Farewell to a city star; You Say.

LASTweek was a very sad one for Liverpool. We lost a great character and a historic institution.

Vincent Burke, that colourful, loquacious character, so knowledgeable about crime and the law, whose solemn but magnificent funeral I attended with hundreds of others, has sadly departed. And the historic newspaper stall, founded some 80 years ago outside Central Station by the Shields family is no longer. In a Liverpool of diminishing colour and character, we should all lament their passing because we will not see their like again.

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George Skelly, Wallasey