Hello and welcome to the final Our Liverpool of the week.
It's the end of the week so I'll keep this short, simple and sweet as I'm sure you've got plenty planned to honour St Patrick's Day. Here are the stories you need to have read before the weekend.
This morning saw armed police swarm one street in Anfield, telling neighbours to "get back inside" their homes as they carried out a search. Parents living on the street came home to find they couldn't get back into the area after dropping their kids off at school.
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Police have since confirmed two men have been arrested on suspicion of possession of a firearm.
Car dealer ran £30k a week 'Netflix' drug operation
An Encrochat drug dealer disguised his operation as a car business as he transported kilograms of drugs labelled with the Netflix logo. Encrochat user 'Blacklable,' or Richard Weild, 39, boasted he could make £30k a week adulterating cocaine for organised crime groups, but has now been jailed for over 19 years.
The people behind some of Liverpool's most loved bars
Dan Haygarth spoke to some of the faces behind Liverpool's most popular Irish bars. One of them, Richard Lanigan of Lanigan's told our reporter he wanted to offer the city's Irish community a bar that felt like home.
Urgent £500 fine warning to cat owners after rules change
People with cats may need to take action to prevent them being hit with a £500 fine after new rules for felines were introduced this week. A new law requires cat owners to get their cat properly microchipped by next year if they want to avoid the hefty fine.
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