A twisted paedophile, an arsonist and a rioting couple were among the criminals put behind bars during January. Also locked up during the course of the month were drug dealers and crime gang members.

Merseyside Police Detective Chief Superintendent Karen Jaundrill told the ECHO that the Turkish top-venting blank firers (TVBFs) would have once been perfectly legal to possess, but new testing ...

Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service and a National Police Air Service helicopter. Albany Road and Southport Promenade remain closed. Sergeant Kyle Sayers said: “We are carrying out urgent ...

Police stopping the traffic. Maghull is at a standstill." Official comments from Merseyside Fire and Rescue told Liverpool Echo: "Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service are in attendance at an ...

A silver Mercedes collided with barriers at Marine Lake in Southport at around 3.50am on Saturday, Merseyside Police said. The vehicle, which police saw travelling at excess speed five minutes earlier ...

A cordon has been erected by Merseyside Police for people's safety. One witness said on X: "Just drove past The Meadows and Maghull Town Hall is on fire. Police stopping the traffic. Maghull is at ...

A ketamine-fuelled drug driver who killed his girlfriend, cage fighter Paul "Boom Boom" Cahoon and a grandad who plotted to ...

Merseyside’s Police Commissioner is inviting residents to share their views and feedback at her next monthly surgery in Knowsley. The next session with Emily Spurrell is set to take place on Tuesday, ...

There are people in Merseyside who could be sitting on a fortune. There is unclaimed cash across the UK including many in our region. Each year, the HM Treasury releases details regarding ...

Tony joined BBC Radio Merseyside in December 1997. In the dim and distant past he's worked as a milkman and bricklayer but he eventually fulfilled his boyhood ambition of working in front of the ...

Join in the fun, laughter and conversation with comedian Sean Styles weekday mornings 0930 - 1200. Sean feels that his comedic background has been a great grounding for radio: "You just couldn't ...

Jess Pearce, from Wallasey in Merseyside, made her first "trauma bear" about three years ago for the someone who ran a homelessness centre and, after seeing his reaction, set up a Facebook group ...