The Post

06/11/2025

Today's piece: For Bootle, The Strand is more than just a shopping destination ✏️

It’s safe to say the past 20 years have not been good for our once bustling shopping centres. And perhaps nowhere is this more evident than Bootle’s New Strand, a once thriving retail hub in Sefton visited by over 120,000 people a week in its heyday of the 1990s.

As one of the most memorable markers of Bootle, its continued decline in recent decades has led to many residents feeling resentful, raising uncertain questions about its future and place within the town.

In today’s Answers in The Post, Abi digs into the history of The Strand, and if its slow decline has contributed towards a rise in anti-immigration sentiment ⬇️

https://www.livpost.co.uk/for-bootle-the-strand-is-more-than-just-a-shopping-destination/

03/11/2025

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01/11/2025

Nigel Farage says this summer’s Raise the Colours movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. Our reporters in five cities had a look and that’s not what we found.

From convicted people smugglers, s*x doll salesmen to people with dubious criminal pasts - these are the men who raised the flags:

Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found

01/11/2025

Today’s weekend read is a bit unusual: a collaborative effort with our colleagues at our sister Mill Media publications across the country. It pulls together the reporting we’ve all done on a big topic: the appearance of flags up and down the land.

We thought it would be interesting to pool the in-depth local reporting we’ve done in five UK cities to try to give you a better picture of the people behind an influential movement.

Read the full story about the UK’s chief flag raisers on our website, through the link below:

https://www.livpost.co.uk/the-men-who-raised-the-flags/

31/10/2025

Happy Halloween 🎃

From the archives: our historical deep dive on one of the most famous Liverpool murder cases

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https://www.livpost.co.uk/hanging-the-little-caesar-of-lime/

30/10/2025

On the Wirral, public trust goes up in smoke 🔥

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https://www.livpost.co.uk/on-the-wirral-public-trust-goes-up-in-smoke/

29/10/2025

Last week, pyres built in preparation for 5 November on the Woodchurch estate and in Birkenhead’s North End were lit a fortnight early.

Depending on who you talk to, this was due to Wirral council, Merseyside Fire & Rescue, or the housing firm Magenta threatening to pull them down. Denials, accusations and disinformation abound, both on social media and in person.

While both impromptu events went off without major injury, it’s fair to say residents’ attitude towards those in authority is colder than the autumn air right now.

Are these one-off happenings, or indicative of a more profound breakdown between the less well-off of the Wirral and its chaotic, cash strapped local council?

Impromptu bonfires on estates signal a deep discontent

27/10/2025

The former Liverpool councillor Gerard Woodhouse has pleaded guilty to harassment. What happens now?

Read the full story through the link below:

https://www.livpost.co.uk/gerard-woodhouse-pleads-guilty-to-harassment-jail-him-says-his-victim/

25/10/2025

Our editor and chief investigator Abi Whistance had been nominated for a British Journalism Award for her report on allegations of abuse by historian Laurence Westgaph.

Two other writers from our sister titles have also been nominated for an award for their investigations.

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23/10/2025

🚨Exclusive: Liverpool council published the wrong figures for 13,000+ invoices

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https://www.livpost.co.uk/exclusive-liverpool-council-published-the-wrong-figures-for-13-000-invoices/

20/10/2025

A spectre is haunting Liverpool. A big fat spectre. It hangs over our cultural scene: a bloated abscess of hubris, nostalgia, arrogance, cultural sclerosis, complacency and simpering self-regard. I call it Yesterdayism.

The unwitting minions of this dark spirit are many: property developers, “artistic” directors, cabinet members for culture; promoters that book only tribute bands. They scurry around its bland, backwards-looking temples up and down Mathew Street. Its archons are John, Paul, George and Ringo: not the real-life flesh-and-blood beings, of course, but the kitschy effigies of Beatlelamia that adorn souvenir shops or gaze down from the Hard Day’s Night Hotel.

Yesterdayism sucks. It draws life from artists, promoters, organisers and clubs. At the same time, it blows. It belches hot air about us being a UNESCO “City of Music”. Because, so long as it’s true that “we” produced Billy Fury, Our Cilla and The Beatles; then Echo & the Bunnymen, The La’s and The Teardrop Explodes, and in more recent times (well, 20 years ago) The Wombats and The Zutons, then what need have we to nurture new talent? When the last music venue in this city closes, it will be to the sullen refrain of There She Goes.

Read the full story on our website through the link below.

https://www.livpost.co.uk/the-zanzibar-the-lomax-and-how-liverpool-botched-its-musical-legacy/