Liverpool
Live: A gathering of councillors at Liverpool town hall
Dolly Parton, Tolstoy, Burnham, Palantir, a road safety emergency - and why Liverpool Foundation Homes hasn’t been shut down yet
Liverpool
Liverpool
Child taken to wrong address miles away as Ofsted finds ‘serious’ failures at Nugent home
The home has since been closed down
Liverpool
‘Deeds not words’ urged over city road safety emergency
‘Our roads are far too unsafe and people are losing their lives’
Liverpool
‘A complete failure’ and a ‘direct attack on municipal autonomy’: a week in local democracy
What will our local councillors be going on about this week?
Liverpool
Live: Extraordinary Liverpool council meeting called over Brushwood failings
Councillors are meeting to discuss what is being done after a recent CQC report revealed ‘widespread’ and systemic problems at the council-owned care home
Liverpool
Brushwood failings under scrutiny as council apologises after CQC inspection
In January the council was talking about ‘impressive results’ at its Speke care home, but just two months later its own internal inspection found widespread problems
Events and updates
We’re watching, we’re scrutinising - and this is why it matters
It’s also a good job too because there‘s plenty going on across Merseyside this week. Hello Mersey Monitoroos, You might want to grab a quick cuppa and get yourself comfy before you tuck in to this week’s digest. It‘s a bit of a bumper one, but
Liverpool
Are Your Party’s days on Liverpool council numbered?
Party‘s future faces fresh questions after deputy leader quits. Questions have emerged over the future of Your Party Liverpool on the city council after one of its councillors resigned from the party just weeks after the local branch was launched. The resignation from Your Party of Cllr Sam Gorst,
Sefton
All kinds going on across Merseyside this week
Flags, finances, feathered friends and other funny business Good afternoon Mersey Monitorers, If you’re new here, thank you for signing up to the Monitor. We’re a little independent public interest news site operating on a not-for-profit basis and our aim, first and foremost, is to keep
Liverpool
Plans to stop whole streets turning into Airbnbs
And when shared housing is not a HMO, as well as other nuggets from Liverpool’s draft local plan Liverpool’s blueprint for how the city should develop over the next two decades is coming before cabinet tomorrow, and it contains a few, well, interesting developments. The draft local plan
Sefton
He-Man or Steve Rotheram?
A grilling for the metro mayor ‘He-Man or Steve Rotheram?’ is not a question the Monitor expected to be asking random people in Crosby on a damp evening in June. We do, however, go wherever the story takes us, and last night it took us to a slightly confused
Liverpool
Larks in the Park reimagined taps into 80s music ‘moment’
Larks in the Park is being ‘reimagined’ this bank holiday weekend. What made the original so special? by Lisa Rand A ‘reimagining’ of Larks in the Park will come to Sefton Park’s bandstand this bank holiday weekend, over 40 years after the events became part of a ‘moment’ in