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Sorry Jase, I agree with Bushnut. I thought Wiki didn't agree with posting gossip on the news page?

As it has been said many, many times before we are on street level were we get the news and photos well before any news paper so we leve it for a few days for it to come out in the news, if it don't then we remove it or edit it

Half the time, the media take their stories from rumours grown in someone's head, Chinese whispers, or even just plain fiction thought up by the article writer; it's certainly not unknown for a bystander to over-hear or be told directly, the story as to what happened and how it happened, and that it actually turns out to be true. Sometimes, the people on the ground know more than the police or the general media (take the Rhys Jones murderers for instance, people knew who they were, it had filtered through the local community before the plod had got to the lowlife ...-bags - and I'm not suggesting that names should have been posted in that instance as it could have led to unfounded revenge attacks etc, I'm merely using it as an example for the locals sometimes knowing more than the official channels).

Whilst there has to be a level of sensitivity applied, this has to be kept in context, and the internet (and wiki) are a place for open discussion, opinions and to a degree, a rumour-mill - without this, wiki would struggle to survive.

Firefighters tackle blaze above Indian restaurant in Wallasey



FIREFIGHTERS fought a blaze above an Indian restaurant.

Crews from Birkenhead and Wallasey were called to the scene of a fire in King Street, Wallasey, just after 6pm yesterday.

The fire began in a first-floor flat above the Tandoori Mahal restaurant.

Three crews managed to extinguish it before it spread through the building.

Firefighters remained at the scene last night as building inspectors were called in to see what could be salvaged.

King Street remained closed between Union Street and Tobin Street late into the evening


THE WIRRAL NEWS