These are the latest ECHO headlines this morning.
Dad who 'lived in tent with needle hanging out of arm' saved by fishing
A Wirral man went from "living in a tent with a needle hanging out of my arm", to helping other people recovering from addiction just five years later.
Ben Koba, 35, was addicted to heroin and crack cocaine for seven years until he thought, "something's got to change here or I'm going to f*****g die". Ben, from Woodchurch, says he could not bear the thought of his daughter, who he hadn't seen in two years, growing up without him, so he returned to his childhood love of fishing.
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With his "meagre benefits" he bought a rod, reel, bait and hooks at a fishing shop in Birkenhead and went down to the water on his own in the middle of winter. Ben cried as he caught a couple of codling, telling the ECHO: "I was that overcome and overwrought that I could get such a high off something other than intravenous drugs. For the first time in years, I felt normal."
Five jobs paying up to £50,000 that you can do from home
The whole world was forced to change the way it looked at the average workday when the pandemic struck.
Lockdowns threw the traditional office space out the window when people were restricted to the four corners of their own home due to a clamp-down on non-essential travel. Many workers found themselves on furlough, though others, where they could help it, moved from an office to a home office.
For many it is still the ideal mode of work as it can offer a flexibility to the workday that being stuck in an office can't, particularly for those with other commitments such as young children, elderly relatives or even pets. That being said, we have rounded up five of the most alluring jobs you can do from your home in Merseyside, in case working from home is still your cup of tea.
Four men have been charged in connection with a pair of violent break-ins reportedly carried out by a gang of masked robbers.
Police were called to reports of burglaries in Blundellsands and Gateacre on Saturday, June 4. It was reported that four masked men forced their way into homes and made off with large quantities of jewellery.
In the Gateacre break in, a woman at the property was assaulted, according to Merseyside Police. This evening the force announced John Maloney, 34; Paddy Doran, 25; and John Toohey, 24, all of Oil Street in Liverpool city centre, were arrested along with Philip Purcell, 27, of Letterston Road in Rumney, Cardiff.
