Good afternoon, these are the latest lunchtime ECHO headlines.
Man stabbed to death was 'loving dad of two married to childhood sweetheart'
The family of a man who was stabbed to death said he was a 'hard-working and loving father.'
Paul Joseph Stenson, from West Derby, died after being stabbed in the chest on Sunday, December 19.
Known locally as 'Paul Mac', the 30-year-old was taken to hospital from Princess Drive, West Derby, but he died a short time later.
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The dad-of-two was a tree surgeon who 'loved the outdoors' and was 'well known' in the local community.
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Brothers smashed down front door and then attacked men with machete
Three Merseyside men have been jailed for their part in a 'targeted' machete attack.
A gang of thugs smashed their way through the front door of a house on Sapphire Drive in Kirkby with machetes at around 9pm on June 27 this year.
Police were called out to the address in the Tower Hill area following reports that two men had been attacked with a machete.
The two victims were taken to hospital where they were treated for serious injuries.
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ICU ward where unvaccinated patients as young as 30 face death
Harrowing footage from inside the Royal Liverpool Hospital's covid Intensive Care Unit, where four out of five patients are unvaccinated,shows patients as young as 30 fighting for their lives.
Staff at Liverpool Council produced a series of videos from inside the ICU last Thursday as part of the drive to improve vaccination uptake in the city, where in some wards less than half of residents are double jabbed.
The ECHO understands there are currently around 90 covid patients across the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Aintree Hospital and Broadgreen Hospital, with around 70 new admissions in the week up to December 12.
Last week Professor Matt Ashton, the council's director of public health, told the ECHO that around 80% of covid patients across those three hospitals, who had no underlying health conditions, were unvaccinated.
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