From the Liverpool Daily Post, a very well-written and sensible editorial that is essentially a swansong for the city's ancient Liver Bird.
The comment piece was written as the Royal Liver Assurance becomes consolidated because it is too small to survive on its own.
It talks of the Liver Bird standing 'sentinel-like over the city of Liverpool's waterfront.' According to the piece, its very name bears witness to a proud local firm.
Yet the RLA is about to be swallowed up into the maw of a former rival – Royal London – amid concerns it is now too small to survive on its own.
The Liverpool Daily Post says it will be the end of an era for Liverpool. During its heyday, the Royal Liver Group had more than 6,000 employees and was in need of a new headquarters.
The Royal Liver Building, part of the city's UNESCO World Heritage Site comprising of the Three Graces and the iconic waterfront, was radical in design. Some doubters said it was impossible to build and it was one of the first buildings to be constructed out of reinforced concrete.
Partly inspired by the architectural gems across the Atlantic like the Manhattan Municipal Building and to the east, the Seven Sisters in Moscow.
Today, though, Royal Liver Assurance has only 280 people left on the waterfront, and a vote later this year on the company's future seems all but certain to approve its merger with Royal London.
Royal Liver interim chief executive Bill Connolly said that, as a Liverpudlian himself, it pains him to be presiding over the end of a company that has served Liverpool well since 1850.
The editorial concludes by saying: "It is gut-wrenchingly difficult to say in the circumstances, but there can be little room in the hard- headed business environment for sentiment and historical nostalgia."
And adds "at least the Royal Liver building itself will be going nowhere." Quite.
In Lincolnshire, a pregnant woman was startled when she received a police letter threatening her unborn baby with an anti-social behaviour order.
Charlotte Childs, who is 36 weeks pregnant, and her husband Damien were invited to attend a meeting with local police to discuss their son's behaviour.
The couple were even more shocked as the letter addressed their son as George - the name they were planning to give him as a middle name. Not surprisingly, they've gone off the name George after receiving the letter.
Childs said she and her husband found it difficult to stop laughing as they read through the letter.
Her husband, who is, 29, said: "I was shocked to discover a request to attend the equivalent of a ''parenting class'' with regards to the anti-social behaviour of my unborn son.
"A couple of weeks prior to that there was some anti-social behaviour on the street so we called the police and were really pleased with the response time and quick resolution."
The Lincolnshire force apologised for the administrative error that resulted in the letter being sent.
