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Investigative journalist and editor of The Liverpool Post. Paul Foot & BJA shortlist 2025. Got a story? DMs are open ☎️

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Our readers phoned in to BBC Merseyside today to ask council leader Liam Robinson whether Colette Goulding will be expelled from Liverpool Labour. 

He told listeners that "I can't comment on something that's ongoing. I'm not going to sit there and be judge and jury".

@liverpoolpost.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
We spoke to a bankruptcy specialist to try and figure out how Mitchell and Goulding could rent their holiday home while bankrupt.

They couldn’t find a good reason either.
December 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
How do a bankrupt charity boss and his councillor partner afford a “luxury” flat abroad?

Find out in today’s @liverpoolpost.bsky.social free-to-read investigation 👇

livpost.co.uk/a-place-in-the…
December 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Looks like our investigation into Knowsley Foodbank pushed things over the edge
December 3, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Find out how a foodbank siphoned off £195,000 into the hands of ex-Liverpool councillor Peter Mitchell and his associates 👇

livpost.co.uk/exclusive-ho...
November 30, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I mean - this for one is astounding.

“Peter has told us it will all be alright”.
November 29, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Today’s @liverpoolpost.bsky.social investigation reveals how over £195,000 of Knowsley Foodbank's money was siphoned off into organisations connected to ex-Labour councillor Peter Mitchell and his disgraced charitable enterprise, Big Help.

I explain the story so far👇
November 29, 2025 at 9:49 AM
In one letter, he calls residents’ houses “squatter house[s]” and threatens to demolish the properties if they don’t answer him.
November 26, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Today’s investigation in
@liverpoolpost.bsky.social focuses on Andrew Milne: a London lawyer who has been sending dozens of letters to residents in Southport, threatening to take them to the high court if they didn’t hand over upwards of £6,000 to buy the land their homes were built on 🧵
November 26, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Today’s weekend read on @liverpoolpost.bsky.social pulls together all @millmedia.bsky.social’s reporting on one of the UK’s most prominent new movements: flag-raising

🇬🇧 The men who raised the flags: livpost.co.uk/the-men-who-...
November 1, 2025 at 11:57 AM