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1 week ago | livpost.co.uk | Abi Whistance

Monkeys, movement and my attempt to navigate the M57 A look over the Mekong river in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Photo: Abi Whistance/The Post A writer’s edition from Abi This post is for subscribers only Subscribe now Already have an account? Sign in Click here to share this article

2 weeks ago | livpost.co.uk | Abi Whistance

“It was the hardest thing I think I've ever been through in my entire life. I’ll never get over that they were trying to get rid of me.” I’m speaking to Stephanie Doyle, the former head of the City of Liverpool College's digital academy. Earlier this year, a tribunal brought to light the details of her dismissal from the institution in 2022, revealing how she was pressured into resigning from her role by bogus accusations of safeguarding failures. She wasn’t alone.

2 weeks ago | livpost.co.uk | Shannon Keating

It’s a beautiful Friday evening and the garden at Ye Cracke is full to bursting. No better way to celebrate the oncoming weekend and the glorious spring weather than with a pint or three outside one of the best pubs in Liverpool. But the jolly mood out in the sun doesn’t extend inside behind the bar. After ordering, I ask my stonyfaced server, one of the longstanding barmaids, whether she knows who’s bought Ye Cracke, and whether staff will be kept on under the new ownership.

3 weeks ago | livpost.co.uk | Abi Whistance

Very few people can say that as a child, they knew exactly what they’d grow up to be. But Andrew Ibi is one of them. Born in 1975 in the small village of Dulwich in South London, Andrew has always possessed a needle-keen eye for fashion. At just eight years old, he marched into school wearing his pride and joy: a brand new pair of Nike Bruins, already customised by his own artistic flair. With a gold pen he’d gilded the bright blue Nike tick, careful not to colour outside the lines.

4 weeks ago | livpost.co.uk | Abi Whistance

Last Friday, at 5.30pm, around 70 people gathered inside the Church of Our Lady Reconciliation on Eldon Street, a stone’s throw from the Eldonian Village. Nervously taking a seat on each of the church’s pews, those inside the hall clutched small pieces of paper, awaiting their turn to post their slip into a box positioned on a pop-up table. Outside: a far more dramatic scene. Around 15 police officers all in uniform lined the road.