A place in the sun: How do a bankrupt charity boss and his councillor partner afford a “luxury” flat abroad?
Peter Mitchell and Colette Goulding signed a contract for a £2,700 per month apartment in one of Gibraltar’s “finest buildings”
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Abi is our editor and does our biggest investigations. In 2024, she won Young Journalist of the Year, and in 2025 she was shortlisted for Private Eye's Paul Foot Journalism Award and a British Journalism Award.
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Their bosses read their WhatsApps. Then their jobs were on the line
Exclusive: Literature festival Writing on the Wall says employees committed gross misconduct. Staff say they’ve had their privacy “violated”
The legend of the Garlic Mansion
Courtney Love stayed there, the rent remains at Nineties prices and it's acquired mythical status. What's the magic?
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‘We kept our side of the deal, now the council needs to keep theirs’
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'What makes it worse is they don’t answer any correspondence. They’ve gone into oblivion'
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‘To have one is to be powerful, but to use it is to be reckless’
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‘A political rush’: Were Merseyrail’s new trains ready to hit the tracks?
Delays, cancellations and a transport committee kept in the dark
The University of Liverpool wants to break into the world’s top 100. But are its staff on board?
‘Everyone knows at least two or three colleagues that are either off with ill health or should be off with their health.’
A Liverpool startup was meant to revolutionise food delivery. What went wrong?
The metro mayor invested £700,000 of public money into an app that made just 58 orders
A cold winter’s morning with Liverpool’s bee whisperer
‘We can learn a lot from the bees — no fighting, no fuss’
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The first writer’s edition from Abi
The Everyman hired a young director with a big reputation. A year later, he's gone
'I'm devastated to learn of these unfounded accusations, in what feels like an orchestrated and biased attempt to undermine a reputation I have established over 15 years'