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Why The Post?
We’re named after the Liverpool Daily Post, which covered this city for 158 years and once filled an 18-storey office on Old Hall Street with reporters. It printed its last edition in 2013.
Most of Britain’s newspapers are owned by billionaires or big companies a long way from here. Not The Post. There’s no oligarch pulling the strings. We’re funded by our members, people who care about Merseyside and believe this place deserves proper journalism.
When a city loses its reporters, decisions still get made and public money still gets spent, but far fewer people are watching. That gap is where some of Merseyside’s biggest stories were hiding. We found that more than £195,000 had gone from Knowsley Foodbank to private companies, that a developer had been handed nine acres of council land for nothing, and that Liverpool Council had been placing children in homes that weren’t registered with Ofsted.
We exist because Liverpool still deserves a proper local newspaper.
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What we write about
The Post is for the curious who want to know what’s really going on in Merseyside: its people, its places, its triumphs and sometimes its tragedies. We cover politics, culture, business and lots of things in between.
CultureWhy has the Adelphi become Liverpool’s dirty secret?
David Lloyd on the sorry, and often very funny, decline of one of the city’s most iconic buildings.
InvestigationGerard Woodhouse tells horrifying stories about Liverpool - are they true?
Four months spent checking the stories an L6 councillor tells the local press.
Food“Absolute carnage”: Inside the restaurant Reddit put on trial
Twenty was Liverpool’s hottest new spot, then it vanished. So what really went on inside?
Around TownThe bakery rankings Merseyside didn’t ask for
The nine best bakeries across Merseyside, rated and ranked.
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