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Battle of the Atlantic pocket guide

2013-05-23T10:20:46Z

The Battle of the Atlantic celebrations take place in Liverpool this bank holiday weekend - now you can download our special online guide to the event. We've compiled all the information you will need into a handy pdf format that...

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Liverpool councillor Louise Baldock bidding for Labour nomination to North East constituency

2013-05-21T21:42:20Z

Liverpool Labour councillor Louise Badock is bidding to become an MP for her hometown of Stockton. Cllr Baldock has represented the Kensington and Fairfield ward in Liverpool since 2006, and is up for re-election in 2014. She is currently the...

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Nick Small: The road back to full employment

2013-05-21T21:19:49Z

Last week Shadow Work & Pensions Secretary Liam Byrne MP made a speech to the think tank IPPR North putting full employment back at the heart of Labour's narrative on the economy and welfare. The past few years - and...

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Treacherous acts when putsch comes to shove

2013-05-16T08:28:57Z

FORMER Thai president Thaksin Shinawatra said, following his deposition in 2006 while on a visit to the UK, that "I'm very disappointed by the mature-democracy countries. I was ousted by a coup d'etat." In recent weeks, one of Merseyside's longest-serving...

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Lessons from Memphis, Tennessee: Part 2

2013-05-15T20:34:20Z

There are huge links between music and the American Civil Rights Movement - nowhere more so than in Memphis, Tennessee. As mentioned in my last post it was also the city where Martin Luther King Jr was shot. On a...

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Lessons from Memphis, Tennessee: Part 1

2013-05-15T20:13:01Z

We like to talk about freedom a lot. And rightly so, because it is the cornerstone of human existence. But it hasn't always been the case, and still isn't the case for too many still today. I recently traveled to...

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Liverpool council's £650-a-day PR consultant Mark Fletcher-Brown

2013-05-15T16:52:24Z

Liverpool council has announced this afternoon that it has brought in a PR consultant, after failing to find anyone good enough to do the job full time. Former head of PR at Coventry council Mark Fletcher-Brown will be paid £650-a-day...

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Jake Morrison: A Lab Lib coalition would be a travesty

2013-05-12T20:38:39Z

There is quite a bit of talk of late, suggesting that Labour Party leadership should conduct behind-the-scenes talks with the Liberal Democrats about the possibility of having a coalition Government with them post-2015. Frankly - I think a coalition between...

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Foul mouthed twitter blast on Richard Kemp denied by ex-council leader Warren Bradley

2013-05-09T14:12:22Z

You probably missed this gem of a tweet from an account purporting to be from former Liverpool council leader Warren Bradley to current Lib Dem leader Richard Kemp. He has however been quick to deny any involvement, which followed the...

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Bill, bills and billboards everywhere

2013-05-09T08:29:03Z

MANY a Merseyside eyebrow was raised earlier this week by the revelation that the region's, ahem, sperm banks are running so low on resources that they've had to resort to drafting it in from... of all places, Manchester! But...

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Another defection from Liberal Democrat to Labour in Liverpool

2013-05-09T07:49:51Z

It wouldn't be a year on Liverpool council without another defection. Rosie Jolly is the latest to jump ship from the Liberal Democrats to Labour. It was hardly a surprise and indeed I predicted it in March. It's always fun...

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Long knives: All change in Sefton and St Helens

2013-05-08T11:53:58Z

OUT: Peter Papworth and Marie Rimmer Last night was a night of the long knives in Merseyside politics. St Helens council leader Marie Rimmer was deposed in a coup by her deputy Barrie Grunewald. A coup that was plotted whilst...

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Michael Gove: In a class of his own

2013-04-15T08:40:00Z

Education Secretary Michael Gove has already achieved something I cannot recall any of his predecessors managing. He triggered a successful vote of no confidence not just by the more abrasive National Union of Teachers but also by the traditionally uber-moderate...

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John Holmes: A football match, a long time ago

2013-04-14T19:49:42Z

Monday marks the 24 anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster in which 96 Liverpool fans lost their lives. Below is a poem written by survivor John Holmes:...

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'In other news, nuclear war broke out today'

2013-04-12T07:26:32Z

UNLESS the dear reader has been in an induced coma or hiding in a nuclear bunker deep under ground over the last few days, he has probably heard of the death of former Prime Minister, and scourge of Merseyside, Margaret...

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