CROSBY & LITHERLAND
15 January 2020
Chris Butler with his Golden Globe won for Missing Link
Fi l m - m a ke r on shortlist for an Oscar! JUST one week after picking up a Golden Globe, an animation film maker who studied at Hugh Baird College has now been nominated for an Oscar! Chris Butler’s ‘stop motion’ animation film Missing Link which won a Golden Globe last week is one of five films shortlisted from 35 nominations for the Best Animation Film category at this year’s Academy Awards, commonly known as the Oscars - the film industry’s most prestigious awards. It is again pitted against Disney’s Toy Story 4 and Dream Works' How to Train Your Dragon: Hidden World – both of which it triumphed over at the Golden Globes – and also Spanish film Klaus and French film I Lost My Body. Chris, from Maghull, attended Lydiate Primary School and Deyes High School, before studying at an art foundation course at Hugh Baird College and studying for a degree. After a spell in London he has been working for 13 years for Laika studios in Oregon where he made Missing Link. At the Golden Globes, Chris was not expecting to win so he did not prepare a speech. He might prepare one this time just in case! The Oscars will be held in Hollywood on Sunday, February 9.
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DRIVER HIT 140mph ON THE M62 WHEN CHASED BY POLICE Officers had to ram him off road after he hurtled along hard shoulder before doing a U-turn and driving down towards oncoming traffic Report by Lynda Roughley A DISQUALIFIED driver from Litherland led police on a horrifying 140 mph motorway chase, weaving in and out of heavy traffic and hurtling along the hard shoulder. The pursuing police car, which followed Stephen Beaumont for eight miles along the M62 from Liverpool towards Warrington, was eventually dramatically forced to ram him off the road when he suddenly did a sharp right heading towards oncoming vehicles. Miraculously no-one was injured as a result of his appalling driving which took place while he was being investigated following another high speed police chase in a stolen car and while banned following offences in 2017. Judge Stuart Driver, QC, told 30-year-old Beaumont that the latest offence was “as bad an example of dangerous driving as it is possible to see without serious injury, which was by pure luck.” He said it was aggravated by the fact he had been released under investigation for the earlier dangerous driving and while subject to supervision or licence after his jail sentence. “And the whole case is aggravated by your criminal record involving 27 previous
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convictions, some of which are motoring offences. Judge Driver jailed Beaumont, who has already been recalled to jail to finish his last prison term, for 27 months. He also banned him from getting behind a steering wheel for five years six weeks and until he takes an extended driving test. The defendant, of Beech Road, Litherland, pleaded guilty to two offences of dangerous driving, driving while disqualified and without insurance, handling a stolen car and possessing cannabis.
Iain Criddle, prosecuting, told Liverpool Crown Court that the first offences occurred on June 23, 2018 just before noon on the A49 in Cheshire in an Audi S1, stolen in a house burglary and bearing false registration plates. Mr Criddle said he committed the next dangerous driving offence on December 2 last year which began at 11.15 am on the M62 from junction 9 while he was driving a blue Ford Fiesta. “He clearly became aware he was being followed by a police vehicle and travelled eight miles at speeds up to 140 mph.” Mr Criddle played police dashcam footage of the chase which showed Beaumont travelling at times on the hard shoulder, crossing three lanes of traffic before crossing back and again travelling on the hard shoulder. Police deployed a ‘stinger ’ device which deflated one of the vehicles tyres but he continued along and exited the motorway at 90 mph, going through a red traffic light at the roundabout before going back onto the slip road back onto the motorway. He then made a sharp right taking him along the wrong side of the motorway and the pursuing officer ”took the decision to ram the vehicle to prevent him causing serious injuries to other road users,” said Mr Criddle. The court heard Beaumont’s record includes dangerous driving and aggravated vehicle taking offences. His barrister, Jack Troup said Beaumont had been jailed for a year in April last year for assault, possessing a knife and drugs and released on October 17 and “had been trying to re-build his life. His father had given him a job and he was doing well.”
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