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Parliament Place on Upper Parliament Street, Toxteth. Image: Google Street View

Land worth £400k sold by Liverpool Council for £18k

Hesketh Park. Image: Norman Caesar

Historic park to be refurbished after family’s £850k donation

Prescot Picture Palace. Image: Knowsley Council

Crumbling Grade II listed former cinema to be restored

A pothole in the street. Image: Peter Atkins - stock.adobe.com

£30m funding to fix roads in one of England’s worst pothole locations

Sefton Council HQ at Bootle Town Hall

Could you do better job running Sefton Council? £170k job up for grabs

Ofsted visited the nursery in November last year. Image: Google

Nursery where children’s wellbeing ‘compromised’ hits back at Ofsted

Domvile, Whiston. Image: Google

Residents plagued by bubbling water that ‘smells of scrambled egg’

Marine Lake Events Centre, Southport. Image: Sefton Council

‘Ambitious’ £73m project that could revitalise town gets go ahead

Bootle Town Hall. Image: Google

Sefton councillor ‘snoozes’ as vote taken on removing affordable homes

5 Bury Road in Birkdale. Image: Google

Birkdale bedsit plans approved despite ‘friends with benefits’ fears

Southport Pier is closed to the public. Image: Getty

Southport Pier closed as cold weather has caused ‘significant damage’

A litter enforcement agent photographed outside a shop in Prescot. Image: Ste Kelly, permission for LDRS partners.

People divided over ‘creepy’ litter wardens following people

Image: Dominic Raynor

Sink hole causes month-long traffic issues with still no work on site

Sefton coast.

People told to avoid part of Sefton coast during December and January

Park House, on Haigh Road, was built in 1878. Image: Google street view

Plans to demolish 19th century villa and build 106 flats approved

Image: Dan Kitwood/Getty

Sefton Council lacks funds to tackle fly tipping problem

Southport plans. Image: Sefton Council

Plans to transform Southport into a ‘thriving visitor destination’

Ambulances outside the Royal. Image: Getty

Patients left waiting 17 hours for ambulances in parts of Sefton

NHS.

Cyber-attack leaves Southport out of hours services stretched

Neptune Brewery’s newest addition, Pactolus. Image: @neptunebrewery via Instagram

Award-winning brewery bids to turn old bookmakers into new taproom

Volunteers are seen packing food parcels at a food bank. Photo: Peter Summers/Getty Images

One in five children living in poverty in Merseyside borough

Coronavirus infections are rising across the UK, including across Merseyside.

Local health chief’s warning over COVID rise fears as free tests end

A young rat sniffs leftovers on a plate. Image: torook - stock.adobe.com

Daughter woken by rat in her bedroom in infested neighbourhood

Council gave a £2m bail out to company set up to cut costs

Liverpool Council texts and emails could be examined in new probe

A general view of Princess Way in Seaforth. Image: Google

The four most dangerous areas for air pollution in Sefton

Sefton Council HQ at Bootle Town Hall

Man paid pension by council for 20 years after his death

What the property might look like as viewed from Harebell Close. Image: Planning Documents

Plan for controversial luxury house next to wildlife woodland approved

A view out over the lake from Kings Gardens in Southport. Image: Shutterstock

1950s pumping station in Kings Gardens to be converted into restaurant

Seventeen of Knowsley’s 34 betting shops are in Huyton. Photo: Robert Perry/Getty Images

Merseyside borough named the ‘gambling capital’ of the UK