These are the latest Liverpool ECHO headlines this morning.
'Loving' mum, 22, dies after asthma attack as family issues urgent advice
A young mum who lost her life "far too soon" at just 22-years-old will be "greatly missed" as her family warn of a life-threatening condition.
Amy Greenwood, of Skelmersdale, suffered a sudden and unexpected asthma attack on Wednesday night. The 22-year-old was found unconscious by her fiancé not breathing and required CPR and ventilation before a decision was made to turn off her life support machine the following day.
Having suffered from asthma all her life, being "in and out of hospital", her loving family want to raise awareness of the severity of the condition. Amy's brother, James, said her asthma got "worse as she got older" but on Wednesday evening, Amy - mum of Bailey, 4 and Orla, eight-months - collapsed "suddenly".
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He told the ECHO: "She was on special medication that few people in the UK were on and she was on steroids for a while. She was recently told she could stop taking the steroids but on Wednesday evening she collapsed. It was so unexpected.
"In the day she was fine, said she had a bit of a tight chest but that night she Facetimed me and said she was feeling much better and that she was going to have a shower and go to bed. But that was it." Read the full story here.
Three stabbings and one shooting in Merseyside in just 48 hours
Communities are in disbelief after three stabbings and one shooting in Merseyside in just 48 hours.
Families across the region were torn apart as a man and a women were found dead in their own homes in the space of 48 hours following violet attacks. The first incident took place on Sunday, October 30 when police rushed to a house on Meadowbrook Road in Moreton, Wirral, at around 1.45am following reports of a shooting.
Jackie Rutter, 53 and a grandmother of five, was shot in the chest in the doorway of her Meadowbrook Road home at around 1.45am on October 30, in what police described as a "targeted attack."
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A second incident saw police scramble to Bridge Road in Litherland after reports of a man being stabbed in the chest. The victim was rushed to hospital with a life-threatening injury at around 4.45am and died later that day.
A 42-year-old woman, from Litherland, has been arrested on suspicion of murder and is being questioned by police. Later on Sunday, at around 4.35pm police were scrambled following reports of a teenager being stabbed on Devon Gardens, off Old Chester Road in Rock Ferry. Read more here.
Thug bit innocent man's ear and accused him of being a paedophile
A thug accused an innocent commuter of being a paedophile before battering him and biting his ear in a train station.
The care assistant was on his way to work early in the morning when Jack Ricketts began hurling abuse at him then subjected him to a "brutal" unprovoked assault. He feared he was going to lose his ear when his attacker sunk his teeth into it.
Liverpool Crown Court heard yesterday, Monday, that the man was walking to Birkenhead Central Station shortly before 7.30am on October 23 last year when the drunken defendant began shouting at him. Ben Jones, prosecuting, described how Ricketts called him a "paedophile" and began ranting about his sister.
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The 21-year-old, of St Anne's Grove in Birkenhead, followed him into the station and "forcefully punched him from behind" to the left side of his face. He then aimed six more punches at him, tried to headbutt him and began biting his ear.
Ricketts continued to shout "he's a paedophile, he assaulted my sister" as he dished out the violence, which was caught on CCTV. The victim told the court: "It is the crown's case that the victim in this case was wholly innocent of any such accusation and this was a random assault." Read full story here.
