Kelsey Maxwell

Chief Reporter

Kelsey is St Helens born and bred and is the Chief Reporter of the St Helens Star newspaper covering breaking, national and local news and entertainment. She previously worked solely on the Leigh Journal newspaper, which she currently still writes for as a secondary title. She has worked for Newsquest as a journalist for eight years and during that time has helped campaign for Violet-Grace's Law and Helen's Law. Kelsey studied at UCLAN where she achieved a degree in Journalism and English Literature and is NCTJ Gold Standard Certified and has an NQJ qualification. Call Kelsey directly on 01744 762711.

Kelsey is St Helens born and bred and is the Chief Reporter of the St Helens Star newspaper covering breaking, national and local news and entertainment. She previously worked solely on the Leigh Journal newspaper, which she currently still writes for as a secondary title. She has worked for Newsquest as a journalist for eight years and during that time has helped campaign for Violet-Grace's Law and Helen's Law. Kelsey studied at UCLAN where she achieved a degree in Journalism and English Literature and is NCTJ Gold Standard Certified and has an NQJ qualification. Call Kelsey directly on 01744 762711.

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Donors desperately needed after blood shortage

A perfect storm of increased demand of O type blood from hospitals following the recent cyber attack which has impacted London hospitals and reduced collections due to high levels of unfilled appointments at donor centres in town and city centres including Liverpool, has caused stocks of blood to drop to unprecedentedly low levels. NHS Blood and Transplant has written to hospitals today to issue an “Amber Alert” asking them to restrict the use of O type blood to essential cases and use substitutions where clinically safe to do so. O negative and O positive donors are asked to urgently book and fill appointments at donor centres.