Category: Local

Bob Quick, a former senior trade union official and a passionate advocate of the NHS, has passed away at the age of 68. Quick made an early impact on the industry, leading a Confederation of Health Service Employees union campaign in support of a pay rise for nurses in 1974 while training as a nurse… Continue reading Bob Quick obituary

Liverpool Football Club is facing a lawsuit from a British Asian man who claims the club racially discriminated against him by choosing a less experienced job candidate. Asad Farooq, who holds a degree in stadium and event management and worked for Tottenham Hotspur and the Qatar World Cup, was rejected for an administration job at… Continue reading British Asian man sues Liverpool FC over racial discrimination

Liverpool Football Club has issued a statement condemning the actions of those who damaged Manchester United’s team bus prior to Sunday’s game at Anfield. As the bus approached the stadium, it was hit by a number of objects. Footage on social media appeared to show that the upper window of the bus had been smashed… Continue reading Liverpool ‘utterly condemn’ damage caused to Manchester United team bus

The Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight, Wirral, is set to exhibit a little-known letter from the artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti in which he sought to escape a difficult meeting with a patron by claiming to have ‘constant diarrhoea.’ Sent 155 years ago, the letter will be exhibited alongside a celebrated Rossetti painting that… Continue reading ‘Constant diarrhoea’ and other excuses: Rossetti’s five years of apologies for unfinished art revealed

Jon Venables, the child killer who was convicted of torturing and murdering two-year-old James Bulger in 1993, has been denied parole by the Parole Board. Despite Venables’ progress while in custody and on licence, the panel was not convinced that his release at this point would be safe for the protection of the public. A… Continue reading James Bulger killer Jon Venables loses Parole Board bid to be freed from jail

If the Department for Transport can afford to spend £1.7bn on a tunnel just to obstruct the view of Stonehenge, then why not use the funds to address more pressing issues such as the poor state of Britain’s roads? This was the suggestion made by Pete Lavender, a resident of Nottingham and critic of the… Continue reading Costly tunnel vision over Stonehenge | Brief letters

After years of fighting for justice, the families of the 97 people unlawfully killed at Hillsborough suffered another setback this week. The release of a 2017 report commissioned by the government, intended to learn lessons from the tragedy and improve the justice system, was delayed for six years. When it was finally released, the report… Continue reading Hillsborough law: government leaves victims’ families disappointed again

The UK government has rejected the reforms known as the “Hillsborough law,” a campaign led by the families of 97 people killed in the 1989 disaster who sought to prevent future police cover-ups. The law was proposed in a 2017 report by James Jones and would have required police and public authorities to be transparent… Continue reading Government rejects ‘Hillsborough law’ central to campaign by victims’ families

Paul Simpson, the frontman of Liverpool band the Wild Swans, has spoken about his music memoir, Revolutionary Spirit, which charts the city’s vibrant 1980s music scene. Simpson has been rewriting the book for years, and its historical present tense gives a detailed account of Simpson’s involvement with Liverpool’s punk and psych scenes. Simpson has been… Continue reading Liverpudlian indie hero Paul Simpson: ‘I could have made a masterpiece but I was too damaged’

The government’s response to recommendations for reform made in an official report six years ago, regarding the experiences of relatives of the 97 people killed at Hillsborough in 1989, is expected to be revealed today. The report, which was produced by James Jones, the former bishop of Liverpool, and was commissioned by then-home secretary Theresa… Continue reading No 10 finally to respond to 2017 report on Hillsborough injustices