Some of Merseyside’s ‘most wanted’ have had their mugshots printed in the Liverpool Echo. The newspaper has teamed up with the police to appeal for help in finding suspects for violent crimes. Each Thursday, four pictures are printed with a
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A Life of Riley – in print
Journalist Joe Riley celebrates his eventful 26 years at the heart of Liverpool culture in a new book. Life of Riley contains some of the most memorable moments from his career as arts editor for the Liverpool Echo. It features
'Holiday from hell' man home – thanks to Echo
The Liverpool Echo has come to the rescue of a local man who a “holiday from hell”. Kevin Thompson spent 13 days in a Turkish hospital after collapsing with a blood clot in his brain while staying in Marmaris. After
Howard makes a reader's day
New Liverpool Echo columnist – Howard Kendall – has been quick to make his mark in the city. Many readers were delighted when the former Everton manager was signed up to the paper’s sports pages – and among them was
Liverpool's Champ takes on a case in Canada
The Liverpool Echo fights hard for its readers. A regular column called The Champ features “consumer champion” Bill Jackson taking on readers problems – and getting results. And he doesn’t just stick to the paper’s circulation area. One of his
Fab Four's fun Forty
The Fab Four are turning “Fab Forty” for a special publication to mark four decades of the Beatles. The Liverpool Echo is taking another look at the Merseyside heroes in a 24-page souvenir special to mark the occasion. It’s all
Shake and rattle for role
When open auditions were held in Liverpool to find a “young John Lennon” for a new TV film about the famous Beatle – the Liverpool Echo couldn’t resist sending someone along. The lucky candidate was bespectacled reporter John Campbell, who
Echo picture reunites old pals
A pensioner has been put back in touch with the friend who saved her child’s life 38 years ago – thanks to the Liverpool Echo. Scousers Tessie McTigue and Ronnie Kahn, both now living in America, became friends in 1962
More success in story that began with a shooting
An award-winning disability magazine produced by Liverpool Echo journalist Tom Dowling has gone live on the Internet. Tom (pictured) has written I can do that – a weekly column on disability issues – since 1983 and, for the past three
Healthy regional picture at Trinity Mirror
Revenues at Trinity Mirror’s regional papers, which include the Birmingham Evening Mail and Liverpool Echo, were up 7.3 per cent in the last six months. Income from their three national newspapers increased by 2.4 per cent in the same 26
North West Newspaper Awards 2000
The award-winning Blackpool Gazette has another trophy to add to its cabinet – scooping the North West Daily Newspaper of the Year Award for the second time in three years. Editor Gerard Henderson picked up the BNFL Society of Editors
Pick of the archives for Liverpool's war
The pick of more than a million images have been put together to evoke memories of what was dubbed Liverpool’s war. That was the name given to the Blitz, which claimed more than 4,000 lives in the city between 1940
Readers get in on the Big Picture
Hundreds of Liverpool Echo readers have come forward to take part in the paper’s Big Picture Appeal to raise money for Alder Hey hospital. In return for a donation, they get a photo of themselves placed on a huge mock-up
Echo fine-tunes £10m print system
Readers of the Liverpool Echo may have been confused if they’d seen different editions of the paper recently. Colour pages were being moved from edition to edition between print runs as part of fine-tuning the paper’s £10m worth of new
News In Brief from around the regions
SNAKE’S ALIVE: Sonia Howick had an unexpected guest in her conservatory, reported the Portsmouth News – a five-feet long corn snake which she discovered hanging from a cupboard door. An RSPCA inspector called to the scene had to extricate the
Echo keeps its readers in the picture
Deputy Editor of the Liverpool Echo, Tony Storey, has told readers: “Believe it or not, it’s quite rare to hear the cry – ‘Hold the front page’ in the Echo newsroom.” But he went on to explain that it was