Liverpool Daily Post: Editor's Blog

Wirral dining delights in the Liverpool Daily Post

Tue, 17 May 2011 06:00:00 +0000

IT'S MENU Tuesday in your Daily Post today, a day I look forward to every month with, no pun intended, great relish. As one who remembers the days when fine dining in Liverpool was almost unheard of, the range of culinary attractions in our city region is a sauce (all right, source) of constant delight.

Introducing '24 Hours' in the Liverpool Daily Post

Mon, 16 May 2011 06:15:13 +0000

In today's Liverpool Daily Post newspaper, we have launched '24 hours', a new daily digest of all the best of the day's stories from the worlds of news, business, sport and the arts. We all lead such busy lives these days that I often hear people grumble that they have hardly had a minute to read their newspaper all day.

Sorry seems to be the hardest word

Sun, 12 Sep 2010 09:01:05 +0000

What is it about people in public life that makes them find it so hard to say they are sorry when they are responsible for inconveniencing people? Yesterday's fiasco in which permanent secretary for tax David Hartnett said he had nothing to apologise for over the mistakes which led to millions of people paying the wrong amount of tax was all too typical.

Why Sir Terry Leahy should head up the Liverpool LEP

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:46:41 +0000

The bid by Liverpool City Region to be allowed to set up a Local Enterprise Partnership is now with the government. As we reported today, the distinguished group of business leaders whose names have been put forward to sit on the LEP includes Sir Terry Leahy.

Fireworks on the ECHO Wheel - caught on video

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:39:10 +0000

I've seen fireworks before. I've been on a big wheel before. But watching fireworks from a big wheel? Now that's an experience. On Thursday night I was lucky enough to be one of the guests at the launch of the ECHO Big Wheel outside the Arena and Convention Centre on the Liverpool waterfront.

Why you should enter the LDP Regional Business Awards, 2010

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:46:02 +0000

On Thursday May 24, 2010, the business elite of Merseyside will gather at the Liverpool Cathedral for what promises to be a truly memorable evening. It is of course the 18th annual LDP Regional Business Awards in association with KPMG and DLA Piper and this is your opportunity to be involved.

We have right to know why James Bulger killer is back behind bars

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:07:07 +0000

The most worrying aspect of the way the authorities are dealing with the latest disturbing developments in the James Bulger case isn't what they are telling us, but what they are keeping secret. As the author of the definitive book on the murder, working as I did in close cooperation both with James's family and the police murder squad, I can probably claim with some justification to know as much as any journalist about the case itself. Yet even I have not been able to follow developments in the adult lives of the two killers, such were the draconian restrictions imposed by the courts on coverage of their lives.

LiveRead, the Liverpool Daily Post online literary festival

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:38:18 +0000

Have you checked out the plans for our exciting new online literary festival LiveRead yet? See my video introduction to it, here.

New-look Liverpool Daily Post launches on Monday

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:43:15 +0000

Busy times in the newsroom today, as we put the finishing touches to the new-look Liverpool Daily Post, which launches on Monday. We are changing the masthead, giving our pages a stylish makeover, building the prominence of some key elements of the newspaper and introducing some exciting new writers.

Crystal ball-gazing into an uncertain media future

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:56:59 +0000

Many of you will be aware of the kind of challenges that are besetting the newspaper and broadcasting industries at the moment. The digital revolution has seen a large scale migration of a lot of the advertising revenue that would once have found its way into newspapers into new online platforms. Meanwhile reading patterns have changed, with less people, particularly among the young, finding the time or inclination to buy and read a paper. Add to that the economic crisis the world tumbled into last year, leading to drastic cut-backs in advertising revenues, and you had what was more or less a perfect storm.

Penguins, Superlambananas - and a stunning setting

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:14:48 +0000

Just back in the office after attending the launch of the Go Penguins event, Liverpool's next big public art project to follow on from the Go Superlambananas extravaganza last summer. It looks like it is going to be something special, and will be a big attraction to keep children entertained in the Christmas holidays. To hear more from the artistic team behind it, check it out for yourself

Death of Michael Jackson

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:30:29 +0000

When the office rang me last night to break the news that Michael Jackson was being rushed to hospital, the first instinct, I'm afraid, was to suspect a publicity stunt. Within the hour, of course, it was clear that this was a very genuine, and terribly sad, story, and that one of the true icons of the pop music industry was dead.

Tweeting from Shanghai

Fri, 29 May 2009 16:17:59 +0000

Liverpool is one of only two UK cities, the other being London, to exhibit at the Shanghai Expo in 2010, which is expected to attract 70m visitors and could generate Â£50m for the city in the next 10 years. I'm currently in Shanghai on a fact-gathering trip ahead of the Expo and I'll be blogging in detail on what I've discovered when I return. In the meantime, you can follow the live blog below, which I will be tweeting to from the Far East as I'm able, along with Martyn Best from Paver Smith. You can find out more about the Expo here. Shanghai visit

Good luck to Everton in the FA Cup Final at Wembley

Thu, 28 May 2009 21:01:42 +0000

Well, the great exodus of Evertonians to London for the FA Cup Final is starting. Between now and Saturday, tens of thousands of football fans will be heading for London to watch the big match at Wembley.

Welcome to our brave new editorial world...

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:00:59 +0000

I am sitting surrounded by a quite remarkable blur of activity, in our new-look newsroom, on day three of our new editorial structure. We have been producing the Liverpool Daily Post, our sister title the Liverpool Echo, and a host of weekly newspapers using a radical new system since Sunday.