Liverpool LIFE

Kerry Norman reports from Westminster as Home Secretary Sajid Javid speaks of the important work of the new UK Police Memorial, which pays tribute to the dedication, courage and sacrifice of its members.

Ross Mcauley presents the Police Brief. This week our expert panel tackles the impact of cutbacks on the Merseyside Police force and the people it serves.

Holly McEvoy presents the Police Brief, where our expert panel takes on the policing issues that impact on us . This week we tackle the rise in the illegal use of prescription drugs on Merseyside .

Liam Keen and Marcie Rick present the latest Liverpool Life Podcast including a touch of Valentine's Day romance and a round-up the news from the broadcast team .

Bronwen Jones and Holly McEvoy present the last Liverpool Life Podcast of 2017 a round up of news from the broadcast team .

Jess Grieveson Smith and Liam Keen bring you the best of this week's news from the Jmu journalism broadcast team.

The JMU Journalism team bring you its weekly round up of news including how Merseyside's Chief Constable Andy Cooke intends to tackle gun and gang crime and would be police officers get a realistic taste of life on the beat.

This week Zak Bamford and Lucy Winter bring you the latest round up of news and views from Merseyside. The former head of the Mersyside Police Major crime unit , Richard Carr, appeals to people to hand over guns and ammunition as the first week of a fortnight long firearms amnesty draws to a close. We hear from the a Kensington Café owner doing his bit for the community --- and Liverpool rememb...

Listen to the weekly news round-up in audio on the JMU Journalism Radio podcast from Liverpool.

It's the final one of this academic year, folks! And what a packed pod it is - all the news, sport, entertainment we've been covering, PLUS a 'best bits' section! #Liverpool #EFC #MartinMcguinness #potholes #Grandnational #thehomelessperiod #GrandNational

Join Savannah and the team for the low-down on the town and surround! Could Liverpool host the 2022 Commonwealth Games - and should it? We've been taking the temperature. Plus, comic characters, cyber security, Wirral golf, British Music Exhibition, local sport and what's ons. #Liverpoollifenews, #Liverpool, #Wirral, #comicon, #CYBERUK2017,, #BME, #MarineAFC

In this special edition of the pod' we look at some of the big changes that are already under way and on the horizon. From the new Liverpool City Region, to Brexit, to business to automation. Is the city region ready? Will the area be able to capitalise on the changes...is it ready? Kallem and the team try to find out. #Liverpool #Brexit #regeneration #automationMusic: published by Bitter Sweet...

A truly packed pod' with Sarah and the team - from trains, to boxing, to Sir Doddy!...#Liverpool #LiverpoolLimeStreet #KenDodd #RMT #LiverpoolFC #EvertonFC #HayeBellew #Runcorn #Widnes

Broadcasting is the big theme for this week's podcast - we've had exclusive access to the star-studded BBC Worldwide Showcase in Liverpool and we find out how TV and radio could be in the verge of a revolution. Plus, a round-up of the other news, sport, and what's on. #Liverpool #rugby #efcu23 #LJMU #StokeByElection*Please note - this podcast was recorded before the result of the Stoke-On-Trent...

Join Christella and the team for all you need to know in another packed pod' . #LiverpoolLifenews #Liverpool #Bootle_FC #CroxtethHall

Join Rebecca and the team for the big stories of the week in the Liverpool City Region. #Liverpool #lostliverpool #homeless #mensmentalhealth

'Regeneration for a New Generation - or Liverpool Left Behind?' #Liverpool #regeneration #refugees #soundcity #Everton

It's our final one of the year from @jmujournalism #LiverpoolLifeNews, including an exclusive interview with the Governor of the Bank of England #MarkCarney plus festive fun with the #Liverpool #SantaDash and more. And we have a right festive send-off!

Another packed pod' with Cieran Simpson (pictured left) and the team from @jmujournalism #LiverpoolLifeNews on what's been happening in #Liverpool City Region - and what to look forward to over the next week or so.

Another packed pod' with the only weekly round-up of audio news, sport and features for #Liverpool and #Wirral - presented by @MissDCochrane, produced by @ThomasBegbie1 - including news of former @jmujournalism team member who has won a top #BJTC award. You can follow the news-hounds in real time every Tuesday #LiverpoolLifeNews

Join @amyhendrieJMUJ for another packed pod from @jmujournalism and #Liverpoollifenews about all that matters in #Liverpool City Region, with sport including #rugbyleague #fournationsMusic: 'The Wild Dogs of Nauru' by The Womb. (Used under a Creative Commons licence - thank you!)

Lucy Fegan (RIGHT) hosts the pod this week, with the big news, features, sports and entertainment on #Liverpool and #Wirral from #jmujournalism #LiverpoolLifeNews

Join Arun (pictured right) and the rest of the team #jmujournalism as they bring you this week's packed audio digest of what's been happening in Liverpool over the last few weeks in #Liverpool and #Wirral - and some top tips on what to do in the next few days.

Your only weekly audio round-up of news, events and comment from #Liverpool City Region.

We're back with a new team bringing you the big stories - and helping you find things to go and see - in #Liverpool and #Wirral

The second in a series of four features from Alex Gorton about the changing face of Liverpool - and whether its world heritage status is holding up much needed change.

#thebudget2016 #Shakepeare #theatre #Knowsley #homeless #liverpool #southport It's a packed and varied final weekly podcast from the team. Thanks to everyone who has helped and contributed over the last few months - we very much appreciate your time! (Music - 'The Wild Dogs of Nauru' by The Womb. Used on a Creative Commons Licence)

#SundayTrading #LiverpoolWomensHospital #Speke #LFC #Liverpool #jobs #boxing #grassrootsheroes

#AntiFascist #Liverpool #Everton #NHS #LJMU #RCN #Nonleague #MagicianImpossible #Southport #HS2

#EUreferendum #newdaynewspaper #liverpool #wirral #ViolaBeach #nationalscouseday #BoldStreet #lightnightliverpool @jmujournalism

#Liverpool #LiverpoolFC #EvertonFC #Mentalhealth #Brexit

#Liverpool #liverpoolFC #EvertonFC #TheAliceExperience #Beatles #ValentinesDay

After their month's work experience the team is back for your weekly round-up. #Liverpool, #LGBT, #LiverpoolFC, #WorldCancerDay, #sugar, #tax, #followalice

It's the final podcast of the year - and what a corker it is! Liverpool's Granby Streets project is the talk of the country after the group behind it won the prestigious Turner Prize on Monday. This weeks' presenter, Matt Crosby, went to find out how a renovation project won the country's most prestigious modern art competition - and how LJMU is connecting with the award-winning group. To under...

Yes, this week we have a slightly longer and special 'themed' content for our podcast. Two major changes are set to transform the way the Liverpool region is governed - and how much money it is going to have to deliver services and how we live, work and play; our job opportunities and our education and training - and how we are protected on the streets and, especially, support for the young, ol...

It's been a big week for news on soooo many fronts. The team is tackling the big issues on defence and how to respond to the so-called Islamic State and asking how, in the wake of the Paris attacks, YOU fee about Syrian refugees coming to Liverpool. Meanwhile, national politics is also going to have a major impact on the city and its citizens. The Chancellor's public spending review on Wednesda...

A sombre start to the week, as Liverpool joined millions across Europe with a minute's silence to remember the victims of the previous Friday night's atrocities in Paris. St. George's Hall - scene of the annual Remembrance event only a week before and still bedecked by the 'Weeping Windows' poppies - was the centre for the civic events, with Mayor Joe Anderson leading the tributes. Hundreds of...

This week, Adam is in the chair, with some hot topics and cool audio. It looks like Liverpool is on the brink of the biggest shift in power for decades. They call it devolution to the 'city region' - but, with further huge cuts in public spending expected to be announced in a couple of weeks, is it just passing on the blame and pain to our Town Halls? Other cuts are affecting our right to be re...

The week began with a desperately sad and moving event: the funeral of PC David (Dave) Phillips – the Merseyside police constable who was killed in the line of duty last month. Several thousand mourners – including police officers from all over England and Wales – attended the service at Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral. Live TV coverage was beamed across the country – and our reporters were ther...

This week's podcast from the final year students on our BA (Hons) Journalism and International Journalism courses is chokka full of news, controversy, interviews, action and reaction. We find out why Christmas could be cancelled...how Northern Irelands' troubled history is being brought alive in a truly colourful way...why what's being called the biggest constitutional crisis for a century is g...

In this week's packed pod', full of news, views and info' on the stuff you need to know, we're at Goodison Park to get opinions on renaming one of the stands there in memory of Everton's much-loved and most successful manager, Howard Kendall, who died last week. A counter-terrorism expert tells us why he thinks the government may be getting it wrong in its new 'anti-radicalisation' strategy. Sh...

It’s Cammell Laird, cannabis, a passion for fashion, Harry Potter in Liverpool, a spruced-up and rejuvenated Philharmonic Hall, and all the blarney from the Liverpool Irish Festival. All this and more with the first of our new season of Liverpool Life podcasts.#lufc #itsliverpool #FantasticBeasts #rlpo #cannabis #Wirral #Birkenhead #polarMusic: 'The Wild Dogs of Nauru' by The Womb - used under ...

What happened when five former journalism students answered questions at the Journalism Alumni Question Time 2015 at Liverpool John Moores University. Pictured front, from left: Sam Fleet, Angie Brooks, Ellen Kelly, Katie Upton second row, left: Stephen Kelly; and others pictured are members of the LJMU Journalism lecturing team. Your host is Richard 'Dimbleby' Rudin. @richardrudin, @MissAngieB...

Not a dry eye in the studio as we present our final weekly news podcast for this year. And our reporter Ruby Molyneux only JUST kept dry when she ventured to Sefton Park in search of bread and ducks. No, wait! There’s a serious issue here, so naturally we are all over it. Perhaps more serious though were the latest stat’s on fans of our local football teams who have banned from the stands, but...

It’s been a dramatic and traumatic few weeks for a number of Liverpool’s nightclubs following a series of police raids. This week, the licensing authorities made decisions on whether to permanently close two of them – we have the full story, including reaction from club-goers, club owners and the council.Back in the day, the most club-goers had to worry about in Liverpool was the body heat and ...

Professor the Lord Peter Hennessy - academic, journalist, broadcaster and constitutional expert - talked about 'watching prime ministers' in the second LJMU Roscoe Lecture of 2015, at the fabulous St.George's Hall in Liverpool. Before he gave the lecture, Lord Hennessy sat down with jmu-journalism's Luke Holliday and talked about - amongst other things - the most outstanding post-war prime mini...

Another packed pod in which we take you to the splendour of Liverpool’s Philharmonic Hall, and talk to world-renowned composer and conductor Carl Davis and find out he put the sound into the silent…movies.It was crunch week for Liverpool Council’s budget – and there was high drama in the chamber as the local politicos battle over the city’s purse-strings. We were there and we bring you reaction...

Mama Mia! Here we go again, from the radio team of jmu journalism. Take a chance on us as our entertainment reporter (when did that promotion happen??) Bethan Tolley talks to two members of the Abba show, which is hitting all the right notes in Liverpool. It's been a nail-biting time for the users and campaigners for Liverpool's Surestart centres, with many of the city's centres marked with clo...

In another packed edition: it’s been a memorable week for all the wrong reasons for Liverpool nightclubs; we get the latest on the raids, the closures and the campaigns. Plus, new figures reveal Merseyside has the third highest gun crime in the country – yet the rate is dropping; our Jake Cottrill has been doing the number-crunching and explains all. One of Liverpool’s best-known landmarks and ...