These are the latest Liverpool ECHO headlines this morning.
Liverpool man shot in back says he 'feels sorry' for gunman
A Liverpool man shot in the back while on holiday in California told the ECHO he "feels sorry" for the man who very nearly took his life.
Shaun Byrne, 35, was drinking with friends outside a bar in Venice Beach, Los Angeles, when an altercation took place with an American man in the street. A friend of the man pulled out a handgun and chased Shaun, from Old Swan, and his friend, from Huyton, before opening fire at close range.
This week the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) issued a wanted appeal for suspected gunman Brandon Manyo Dixon after the incident, on Saturday, July 30.
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Shaun says he can remember nothing of what happened until he awoke in the Ronald Reagan UCLA hospital after emergency surgery. It was only when doctors explained that he realised how close he came to losing his life.
Life on 'Bread Street' where people knock to ask if you are selling up
The ECHO has taken a look at life on the Dingle's Elswick Street, immortalised in 1980s sitcom Bread, as the home of a close-knit working class community.
Carla Lane's popular sitcom aired on the BBC from 1986 to 1991 and centred on the Boswell family. Almost four decades on from the first episode of Bread hitting screens across the country, community spirit is at an all time high, driven by once in a generation challenges such as a global pandemic and the current cost of living crisis.
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The Victorian terraces on Elswick Street are now populated by a wide demographic of people; doctors, teachers, company directors, NHS workers, young families and retirees, and are in high demand.
Jo Derbyshire lives in the house that was home to grandad on Bread, played by Kenneth Waller. The property has also been used as an art gallery in the past.
Jo, a founding member of The Bread Streets Group, told the ECHO: "We started to tidy up the area. I grew up around here and people were always house proud. In the 90s, it took a bit of a dip."
Rail passengers 'stressed' as more trains cancelled than ever
Rail passengers in Liverpool are "stressed" by widespread cancellations and delays.
The number of cancelled passenger train services is at its highest level ever recorded in Great Britain, with more than 314,000 trains fully or partly cancelled in the year to October, The Guardian reports. Roughly one in 26 rail journeys - or 860 a day - were disrupted nationwide, double the level in 2015.
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According to data from from the Office of Rail and Road (ORR), this rises to one in 13 for services operated by Avanti West Coast, which runs services between Liverpool Lime Street and London Euston - the highest level of any operator. Most of those cancellations were because of problems under Avanti's remit, as opposed to infrastructure issues under the remit of Network Rail.
In just the latest three months for which data is available, 7.8% of Avanti's services were cancelled. For Northern, which runs the Liverpool to Manchester and Liverpool to Wigan lines, this figure was 3.9%. Merseyrail cancelled just 1.9% of its trains in the same period.
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