The Latest Breaking News from Strand

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''Bootle's silver lining'' my nan says after I ask what the Strand Shopping Centre once meant to the community.

Thirty years on from the abduction and murder of two-year-old James Bulger, Bootle has changed but the past is never far from people's minds

A raft of measures are being proposed to balance the council's budget

"It is the heart of Bootle and it is always changing, the £1.5 million is welcome but we would like more as everybody would"

The shopping centre is projected to have made a £500k loss in the past year

No further progress on the scheme will happen for at least seven months

Simon O'Brien was a key face of the planned closure of The Strand - but like many, was not impressed with how it panned out

Huge queues of traffic seen around the city centre as council ends closure of The Strand early