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Chancellor Rishi Sunak has been urged to help almost three million people across the UK who have been ‘excluded’ from vital support throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.People who are newly self-employed or freelancing are currently ineligible for the bailout schemes offered by the government.Others who are affected include people on maternity or paternity leave whose earnings may have dropped since going on leave are also affected traders whose profits exceed £50,000, and company directors relying on dividends affected by the economic impact of coronavirus.The mayors of Greater Manchester, London and the Liverpool city-region - Andy Burnham, Sadiq Khan and Steve Rotheram - have called on the chancellor to help those who have 'fallen through

it has been reported tonight but restaurants could be allowed to stay open. Merseyside Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram tonight tweeted no deal had yet been reached, and suggested measures could still vary from those which are expected.

Pubs in the Liverpool are set to be forced to close under new lockdown rules - but restaurants could stay open.

will pay employers £1,000 for each worker that is kept on until at least January next year as part of a £9bn job retention bonus scheme.

Boris Johnson is being urgently pushed by northern mayors to publish local rates of Covid transmission - amid fears that dropping the ‘Stay at Home’ message is premature when new cases here currently exceed those anywhere else in England.

It's the Manchester versus Liverpool event none of us saw coming.

Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram has demanded an investigation into whether Liverpool's Champions League clash against Atletico Madrid should have gone ahead in the city amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Liverpool 's clash with Atletico Madrid in the Champions League last month should not have happened.

The north’s economy will have to be ‘built back better’ after the coronavirus crisis has eased, Andy Burnham has warned - including upping the ‘shameful’ wages of social care staff and capitalising on a drop in air pollution.

Liverpool's Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram has hit back at the government's claims it followed the scientific advice over letting a Champion's League match go ahead in the city.

Liverpool’s metro mayor has announced a £400,000 support package for the region’s music, film and TV industries.

hereMr Burnham also highlighted the 'unfair' nature of funding - with bus and rail operators receiving full packages to see them through the pandemic, while authority-run services were left to make up shortfalls and receive only short-term bailouts.He and Liverpool City mayor Steve Rotheram told a transport select committee that funding needed to be 'brought under one' roof so leaders could integrate funding over buses, trams and other modes to 'build back public transport'.Mr Burnham said the crisis was an opportunity for the Government to prove they were serious about 'levelling up' the disparities between London and the rest of the country.He said: "London has had a subsidy for a decade.

publication of Public Health England’s latest ‘R’ number analysis for the North West - which now estimates that value to be over 1 - that saw the gloves come off. Amid huge public interest in the new estimate locally, Andy Burnham and Liverpool’s Steve Rotheram moved swiftly to organise a press conference for Sunday morning, cannily attracting an array of national broadcasters just after the health secretary’s weekend media round.To some extent, it was an opportunity to say ‘I told you so’ to ministers, however much they politely insisted that was not the case.