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Liverpool Echo
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Ellen Kirwin

Jailed this week, Robbie Fowler site hoardings go missing and mum finds £1,000 in charity shop blanket

Good morning, these are the latest ECHO headlines today.

Faces of 27 people jailed in Liverpool this week

27 were people locked up for crimes linked to Merseyside this past week.

Courts heard about a pair of thugs who shot each other with the same gun in a pub shootout captured on CCTV and a crook involved in grenade and ammunition plots.

A judge sentenced a gang who spread misery across the UK by exploiting drug addicts and using women to ferry cocaine and heroin inside them.

Armed robbers who left women and children terrified were locked up for their cowardly raids.

Disturbing cases included two paedophiles who each formed relationships with women, without telling them about their dark past.

And a judge had to sentence two brothers who laughed when they left a man for dead after a brutal stabbing.

Here is an overview of some of to have concluded this past week.

Developer provides update as Robbie Fowler hoardings at stalled site go missing

A property developer has promised to restore missing hoardings and deliver a major scheme backed by former Liverpool FC player Robbie Fowler.

Mr Fowler announced a partnership with the Elatus Development Group for a scheme called St Anne's Gardens in February 2020.

The project was to build around 300 new apartments on land at the junction of Fox Street and St Anne Street.

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At the time a representative for Mr Fowler told the ECHO that work was set to start within 12 weeks and they hoped to complete the 325 home scheme in the autumn of 2021.

No new homes have been built at the site and there is no evidence of any activity.

The hoardings, which displayed corporate branding and Mr Fowler's image holding a football, have now dissapeared from the site.

Read the full story here.

Mum 'doesn't know what to do' after finding more than £1,000 in secondhand purchase

A mum "doesn't know what to do" after finding more than £1,000 while out on a shopping trip with her sister.

She visited the charity shops with her sibling and bought a "lovely" patchwork blanket that "looked like it was handmade."

Once she got it home, she realised one section of the blanket felt different. After investigating and making a small incision, she discovered more than £1,000 in £50 notes stuffed inside.

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The mum was unsure what to do with the money as it would help her out with expenses for an upcoming holiday, but she had a "nagging voice" in her head and was "imagining some old lady kept her savings in here and somehow it’s got to the charity shop".

Taking to Mumsnet's popular Am I Being Unreasonable [AIBU] forum, she sought advice in a post titled "Found money … what should I do!"

Her post was met with hundreds of responses from fellow Mumsnet users.

Read the full story here.

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