Shelter launches 'Rotten Homes Liverpool' campaign
Housing group wants strong leadership to tackle scandal of rented homes - sub-standard to the point of being dangerous says Antonia Bance, Shelter's head of campaigns
Merseyside becomes the first really big city outside London to take the plunge, with all sorts of putative candidates among its illustrious daughters and sons
Christopher Harvie: Don't underestimate Labour's collapse in Scotland. The party now controls only two councils and its patronage network is gone forever.
