Ishbel Straker’s career was going from strength to strength when she blew the whistle on another healthcare provider. She says this started what would become a vindictive and malicious campaign to destroy her career by the nursing regulator.

RIP Ziggy x

In Liverpool, like most of the UK’s big cities, dozens of rough sleepers sit on the cold ground as people rush by to pick up their final Christmas shopping I spoke to some of them about spending Christmas sleeping rough and whether they have any faith in the government’s plan to tackle this crisis

Oh FFS!!!!!!

Today's @liverpoolecho.co.uk premium piece looks at the case of the Liverpool City Region's £10m hydrogen buses. Introduced to great fanfare, they disappeared from view as problems mounted. Now a major decision has been made about their future. Full story for subscribers.

With Paul Doyle now sentenced to 21 years in prison, attention turns to the questions that remain about the safety plan for the event in which he caused so much carnage Many are asking how & why he was even able to get so close to so many walking fans www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

Well it’s not quite waking up with an FFS…

There has been a really bizarre outpouring of sympathy/defence in some quarters for Paul Doyle, who deliberately drove his car into hundreds of people, causing horrific trauma and injuries. This person says that he knows more than Doyle’s own lawyers because he happens to have a degree.

BREAKING: Liverpool FC parade crash driver Paul Doyle is sentenced to 21 years and six months in prison www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

LFC parade crash driver Paul Doyle bit sailor’s ear off in pub brawl www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

Multiple Liverpool city centre flat blocks 'high risk' for fires with 'waking watches' in place

When Charlie Kirk, a commentator who stirred up hatred and prejudice was killed, the Trump government led a purge against anyone who commented on it in a way they didn’t like. When a beloved director & actor is brutally murdered, Trump mocks and criticises him just hours later. Revolting hypocrisy.

Trump has done so many terrible things, but something about that deranged and hideous response to a man and his wife being brutally murdered has taken things to an appalling new level. There is a genuine psychopath in the Oval Office.

Really chuffed to be shortlisted in four different categories for the Regional Press Awards. Equally pleased to see great colleagues nominated and the @liverpoolecho.co.uk recognised for our coverage of the LFC parade crash and campaigns for Hillsborough Law and Zoe’s Place baby hospice

My colleagues @adameverett.bsky.social and @paddyedrich.bsky.social are in court today for the sentencing of LFC parade crash driver Paul Doyle Follow along for all the updates www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

Been thinking about this guy all day. The stones on the man. A true hero.

16 now confirmed dead in the terror of Bondi, including a child. Impossible to comprehend such horror and what all those people have been through.

Liverpool is at a pivotal moment - the next decade is so important

Make your minds up lads

The very same commentators that spent years condemning anti-semitism in UK politics as a major national scandal, have suddenly lost interest now that it implicates one of their own www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-farage...

Liverpool’s majestic Anglican Cathedral in the winter morning light

Gorgeous winter sun on the Mersey today

Hook, line and sinker. Brilliantly done.

Simon Heffer's appointment will cause outrage in this city and add to calls to abolish the second chamber, writes @liamthorp.bsky.social www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/news-op...

Simon Heffer's appointment will cause outrage in this city and add to calls to abolish the second chamber, writes @liamthorp.bsky.social www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/news-op...

@liverpoolecho.co.uk launched its premium service yesterday. Great read here from @liamthorp.bsky.social on how Liverpool changed Michael Heseltine www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

Scousers are the most generous people on earth

Ketamine is an increasing public health concern in cities like Liverpool. There are growing reports of very young people suffering with debilitating impacts after heavy use of the drug. I delved into the growing crisis in the city for this premium long-read.

Fascinating to talk to Lord Heseltine for an in-depth chat about how his visit to Liverpool after the Toxteth riots in 1981 changed his career and his life. He also slammed Farage and any Conservative following his "populist, prejudiced' playbook This is a subscriber only piece 👇

Today the @liverpoolecho.co.uk is launching a premium subscription service, offering an ad-lite, cleaner reading experience, exclusive quality journalism and behind-the-scenes reporting. To start, here's a fascinating chat I did with Lord Michael Heseltine, the only Tory heralded in Liverpool (1/4)

What an absolute Wingding!

Sometimes dark humour is exactly what’s needed

Just amazing images of Liverpool here

Does anyone else do that thing when they look at their diminished bank balance halfway through the month and begin forensically analysing your transactions, convinced there has been some sort of fraud, only to come to the inevitable conclusion that you just spent it all?

Absolutely bonkers stat on the BBC: The partnership between Will Jacks and Ben Stokes lasted longer than either of England's entire innings in Perth in the first Test.

In the traumatising aftermath of the Hillsborough disaster, desperate friends and family searched for their loved ones only to be treated with chaos and contempt These are their stories

This really isn’t going away is it. Reform’s line that all these many people are lying just isn’t remotely plausible.

A million times this. It’s incredible that the ‘big brains’ advising the Labour Party genuinely think that they can convert people who are fans of Farage to vote for Keir Starmer. It’s just not going to happen, however cruel your policies become.

Good to see a fulsome apology on this but it remains absolutely insane that someone wrote those words down and someone else approved them. Well done to @ianbyrnemp.bsky.social for pushing on this.

There were so many shameful lies told by police and others about Liverpool fans and the Hillsborough disaster This was one of the nastiest

This is embarrassing now from England. Spineless.

Think that’s the Ashes gone guys

Oh ffs - someone needs to kidnap Mitchell Starc

As a certified public transport nerd, it js good to see this kind of investment www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

This bowling effort was not worth waking up early for

Woke up to that Head wicket. Boy was it needed.

The UK right: ‘Why are we supporting so many foreigners, we should be supporting our own in this country’ Government announces plans to lift hundreds of thousands of kids out of poverty and to help struggling parents afford baby formula The UK right: ‘No we didn’t mean them’

‘Average’ Joe Root there. Well done fella, that was a big one.

Harry Brook has to be the most talented moron ever

Dylan trying to get his head around that brainless Brook shot to Starc