LIVERPOOL could be twinned with the South African town where scores of Merseyside soldiers died during the historic battle of Spion Kop.
Liverpool FC’s Kop stand was famously named after the Boer War battleground in 1906, after newspaper sports editor Ernest Edwards wrote that the newly-built steep terrace at Anfield reminded him of the Spion Kop hill.
Now a proposal is set to be put forward to Liverpool council for a permanent twinning with Ladysmith, where more than 300 men, many of them from Liverpool, died as the British army attempted to capture the strategic hilltop.
City Labour leader Joe Anderson is behind the proposal.
He is also backing the suggestion that Liverpool Football Club also erect a memorial plaque on the Kop to those who died during the battle.
There is already a plaque in memory of the 96 who died during the Hillsborough disaster in 1989 at the original Spion Kop hill.
