Your election day special is here. As Sefton, St Helens and parts of Knowsley and Halton go to the polls, prospective candidates give their takes: www.livpost.co.uk/can-labour-w...

Ring roads have inspired literature, artwork and music. And yet, Britain's very first has never been properly appreciated: Queens Drive. To rectify this, we sent David Lloyd up and down the length of this important landmark in Liverpool's social history. www.livpost.co.uk/in-a-queens-...

Founded in 2020 by Christopher Torpey and Craig Pennington, grassroots music venue Future Yard is widely regarded as a local gamble that came good, lending a bohemian respectability to Birkenhead’s post-industrial state. 🧵

EXCLUSIVE: The Post has obtained documents revealing the extent of the money owed by two Big Help bosses, one of whom remains a sitting Liverpool Labour councillor. Read more: www.livpost.co.uk/exclusive-ne...

EXCLUSIVE: The Post has obtained documents revealing the extent of the money owed by two Big Help bosses, one of whom remains a sitting Liverpool Labour councillor. 🧵

Amid Hong Kong's gleaming skyscrapers, Andrew Carter began to long to eat a chicken balti pie at Elland Road at 3pm on a Saturday afternoon. Our weekend read is a moving personal essay on a life lived in and outside of Leeds - but always shaped by the city. You can read the full article below

Your Monday briefing is here, including: — A turnaround for Birkenhead market? — An update on the Ellis Cox case — Cycle lane controversy in Childwall And today's big story... 👇

Sefton council's had its fair share of problems over the years. The Post has written before about unfulfilled promises, left-behind high streets, and a failing SEN children's provision. Presiding over this has a strangely dynastic local Labour party, dominated by the Dowd and Maher clans. 🧵

Why have the latest NHS reforms caused so much anger across Cheshire and Merseyside? Staff feel “demoralised” and “lied to”. In March last year, health secretary Wes Streeting announced sweeping budget cuts to integrated care boards (ICBs), NHS bodies that plan and oversee local health services. 🧵

Today is William Shakespeare's birthday. Where better on Merseyside to reflect upon the Bard's works than Prescot, home of the £38 million Shakespeare North theatre? The Knowsley town is currently competing to become the UK's first Town of Culture, but it's not the only one on Merseyside... 🧵

Premature attempts at regeneration have left wastelands with names of unhinged grandeur — David Lloyd visited them 👇 www.livpost.co.uk/liverpool-th...

Your Monday briefing is here, including —A Big Help Project update —St Helens ward election rescheduled —LIPA School shuts for good And Fear and Loathing at the Hill Dickinson: how the "friendly derby" between Everton and Liverpool became acrimonious. www.livpost.co.uk/fear-and-loa...

Today, ex-fighter, addict and inmate Billy Moore is travelling to the "Britain First" march in Birmingham. While he claims he is simply documenting the event, some will say the author of A Prayer Before Dawn now belongs amongst the far-right demonstrators. The truth is more complex. 🧵

A major Liverpool developer has been accused of ripping off investors. He says he’s the victim of ‘blackmail’ 👇 Today's story about Integritas Property Group and its CEO, Mitchell Walsh www.livpost.co.uk/a-major-live...

It's Merseyside derby week, an opportunity for Evertonians to experience that dark, ominous feeling of impending embarrassment. As a form of exposure therapy, Laurence Thompson investigates what it will take for the club to overcome its (self-imposed?) limits. www.livpost.co.uk/the-hill-dic...

Today, we’re calling on the government to change the law. And we need your help 👇 www.livpost.co.uk/three-courts...

We hope you're looking forward to our event tonight: Total Stranger, featuring Melissa Blease and Francesco Mellina. Info below 👇 For now, please enjoy Melissa's writer's edition - a peek at what she's currently reading, listening to and thinking about. www.livpost.co.uk/wild-twins-a...

The first phase of the Southport inquiry concluded in November. The report, published today, is expected to shape the second phase later this year. PLUS: porpoises, public bills, Post Picks and Billy Moore. www.livpost.co.uk/what-can-we-...

Good morning, Merseyside, and a very happy Monday. ICYMI, our weekend read about the city centre's Grand National pilgrims. How did your horse get on? www.livpost.co.uk/forget-aintr...

The River Dee is Merseyside's boundary, separating the Wirral peninsula from Wales. Before the Mersey provided Liverpool with a commercially exploitable waterway, the Dee made Chester the mercantile centre of the North West. 🧵

It's the Grand National, one of the biggest days on Liverpool's calendar. Both culturally and economically, the world-famous race meet means a great deal to the region. But the excitement, of course, isn't just limited to Aintree. What about those who travel to the city just to watch the big race? 👇

Nerves receding, now getting SO excited about this! 🤩

How Rhys Jones unravelled the Eldonian Village mystery 👇 www.livpost.co.uk/facing-death...

Do be a Total Stranger. On Tuesday, we’re taking over Café Tabac with Francesco Mellina - digging into a Liverpool that was chaotic, creative, and on the edge of something. Think of rare photos, stories, and a bit of that “you had to be there” feeling.

We hope you spent the long Easter weekend as god intended: in Exchange Flags bothering the pigeons. This is exactly what @7streets got up to, and he’s written all about it in today’s newsletter, in which he asks the question — What if Exchange Flags was actually really good? 👇

David Lloyd @liverpoolpost.bsky.social Goodbye to the Royal Iris, a vessel of memories #Liverpool www.livpost.co.uk/goodbye-to-t...

Abi Whistance @abi-whist.bsky.social The Post @liverpoolpost.bsky.social For 10 years Northern Lights was at the heart of the Baltic. Now they’ve been evicted. #Liverpool www.livpost.co.uk/for-10-years...

ICYMI: For 10 years Northern Lights was at the heart of the Baltic. Now they’ve been evicted The community of potters, publishers and painters say they’ve been ‘thrown to the wolves’ www.livpost.co.uk/for-10-years...

Is the City getting uglier? www.livpost.co.uk/the-one-rule... Good article from @liverpoolpost.bsky.social This is why the City lost UNESCO World Heritage status. 😡 Want heritage? Here ya go, have a shipping container. What a shame the developers couldn’t provide some space within the building…

Three years gone, never to be forgotten 💔 Flashback to the obituary I wrote for @liverpoolpost.bsky.social 🙏https://www.livpost.co.uk/queen-of-the-drag-world-king-of-the/

A tad nervous, but.... can't wait!!! Original feature here: www.livpost.co.uk/pete-burns-w...

Last week, @7streets got misty eyed riding the Royal Iris on one of her final crossings, so we asked him to write about it. As he explains in the piece, this is where his dad proposed to his mum back in 1961 — it has serious history 👇 www.livpost.co.uk/goodbye-to-t...

The Post presents: "Total Stranger: The Unseen Photographs of Pete Burns and Dead or Alive." An evening with photographer Francesco Mellina and writer Melissa Blease at Cafe Tabac. Get your tickets today: www.livpost.co.uk/total-strang...

Your Monday briefing is here, including: ⛲️Councillors go tit-for-tat over Williamson fountains ⚖️XL bully that mauled pensioner "not aggressive" 📸 More on our April live event at Cafe Tabac And...👇

Established in 1835, the National Bank Limited operated a network of branches across England and South Wales before closing down in 1970. Its Liverpool branch opened on the corner of Fenwick Street in 1923 was a sight to be seen. 🧵

The Peak Cluster project has caused mass controversy on the Wirral. But what about HyNet, which will store millions of tonnes of CO2 under Liverpool Bay? Read on for @lancekthompson.bsky.social's deep dive into both Merseyside carbon capture and storage projects. www.livpost.co.uk/a-mississipp...

Is it just us, or do things in Liverpool look a little… ugly? Yes, there’s our lovely architectural heritage, and museums and art galleries aplenty… or we will, whenever they finally reopen. But we also have too many pustules — though, judging by King Edward’s Tower, apparently not enough. 🧵

Your Monday briefing is here, including: 🚔 Zutons guitarist suffers severe racist assault 🏭 The oil refinery discharging cynide into our waters 🏘️ Man behind New Ferry gas explosion dies And today's big story...

It was the biggest, bloodiest and most important battle in British history, that left five kings and three Viking earls dead and Æthelstan the sole ruler of a united England. But historians have long debated where the Battle of Brunanburh actually happened. Wait — "did you say Bromborough?" 🧵

For weeks now, the scandal around Mackie’s Memorials has been mounting. The proprietor, Thomas Smith, has been accused of not delivered grave markers for dozens of customers, sometimes many months after they paid up front. The shop is closed; the phone number disconnected.🧵

Jack Walton @liverpoolpost.bsky.social In the face of threats, a trainee priest saved his community www.livpost.co.uk/facing-death...

ICYMI: How Rhys Jones unravelled the Eldonian Village mystery 👇 www.livpost.co.uk/facing-death...

Another new week, another jam-packed Monday edition. In today's briefing: 💚 Labour and Lib Dems squabble after Greens win big in Aigburth. 🏙️ A new 70-storey high-rise for the waterfront 🧌 Warrington man wins Oscar for Frankenstein And today's big story: 👇

In 2023, trainee priest Rhys Jones found himself "in the middle of nowhere", traipsing his poor dog Job through "the tedium of Lancastrian landscapes" or to the petrol station at night for a packet of Haribo. He had nothing better to do. But it was better than getting shot. 🧵

Good morning and happy Friday, Merseyside. In case you haven't kept up with The Post this week, here's a runthrough of everything we've published since Monday. Read to the bottom to see how you can sign up for free and receive your weekend read — no credit card details needed. 🧵

ICYMI: In yesterday's investigation, Hill Dickinson, Everton’s stadium sponsor, is accused of withholding critical information by an NHS whistleblower👇 www.livpost.co.uk/a-doctor-tak...

Did the booming firm remove whistleblowing protections in law from 54,000 NHS medics and from 865,000 agency workers across other sectors? How? And what has this got to do with contracts that landed in my inbox all the way back in 2019? I try to tell this story today in @liverpoolpost.bsky.social

Less than a week left ⏰ A month ago we said: if 500 people backed the idea, we’d launch a new local newspaper for West Yorkshire based in Leeds. Overnight, we’ve just surpassed 400 pledges 💫 That means we’re within touching distance - but nothing is guaranteed yet.

One week to go to see if a new independent news outlet for Leeds and West Yorkshire will actually happen - if you'd like to see it and haven't yet pledged support for @leedsnewlocalpaper.bsky.social, please consider doing so. #LocalJournalismMatters