Good afternoon, these are the latest Liverpool ECHO headlines this lunchtime.
Liverpool man arrested by armed police on Eurostar for 'wearing wrong type of mask'
A man believed to be from Liverpool has been arrested by armed police on the Eurostar.
The London bound train made an emergency stop in Lille after a train manager accused the passenger of "wearing the wrong type of mask".
A spokesperson for Eurostar said: "Eurostar’s conditions of carriage clearly state that face masks must be worn for the entire journey within the stations and on board, and that failure to comply may result in refusal to travel.
READ MORE: Man chased into pub and stabbed three times in front of customers
A video shared with the ECHO shows a man, with a Scouse accent, protesting his innocence with uniformed officers.
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Liverpool to be part of £16m scheme 'to end rough sleeping by 2024'
Liverpool will be one of the city's involved in a pilot project aimed at ending rough sleeping by 2024, the Government has said.
The £16 million scheme is aimed at supporting homeless people after being discharged from hospita l.
The Government said patients who are homeless in hospital are more than twice as likely to be readmitted to hospital in an emergency compared with patients with housing.
Adding: "A study of nearly 3,000 homeless patients discharged after an emergency admission from 78 hospitals between 2013 and 2016 revealed almost 2,000 were readmitted within a year, at almost double the rate of those with homes to go to."
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Luxury life of drug boss who recruited his own family to do his dirty work
A man who imported huge quantities of cannabis from the United States was ordered to pay back more than £73,000 of the money he made from his illegal trade.
The 42-year-old recruited members of his family and several vulnerable people in Ellesmere Port as the recipients for the large number of cannabis orders placed with his supplier in America.
Detective Sergeant Graeme Carvell, from Ellesmere Port Local Policing Unit, said: "Holding was running a sophisticated criminal enterprise purely to make money.
"He used vulnerable people, and members of his own family, to facilitate his criminality but he was the one who was benefiting from the profits the most."
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