Paddy Shennan is a name known to generations of ECHO readers - and today we begin a three-part serialisation of his book, The Talk of Liverpool, about his 33 action-packed years working for the paper and the people he met along the way.
Here's a taster of Paddy writing about his incredible experiences working at the Liverpool ECHO.
SOME people called it work, but I'm still not too sure about that. What I do know is that from 1987 until 2020 I had the pleasure and privilege of writing for the Liverpool ECHO. Now, Mirror Books is publishing a book about my time on the country's best regional newspaper.