Communities

Female punk band the Iconoclasts are making a comeback - over 40 years on. The Merseyside band were popular on the Liverpool punk scene during the 1980s, inspiring many youngsters of the time with outrageously spikey hair and some...

Christmas is a time for giving, whether it be to your friends, family or loved ones. But Christmas isn’t the easiest time of year for everyone. Thousands of people in Liverpool alone are homeless, terminally ill or struggling mentally.

Businesses across Liverpool have welcomed news that Castle Street and Bold street will stay pedestrianised until September. Liverpool City Council scheme ‘Without Walls’ was launched in June last year in partnership with Liverpool BID Company. The scheme included a £450,000 fund...

Used nitrous oxide canisters are causing severe littering problems throughout the city, but a Liverpool litter-picking group has spotted an opportunity to tidy up and do some extra good by recycling the canisters to gain money for community projects. The...

With energy bills continuing to rise, and a chilly start to the year, many families are finding it difficult to keep their homes warm. From fitting free boilers, making food parcels, buying PPE, helping families pay their bills, there’s not...

Local community angels, Liverpool in Arms at Night, gather twice a week on the streets of Liverpool to offer a listening ear, a hug, a cup of tea and some homemade cakes for people sleeping rough and struggling. Usually armed...

A Liverpool community group is helping to restore the Caribbean Centre in Toxteth. The centre in Pomfret Street has been known in the Toxteth community for decades as a place where families and children could gather to socialise. However it closed...

Anneliese Midgley has been selected as the Labour party candidate for the Merseyside borough of Knowsley. If elected Anneliese will replace current Labour MP for the borough, Sir George Howarth, who plans to retire next election. George has held the...

A Merseyside couple have built their TikTok following over the last year, reaching 12.6 million views on a recent video. Joan and Jimmy O’Shaughnessy created their TikTok account during the first lockdown after seeing a friend post a TikTok dancing video on Facebook.

Knowsley residents are objecting to what they say are "horrendous" proposals for a six-pump petrol station close to a primary school and church. The disused brownfield site was previously home to The Boundary Pub on Pilch Lane next to St...