People will come together to pay their respects to a Merseyside journalist who was murdered in the Amazon rainforest earlier this year.
Dom Phillips, from Bebington, Wirral, was shot dead on June 5 after travelling to a remote part of the rainforest in western Brazil with indigenous expert Bruno Pereira. Mr Phillips was on a trip researching for a book exploring the role of indigenous communities in protecting the rainforest and stabilising the climate.
The 57-year-old had been living in Brazil for more than a decade, during which time he garnered a reputation as a highly-respected journalist with a deep knowledge of the region. He was also a long-time contributor to the Guardian newspaper.
