Mark Smith
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Controversial plans to close ticket offices across a number of Liverpool City Region railway stations have been scrapped.  (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Controversial plans to close train station ticket offices scrapped

Ormiston Bolingbroke Academy

Schoolgirls segregated from classmates because skirts ‘too short’

London homeless sent to Liverpool City Region without council knowing

The Butterfly House is ready for another great season. Image: LDRS

Beautiful butterfly house and garden reopens for summer

Insulation is a key way to reduce energy usage. Image: Adobe

442 Halton homes to receive £10k energy efficiency grants

Protestors from Save our Sankey Canal at the weekend.

Hundreds protest at Spike Island as house building rumours dispelled

Comedian John Bishop is backing Labour candidate Geoff Logan. Image: LDRS

John Bishop backing his former teacher in local council elections

Cllr Bill Woolfall raised fears about upstream damage in Halton.

Mersey tidal energy project takes step forward amid wildlife concerns

Derek Twigg, Labour MP for Halton, asked what price Ukraine must pay before the West intervenes militarily.

MP tells parliament military action against Putin is inevitable

Artist impression of the new Brindley Theatre with integrated Runcorn Library.

📷 First glimpse of the new £6.6m redesign of Brindley Theatre

An artist's impression of a solar farm.

Liverpool John Lennon Airport want to build a 5,000 panel solar farm

The Silver Jubilee Bridge, which spans the River Mersey, was supposed be the venue for the 60th anniversary event.

More than £111k spent on cultural event that never happened

The proposed development at Widnes Golf Course.

Battle lines drawn on controversial plan to build homes on golf course