Bootle Strand News Today

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WIRRAL has become a popular destination for TV crews, with some huge award-winning shows being shot in and around the borough.

Bulldozers will roll in early next year to raze around 15% of the 400,000 sq ft shopping centre, kickstarting its £20m transformation.

The Strand will remain open to the public while demolition takes place next year

As Jon Venables is denied his bid for freedom because of his ‘long term sexual interest in children’, David James Smith - who has had access to his files and court papers over many years - asks why he was ever considered low risk to the public and a suitable case for parole

Ralph Bulger s life was destroyed 30 years ago when James, two, was abducted from a shopping centre in Merseyside by Jon Venables and Robert Thompson on February 12 1993.

On February 12, Jon Venables (left) and Robert Thompson (right), aged 10, murdered James Bulger (middle), aged 2, in a crime that shook the nation. What has happened to them since?

Venables, now 40, and Robert Thompson , 39, were both aged 10 when they kidnapped, tortured and killed two-year-old James before leaving his mutilated body by a railway line in Liverpool.

Denise Fergus , 55, from Merseyside will appear on James Bulger: The Trial, which airs on Channel 5 tomorrow.

Venables, 40, and Robert Thompson, 39, were both 10 when they kidnapped, tortured and killed the innocent two-year-old boy before leaving his body by a railway line in Liverpool 30 years ago.