Stephen Watson says "rapid improvement is possible" as he is appointed GMP chief constable.

Wigan's Robin Retail Park will be transformed into a "modern, aspirational" site, Frasers Group says.

The bank's decision not to redevelop its Bootle site is a "massive blow", Sefton Council says.

A tourism boss says it could be "three to five years before we get back to pre-Covid levels".

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Thomas Thompson, 24, worked for Cadent gas firm in Liverpool before he was killed in the war.

Councillor Donna Williams says NHS staff "carried on tirelessly" when supporting her parents.

The firm run by Joe Anderson's son was not on an approved contractors list, a critical report found.

The man, believed to be in his 30s, was found with multiple injuries, police say.

Brandon Williams' lawyer Nick "Mr Loophole" Freeman argued he should not get points on his licence.

The region will be the first area outside London to have a franchise bus system since the 1980s.

Liverpool locals say commissioners being brought in is "shameful", but might "be a positive thing".

Warrington Wolves' Super League match with Huddersfield Giants has been moved to accommodate the return of fans on 17 May.

Christopher Guest More Jr denies murdering Brian Waters who was tortured and killed in Cheshire.

Six people are being held on suspicion of murdering a man in his 20s who was stabbed in Oldham.

Seren Griffiths uses a walk along a sandstone ridge in northern Cheshire to explore the way a landscape can hold multiple histories, and in doing so make it easier for us to contemplate distant futures.

The landscape in question is bordered on the north by the M56 motorway. Commuters making their way into Manchester see it to their right for all of about a minute. But up on the ridge you can see that it stretches south towards Whitchurch in Shropshire. Seren starts her journey in a quarry used variously by the Romans, Iron Age settlers and latterly the Victorians. She makes her way up to one of the string of hill top forts that can be found along the sandstone escarpment, and then moves along to an old Cold War listening station, and not far away, the Frodsham Anti-Aircraft Operations Room. And all the while the vista shows the canal work of the industrial revolution, the chemical plants of the 20th century and the wind turbines of the last decade. The ancient landscape hums with history and archaeology that bring its past into focus in the present.

For Seren, and many before her, this is a magical, mysterious place which draws out timelines like a strand, with artefacts from the past projecting forwards, enduring into the present.

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Nurses in one of England's worst-hit areas relive the year-long ordeal of caring for Covid patients.

Commissioners will oversee parts of Liverpool City Council, the local government secretary says.