Updates on Tuesday 3 November
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BBC Travel
Due to a trespass incident between Bebington and Port Sunlight, some Chester and Ellesmere Port lines are blocked.
Train services running through these stations may be cancelled or delayed by up to 15 mins and disruption is expected until 15:15.
People are getting in touch with their memories of actor Colin Welland, who has died aged 81.
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Liverpool have been praised for “listening to residents’ concerns”, external over the Anfield stadium redevelopment.
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Oscar-winning writer and actor Colin Welland has died aged 81 after suffering from Alzheimer's disease for several years, his family has announced.
Image source, PAWelland, who grew up on Merseyside, won an Oscar for best original screenplay for Chariots of Fire in 1982.
He famously used his acceptance speech to announce: "The British are coming!"
As an actor, he won a Bafta for playing the sympathetic English teacher Mr Farthing in Ken Loach's Kes in 1969.
BBC Travel
Springwood Avenue in Liverpool is closed at the Mather Avenue junction, because of an accident.
Here's some footage of the baby capybara which was born at Chester Zoo two weeks ago.
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Capybaras are the world's largest species of rodent, growing up to about 1.5m in length, and are found in the wild in South America.
Cycling legend Mark Cavendish will join more than 2,900 students from the University of Chester, external to celebrate their academic achievements over four days of graduation this week.
The Weeping Window sculpture is starting to take shape in Liverpool - the first poppy was "planted" this morning and the artwork will be unveiled in full this weekend.
Thousands of ceramic poppies will make up the artwork which was originally displayed at the Tower of London in 2014. It will be in Liverpool until 17 January.
Police have sealed off a part of Slater Street in Liverpool city centre after an assault in the early hours of the morning left a young man with a broken nose, external.
Five giant cranes which will be used in the new Liverpool2 container terminal have arrived in the River Mersey.
Image source, Peel PortsThe cranes, which have been transported by sea from China, form part of Peel Port’s £300m project to create a deep water container terminal in the city.
Image source, Peel PortsThe cranes set off from Shanghai in August and travelled over 18,000 miles (30,000km) via south-east Asia, India, the Arabian Peninsula and the Cape of Good Hope in Africa before arriving in Liverpool.
Jenny Coleman
Reporter, BBC Local Live
Today's top stories in Cheshire and Merseyside:
- Birkenhead MP Frank Field describes new figures showing an increase in the number of families with children in the Liverpool City Region being registered as homeless as "distressing and alarming".
- The first ceramic poppy in the Weeping Window sculpture at St. George's Hall in Liverpool is "planted".
- A banner thanking Everton chairman Bill Kenwright for "everything he has done" will be flown over Goodison Park during the club's game with Aston Villa later this month.
Liverpool Cricket Club has secured a grant of almost £29,000 to improve access in the clubhouse.
Image source, Liverpool Cricket ClubThe club in Aigburth, which moved to its current location in 1881, provides space for a range of community and sport events - but its existing stair lift is outdated.
The club will use the Biffa Award money to upgrade facilities by installing a full wheelchair size lift in the main entrance.
A member of the world’s largest species of rodent has given birth at Chester Zoo.
Image source, Chester ZooA baby capybara, which has not yet been sexed, was born at the zoo on 19 October and at just over two-weeks-old, the tiny youngster can already walk and swim on its own.
Capybaras are semi-aquatic mammals and originate from South America. They can grow up to almost 1.5m in length and weigh up to 60kg.
BBC Sport
Former Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard could be ready to finally call time on his playing career.
Image source, Getty ImagesGerrard told the LA Galaxy official website, external that next season, which begins in January in the USA, could be his last.
"It could be my last season as a footballer," he said. "I certainly don’t want to feel like I’m feeling right now come next year. I’d love to go out on a high."
Stuart Flinders
Reporter, BBC North West Tonight
Media coverage of the inquest of Liverpool resident Robert Hart, who died after being punched at the Parklife music festival last year, has led to new information about his death.
Image source, Family of Robert HartPolice have not been able to trace the man who punched Mr Hart at the festival in Manchester's Heaton Park, but the coroner began the second day of the 26-year-old's inquest by saying yesterday's news coverage prompted some people to come forward.
However, he said police were still not in a position to identify the man who attacked Mr Hart.
The inquest at Manchester Town Hall is due to last for five days.
The first ceramic poppy in the Weeping Window sculpture at St. George's Hall in Liverpool has been "planted" by Councillor Wendy Simon, Liverpool City Council's culture and tourism cabinet member.
It is the first of thousands of ceramic poppies that will make up the artwork, which was created to mark the centenary of the outbreak of World War One.
Originally displayed at the Tower of London in 2014, the completed sculpture will be unveiled this weekend and will be on display until 17 January.
Plans to close a major route in Runcorn for seven months to prepare for the Mersey Gateway have been postponed, external.
Giulia Bould
Reporter, BBC Radio Merseyside
A banner thanking Everton chairman Bill Kenwright for "everything he has done" will be flown over Goodison Park during the club's game with Aston Villa later this month.
A fan, known only as Stephen K, set up a fundraising page to raise £640 to pay for the banner. Supporters have already donated over £950.
Any spare money will go to the Blues' official charity - Everton in the Community.
Bill Kenwright hasn't been well for several months and is yet to go to a home game this season - but this group behind the banner say they want to show him they think he is a fantastic chairman with a genuine love of the club.
Major town centre firms have voiced support for the campaign to keep St. Helens Magistrates' and County Courts open, external.
Rumeana Jahangir
Reporter, BBC News Online
The first ceramic poppy will be "planted" this morning at Liverpool's St George's Hall as it prepares to host the Weeping Window cascade from last year's Tower of London display.
Image source, Getty ImagesI've takena look at the building's links to the war- which peaked when about 12,000 new soldiers paraded on the plateau in 1915, when War Secretary Lord Kitchener attended a review.
Thousands of men had signed up for the army at the venue after World War One started in 1914.
