THE officers who work for HM Inspectorate of Constabulary are undoubtedly difficult to please. They may do a thorough job scrutinising the affairs of Britain’s police forces, but, as their latest report on Merseyside Police reveals, they are masters of the back-handed compliment.Read
SOME people will claim it is tragedy enough that we are sending our service personnel into frontline action many thousands of miles away in Afghanistan, in a war that has arguably very little to do with the UK, and which Allied forces anyway have zero chance of winning.Read
THE past 25 years or more have seen dramatic changes in the workplace, with women fighting hard to whittle down the barriers and achieve their current employment status.Read
ONLY days after the sinking of the former Mersey ferry, Royal Iris, provoked anguished cries on Merseyside, we now learn that another historic vessel is seemingly heading for a watery grave, too.Read
THERE was the chance it was always going to be a somewhat risky kind of legislation – but the trialling of a watered-down version of “Sarah’s Law” in four regions of the country has demonstrated that it could actually prove effective.Read
OUR revelation that top-level talks are due to take place later today about the future stadium plans of the city’s two great football teams is welcome news.Read
IT IS a matter of some regret that we have to reflect today on measures being taken to prevent young Muslim pupils being racially abused on buses on their way to a Liverpool school.Read
SOME commentators are comparing the potential introduction of a North-South high-speed rail line to the era when trains first steamed along Britain’s infant rail network.Read
POLITICS has changed a great deal since Peter Kilfoyle first made his mark in the Labour Party, as the scourge of Liverpool’s Militant extremists, back in the 1980s.Read
THERE are few sights in Liverpool currently more depressing than the empty stores in Renshaw Street, which once hustled and bustled with DIY enthusiasts searching for the latest must-have handyman’s gadget in Rapid Hardware, before the store successfully decamped to the old George Henry Lee building in town.Read
THE phrase “world-class” can be over used in some instances. But when it comes to the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, there’s a cast-iron argument for the use of superlatives.Read
TODAY’S latest set of figures from the transmogrified housing market make for sobering reading. Gone are the days when 100% mortgages were commonplace – or, indeed, even available – and with them have gone the chances of first-time buyers actually getting onto the housing ladder any time before reaching middle age.Read
CHANCES are you may never have heard of it. But, take it from us, there would be serious consequences if the Tories actually went ahead with their threat to scrap the current Regional Spatial Strategy (RSS).Read
REMEMBER a while ago, when it was first suggested that some secondary head teachers could be paid six-figure salaries, in recognition of the size of the task they were taking on?Read
