For the first few weeks of the year, conversation in Andrea’s barber shop in Wallasey Village rarely moved away from Elle Edwards.
The front window of the premises looks out onto the Lighthouse pub where the 26-year-old was tragically gunned down last Christmas Eve. As owner Andrea Williams, 62, was cutting the hair of customers, a steady stream of people could be seen adding to the flowers left by the police cordon.
“It was so sad," Andrea told the ECHO, sitting in the back room of the barber shop. Only recently has the busy high street started to return to some normality, with the Lighthouse gradually looking as busy as its old self during the June heatwave, according to Andrea.