Streets remain sealed off after lunchtime shots fired
It is the first shooting in Garston for nearly a year
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Police cordon off York Street,Garston. (Image: Liverpool Echo)
Streets in Garston remained sealed off this morning, nearly 24 hours after shots were fired in the area.
Today part of York Street was also cordoned off.
Police cordon off a path between Chesterton Street and York Street, Garston. (Image: Liverpool Echo)
Yesterday, armed police were scrambled to Chesterton Street.
There are no reported injuries at this time.
Detective Chief Inspector Matt Smith yesterday slammed the thugs behind the reckless shots fired.
Wirral man arrested in raid after policeman hurt in Old Trafford protest
A 25-year-old man from Prenton was held after a raid following attack which left officer with life-changing injuries
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The officer injured and the protest at Old Trafford (Image: Reach)
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Off-the-scale cocaine dealer caught with £700,000 of drugs in secret compartment van
Jonathan Kenney travelled across the country in a specially adapted van to try and trick police
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Drug dealer (Image: Devon Police)
A drug dealer was caught with a staggering amount of cocaine driving down from Liverpool to Devon, which a judge said was off the scale.
The trips, across the country during the pandemic lockdown, were part of a large-scale criminal enterprise flooding cocaine from Merseyside to the south coast.
When police stopped his van in August, they had to take it apart to find the drugs, and discovered it was controlled by an electronic system which had to be activated remotely by the driver to open it.
Three weeks of strikes over senseless University of Liverpool job cuts
Union members will also today begin working to rule as management look to cut 32 teaching and research jobs
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University of Liverpool s Victoria Building (Image: Colin Lane/Liverpool Echo)
Nearly 1,300 staff at the University of Liverpool are set to strike for three weeks in protest against senseless planned job cuts. Members of the University and College Union (UCU) have signalled they will walk out in May and June unless the university halts its plans.
Employees plan to be on strike for every working day in three stretches - from Monday, May 24 to Friday, May 28, Tuesday, June 1 ti Friday, June 4, and Monday, June 7 to Friday, June 11.
Man, 36, dies after home intruders break in and attack him
The victim suffered serious head injuries and died in hospital
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Clorain Road, Kirkby. (Image: google)
A murder probe is underway after two men entered a house in Kirkby and attacked the occupant who later died. Police rushed to the scene on Clorain Road at about 10.30pm last night following reports intruders had gone inside the address. It was said they left a short time later, and the occupant, a man, 36, was found with a serious head injury.
He was taken to hospital where he died, this morning.
A murder investigation has been launched and two men have been arrested, aged 32 and 34.