Assisted by the Environment Agency, executed a warrant in Woolston over the weekend. Three people were stop-searched and ...

Fishing is one of the UK’s most popular past times, with up to 4 million Brits regularly casting their lines in freshwater around the country. Merseyside benefits from having a wide range of ...

More species of fish have been recorded in the River Mersey than ever before as pollution ... pollution including from sewage discharges. Cod, rays, scorpion fish, different types of eel, herring ...

A man keeps getting recognised thanks to what he finds in the River Mersey. Joe Catterall, 36, from Wirral, has been fishing in the Mersey all his life. Joe loves the ‘fresh air, peace and ...

Angler Damian Owens with a species of smooth hound shark found living in the Mersey The River Mersey has been described as "the greatest river recovery in Europe" after the highest levels of ...

The smooth-hound shark is among 37 fish species recorded in the Mersey Estuary A flurry of shark species have been caught in the River Mersey ... fish caught included cod, whiting, bass, flounder ...

Otters have returned to the River Mersey, which was once one of the most polluted areas of water in Europe. The animals' pawprints have been spotted by Forestry Commission rangers by the river ...