offices in Derby Street, Ormskirk. From Friday 7 February, the...

West Lancashire District Council’s Countryside Rangers are extending an open invitation to members of the public to wrap up in warm clothing and brave the winter weather on Saturday 8 February to join them for a walk around Ruff Wood in Ormskirk. The Rangers will be guiding a woodland walk of...

A new exhibition which explores the subject matter of people and places opens in Ormskirk’s Chapel Gallery from Saturday 8 February. The ‘People / Places’ exhibition deals with the relationship of individuals to their environments in a variety of media. Artists Rosemary Morrison, Noreen White,...

(This post also appears in the News section) Another Ormskirk school has gone to the top of the class - with a glowing OFSTED report. Earlier this week we reported on the excellent OFSTED review of Ormskirk School - now it’s West End Primary’s turn to take a bow… The Grimshaw Lane...

If you have not Then this is your wakeup call! ALL AGES WELCOME! Entance only £2.00........ &......... :eek: games that will get you interactig with the opposite sex! :cool: Do not forget the FIRST SINGLES NIGHT of 2003 at Roberta Lees, 30 - 36 Neville Street, Southport ------ ...

Ormskirk Sub Aqua Club was established in 1975 and has a broad band of members from all walks of life with various diving experiences. We meet every Wednesday in the Park Pool Ormskirk on Park Road at 9:00pm. Our URL is www.ormskirkdiver.com We offer you a fun and safe environment to learn...

We would like to invite you to Southport's only monthly 18-30's style single night. Set up for for 21 upwards the nights will be held at Roberta Lees nightclub on Neville Street on Sunday February 2nd, between 8pm and midnight. Admittance is just £2.00, which includes entertainment and games...

War with Iraq - what do you think? Should the UK join the US in the war on Iraq? That was the question posed by Maurice George of Ormskirk and Jacky Citarella of Newburgh who were outside Ormskirk library today (11/1/03) Saturday morning with an anti war petition. They were also...

Edge Hill is a friendly and welcoming college of higher education located just outside Ormskirk offering high quality undergraduate and postgraduate degrees and diplomas with research, continuing professional development and commercial training programmes. The attractive Ormskirk campus has...

Ormskirk Schools have to rely on agency and other temporary teachers. School Standards Minister David Miliband said today that Ofsted is 'right to raise the issue' of the way schools make use of supply teachers, The education watchdog's report shows that while a third of secondary and two...

Ormskirk is to keep tax rises to a reasonable level next year following a bigger than expected slice of Government funding. Council chiefs reported the new increased figure will be below 10%.

Evening view of St. Marks Church Scarisbrick 8/12/02 St. Marks was built by public subscription in 1851 at the corner of Jacksmere Lane on a site donated by Charles Scarisbrick. In 1907 The Good Shepherd Mission was built at Hurlston to serve parishioners in the eastern part of time parish....