Welcome to Kirkby Times! You should find it easy to use the website and you can find your way round all the sections with the navigation bar at the side. All the older 2002/2003 news is still here, and 2004 news here - some of it updated and there is now a basic search facility on the news page where you can type in keywords to research local issues. The Website is updated several times a week and is the biggest online source of Kirkby related issues in the World.

An Independent Working Class website with news, views, reports, photo's and video's you won't see anywhere else. More content than Knowsley Councils website, more sense as well. The only website in Kirkby prepared to admit that some things are going wrong! No spin, No Ads and no pictures of the Lord Mayor, unless were making fun of him. Local News written by local people. On the spot reports and the stories the local political players and Knowsley Council want to cover up. You won't read this news in the Councils laughable 'news' paper: The Knowsley Challenge. You will here. What's more, you can contribute an article and/or photos and have YOUR say.

The Elderly in the UK are being thrown on a scrapheap, left abandoned in 'care' homes and under the 'protection' of Housing Trusts and Councils. Kirkby Times will give a voice to the elderly, and praise them for there magnificence in fighting for us. This was the generation which fought fascism so we could walk down the street without the swastika flying. They deserve better than hi rise hells and under-funded social services. Those who exploit the elderly are scum, so too are the politicians who tell us there's 'no money' for their care and provision. We must fight those who would deny our old folk a decent life.

The Hillsborough Football Disaster is an issue which is covered here. Many from Kirkby were there in 1989 when England's worse ever sporting disaster killed 96 men Women and Kids. The Cover Up began even before the dead were cold. Merseyside's former Chief Constable was one the men named in Parliament as being part of a Police Propaganda team, who were involved in passing the blame to Liverpool Fans. The cover up continues to this day.

First with reports on Sonae, read how the people of Kirkby are subjected to record levels of pollution and suffer from record levels of lung related diseases. Any connection? Is the Pope catholic? All this and much more in the Sonae section. Please keep sending in your reports regarding Sonae. We must fight these toxic lowlife - that's means kick them out - and if Kirkby sticks together on this issue - we will win - easily!

Reports on the local 'political gravy train', who's getting their hands on the grants and who's selling out the people for a fast buck. Corruption in Kirkby is non existent if you believe the Council's Newspapers and the Councillors. Actually, a Town with no opposition is always going to have a degree of corruption. Deals, Contracts, and a hundred other opportunities await for those not shy of a brown paper envelope of two. The Labour Mafia must be dismantled so democracy can have a chance here. Local Councillors must be judged by their actions - not their throwaway words. Kirkby Times will be there to make sure that local political players are not acting in secrecy as they usually do. Many reports are kept from the public domain; many decisions are made without the community's knowledge or consent. Blair promised open democracy but here in Kirkby our local councillors are far from open. The ordinary people are the last to know anything.

Crime is a subject or reality which affects a lot of us here. Kirkby Times has a number of articles relating to crime, and hopefully more people will take the time to email reports. Who else is going to report on the fact some heroin addicts robbed your house? Or that the Police took an hour to get a car out? Kirkby Times will include various crime reports, not as some campaign to help the Police, but to simply report on what's happening here. This web site is 100% independent from the Police and ALL authority. Let's not forget the biggest crime in the UK in the way our wealth is distributed to the rich.

Kirkby Times will go through a few changes over the next weeks/months and will hopefully be faster to download. A bigger server will mean more multimedia content - more full sized photos, more mp3s and videos and other features. Anyone local is welcome to contribute stories, reports, photos, graphics or social commentary. Even if you think the website is the biggest pile of crap to hit the internet - your views will eventually be published. Try to keep it legal - don't worry about the size of your article - send in a book if you want.

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