BOLTON: Four British women, including one from Bolton, are hoping to break two world records in an Atlantic rowing race – and take 25,000 people with them on the crossing.

The Atlantic Angels – as the team has called itself – are asking each supporter to post a photograph of themselves online, which will then be printed on the hull of the boat.

The Faceboat initiative, which aims to raise £250,000 for cancer, has gone live on the group's website.

Rachel Flanders, 17, from Bolton; and her crew are attempting to smash the existing all-female fours Atlantic crossing time of 67 days and 7 hours.

CARLISLE: A teenager who sparked an international investigation when she ran away to Egypt at Easter has gone missing again.

Amy Robson, 17, of Beaumont, has been missing since Friday.

Her mother Janet reported Amy missing to police after she failed to return home from college.

Cumbria Police are making inquiries.

ROCHDALE: A paper boy who died after a collision in Milnrow village has been named.

James William Moran, 16, of Ashfield Lane, Milnrow, had been delivering newspapers on his bike early in the morning when he was in collision with a blue Vauxhall Vectra being driven by a 35-year-old man.


MANCHESTER: A 17-year-old boy will go on trial charged with the murder of a 12-year-old girl shot dead in her own home.

Kamilah Peniston, above, was blasted in the forehead in the living room of her family home in Wembley Road, Gorton, Manchester, on April 30.

The boy will stand trial charged with the schoolgirl's murder.

Kamilah was described as a "model pupil'' by her headmaster at St Thomas Aquinas school in Manchester.


SOUTHPORT: A 10-year-old boy who broke his leg when he was hit by a car driven by Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard in Merseyside is recovering from his ordeal.

England football star Gerrard was driving his Bentley along Grantham Road in Birkdale on Monday when the accident happened, a spokesman for Gerrard said.

The footballer stopped after the collision to comfort the youngster and will visit him in the next few days, his spokesman said.

The boy, named in reports as Jamie Halliwell, had just left Our Lady of Lourdes School in Southport at about 3.15pm.

A spokesman for Gerrard said he was driving "very slowly'' at the time of the accident.

He said: "Steven was driving very slowly through an area of Birkdale when a young boy ran out and hit the side of his car."

LIVERPOOL: A medical salesman who conned a court into believing he was a doctor attending an emergency call to get off a speeding fine has been jailed for a year.

Doctor's son Omid Mohammed Chiang, 26, who has no medical qualifications, wept as Judge John Boggis QC imposed the sentence at Southampton Crown Court.

Judge Boggis said Chiang had shown "breathtaking nerve'' in getting off the speeding fine and then brazenly claiming £1,600 costs from the court.