Dear members — today’s story is about how Liverpool is governed. A consultation is currently asking residents to choose between the mayoral system, the “leader and cabinet” model and the committee system. And Larry Neild, formerly of the Daily Post and Echo, is probably the only journalist who has covered the city’s council under all three. His piece for us today offers some great anecdotes and insights.

We also have an update from Caroline, who Mollie met last week when she was food shopping in Bootle.

Since we published that story, a reader got in touch asking to help, and they actually met up this morning to look at increased benefits and services which might help the family.

Today’s edition is going out to 331 Post members — if you’re one of the handful who joined yesterday, welcome! For a while we’ve had a goal of reaching 350 by the end of April, which once seemed very hard and now seems like a piece of cake. Thanks for your support and do forward this edition to friends who might …