Summary

  • Results coming in from across Merseyside and western Cheshire

  • Southport’s new MP becomes seaside town’s first ever Labour representative

  • Tories could be without any Merseyside MPs

  • Labour holds Birkenhead, Knowsley, Widnes & Halewood, Runcorn & Helsby and Bootle

  • Labour also retains the Liverpool seats of West Derby, Riverside, Walton

  • Reform performs very strongly, beating the Tories in several seats

  • Labour set to win a landslide victory, according to exit poll

  • Live results and reaction from across the UK

  1. Liverpool park to benefit from Queen's legacy fundpublished at 19:05 BST 15 September

    Croxteth country park will receive £2m from Queen Elizabeth Trust

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  2. Southport Pier steelwork repairs to startpublished at 06:20 BST 14 September

    The Victorian pier, shut since 2022 due to safety concerns, is undergoing a £20m restoration.

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  3. Reform MP says her children begged her to quit politics over safety fearspublished at 17:28 BST 12 September

    The Reform UK MP says the party's eight MPs now all have 24-hour security.

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  4. Firefighters to climb city tower in 9/11 tributepublished at 07:34 BST 12 September

    Fire crews from across Merseyside to pay tribute to 343 firefighters who died in the 9/11 attacks.

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  5. Force launches chatbot for non-emergency callspublished at 06:39 BST 11 September

    Merseyside Police are the first police force in the North West to roll-out an AI-powered chatbot.

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  6. Councillor vows to lie naked in mud over pipelinepublished at 17:27 BST 10 September

    Councillor Kathy Hodson makes the plea before a debate on running carbon capture pipes on council land.

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  7. £1m towards fighting city child poverty 'crisis'published at 06:31 BST 10 September

    City leaders are to put £1.1m into supporting Citizens Advice Liverpool's work against child poverty.

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  8. 'This Is Anfield' sign fetches £115k at auctionpublished at 17:00 BST 9 September

    The original sign from Liverpool's stadium tunnel fetched almost eight times its estimated guide price.

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  9. Council-run care home 'not caring' says regulatorpublished at 06:26 BST 9 September

    A damning inspection report into a care home run by Liverpool city council finds 50 safeguarding concerns in 6 months.

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  10. The battle to end 'indignity' of hospital corridor carepublished at 06:22 BST 8 September

    Hospitals in Liverpool treated 24,000 people on corridors in the last year, they say.

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  11. Children still living in unregistered homespublished at 16:51 BST 7 September

    Fourteen young people in Liverpool are living in unregistered, illegal settings, data shows.

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  12. First publicly owned buses hit the roadpublished at 07:51 BST 6 September

    The new services are part of the "biggest change to public transport in more than a generation".

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  13. Moment mum catches suspected arson attack on CCTVpublished at 07:03 BST 5 September

    Holly Cham, 33, from Bootle, says the incident has left her unable to sleep with worry.

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  14. New £20m robot lab to speed up disease researchpublished at 12:47 BST 4 September

    Lab-grown human organs will be used to test treatments, reducing the need for animal testing.

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  15. 'Unsung hero' binman immortalised in pub muralpublished at 06:15 BST 4 September

    Kenny Dunn is a popular and "chatty" character on the New Brighton seafront.

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  16. Mayor backs caller's 'bums, not bags' train pleapublished at 16:42 BST 2 September

    Norma says occupied seats cause difficulties because she uses a three-wheeled walking aid.

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  17. Lord Blunkett 'deeply' regrets his Hillsborough responsepublished at 12:43 BST 2 September

    The former home secretary says he regrets not having done more for the Hillsborough families.

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  18. Famous 'This Is Anfield' sign could fetch £15k at auction published at 06:18 BST 2 September

    The words hang above the passage to the pitch and Reds players traditionally touch it as they pass.

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  19. Psychiatric nurse neglected patient who took own lifepublished at 18:16 BST 1 September

    Laurence Tchapong failed to carry out required observations and falsified records.

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  20. Call to extend Liverpool's vital night bus servicepublished at 06:14 BST 1 September

    The night buses between Liverpool and Wirral have been running since December 2023.

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