FORMBY Over 190 Years in the Local Community
£2145 28 February 2018
Vol 25 ● Issue 9
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Customers car park at Formby Waitrose Supermarket.
‘ANPR’ cameras could be installed at store car park PLANS have been submitted for Waitrose’s car park in Formby to be installed with ANPR cameras to enforce parking overstay fines. Applicant Richard Dance has submitted a planning application to install two new automatic number plate recognition cameras at the entrance and exit of the car park at the supermarket on Three Tuns
Lane. The design and access statement submitted with the plans states that the ‘new pay on foot system will help facilitate the availability of parking spaces for Waitrose customers.’ Residents had until February 27 to share their views on the plans, with a decision on the application expected to be made by next month.
Pepper shaken by act of cruelty
OPT-OUT PLAN FOR ORGAN DONATION HAS MP’S BACKING Report by Danielle Thompson
SEFTON Central MP Bill Esterson is backing plans to introduce an ‘opt-out’ system for organ donation in England. The Shadow Business Minister was in Parliament on Friday, February 23 to give his support to the private member's bill which would make organ donation automatic unless a person had opted out. A national newspaper is running a campaign named Max’s Law after nine-year-old Max Johnson who received a new heart after a transplant operation. The plans, which are already law in Wales, could make hundreds more organs available each year for people on the transplant list.
Max Johnson
The private members’ bill passed its second reading on Friday, and the government has said it ‘wholeheartedly ’ supports the bill. Mr Esterson told the Champion: “Hun-
dreds of people die each year waiting for a transplant and anything that can help ease that suffering is a positive. “I respect any person’s right to decide for themselves whether they want to donate organs after death, but it is a significant change to ask people to opt out of the system if they do not wish to donate, rather than opt in if they do, as is currently the case. “There will still be safeguards in place to ensure that no organs would be donated against a family’s wishes. Opting out will be very easy and the NHS believes 500 lives a year could be saved if there were organs available to use. “I am already on the donor register and would support my organs being used to help save the lives of others. Continued inside