Local news courtesty of Liverpoool Echo Merseyrail guard manslaughter charge over Georgia Varley death at James Street Station Wirral Catholic social club manager sacked after being charged with harassment of ex-partner EXCLUSIVE: Liverpool salesman goes to ground as Lydiate Primary School left with £30k debt for two ‘useless’ photocopiers Whiston and St Helens Hospitals to be bailed out of PFI debts by Government £1.5bn fund Liverpool ‘animal lovers’ admit string of pet cruelty charges Allerton Yates’s pub to close down and reopen under new name after gun incident BBC Radio Merseyside boss Mick Ord to leave the station after 27 years Shamed carpet firm boss Elliot Ross told to pay back insurance money after Kirkby warehouse fire or face extra jail time Nuns hit back over plans to sell Ince Blundell marbles £13m to kick-start Merseyside developments stunted by recession Business careers service for teenage girls to be launched in Wirral Wirral MP praised by campaigners over controversial development plans Litherland man caught with machete in street Warrington private hire taxi driver jailed for raping passenger Man who fell from Wallasey tunnel bridge was ‘low suicide risk’, inquest told Man robbed at knifepoint in Rainhill Liverpool maritime pilots are officially the best Merseyside pensioners given chance to swap unsafe heaters for oil-filled radiators Docklands Extravaganza held at Merseyside Maritime Museum this weekend Pensioner hit by car in south Liverpool