The chairman of an NHS trust that provides mental health and disability services across parts of Merseyside, Cheshire and Greater Manchester has responded to a Care Quality Commission inspection that said the trust "requires improvement".

Bernard Pilkington from Five Boroughs Partnership NHS Foundation Trust said: "The trust has already resolved all the actions the CQC has advised we must do and we have clear action plans in place to address those they have suggested we should do. 

"I am confident we have the correct arrangements in place and deliver safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led services to our patients and service users, putting us in a strong position to achieve a 'good' rating on the next visit."

Staff at the Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen Hospital are hoping to enter the record books by attempting to make the largest bowl of scouse - 500 portions.

Image source, Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen Hospital

The stew was commonly eaten by sailors and became popular in seaports such as Liverpool.

Today's top stories in Cheshire and Merseyside:

• A health trust, which treats patients across Halton, Knowsley, St Helens, Warrington and Wigan, is criticised for a series of shortcomings in its end-of-life care.
• A 16-year-old from Wirral is arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a hit and run in Walton on Friday
• People living in West Lancashire can have their say on flood defences and find out about the support available at a public meeting in Ormskirk later

A reptile believed to have pre-dated the dinosaurs has hatched at Chester Zoo for the first time.

Image source, Chester Zoo

The tuatara arrived weighing 4.21g following a 238 day incubation period and is its first ever breeding outside of their native New Zealand, the zoo said. 

Keeper Isolde McGeorge said: “They are notoriously difficult to breed. It has taken lots of hard work, lots of stressful moments and lots of tweaking of the conditions in which we keep the animals."

BBC Weather

There will be sunny spells and blustery showers this afternoon, with the showers possibly turning wintry on hills. 

Winds will also continue to increase with gales or severe gales possible by dusk, especially along the Irish sea coast.

Liverpool Echo

Birkenhead shipyard Cammell Laird is considering investing more than £100m, external to build a massive new dry dock capable of taking the world’s biggest ships.  

Two portraits of Paul McCartney painted in the Beatles' heyday in 1967 are on display together for the first time.

Image source, The Artist's Estate

The oils are among a raft of pictures of celebrities painted by John Bratby, one of Britain's most acclaimed artists of the 1950s and 1960s.  

The Jerwood Gallery in Hastings, East Sussex has brought the paintings of McCartney together in the first retrospective exhibition of Bratby's work.

Tom Mullen
Reporter, BBC News Online

An NHS trust that provides mental health and disability services across parts of Merseyside, Cheshire and Greater Manchester has been ordered to make improvements.

Five Boroughs Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as "requires improvement".

Concerns raised during a Care Quality Commission inspection included inadequate risk assessments and a lack of basic training in managing medicine.  

CCTV images have been released of five men after a woman was hit by a bottle thrown in a fight at Heebie Jeebies nightclub in December.

Image source, Merseyside Police

The bottle caused a deep cut and nerve damage to her forehead, police said.  

Warrington Worldwide

Planning bosses at Warrington are to consider proposals for a pair of semi-detached houses on the site of the historic Ship Inn at Walton, external which was demolished after a fire last year.  

Today's top stories in Cheshire and Merseyside:

- A health trust, which treats patients across Halton, Knowsley, St Helens, Warrington and Wigan, has been criticised for a series of shortcomings in its end of life care.

- A 16-year-old from Wirral has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a hit and run in Walton on Friday.

- People living in West Lancashire can have their say on flood defences and find out about the support available at a public meeting in Ormskirk later.

Phil McNulty
BBC Sport chief football writer

Everton have made an approach for Lokomotiv Moscow forward Oumar Niasse and hope to tie up a £13.5m deal before tonight's transfer deadline.

Image source, Getty Images

Manager Roberto Martinez wants greater attacking options after selling Steven Naismith to Norwich and Aiden McGeady also possibly going out on loan.

Catherine Lee
BBC News online

Reports of racist behaviour during Carlisle United's home game against Everton are being investigated by police and the Football Association.

Image source, PA

It was alleged "racial remarks" were directed towards players from Brunton Park's Warwick Road End following Everton's opening goal.

Cumbria Police appealed for information, while both clubs said they would work with the authorities. 

Warrington Guardian

A charity is urgently appealing for new volunteer puppy socialisers, external in Warrington.  

Paul Burnell
Reporter, BBC News Online

A 16-year-old boy has been held on suspicion of attempted murder after a 17-year-old biker was left critically ill when he was "rammed" by a 4x4.

The teenager was arrested in Prenton, Wirral on Sunday evening, a Merseyside Police spokesman said.

Today's top stories in Cheshire and Merseyside:

- A health trust, which treats patients across Halton, Knowsley, St Helens, Warrington and Wigan, has been criticised for a series of shortcomings in its end of life care.

- A 16-year-old from Wirral has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a hit and run in Walton on Friday.

- People living in West Lancashire can have their say on flood defences and find out about the support available at a public meeting in Ormskirk later.

BBC Weather

It will be a cloudy start today. However, it will quickly turn brighter with sunny spells developing. 

During the afternoon isolated showers will develop, these becoming more widespread later. A very windy day with severe gales in exposed areas.  

Emma Stanley
Reporter, BBC News Online

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