Politics

Government financial support has been extended to 600,000 newly self-employed in Merseyside and the UK after 12 months.

The government has confirmed that the North West will receive £1.48bn from the Local Transport Fund from next April. The funding comes from reallocated HS2 funding and is being invested into new bus and train stations, better public transport and...

As Liverpool City Council and Merseyside Police join forces in a strategy to help women feel safer on the streets, one city councillor says the most important thing now is to make misogyny a hate crime.

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has hinted that he will introduce tax cuts in the budget, set to be delivered tomorrow. This comes as growing pressure has been placed on the Chancellor to cut taxes with them being at a current historic...

Additional reporting by Tom Mourino Merseynewslive visited Chester and Liverpool to find out what people were hoping for ahead of today's Spring Budget. The budget is focussed on the 'four E's': Education, Enterprise, Employment, Everywhere. Does that match public priorities? The overall...

https://youtu.be/SDD5bfIkZGE According to government figures around 139 million COVID-19 vaccinations have now been  administered across all 4 nations of the UK   as part of the largest vaccination programme in British history. While the latest NHS figures show nearly 60% of the...

Nurses and ambulance crews across Merseyside are on picket lines this morning, as the NHS experiences one of their biggest strike day yet. Workers are striking outside the Royal Liverpool Hospital among other NHS trusts across Merseyside, including Arrowe Park...

Last night, the Liverpool City Council Neighbourhood Select Committee voted unanimously in favour of the motion to make street harassment a crime.

https://soundcloud.com/joe-foley-338686169/parliament-votes-against-making-misogyny-a-hate-crime?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing MPs have voted against making misogyny a hate crime, despite a record 63,136 rape cases being reported last year. Here is Joe Foley with more information. Featured image by Photo by Becca Tapert on Unsplash

Former US Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders will be giving a talk at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall speaking about his recent book “It’s OK to be Angry at Capitalism”, on January 15.  The Senator from Vermont will present his vision of what...