St Helens
St Helens’ Reform leader is at it again
Who would have thought a politician dressed like this might have a problem with Black History Month?
St Helens
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?
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
St Helens
What happened at St Helens’ first Reform-led full council meeting?
Green spaces, flags (again) and some things the Monitor won’t repeat. St Helens‘ first proper full council meeting under Reform’s leadership took place on Wednesday at St Helens town hall, with the leader Cllr R. George Woodward appearing to take a few moments before it all kicked off
St Helens
Want a flag flying over the town hall? Make sure you write to the leader
Curious things coming out of St Helens cabinet this month. Until this week, St Helens was one of many local authorities without a formal flag policy. That has now changed, following a meeting of the borough’s cabinet on Monday. The cabinet, made up of mostly relatively newly elected Reform
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
St Helens
One councillor behind sharp rise in complaints
The borough has seen more code of conduct complaints in two months than the whole of the previous year A single councillor is behind a sharp rise in code of conduct complaints at one Merseyside council, a senior officer has revealed. Monitoring officer Jan Bakewell, whose role includes handling code
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
Knowsley
Cats, rats and political prisms
Our take on last week’s local elections in Merseyside by Lisa Rand We haven’t exactly been living under a rock at the Mersey Monitor this past week, so yes, we are aware there have been some fairly significant local elections across parts of Merseyside. The plan had been
Knowsley
The Mersey What?
Welcome to the Mersey Monitor The Mersey Monitor is a small, independent newsroom focused on accountability, local decision-making and the systems that shape everyday life across Merseyside. The Monitor exists to make sense of how power operates locally, from council decisions and planning policies to housing, services and public