Benefit payment changes for May 2025 threaten to overwhelm food banks
With controversial changes benefit payments set to take effect from tomorrow, Merseyside’s charities and food banks are bracing for a surge in demand.
Speaking to Mersey News Live ahead of the May 1 changes to Universal Credit and Personal Independence...
Runcorn voters head to polls in Starmer’s first by-election test
Voters in Runcorn and Helsby head to the polls this Thursday for the first by-election of the current parliament. With 15 candidates in the running, the Labour-held constituency may be under threat as a tight battle is expected.
The constituency...
Liverpool’s LGBTQ+ community reacts to “scary” Supreme Court ruling
Liverpool's LGBTQ+ community gathered in the city centre this weekend as part of a national day of action in response to the Supreme Court's ruling on the definition of a woman.
Protesters told Mersey News Live that the court judgement,...
Campaigners criticise delays to ‘Hillsborough Law’
Hillsborough campaigners have expressed frustration about new delays to a promised law designed to prevent cover-ups by police and other public bodies.
Last week, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer cancelled a meeting with relatives of the Hillsborough victims.
On Friday, a...
DaDaFest International 2025 Celebrates 40 Years of Disability and Deaf Arts
Liverpool's Deaf and disability arts festival DaDaFest will celebrate its 40th anniversary with an impressive array of visual arts, movies, performances, and workshops.
Large-scale projections, live theatre, and thought-provoking installations are all part of DaDaFest International 40 (DDFI40), which runs...
Merseyside politicians speak out against ‘sadistically cruel’ welfare cuts
Merseyside politicians have spoken out against planned Government cuts to disability payments, claiming they will hit the poorest people in the region unfairly.
Work Secretary Liz Kendall announced the changes to the UK's welfare system in Parliament yesterday. The changes...
“Prices will increase” as a result of Trump’s Trade War says Liverpool economist.
A Liverpool economist has said that America's US Trade War being could create a world not seen since the 1930s’ Great Depression.
The Trump administration has imposed a 25% tax increase on steel and aluminium exports as well as products...
Liverpool Labour MP hits back at Government cuts to benefit system
Liverpool Riverside MP, Kim Johnson has criticised Keir Starmer's claims that Britain's benefit system is "unsustainable, indefensible, and unfair", claiming that labelling the welfare system as such is "straight from the Tory playbook".
MP, Kim Johnson has labelled the predicted...
Liverpool’s Ukrainian community thanks the city for its unwavering support three years after Russian...
Ukrainians living in the city gathered in Liverpool Parish Church for a ‘Stand with Ukraine’ vigil to mark the three-year anniversary of the invasion on February 24.
Reverend Dr. Taras Khomych, Chair of The Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain...
Crisis deepens for those seeking emergency housing
A total of 1,245 households in Liverpool are currently in temporary accommodation, Liverpool City Council reports.
Since 2021, the housing crisis has affected different groups of people - first-time buyers, and those in need of emergency accommodation.
Councillor Sam East, Cabinet...
