The Post (Liverpool)

2 weeks ago | livpost.co.uk | Jack Walton

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

Dear readers — back in 2022, The Post published one of our most popular long-reads to date, entitled: Why are companies leaving Liverpool? The story painted a bleak picture: a series of high-profile businesses had departed the city region in quick succession, taking with them hundreds of well-paying jobs. What’s more, not enough companies were going the other way.

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

Dear readers — it’s been eight years since metro mayor Steve Rotheram first pledged to build a barrage across the Mersey as part of his election campaign. If built, it would be the biggest tidal barrage in the world, generating the equivalent of two-thirds of Liverpool’s 2017 electricity requirement, and powering “over a million homes”, according to press releases from the Combined Authority.

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

On the afternoon of Wednesday 21st May, around forty employees of Big Help Group and Big Help Trading — just two of the companies connected to the once-lauded charity Big Help Project — were called into a small meeting room at their head office on Boaler Street. One of Big Help Group’s directors, former Knowsley Council leader Andrew Moorhead, stood at the front of the room, staring at his feet.

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

“It was getting me down, every day it was just absolutely filthy. How can people live like this?” I’m speaking to Vicky Osayande, the founder of Litter Clear Volunteer, a litter-picking group that operates across Liverpool. She first created the group in February 2021, after noticing rubbish piling up on her walk to work. As she dodged empty crisp packets and bottles, grime caked on roads and graffiti tags adorning Great Homer Street, she says what was once a pleasant stroll became “disgusting”.