The Post (Liverpool)

Over the last twenty years, local journalism in Liverpool and the surrounding areas has faced significant reductions. Newsrooms that once thrived with numerous journalists, some dedicating months to develop in-depth stories, have drastically changed. Today, a different approach dominates. Local newsrooms now often consist of younger reporters who are expected to produce a high volume of stories daily to attract readership nationwide and generate advertising revenue. Large corporations, such as Reach PLC, which is listed on the FTSE 100, own many of these publications, including the Echo, distancing them from the communities they originally aimed to serve.

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Exclusive: The Big Help empire has collapsed. Now, Peter Mitchell looks to Ukraine

1 week 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.
Why are Liverpool’s streets so dirty?

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”.
A huge moment for us

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

Dear readers, I hope you’re having a great bank holiday weekend. I wanted to send you a quick note about something we’re very excited about at Post HQ. Keen readers of Private Eye may have spotted our name in the magazine this week. The reason: we have been shortlisted for the country’s most prestigious investigative journalism prize, the Paul Foot Award for Investigative and Campaigning Journalism.
Developers gave the council millions to improve Liverpool. Why haven't they spent it?

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

“It’s just ludicrous — to have all that money sitting in a bank account gaining interest somewhere while Speke suffers”. I’m on a tour of Speke with Lynne Moneypenny, a small-framed woman in her 60s who — despite her meek appearance — has spent the last decade belligerently fighting for its green spaces. She’s lived in the suburb her entire life, and has spent many an hour traipsing through its fields and parks with her border collie, Jess.
Why are Merseyside’s state-of-the-art hydrogen buses stuck in a yard outside Sheffield?

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

Earlier this month, Tony was taking his seven-year-old cockapoo, Lola, for a walk. He’d left Toxteth for the weekend, and was staying with a friend in South Anston, a small town roughly 12 miles east of Sheffield. As he and Lola strolled along Anston Brook, he happened to glance into a small manufacturer’s yard, next to a disused railway line. It was probably the bright yellow that caught his eye.
Monkeys, movement and my attempt to navigate the M57

1 month 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
Wrongful dismissals and a “culture of fear”: there’s trouble at the City of Liverpool College

1 month 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.
Who's bought Ye Cracke? We've got a pretty good idea...

1 month 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.
‘That was our language as black kids. That was our street power’

2 months 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.
The land has been flogged. The coffers are dry. And now the UK's scariest debt collector has shown up

2 months 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.