An ice rink and a fair are two of the things Toxteth children said they wanted to happen in their old school building after it was shut in the 1990s. But when the adults let them decide exactly what ...

After the second night of fire and rage, police burst through the door of the Simon family home in a little terrace along Beaconsfield Street in Liverpool, snatched 13-year-old Michael and flung him ...

Toxteth, Liverpool 8, the south end - these are all names for the area just below Liverpool's city centre - an area home to Liverpool's most diverse community, a place that has produced an exceptional ...

Liverpool's Toxteth area still sufferers from many of the problems which helped spark rioting 20 years ago, writes BBC News Online's Finlo Rohrer. More than a week of rioting in 1981 left Toxteth, an ...

On one side of High Park Street in Toxteth is a brutalist 1970s jobcentre with a posse of youths loitering outside. On the other is a spanking new Tesco superstore. "It's handy," says Richard Hatley, ...

Leroy Cooper became a prolific street photographer who showcased his love for Liverpool Tributes have been paid to an artist whose arrest sparked riots in Liverpool more than 40 years ago. Leroy ...

Twenty years ago violence erupted on the streets of Toxteth, Liverpool. BBC News Online's Finlo Rohrer talks to those who remember the nine days of rioting. Leroy Alphonse Cooper's arrest on Selbourne ...

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Michael Heseltine, former "Minister for Merseyside" was back in Liverpool last month, to reopen the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Joey Ellison, Chairman of Dingle 2000, the trustee organisation for the Toxteth Reservoir, stands inside ...

The man whose arrest sparked the Toxteth riots has said an exhibition of his photos was a "labour of love" after 40 years of telling the story of his city on the streets. Leroy Cooper was 20 when his ...

This is the first picture of a 29-year-old man who was brutally stabbed to death in a daylight street attack. Hassan Ahmed Mohamoud was stabbed in the neck in Toxteth, Liverpool at 1pm last Thursday.