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Your Monday briefing is here, including: 🖱️Sefton council leader calls online abuse beyond the pale 🚨Police refer themselves to IOPC over Islington death 🎹How to spend your week: punks, alt-pop and prog rock www.livpost.co.uk/sefton-aviar...
Sefton aviary dispute continues to ruffle feathers
Plus: the latest on the triple stabbing outside G Bar
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“When Palace Pictures announced a premiere, they wanted it in London; I said, ‘No, we’re having it in Kirkby, and it’s all free ale, free food, and if we don’t have it in Kirkby, we won’t go.’" Ahead of the new stage adaptation, I went to meet Letter to Brezhnev's writer, Frank Clarke. rb.gy/w12v4u
Brezhnev’s back!
The 1985 rom-com is now a play. But is it still a hit, over 40 years later?
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Russian sailors, stuffing chickens and nicking your admirer's wallet: Kirkby's greatest rom-com has been adapted for the stage. But does it still hit, all these years later? We sent @sophieatkinson.bsky.social to investigate. rb.gy/w12v4u
Brezhnev’s back!
The 1985 rom-com is now a play. But is it still a hit, over 40 years later?
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How much power do you have over your children's school? In Mossley Hill, one Catholic primary's parents are battling an archbishop. We sent Ethan Penny to find out more: www.livpost.co.uk/in-mossley-h...
In Mossley Hill, one primary school’s parents are fighting against the Archbishop
Inside the plan to academise Merseyside’s Catholic schools
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The Earl of Derby is allowing 700 new homes to be built on safeguarded land in Knowsley Village, doubling the population. Is "Save Knowsley Village" mere NIMBYism? For your weekend read, we sent Laurence to find out. www.livpost.co.uk/the-local-lo...
The local lord is doubling the size of Knowsley Village — and the villagers are revolting
'A consultation nobody can read is not much of a consultation'
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In the 2000s, there was a belief that, with just a little ambition and effort, Liverpool could catch Manchester. Now that dream is dead, embracing "Manchesterism" threatens Liverpool's very soul. In today's Post, Jon Egan asks: just what is Liverpool for? www.livpost.co.uk/dont-let-man...
Don't let 'Manchesterism' devour Liverpool
Andy Burnham has been called a ‘dream’ for our city. But maybe he’s a nightmare
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Your Monday briefing is here, featuring: 🚘 Redundancies at Jaguar Land Rover ⚖️ The latest on the Hillsborough Law 🏘️ The estate "left to die" And today's big story: 👇
As water companies dump over a million hours of sewage into our streams and rivers, billions of pounds are paid out to shareholders. Does United Utilities fare better or worse than the others? And is it high time we discussed public ownership? www.livpost.co.uk/is-it-time-t...
Is it time to nationalise United Utilities?
Our antiquated system is causing problems — like sewage spilling into the Mersey
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Paul Askew: the godfather of Liverpool's restaurant scene talks to Melissa Blease about serving royalty, bias against the city and wanting to be the north's Albert Roux. www.livpost.co.uk/merseysides-...
Merseyside’s food scene has weathered prejudice. That hasn’t stopped Paul Askew
The Art School’s chef patron on plating dinner with MI5 watching and ‘food intelligence’
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Just how did a dispute about a local railway station's expansion become a national story and a debate over the Holocaust? Is this a case of daft remarks, or a genuine trivialisation of genocide? We speak to both Lib Dem and Labour figures involved. www.livpost.co.uk/a-nazi-death...
‘A Nazi death camp:’ inside the feud over Sandhills
How a planning committee dispute became a national story
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Good morning! Your Monday briefing has dropped. Including: 🏆A nomination for @Tommy___Greene ☀️The latest tourism figures from the city region 🗼The history — and future — of St John's Beacon 🖼️And LAST CHANCE to see not one, but two exhibitions... www.livpost.co.uk/where-is-tou...
Where is tourism booming?
Plus: York stones, Minton tiles and St John’s Beacon
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Your weekend read: Signature Living once seemed unstoppable. Now, its founder is banned from running businesses — again. But is Liverpool suffering from "Long Kenwright"? www.livpost.co.uk/living-in-th...
Living in the ruins of the Kenwright empire
Signature Living once seemed unstoppable. Now, its founder is banned from running businesses — again.
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In our latest writer's edition, Ethan gets to grips with a Martin Amis novel, Laurence listens to country and tracks down a rare tome, and editor Jack fumes about his writers' lack of literary appreciation: www.livpost.co.uk/railways-avi...
Railways, aviaries and the Devils
A writer's edition from Ethan and Laurence
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Your Monday briefing is here, including: 🇬🇧 Our hostile encounter with a New Brighton businessman and "NoContextBrits" 🍺 Your top five favourite Liverpool pubs 🧁 The demise of Sayers, a once favoured city institution ⚽️ Bezos consortium buys LFC stake 👇
For your weekend read, Alex Taylor dives into the wreckage of Liverpool's Titanic tourism, and comes back with a few fascinating artefacts. www.livpost.co.uk/can-liverpoo...
Can Liverpool salvage its Titanic legacy?
While the Maritime Museum remains closed, Titanic Belfast made £23m last year
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Last month, The Times reported that Liverpool is the UK’s fastest growing HMO hotspot. The number of HMOs in Liverpool has more than tripled since 2015, from 4,850 to 16,494 last year. In November, the city council opened bids for HMOs for temporary accommodation worth £21.5m. 🧵
Your Monday edition is en route. In the meantime, why not check out our second of two great weekend reads? This one's a brilliant personal essay by David Lloyd, recounting his time in the mighty Half Man Half Biscuit. www.livpost.co.uk/i-was-nt-a-t...
I Was(n’t) a Teenage Pop Star
My time as a Half Man Half Biscuit
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A great Sunday morning piece in @liverpoolpost.bsky.social, for fans of the semi-legendary Half Man Half Biscuit #HMHB www.livpost.co.uk/i-was-nt-a-t...
I Was(n’t) a Teenage Pop Star
My time as a Half Man Half Biscuit
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In 2017, punters in the Cleveland Arms pub in New Ferry were enjoying a Saturday night drink and a set by a local band. Mid-song, the doors and windows blew open with such violent force that glass, timber and other debris flew around the pub like toothpicks in a cyclone. 🧵
'... nothing good ever happened in a pub that has disco lights on at two o’clock in the afternoon' via @liverpoolpost.bsky.social www.livpost.co.uk/do-we-really...
Do we really need another Irish pub?
Castle Moat House is now McSwiggin’s; the Zanzibar is McNasty’s. When will the horror end?
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Your Monday edition is here, including: 🫶 Fond farewells to Abi from you, the readers 🇬🇧 Reform leader dresses in Union Jack 🍻 Roscoe Head tops poll, and ⚽️ Jeff Bezos' potential stake in LFC Link below 👇
In today's edition, Laurence Thompson assesses the somewhat ambiguous Liverpool legacy of the late, great Kevin Keegan, and argues that the Anfield club should remember him as fondly as his Geordie favourites do. www.livpost.co.uk/we-should-ha...
We should have a Kevin Keegan statue, too
"King Kev" transformed Liverpool into a European power. It’s high time his genius was recognised
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Sometimes entire cities, including their decision-makers past and present, need to be told to face reality, quit the self-pity and to stop blaming others David Lloyd is an exceptional writer on @liverpoolpost.bsky.social. In this piece he does exactly that www.livpost.co.uk/nobody-loves...
Nobody loves us, and we should care
Not a single private pound. Liverpool's business district just got its verdict – and it's damning
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The Post is here! 🪿 Sefton ruffle feathers by closing aviary 🕵️ Local man on spying charges ✍️ Today's big story: Merseyrail's coming home. And an update on our appeal... we did it! 349/300 backers. Thank you to everyone who signed up! Read more below. www.livpost.co.uk/we-made-it/
We made it!
Plus: Merseyrail’s coming home
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In June 1992, Paula Gilfoyle was found hanged in the garage of the Merseyside home she shared with her husband, Eddie. She was 8 1/2 months pregnant. Though tragic, police officers who attended the scene did not regard the death as suspicious. 🧵
We've passed the 250 mark! You've got three days left to help us get over the line, and take out a Liverpool Post subscription for just £4.50: www.livpost.co.uk/we-beat-a-bu...
This month, BT walked out of the city with 600 jobs, and the council admitted that no private money is going into Pall Mall. This follows BNY relocating 250 staff to Manchester last year. Just what is happening to Liverpool's ailing business district? www.livpost.co.uk/nobody-loves...
Nobody loves us, and we should care
Not a single private pound. Liverpool's business district just got its verdict – and it's damning
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Tallulah's - the quirky jazz bar on the edge of New Brighton's Victoria Quarter - is no more. Read on to find out why the owners' landlord was so keen to tear it down: www.livpost.co.uk/how-tallulah...
How Tallulah’s got torn down
New Brighton’s favourite bar is no more. Why was its landlord so keen to destroy it?
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my wonderful colleagues @liverpoolpost.bsky.social are looking to add 100 new paying members in the next five days to help them pay a £75,000 legal bill from defending a case brought by historian Laurence Westgaph help them hit their target www.livpost.co.uk
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