Good morning, these are the latest ECHO headlines today.
Stalker used woman's own CCTV cameras to watch her at home
A jilted man let himself into his ex’s home while she was on holiday and took pictures of the rooms to send to her later.
Peter Wilson, of Eccleston, also watched the woman on her own home CCTV system and regularly drove past her home. It all formed part of a weekslong stalking campaign between July and September last year.
The 48-year-old avoided prison today despite his chilling behaviour, which also included harassing the woman’s new partner. Angela Conlan, prosecuting, said Wilson and his ex were in a relationship for an extended period but it ended last summer.
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A short period later she started to notice him driving past her home and started to suspect Wilson, who has a background in computer science, was gaining access to her Whatsapp and was watching her on her home CCTV system - which he installed. She became increasingly suspicious he was targeting her and unplugged the cameras - but made a disturbing discovery on her return.
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Liverpool hospital staff send grim message to management
Staff at Liverpool's biggest NHS organisation sent a grim message to senior leaders - who issued an apology over their "deeply unsatisfactory" experiences.
Only 48% of employees at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (LUHFT), which runs the Royal Liverpool, Aintree and Broadgreen hospitals, said they would recommend their organisation as a place to work in the 2021 annual NHS Staff Survey. That is a drop of 15.8% on the 2020 survey results.
The results to that question put the trust among the worst in its benchmarking group, a list of other trusts of a similar size and workforce to LUHFT, and the worst performer in the North West. Other dire results included only 67% of staff saying they agreed with the statement "care of patients is my organisation's top priority", down from 78% in 2020.
Only 50% of respondents agreed that the trust was fair in awarding promotions regardless of ethnic background, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability or age, down from 53.7% the previous year.
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Grand National 2022: Lookback at five most dramatic moments at Aintree over the years
With just days to go before the Grand National gets underway at Aintree Racecourse, it's fair to say the race has seen its fair share of incredible incidents in its near 200 year history.
The first Grand National was run in 1839 - It's the most valuable jump race in Europe with a prize fund of around £1m. The handicap steeplechase has an official distance of about four miles and contains 30 fences over two laps.
With an estimated 500 to 600 million people expected to watch the Grand National from over 140 countries, the race tempts millions of people who don't usually bet on horse racing into having a flutter. There will also be in the region of around 150,000 racegoers at Aintree to watch the big race alone.
To mark the occasion, the Liverpool Echo has listed what we feel are the five most gobsmacking moments in the last 50 years of the race's history.
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