Merseyside Police

Merseyside Police says three officers who were first to the Southport attacks showed great courage.

Mikey Rainsford, 20, was killed in his family home by a gang member searching for revenge against rivals.

The region's police and crime commissioner says the small pool of applicants was 'not unusual'.

A woman has been charged with murdering 34-year-old Liam Collier who was stabbed in Haydock.

A man and a woman are being held on suspicion of murdering a man in a stabbing on Friday.

The woman said the two boys, aged two and three, are expected to make a full recovery.

Police say a second suspect, a 15-year-old boy, has also been arrested after the stabbing in Kirkby.

Two boys and a 18-year-old woman were attacked by the dog in a garden in Knowsley.