#Mayor Steve Rotheram

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Liverpool City Region Combined Authority 9th June 2023 Part 1 of 3

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Nigel Farage is 100% part of the problem here. He is deliberately whipping up his far right followers into a frenzy for his own ends. He is gleefully pouring gasoline on the fire, and shows no regard for the safety of the public. This is not acceptable behaviour for a Member of Parliament and there needs to be repercussions for this.

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A future Labour government would not be able to easily reverse Rishi Sunak’s decision to scrap the northern leg of HS2 as he has “spitefully” authorised the sale of properties that were subject to compulsory purchase orders on part of the route. Steve Rotheram, the mayor of the Liverpool city region, said the move killed HS2 “stone dead” and would “tie any future government’s hands and make the delivery of HS2 for the north all but impossible”. Keir Starmer, the Labour leader, on Thursday refused to commit to building HS2, telling ITV News Meridian: “What I can’t do is stand here now they have taken a wrecking ball to this project, and say that we will simply reverse it.

I feel like this is the sort of thing I should be posting as a conspiracy theory

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Funding Approved for Liverpool Baltic Station

The 96 million GBP funding package for Liverpool Baltic Station has been approved as part of Mayor Steve Rotheram’s ongoing efforts to improve rail access across the Liverpool City Region. A planning application will now be submitted to Liverpool City Council in October with the aim for construction to begin next year. The station is then expected to open by 2027. Baltic Station – Platform View ©…

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Virtual Reality Brings £100m Liverpool Railway Station to Life

New Post - Virtual Reality Brings £100m Liverpool Railway Station to Life

Rail passengers, residents, and all interested individuals will soon have the unique opportunity to preview a planned £100 million railway station. This is made possible through the use of accessible virtual reality technology. The Liverpool Baltic Merseyrail station, initially announced in 2022, has been earmarked for completion by 2027, according to metro mayor Steve Rotheram. The construction…

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Interviews From The Eurovision 2024 Semi Final Draw

Ewan Spence and Ben Robertson attended the Semi Final draw for Eurovision 2024 ; here, they talk over the details and importance of the result before talking to Steve Rotheram (Metro Mayor of the Liverpool City Region), Ebba Adielsson (Eurovision Exec Producer), and Christer Bjorkman, (Eurovision Contest Producer).

Interviews From The Eurovision 2024 Semi Final Draw Ewan Spence and Ben Robertson attended the Semi Final draw for Eurovision 2024 ; here, they talk over the details and importance of the result before talking to Steve Rotheram (Metro Mayor of the Liverpool City Region), Ebba Adielsson (Eurovision Exec Producer), and Christer Bjorkman, (Eurovision Contest Producer). Discover more about the…

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Everton finally epeal 10 point deduction by Premier League

Everton have appealed against the decision to dock them 10 Premier League points for financial rule breaches. The Toffees were handed the punishment - the biggest in Premier League history - by an independent commission. The club have lodged their appeal with the Premier League's judicial panel, and an appeal board will now be appointed to hear the case. The club admitted the breach but said they were "shocked and disappointed" at the severity of the punishment. The appeal will be heard and concluded before the end of this season. "Everton Football Club has today lodged with the chair of the Premier League's judicial panel its appeal of the decision by a Premier League commission to impose a 10-point deduction on the club," Everton said. BBC Sport understands the club have not been told how the figure of 10 points was reached by the independent commission which decided the sanction, and feel a sporting penalty for breaking financial limits is unjust. The appeal will go before a panel which will review the ruling of the commission, assessing the process and whether, in its opinion, the penalty issued was fair or not. The points deduction dropped Everton from 14th in the Premier League table to 19th. Thousands of Everton fans held anti-Premier League protests before and during Sunday's 3-0 defeat against Manchester United over the scale of the punishment. A number of regional politicians have also raised concerns, including Mayor of Liverpool Steve Rotheram and Mayor for Greater Manchester Andy Burnham, who is an Everton season ticket-holder. Read the full article

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May 24 (UPI) -- A court found a 14-year-old boy guilty on Tuesday of murdering 12-year-old Ava White in November in Liverpool, Britain after she asked him to stop filming her and her friends.

The boy, who has not been publicly identified, held his head in his hands as the court convicted him, prompting applause from more than 20 members of Ava's family, Sky News reported.

He fatally stabbed her in the neck with a knife on Nov. 25, the night the Christmas lights were turned on in Liverpool.

Ava and her friends, ages 11 to 15, had shared some alcohol and were "messing around" near the Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool city center on the night of the attack. A group of boys saw them, and the 14-year-old boy began filming a clip that he later shared on Snapchat, the court was told.

After Ava approached the boy and demanded he stop filming, he thrust a knife into her neck.

"For such an appalling attack to take place on the one of the busiest streets in the Liverpool city region, during one of the busiest days of year, sends shivers down our spines," Metropolitan Mayor of Liverpool Steve Rotheram said at the time, The Guardian reported. "Ava was just a child with her whole life in front of her. Her future has been stolen and the lives of her family and friends shattered. I am angry today for Ava and her family, for the parents across the region worrying about their children's safety, and angry that such a heinous act should take place here."

Prosecuting attorney Charlotte Newell QC said the boy's "reaction at the time was to smirk, to laugh and to run away, leaving Ava to die whilst he sought to distance himself from his actions," Sky News reported. Newell also noted that Ava was an "unarmed child."

Sentencing was set for July 11.

CCTV footage was shown during the trial, including the moment of the stabbing.

The boy had told a "series of lies" about the day of the attack after he was arrested, from claiming he was playing video games at the time of the killing to saying another boy had stabbed her.

At trial, the boy denied the murder charge and claimed he was acting in self-defense.

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Liverpool City Region Combined Authority 9th June 2023 Part 2 of 2

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A letter from Peter Moore to Liverpool fans:

Dear Liverpool supporters,

First and foremost on behalf of our ownership, Fenway Sports Group, we would like to emphasise the thoughts and concerns of everyone are with those suffering from the dreadful COVID-19 pandemic and the families of those affected.

We would also recognise and pay tribute to the heroism of the incredible health service and key workers locally, nationally and internationally. All other worries should be placed in that context first.

Allowing for perspective in these unprecedented and harrowing times, it is important to address an issue we, as an organisation, have been involved in since the weekend.

We have consulted with a range of key stakeholders as part of a process aimed at achieving the best possible outcome for all concerned. A range of possible scenarios were considered, including but not restricted to: applying to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, which pays 80 per cent of salary and guaranteeing the 20 per cent payment; applying to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme with a guarantee to reimburse monies received at a later date; and, thirdly, finding an alternative means to cover our furlough costs.

It is as a direct result of this extensive consultation and our own internal deliberations at various levels throughout the club that we have opted to find alternative means despite our eligibility to apply for the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.

We believe we came to the wrong conclusion last week to announce that we intended to apply to the Coronavirus Retention Scheme and furlough staff due to the suspension of the Premier League football calendar, and are truly sorry for that.

Our intentions were, and still are, to ensure the entire workforce is given as much protection as possible from redundancy and/or loss of earnings during this unprecedented period.

We are therefore committed to finding alternative ways to operate while there are no football matches being played that ensures we are not applying for the government relief scheme.  

We would like to acknowledge the great army of staff and casual workers who work tirelessly to ensure Liverpool is a club that operates to the highest of standards.

But in the spirit of transparency we must also be clear, despite the fact we were in a healthy position prior to this crisis, our revenues have been shut off yet our outgoings remain. And like almost every sector of society, there is great uncertainty and concern over our present and future.

Like any responsible employer concerned for its workers in the current situation, the club continues to prepare for a range of different scenarios, around when football can return to operating as it did before the pandemic. These scenarios range from best case to worst and everything in between.

It is an unavoidable truth that several of these scenarios involve a massive downturn in revenue, with correspondingly unprecedented operating losses. Having these vital financial resources so profoundly impacted would obviously negatively affect our ability to operate as we previously have.

We are engaged in the process of exploring all avenues within our scope to limit the inevitable damage. We thank the many amazing people in our club, at all levels, who are committed to helping us do just that, despite the complexity and unpredictability in the world and our industry.

We would also like to take the opportunity to thank those who have engaged with us in a productive fashion, none more so than our supporters, their representatives, particularly Spirit of Shankly, the Mayor of Liverpool, Joe Anderson, Metro Mayor, Steve Rotheram, local MPs Dan Carden and many other individuals, with whom we have had much valued dialogue.

Stay safe. Peter Moore

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Mersey  Tidal Barrage Proposal Could Open Floodgates For Renewable Energy

Incredibly, it is already mid-March, and almost a quarter of the way through 2019, the year which the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority has dubbed ‘Year of Environment’,

This month will see the green initiative implement multiple projects and events across Merseyside and Halton, ranging from litter picks in local parks to hosting England’s Community Forest Conference. Meanwhile, investment continues in a fleet of electric trains and buses in an effort to improve air quality. The overall aim is to encourage ‘practical actions’ in creating a greener future in a region which has historically been a hub of industry, manufacturing, and mining. 

What is most significant about this particular milestone in the calendar is that March 2019 is the expected delivery date of a business proposal being drafted by the Mersey Tidal Commission for the development of a tidal barrage across the river. Ultimately, the proposal aims to establish how economically viable it would be to harness the wealth of renewable energy the river produces. 

The potential output of such a project would be impressive to say the least; the Mersey has the second highest tidal range in the UK at 10.7m, and a survey conducted for a previous proposal in 2011 found that 200,000 homes could be powered by a barrage across the river. 

Sadly, renewable energy projects (particularly tidal projects) have a tendency of running aground in Britain. Multiple attempts at building a Severn barrage at Bristol have been scuppered in the early stages, and the £1.3bn Swansea Bay tidal lagoon proposal was rejected by the government last year due to the high cost of energy production relative to other renewables. 

There is every chance that a Mersey barrage may face a similar upstream struggle.

The 2011 proposal was eventually scrapped due to the high building cost, and the fact that the rates that a tidal barrage could generate power at were not competitive in the energy sector at the time; essentially the same issues which sunk the Swansea bay scheme.

There were also concerns raised by local wildlife trusts, who claimed that such a structure could have an adverse effect on the river’s ecosystem. At one point, the river Mersey was one of the most polluted waterways in Britain, and it took over twenty years of clean-up operations to restore a level of biodiversity unseen for generations. Nowadays, seals, porpoise, otters and kingfishers have all been spotted feeding on the fish populations which thrive around the mudflats.

 March of this year, and the expected submission of the comprehensive business proposal for a tidal barrage between New Ferry and Dingle, marks a pivotal point for the Liverpool city region. Simply being an ecological success is not enough, and accordingly the plan will examine not only the environmental, but also the economic and technical factors in what would be the biggest renewable power project in the region, providing energy for a city which currently draws a mere 0.5% of its energy from renewable sources. 

Marine wildlife aside, the region evidently has a long way to go if this is really to be a “Year of Environment”.

This month would also have been the deadline for Knowsley council to find new funding for its green spaces. Instead, the council ended up selling off 10% of its parklands in 2017 in order to safeguard the remaining parks. 

Last year, St Helens council earmarked 695 hectares of greenbelt land for housing and employment development, despite pledging to stick to a ‘brownfield first’ policy.

Meanwhile, in neighbouring Lancashire, hydraulic fracturing, or ‘fracking’, began at multiple sites as part of the process for extracting natural gas. Several Merseyside MPs have voiced their fears over the controversial fracking process being implemented in the region. There are already sites in development at Ellesmere Port, as well as surveys being conducted in a 51km² area between Formby and Ormskirk.

The Metro Mayor of Liverpool, Steve Rotheram, has previously stated that it is his ambition for the city to be carbon neutral by 2040, and that the barrage scheme would have the ‘massive transformational potential’ required to take the city in the right direction.

Should the authorities back the Commission’s plans, the area could expect huge investment, the creation of jobs and meaningful steps towards a sustainable future. An approved proposal would be precisely the kind of ‘practical actions’ described by the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority when they set out their mission statement for the ‘Year of Environment’. 

What with local government’s previous willingness to embrace ecologically unsustainable practices, and the possible return to fossil fuel extraction to the area, much hangs on the findings of the Mersey Tidal Commission and their expected proposal. 

Residents wondering whether or not the Combined Authority truly intend to make this a ‘Year of Environment’ won’t be left waiting much longer.

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Government to take more control of Liverpool council after report finds £100m budget gap

Government to take more control of Liverpool council after report finds £100m budget gap

The government is to take further control of Liverpool away from the city council following a damning report into the operation of the authority which found a budget gap of close to £100m over four years. Levelling Up Secretary Greg Clark is set to appoint a steering committee including Liverpool Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram, former chief executive of Manchester City Council Sir Howard Bernstein…

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£96 Million Liverpool Baltic Station Development Nears Approval

A 96 million GBP funding package to construct the new Liverpool Baltic station is on track for approval. The project, part of Mayor Steve Rotheram’s vision to enhance rail access across the Liverpool City Region, will be discussed at next week’s Combined Authority meeting, with the planning application expected to be submitted to Liverpool City Council in October. Pending necessary approvals,…

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Champions League: French police looked for problems, says Liverpool mayor

Champions League: French police looked for problems, says Liverpool mayor

Steve Rotheram tells the French Senate police sought confrontation at Champions League final in Paris.

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Champions League: French police looked for problems, says Liverpool mayor

Champions League: French police looked for problems, says Liverpool mayor

Steve Rotheram tells the French Senate police sought confrontation at Champions League final in Paris. Source link