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A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hospital in London. Picture date: Wednesday January 18, 2023.

More than a quarter of staff absences in Bridgewater Community Healthcare Trust ...

A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hospital in London. Picture date: Wednesday January 18, 2023.

Nearly a third of staff absences in Mersey and West Lancashire Hospitals Trust a...

Aerial view of houses in Newcastle.

Almost 1,000 empty homes in St Helens, as numbers rise in England

Orderlies push a bed at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry.

St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust cares for 37 patients with C...

File photo 26/02/13 of a police officer demonstrating the use of a Taser as a majority of the public think it is acceptable for police to carry Tasers when on patrol, a survey suggests.

Black people in Merseyside more than three times as likely to experience forcefu...

'Grit Astley' - new names for St Helens gritter lorries revealed. Credit: Adobe

'Grit Astley' - new names for St Helens gritter lorries revealed

PICTURE POSED BY MODEL A man stands with a clenched fist as a woman cowers in the corner.

Record number of domestic abuse offences recorded in Merseyside last year

A Food Standards Agency rating sticker on a window of a restaurant in central London. A huge variation in food hygiene standards remains across the UK, with one in five high or medium-risk food outlets failing to meet standards, according to a study.

St Helens takeaway given new food hygiene rating

Pupils at Heath Park Business and Enterprise College, Wolverhampton, which has been named England's most improved school, according to league tables.

Record number of suspensions at St Helens schools in autumn term last year

Road Closed signs. Tuesday May 12th 2020

St Helens road closures: six for motorists to avoid over the next fortnight

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All 25 Merseyside Wetherspoons ranked by price of pints

Orderlies push a bed at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry.

St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust cares for 36 patients with C...

File photo dated 25/05/10 of students sitting an exam, as the Higher pass rate is down from last year but remains above 2019 levels, as more than 140,000 pupils across Scotland receive their exam results.

St Helens pupils’ A-level results were average for the North West

A Food Standards Agency rating sticker on a window of a restaurant in central London. A huge variation in food hygiene standards remains across the UK, with one in five high or medium-risk food outlets failing to meet standards, according to a study.

St Helens restaurant given new food hygiene rating

A Volvo car being charged using a Ubitricity lampost EV charging point, London. Picture date: Friday March 5, 2021.

Number of electric car charging points more than doubled in Merseyside

A Volvo car being charged using a Ubitricity lampost EV charging point, London. Picture date: Friday March 5, 2021.

Number of electric car charging points increases in St Helens

A Food Standards Agency rating sticker on a window of a restaurant in central London. A huge variation in food hygiene standards remains across the UK, with one in five high or medium-risk food outlets failing to meet standards, according to a study.

Food hygiene ratings handed to two St Helens takeaways

St Helens’ Theatre Royal is gearing up to take you to a whole new world this festive season as Aladdin flies in for their Christmas panto. Photo: Local TV

Watch: Your ultimate panto guide for Merseyside

A Food Standards Agency rating sticker on a window of a restaurant in central London. A huge variation in food hygiene standards remains across the UK, with one in five high or medium-risk food outlets failing to meet standards, according to a study.

Food hygiene ratings given to three St Helens establishments

File photo dated 22/10/14 of a police officer making notes. Shop owners have asked the Home Secretary to specifically outlaw attacks on retail workers. The Government should create a new offence of assaulting, threatening or abusing a retail worker, dozens of business leaders said.

Number of theft arrests in Merseyside fallen by more than a third in last five y...

Road Closed signs. Tuesday May 12th 2020

St Helens road closures: five for motorists to avoid over the next fortnight

File photo dated 02/10/2021 of a general view of an MRI scanner at Leeds General Infirmary in West Yorkshire. Using MRI scans to screen men for prostate cancer could reduce deaths from the disease "significantly", researchers have suggested. Issue date: Tuesday August 22, 2023.

One in seven prostate cancer patients at St Helens and Knowsley Hospitals Trust ...

Orderlies push a bed at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry.

St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust cares for 36 patients with C...

A view of people thought to be migrants at the Manston immigration short-term holding facility located at the former Defence Fire Training and Development Centre in Thanet, Kent. 700 people were moved to the Manston facility for safety reasons after incendiary devices were thrown at a Border Force migrant centre in Dover on Sunday. Picture date: Monday October 31, 2022.

St Helens looking after more lone asylum-seeking children

A Food Standards Agency rating sticker on a window of a restaurant in central London. A huge variation in food hygiene standards remains across the UK, with one in five high or medium-risk food outlets failing to meet standards, according to a study.

St Helens establishment given new food hygiene rating

PA file photo dated 18.11 2006 showing a posed image simulating a child being bullied.

More than a third of parents say St Helens schools not dealing with bullying eff...

The latest winners of the Good Food Awards have been announced, including a number of brilliant restaurants in and around Liverpool.

All the Merseyside venues named Good Food Award 2023/24 winners

File photo dated 24/01/16 of a preschool age child playing with plastic toy animals. Blocks on childminders looking after children in their rental properties should be lifted to help boost numbers in the sector, Children's minister Claire Coutinho has told landlords. Issue date: Monday August 21, 2023.

Fewer families can foster children in St Helens as numbers decline across the co...

General view of estate agents signs outside a block of flats in Basingstoke, Hampshire.

St Helens house prices dropped in September

A Food Standards Agency rating sticker on a window of a restaurant in central London. A huge variation in food hygiene standards remains across the UK, with one in five high or medium-risk food outlets failing to meet standards, according to a study.

Food hygiene ratings handed to 15 St Helens establishments

A Food Standards Agency rating sticker on a window of a restaurant in central London. A huge variation in food hygiene standards remains across the UK, with one in five high or medium-risk food outlets failing to meet standards, according to a study.

St Helens establishment given new food hygiene rating

A Food Standards Agency rating sticker on a window of a restaurant in central London. A huge variation in food hygiene standards remains across the UK, with one in five high or medium-risk food outlets failing to meet standards, according to a study.

St Helens establishment given new food hygiene rating

Road Closed signs. Tuesday May 12th 2020

St Helens road closures: three for motorists to avoid over the next fortnight

Victoria Square, St Helens. Image: Cathie Garner/wikimedia

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⚠️ Weather alert upgraded as Storm Debi hits Merseyside

Orderlies push a bed at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry.

St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust cares for 48 patients with C...

A young child is weighed on scales.

A quarter of children in St Helens classed as obese last year

A Food Standards Agency rating sticker on a window of a restaurant in central London. A huge variation in food hygiene standards remains across the UK, with one in five high or medium-risk food outlets failing to meet standards, according to a study.

Food hygiene ratings given to four St Helens establishments

General view of an Accident and Emergency Sign at Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.

Two-thirds of A&E arrivals in Mersey And West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS ...

A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hospital in London. Picture date: Wednesday January 18, 2023.

Mersey and West Lancashire Hospitals Trust: all the key numbers for the NHS Trus...

A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hospital in London. Picture date: Wednesday January 18, 2023.

Bridgewater Community Healthcare Trust: all the key numbers for the NHS Trust in...

File photo dated 03/10/2023 of a ward at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool. Public support for the NHS as it reaches its 75th anniversary is "rock solid", but the service will not be around to celebrate its 100th anniversary without investment, leading health think tanks have warned. Issue date: Wednesday July 5, 2023.

Rise in hospital admissions for people with eating disorders in St Helens

A Food Standards Agency rating sticker on a window of a restaurant in central London. A huge variation in food hygiene standards remains across the UK, with one in five high or medium-risk food outlets failing to meet standards, according to a study.

Food hygiene ratings given to three St Helens establishments

File photo dated 26/04/16 of stocks of food, as one in three young people say their family have relied on food banks or other community outlets for supplies in recent months, new research suggests.

Record number of food parcels handed out in St Helens this summer

Road Closed signs. Tuesday May 12th 2020

St Helens road closures: five for motorists to avoid over the next fortnight

File photo dated 25/01/18 of a homeless person on Victoria Street in London, as new figures suggest that more people are sleeping rough on the streets of England than at any point this decade.

Almost £200,000 spent on temporary housing for homeless in St Helens – as counci...

Models of a man and woman stand on a pile of coins and bank notes.

Women in Merseyside earn less than men as gender pay gap widens in UK

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