The Post

19/06/2025

🎭In 2022, six years after Knowsley Council gave planning permission for a new theatre, the Shakespeare North Playhouse opened its doors. The venue’s genesis was actually in 2007, when academics and theatre directors inspired by the upcoming Capital of Culture celebrations highlighted the Bard’s North-West links.

But was the theatre – which cost £38 million to construct – a reasonable outlay, or an expensive white elephant that will never recoup its investments?

That's today's piece. Read it below ✍

Prescot's Elizabethan theatre cost £38 million. Three years on, we find out if that outlay was justified

16/06/2025

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14/06/2025

In your weekend read, David Lloyd takes a whistlestop tour of the city’s contemporary arts festival: Liverpool's 2025 Biennial 🎨

David Lloyd takes a whistlestop tour of the city's contemporary arts festival

13/06/2025

It’s been nearly two years since we published the first part of our investigation into Blue Coat — one of the most prestigious schools in the northwest.

Our original investigation detailed how the school had descended into a “cesspit of bullying”. Much of our reporting focused on one person, the school’s former deputy headteacher Nick Barends, who had allegedly engaged in a relationship with a pupil at the school in 2008 — a relationship that senior staff members at Blue Coat had attempted to conceal. Barends also stood accused of inappropriate behaviour around other students. He never responded to our extensive list of questions.

We had set up the piece as a two-parter, with the second installment intended to run the day after the first. But we never published that second piece. After the first story went out we received an email from Merseyside Police. It turned out that Barends had been arrested on suspicion of r**e and sexual activity in the presence of a child. Owing to the potential contempt of court risk, we had no choice but to halt publication. Barends has never been charged.

Now, we can finally publish Part Two, telling the story of how Barends was finally sacked from Blue Coat, and his attempt to overturn the decision at a recent tribunal.

It’s a story two years in the making…

Two years on, we return to our investigation into one of the northwest’s most prestigious schools

12/06/2025

Three years on from our investigation into why businesses were departing the city, we find out whether Liverpool has changed its ways...

🏢Are companies still leaving Liverpool?

Three years on from our investigation into why businesses were departing the city, we find out whether Liverpool has changed its ways

09/06/2025

Once a Liverpool institution, Sayers has been driven out of its own city centre by Greggs.

🍞What went wrong?

Once a Liverpool institution, Sayers has been driven out of its own city centre by Greggs. What went wrong?

05/06/2025

🌊 Several of our readers got in touch with questions about the Mersey Barrage, so in today’s Answers in The Post, Abi speaks to experts and reports back.

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03/06/2025

🍞Who remembers Sayers? The bakery chain once dominated the city centre but no longer.

Did you work there in any capacity? Think the sausage rolls were superior to Greggs's? Have any insight into its decline?

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31/05/2025

🚨Exclusive: As beleaguered staff use donated bottled water to flush toilets, the former charity boss decides it’s time for a fresh start

In Part 5 of our investigation into Big Help Project and former Labour councillor Peter Mitchell, he refocuses his efforts on war-torn Ukraine ⬇️

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30/05/2025

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The Liverpool Post

28/05/2025

50 people are being treated in hospital after a car ploughed into fans on Monday. But could the attack have been prevented?

✍️ That’s today’s story, which is now on our website.

28/05/2025

50 people are being treated in hospital after a car ploughed into fans on Monday. But could the attack have been prevented?

Today's edition: how Liverpool’s day of triumph became a night of fear

50 people are being treated in hospital after a car ploughed into fans on Monday. But could the attack have been prevented?