Tonight Liverpool City Council held its most important meeting of the year as it set the city's budget for the next financial year.
A tense, eventful and at times angry meeting at the town hall saw the council sign off on a huge raft of budget cuts and a new Council Tax rise for residents. The meeting also saw continued fall-out from the ECHO's parking fines investigation with one member named in that confirming he will not be standing again and an angry confrontation involving the Lord Mayor.
Here's what we learned on a big night in the town hall.