The nifty 250

POLICE are quizzing a man, aged 56, after a petrol bomb attack on the home of Gary Kays, one of the people jailed in connection with the murder of Rhys Jones.

A 16-year-old and her boyfriend managed to put the fire out quickly and were uninjured in the blaze at Mallard Close, Croxteth Park at 3am on Saturday.

Kays, 26, is serving seven years after being convicted of two counts of assisting an offender.

A 65-YEAR-OLD man has been shot after he confronted two youths on a motorbike. The bingo hall worker was shot in the leg after following the youngsters off the car park of Granada bingo on East Prescot Road, in Dovecot, on Saturday night. A passenger pulled out a handgun and fired four shots. Police have called it a ‘cowardly and violent attack’ and are appealing for information.

A FEMALE teacher who was suspended from Merchant Taylor's school following allegations of sexual misconduct involving sixth form students, has been charged with abusing a position of trust. Hannah McIntyre, 24, has been charged under section 16 of the Sexual Offences Act and will appear at South Sefton Magistrates’ Court on 28 July.

WIRRAL could be home to the UK’s largest indoor training academy – if planners give the go ahead. So much interest has been shown in the scheme that if it were allowed to proceed it would be booked up for the next two years. The academy would be based in an unused warehouse in Bromborough and would create 30 jobs.