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How do a bankrupt charity boss and his councillor partner afford a “luxury” flat abroad?

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A place in the sun: How do a bankrupt charity boss and his councillor partner afford a “luxury” flat abroad? Peter Mitchell and Colette Goulding signed a contract for a £2,700 per month apartment in one of Gibraltar’s “finest buildings”

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A place in the sun: How do a bankrupt charity boss and his councillor partner afford a “luxury” flat abroad? Peter Mitchell and Colette Goulding signed a contract for a £2,700 per month apartment in one of Gibraltar’s “finest buildings”

A place in the sun: How do a bankrupt charity boss and his councillor partner afford a “luxury” flat abroad?

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A place in the sun: How do a bankrupt charity boss and his councillor partner afford a “luxury” flat abroad? Peter Mitchell and Colette Goulding signed a contract for a £2,700 per month apartment in one of Gibraltar’s “finest buildings”

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Additionally, at least two members of Mitchell’s inner circle are currently living or working in properties purchased by Big Help Green: a company that received £500,000 of charity money on terms later questioned by a High Court judge.

Today, we’re bringing you another shocking update.

While Mitchell and Goulding were both made bankrupt in May this year, we can reveal that in the same week they signed a rental agreement for a £2,700 per month flat in one of Gibraltar’s “finest buildings”.

Breaking: Councillor Colette Goulding has been suspended The West Derby Muirhead councillor is heavily implicated in the Big Help scandal

Following our reporting, Goulding has been suspended from the party.

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Exclusive: How a food bank siphoned £195,000 into private hands The Post can also reveal the Serious Fraud Office is investigating Knowsley Foodbank

Two weeks ago, we published our investigation into Knowsley Foodbank, a charity that paid £195,000 to organisations linked to disgraced charity boss Peter Mitchell and his Labour councillor partner, Colette Goulding.

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🚨Today's exclusive: How do a bankrupt charity boss and his councillor partner afford a “luxury” flat abroad?

Peter Mitchell and Colette Goulding signed a contract for a £2,700 per month apartment in one of Gibraltar’s “finest buildings” 🧵

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Gritty, cheeky, sincere: How Martin Parr captured the spirit of Merseyside The renowned photographer has died aged 73. We look back at his chronicling of the Wirral

Gritty, cheeky, sincere: How Martin Parr captured the spirit of Merseyside

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“He captured the world and Britain in particular and all its contradictions, from the cheap, the cheerful, the tragic, the aspirational and the self-deceiving. He did so with a clarity that was simultaneously funny and uncomfortable. That’s why he mattered.”

Gritty, cheeky, sincere: How Martin Parr captured the spirit of Merseyside The renowned photographer has died aged 73. We look back at his chronicling of the Wirral

📸Photographer Martin Parr has died aged 73. While his vivid images of seasides and crumbling monuments were taken worldwide, it was in New Brighton where he first developed his fascination with the colourful and crude.

Read about his legacy below 👇

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Labour councillor suspended after foodbank 'fraud' report Colette Goulding had the whip removed after media reports about Knowsley Foodbank.

Thanks to the BBC for now picking up on our reporting about Knowsley Foodbank / Big Help Project 👇

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Liverpool’s hospitality scene is changing. So why are we reluctant to shout about it? ‘If the city doesn’t believe in itself, what hope have we got?’

So why aren't we shouting about our blossoming hospitality scene?

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Despite this, the restaurant has had scant attention from the national press.

"It's frustrating. Manchester gets so many plaudits. The broadsheets gravitate to Manchester. Jay Rayner gave us a great review in The Observer, but it's slim pickings other than that."

It's a portal to another Liverpool: a Liverpool that's confident, global and — OK, I'll drag one of my least favourite words out for effect, as it's Christmas — a little bit sexy.

If you time your next visit to Nord for golden hour, when the low winter sun glints off the silvery skyscrapers in St Paul's Square, you could enjoy a fleeting frisson of displacement. With its retro-futuristic interiors, walking into Nord feels like you're in Midtown Manhattan.

Liverpool’s hospitality scene is changing. So why are we reluctant to shout about it?

‘If the city doesn’t believe in itself, what hope have we got?’

Read today's piece by David Lloyd🧵

Catch up on our investigations that led to Labour councillor Colette Goulding's suspension below 👇

Breaking: Councillor Colette Goulding has been suspended The West Derby Muirhead councillor is heavily implicated in the Big Help scandal

If you missed today's big story: Councillor Colette Goulding has been suspended 🚨

Liverpool councillor Colette Goulding has been suspended from the Liverpool Labour Party following The Post’s investigations into Big Help Project and Knowsley Foodbank 👇

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Exclusive: How a food bank siphoned £195,000 into private hands The Post can reveal that the Serious Fraud Office is now investigating Knowsley Foodbank

Finally, our latest instalment that resulted in Colette Goulding's suspension from Labour.

How a food bank siphoned £195,000 into organisations both Goulding and Mitchell were associated with

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Exclusive: The Big Help empire has collapsed. Now, Peter Mitchell looks to Ukraine As beleaguered staff use donated bottled water to flush toilets, the former charity boss decides it's time for a fresh start

Then, onto 2025.

In May, we discovered Peter Mitchell and his associates had set up a business in Gibraltar. The aim? To allegedly help Ukrainian refugees.

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Exclusive: Peter Mitchell’s company claimed to be a government partner. Unsurprisingly, that was a lie More details about the Big Help empire and its creative business deals

If you thought the story couldn't get any worse:

How Peter Mitchell's company Social Value Housing lied about being a government partner

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Exclusive: The mystery £5m loans to companies owned by a Liverpool councillor and disgraced charity boss The Big Help empire seems to be on the brink of collapse. But glaring questions about its finances continue to pile up

Part Three: How charities linked to Mitchell and Goulding loaned £5m to companies owned by them

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‘I don’t give a shite about your auditors’: A secret recording and the growing questions about Big Help How did Peter Mitchell and his partner buy a lovely detached home in L13 — and fund millions of pounds of assets?

We then found evidence that a red-brick home in L13 was bought by a company controlled by charity CEO Peter Mitchell and assistant CEO Colette Goulding.

Big Help confirmed this house is the couple’s private residence

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Special investigation: The collapsing world of Liverpool’s charity kingpin Former Labour councillor Peter Mitchell runs a charity that claims to bring in £15m a year. But there’s plenty that doesn’t make sense about Big Help Project

If you're waking up to the news that Labour councillor Colette Goulding has been suspended and want to know why - read our investigations🔽

Our first investigation into charity Big Help Project revealed how vulnerable tenants were living in squalor

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Breaking: Councillor Colette Goulding has been suspended The West Derby Muirhead councillor is heavily implicated in the Big Help scandal

Big news dropped into my inbox last night.

Liverpool councillor Colette Goulding has been suspended from the Labour Party following @liverpoolpost.bsky.social investigations into Big Help Project and Knowsley Foodbank 👇👇👇

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Breaking: Councillor Colette Goulding has been suspended The West Derby Muirhead councillor is heavily implicated in the Big Help scandal

🚨 Breaking: Councillor Colette Goulding has been suspended

Liverpool councillor Colette Goulding has been suspended from the Labour Party following The Post's investigations into Big Help Project and Knowsley Foodbank.

Read the full story now 👇

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