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5 unusual facts about Liverpool Echo


Bootle High School

The Liverpool Echo newspaper reported in October 2006 that Sefton Council had been awarded government funding to build a new school, which would merge Bootle High School into Litherland High School, mainly due to falling intake numbers particularly at Bootle High School, with proposals for a Sixth form to be constructed on the site of Bootle High School.

Come Go with Me

In 2007, the British newspaper Liverpool Echo released a one-off music magazine, Sound 08 and gave away a free CD containing a cover version by The Coral.

Liverpool Echo

A special Sunday edition of the Echo was published on 16 April 1989, for reporting on the previous day's Hillsborough disaster, in which 96 Liverpool F.C. fans were fatally injured at the FA Cup semi-final tie in Sheffield.

Madonna Decena

In her interview with the Liverpool Echo she stated “I was studying music in Manchester, but I needed to get a visa to be able to work, so a friend suggested I get a manager who could help me,” she explains.

Vexed

The Liverpool Echo's Paddy Shennan called it "deliciously black" and added that it could become a "cop classic".


Anna Shaffer

In December 2010, the Liverpool Echo reported that eighteen-year-old Shaffer would be joining the cast of Hollyoaks as Ruby, the sister of Duncan Button (Dean Aspen).

Gene Olaff

Liverpool manager George Kay told the Liverpool Echo newspaper that he was good enough for the English 1st Division but there was no chance of persuading him to give up a police career that allowed him to retire on a pension at the age of fifty.

Sheppard-Worlock Statue

The statue was commissioned in 2005 by The Liverpool Echo Newspaper and paid for by the people of Liverpool, to mark the life and work of Bishop David Sheppard and Archbishop Derek Worlock.


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