Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, Steve Rotheram
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🚍 IT'S OFFICIAL...WE'RE TAKING BACK CONTROL 🚍
🗣️
@MetroMayorSteve
has just announced that the Liverpool City Region will be franchising its buses!
📅 Today our region has made history as only the second area outside of London to franchise its services since 1985.
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"While I understand and support the importance of upholding the integrity of the sport, it is crucial to ensure that measures are proportionate.
I do not believe that this punishment fits the crime."
Steve has written to
@premierleague
following
@Everton
's 10 point deduction ⤵️
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📺 WATCH |
@AndyBonnerITV
caught up with Baz, the Afghan refugee who fled the Taliban as a child but has become a local hero during the pandemic.
🗣️ "I think only Jan Molby has got a better Scouse accent from someone not born here!" -
@MetroMayorSteve
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🪩 LIVERPOOL CITY REGION CALLING | It's official!
#Eurovision2023
is coming to Liverpool!
Read
@MetroMayorSteve
's reaction 👇
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📢 JOINT STATEMENT 📢
@MetroMayorSteve
and metro mayors representing over 10 million people call on the government to reverse their decision to remove the requirements to wear face masks on public transport.
⬇️ Full statement below ⬇️
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🗣️"Places like Liverpool should not be faced with the binary choice between maintaining heritage status or regenerating left behind communities – and the wealth of jobs and opportunities that come with it."
@MetroMayorSteve
reacts to today's UNESCO decision ⬇️
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👀 FIRST LOOK | The region's first hydrogen buses are due to arrive later this year.
Here's a sneak peek of what to expect...
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📺 WATCH |
@MetroMayorSteve
spoke to
@BBCNWT
about the chaos in Paris for Saturday's Champions League Final
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🗣️ "The Premier League's culture of secrecy has done nothing to foster confidence or trust."
👇
@MetroMayorSteve
's statement on
@Everton
's appeal verdict.
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👀 HERE WE GO!
🚆 The region's new £500m publicly owned trains hit the tracks for the first time today.
👇
@MetroMayorSteve
joined passengers on board the first service to Kirkby...
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🎯
@MetroMayorSteve
has outlined his ambition to make the River Mersey discharge free by 2030.
🗣️ "We need to protect the ecology and environment of our most precious natural resources."
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🗣 “Enough is enough. It’s time for action.”
For too long, too many people across the North have been held back by a failing rail service.
Steve and
@MayorofGM
are calling for an immediate intervention into the North’s train network.
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🧱 BRICK TO THE FUTURE |
@Everton
's new stadium has been awarded a £15m grant by
@LpoolCityRegion
to preserve the heritage of Bramley-Moore Dock.
📺 Restoration work is focused on the grade-II listed hydraulic tower and engine room.
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🗣️
@MetroMayorSteve
: "Today is the day that will change the face of public transport forever where we live."
👏 The Liverpool City Region has become only the second area outside of London to franchise its buses in nearly 40 years.
✅ History made.
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👀 Kamala enjoying some of the sights along the 10A - the first route to be serviced by our new hydrogen buses 🚍
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✅ IT'S OFFICIAL: Late night buses between Liverpool and the Wirral are set to return from next week!
🚍 It's part of a new trial being launched by
@MetroMayorSteve
.
🌃 Starting Friday 8 December, services will run from 12.30am until 5am.
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🚍 "Today marks the start of a new era for public transport in our area – we’re taking back control of our buses!"
👇 A statement from
@MetroMayorSteve
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Everton 🤝 Liverpool
The Liverpool City Region is united against knife crime.
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🥁 THE NEWS IS OUT…
👋🏻 Say hello to the city region’s newest recruits
@grahnort
and
@Rylan
!
🎙️The
#Eurovision
duo’s voices will be greeting fans arriving into the city by train from today.
💬
@MetroMayorSteve
: “This is going to be unforgettable!”
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🗣️ “I will continue to ask questions on behalf of Evertonians and the people of the region.”
👇 An update from
@MetroMayorSteve
following his meeting with 777 Partners regarding the proposed takeover of
@Everton
.
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🚨 If you are a
@lfc
fan who attended Saturday's Champions League final in Paris please fill out this survey for the club.
It's vitally important that your stories and experiences are included in the investigation into what went wrong.
👇 👇 👇
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🐬 FIN-TASTIC NEWS | Dolphins were spotted in the River Mersey this week!
🌊 The rare video captured the pod leaping above the surface of the water - and follows sightings of sharks and other rare fish in the river.
📹
@PloideMedia
.
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Mayors from across the North, representing over 8m people, have written to the Transport Secretary to request an urgent meeting on the future of Northern Powerhouse Rail.
Failure to commit fully to NPR is a false economy that would further exacerbate the North-South divide.
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We've order a fleet of 20 hydrogen buses which, like our new £500m trains, are publicly owned.
Another key part of
@MetroMayorSteve
's plan for a London-style transport network. ✅
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🗣️ "Too often, supporters from different clubs have become easy scapegoats to distract from the incompetence of the authorities. It was Liverpool fans this time, but it could just as easily happen to any other team."
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🏟️ NEW KID ON THE DOCK |
@Everton
's new waterfront stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock is continuing to take shape.
💷 The stadium was awarded a £15m grant by
@MetroMayorSteve
and the CA to preserve the heritage of the site.
📺 Video by Mark Thomas.
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⚖️ HILLSBOROUGH LAW ⚖️
"The scales of justice are weighed against ordinary families..."
Steve and
@AndyBurnhamGM
have written to every MP asking them to:
1⃣ Support the principle of a Hillsborough Law
2⃣ Support its inclusion in the forthcoming Queen's Speech
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Hers was a life epitomised by duty, service and quiet dignity. My thoughts are with her loved ones.
May she rest in peace.
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🖤 RIP to Birkenhead's own Glenda Jackson, a two-time Oscar winner and a formidable politician.
Our thoughts are with her loved ones at this difficult time.
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🗳️ Labour's Steve Rotheram has been re-elected as Mayor of the Liverpool City Region.
Final results:
🔴 LAB: 183,932 (68%)
🔵 CON: 27,708 (10%)
🟢 GRN: 26,417(9.8%)
🟠 LDEM: 21,366 (7.9%)
⚪️ INDP: 11,032 (4.1%)
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🗣️ "The day we have all been waiting for has finally arrived..."
A statement from
@MetroMayorSteve
on the new trains 👇
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⚽️ "Over the last year, we have heard many times that football without fans is nothing. If this decision is left to stand... those words will be meaningless"
@MetroMayorSteve
and
@AndyBurnhamGM
have called for action over the cancellation of trains for the FA Cup semi-final.
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✍️ IT'S OFFICIAL: Jürgen is a scouser.
Last night
@MetroMayorSteve
was
@TownHallLpool
to see Liverpool FC manager Jürgen Klopp receive the Freedom of the City 🗝️
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👀 SNEAK PEEK | These images show how the new £100m Liverpool Baltic station could look!
✅ Fully accessible
✅ Step-free access
✅ Cycle storage
🚉
@MetroMayorSteve
has pledged to open the new station by the end of 2027.
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The amazing story of Basir who fled the Taliban as a 9 year old and became a COVID hero in our region during the pandemic.
🗣️ "I always tell people who ask about my accent that I can speak five languages: Persian, Farsi, Turkish, English and Scouse."
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🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: The first of the region's £500m publicly owned trains will enter into service TOMORROW.
😎 A massive step on the journey to building the London-style transport system local people deserve.
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✍️ "I’m sure we’ll deliver a spectacle that sparks euphoria from now until the end of time. If anywhere is capable of it, it is Liverpool – with a little help from our friends in Ukraine."
@MetroMayorSteve
on what
#Eurovision2023
will mean for the region.
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✅ New trains
✅ New station
✅ New start
Steve joined passengers on the journey from our new £80m station at Headbolt Lane to Liverpool Central this morning - the country's first passenger service powered by batteries!
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🐿️ Red squirrels could soon be making a comeback in the Liverpool City Region thanks to
@MetroMayorSteve
's ambitious rewilding plans.
🐸 The species is part of a group of endangered wildlife that could be reintroduced alongside natterjack toads and the brown hare.
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Adverts for The S*n were removed from bus stops across the city region after
@MetroMayorSteve
instructed Merseytravel to take them down and investigate how it was allowed to happen in the first place.
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🚆 | As testing on our new publicly owned trains steps up to the next level,
@MetroMayorSteve
has been along to see them in action!
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🎶 FERRY CROSS THE MERSEY | Today
@MetroMayorSteve
has announced that a brand new Mersey Ferry will be built for the first time in 60 years ⛴
The multimillion pound project will support jobs, apprenticeships and development opportunities for the entire region.
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🎫 TICKET TO RIDE 🎫
🧢 From 18th September a single journey on the region's buses will be capped at £2.
❄️ The MyTicket, which gives young people unlimited all-day bus travel, is being frozen at £2.20 until 2025.
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⚖️ Steve has joined
@AndyBurnhamGM
and the region's MPs in calling for a pause in the review announced by the Home Office into the pathology at the original Hillsborough inquests.
✍️ "Who in government is choosing to run roughshod over the 'families first' principle – and why?"
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😀 Liverpool has been ranked as the world's 11th best city for mental wellbeing - the only UK city to feature in the top 50!
🏠What do you love about living in our region?
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🧱 BRICK BY BRICK | The Grade II listed hydraulic tower at
@EvertonStadium
has been lovingly restored to its former glory brick by brick.
🏗️ The restoration work received a £15m grant from
@MetroMayorSteve
and the CA to preserve the heritage of the site.
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🎉 GOOD NEWS! |
@MetroMayorSteve
has secured £710m from government to help deliver a London-style transport system that will transform the way people get about and benefit every part of our region.
🚉 New and improved stations
🍃 Cleaner transport
🚲 Active travel infrastructure
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🥁 THE RESULTS ARE IN…
🎉 Eurovision generated a whopping £54.8m for the city region’s economy.
🗣️ The figure is part of a new economic report being announced by
@MetroMayorSteve
today.
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📞 Liverpool City Region calling
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🗣️ "This is not an investment in a football club. It's an investment in the most significant regeneration project our region has seen in over a decade."
Find out more ⬇️
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"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." -
@MetroMayorSteve
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🗣️ "To say that I was angered that these adverts have been put up across our region would be an understatement. That ‘newspaper’ is not and will not ever be welcome here."
@MetroMayorSteve
responds to bus stop adverts for The S*n being displayed across the region 👇
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🇫🇷 PARIS | Ahead of his appearance in front of a French senate committee Steve talks to
@AndyBonnerITV
about what he hopes to achieve with his testimony.
📺 Also featuring
@IanByrneMP
and
@spiritofshankly
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🚏 Calling at: the Wirral
🚆 The region's publicly owned trains have crossed the Mersey to begin their roll out on the Wirral line today.
💬
@MetroMayorSteve
: "We’re putting the public back into public transport and delivering the services our 1.6 million residents deserve."
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Metro Mayor moves to take full control of Merseyrail network
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🎉 Congratulations to Sweden!
👇 A message from
@MetroMayorSteve
on tonight's
#Eurovision2023
final.
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📺 "Channel 4 is a service made for us, but at no cost to us. It’s the jewel in our crown and something that we are rightly, very proud of."
📨
@MetroMayorSteve
has joined
@TracyBrabin
and other leaders from across the North to oppose the proposed privatisation of Channel 4.
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🕯️ Today marks six years since 22 innocent lives were taken in the Manchester Arena attack.
🐝❤️ Our thoughts are with the victims, their families and those whose lives were forever changed.
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🌊 TIDAL | Steve has signed a historic agreement with Korea’s state water company, K-water.
🌎 The partnership could help to develop the world's largest tidal scheme on the River Mersey.
🏘️ Mersey Tidal could deliver enough clean, predictable energy to power 1m homes.
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Today is the last day of
@TheOpen
at Royal Liverpool in Hoylake
Some quick stats:
👥 More than 250,000 visitors
💷 Over £100m of economic benefit for the local economy
👀 The eyes of the world on the Liverpool City Region (again!)
We look forward to welcoming it back in 2026!
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Tomorrow marks 33 years since the unlawful deaths of 97 people at Hillsborough.
The Hillsborough families will probably never see true justice done - but the Hillsborough Law would be a fitting legacy, preventing others from going through what they did.
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'Ceferin said to me this conversation is over and I said: “No it is not because people could get injured outside.”'
@MetroMayorSteve
talks to
@_pauljoyce
about his experiences at Saturday's Champions League final.
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👀 SPOTTED | Our brand new, publicly owned trains for the Merseyrail network spotted out in Southport during testing.
🚆 They're a near £500m investment in the future of our transport network. Green, accessible and owned by us.
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"Everton Football Club has been at the heart of the English game and the Liverpool City Region for well over 100 years.
As Mayor, I’m determined to do my bit to ensure that remains the case for the next 100 and beyond."
Read Steve's full piece 👇
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👀 News spreads fast!
US Vice President Kamala Harris singing the praises of our new hydrogen buses 😉
♻️ Emission-free
⚡️ USB charging ports
📶 WiFi
🔊 Audio and visual announcements
♿️ Improved accessibility
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🚍 NEW BUSES | This afternoon Steve paid a visit to see one of the region's new publicly owned, hydrogen buses.
Featuring:
♿️ More space for wheelchairs and prams
💺 Larger, more comfortable seats
⚡️ USB charging ports
📶 WiFi
🔊 Audio and visual announcements
👀 Coming soon
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📝 Steve has written for
@LivEchoEFC
's special coverage of the ongoing Everton takeover.
🔵 As a historic city region institution, EFC's future is of strategic importance.
He has also written to the club with a number of questions and to demand a meeting to discuss its future.
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🎫 TICKET TO RIDE | Single adult bus fares to be cut to just £2 under proposals unveiled today by
@MetroMayorSteve
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Steve responds to reported leaks from UEFA's report into the Champions League Final in Paris 👇
🗣️ "The leaks vindicate what I and other fans have been saying all along: that the fans... were clearly not to blame, whilst the organisers - UEFA and the French authorities were..."
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🚍 ALL ABOARD! | The region's new publicly owned hydrogen buses have officially entered service!
🚏
@MetroMayorSteve
joined passengers on board the 10A route.
The new fleet features:
♿️ More space for wheelchairs and prams
⚡️ USB charging
📶 WiFi
🔊 Audio visual announcements
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⚡️The past meets the future⚡️
Some fantastic shots of our brand new publicly owned trains side by side with the old Merseyrail fleet.
📸 via
@RossMcCall6
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Our thoughts are with all of Anthony's family and friends today.
There should be no room for racism, bigotry or intolerance anywhere in our society.
Today marks the 16th year since Anthony was cruelly taken. Our thoughts are with his family & friends as they continue to grieve his loss. Today is a stark reminder to all of us that we must continue to do better & that racism & hate must never be allowed to win. RIEP Anthony ❤️
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🎫A FARE DEAL | From this week, a single adult bus journey to anywhere in the Liverpool City Region will cost no more than £2.
The new fare is part of
@MetroMayorSteve
's plans to make travelling around the region cheaper, faster and easier for everyone.
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The staff at
@LiverpoolWomens
do incredible work all-year-round. Over the last week, they've gone above and beyond their already high standards.
Today
@MetroMayorSteve
met with staff to check in with them and thank them on behalf of the city region.
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🚆Kirkby Line ✅
🚏Next stop: Ormskirk
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🐟 IT'S OFFISHIAL: THERE'S PLENTY MORE FISH IN THE MER-SEA! 🐟
🌊 Once considered biologically dead, the Mersey has been described as Europe's greatest river recovery.
🐠 An impressive 45 species of fish were found by
@MerseyRivers
last year.
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⚽️ LFC star
@TrentAA
has teamed up with
@MetroMayorSteve
to ramp up support for the region's homeless over Christmas.
🛍️ The pair have joined forces to deliver emergency packages to almost 2,000 people.
🤝 They met
@WhitechapelLiv
volunteers preparing the parcels this morning.
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🗣️ "There's been some confusion with people thinking this is coming from their council tax... it's from our Strategic Investment Fund, which has to be invested in regeneration projects - and this is one of the biggest projects for more than a decade."
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🚆 NEXT STOP: HEADBOLT LANE 🚆
📅 Kirkby’s new £80m station will officially open its doors this Thursday 5 October.
🔋 The station will be served by the region’s new publicly owned battery powered trains - the first of their kind in the country.
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"We were promised Grand Designs and now we're supposed to settle for a 60 Minute Makeover."
@MetroMayorSteve
responds to the IRP at today's Northern Mayor's press conference.
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🟥🤝🇫🇷
Letter to Liverpool supporters
@spiritofshankly
:
Thanks and see you soon in Paris.
#UCLfinal
#fanzone
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🎫 SAVE OUR TICKET OFFICES 🎫
🚨 Tomorrow
@MetroMayorSteve
will put an emergency motion to the Combined Authority to call on government to rethink its ticket office closures.
👇 "Thousands of our most vulnerable passengers face being cut adrift."
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👀 COMING SOON...
🛤️ Headbolt Lane is Kirkby's brand new £80m, fully accessible train station.
🔋 And it will be the first station to be served by the region's new publicly-owned battery powered trains.
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Steve is joining other Northern mayors in taking legal action against proposed ticket office closures that would see 90% of Northern stations in the region close.
🗨 "The measure of any decent society is how it treats its most vulnerable citizens..."
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👀OPENING TOMORROW 👀
🚉 Headbolt Lane is Kirkby's new £80m, fully accessible station.
🔋 Served by the country's first battery powered trains - part of the first publicly owned fleet in a generation.
🤝 This is the difference devolution makes.
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🏳️🌈 PRIDE | Wishing everyone celebrating Pride in Liverpool a fantastic day today!
🫶 For the first time,
@LCRPride
will showcase a
#CityFullOfPride
with a march, street parties and family friendly activities taking place across the city.
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The Hillsborough disaster is knitted into the fabric of our region’s social history.
#HillsboroughDay
ensures the stories of the victims, and those who tirelessly campaigned for justice, will be remembered by future generations
#JFT97
#HillsboroughLawNow
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✍️ "While today's belated response is a move in the right direction, it does not clear the threshold that Hillsborough Law campaigners have been asking for."
👇
@MetroMayorSteve
's statement following the government's response to Bishop James Jones' 2017 Hillsborough report.
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"We will never let those who seek to divide us win."
–
@MetroMayorSteve
responds to yesterday's incident at Liverpool Women's Hospital.
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🎉 BIG NEWS! |The
@HyNetNW
project has been selected by
@beisgovuk
as one of two 'Track 1' projects for the UK's carbon capture and storage programme.
HyNet will help cut the North West's CO2 emissions by 10m tonnes every year by 2030, as well as creating thousands of jobs!
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🎉LIVERPOOL CITY REGION PASSES 1M FIRST DOSES 🎉
Latest vaccination figures across the Liverpool City Region ⤵️
💉 | 72% of adults have had a first dose
💉💉 | 57.5% have had two doses
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