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The Liverpool Free Press: News you're not supposed to know.
The Liverpool Free Press was founded in 1971 by a small group of disaffected journalists working for the Liverpool Echo and The Daily Post.
In this episode, co-founder of the Liverpool Free Press, Brian Whitaker takes us through the paper's history, from its disgruntled precursor Pak-o-Lies, to the largest investigation in its history in Kirkby.
We'll discover how the Liverpool Free Press offered a serious alternative to Liverpool’s established papers, took on the police, the landlords and the council, and brought a corruption scandal in Kirkby to light.
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