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The Fact Compiler is unsure whether this is an All Fools' Day spoof or not.

According to the Liverpool Echo...

MERSEYRAIL will give away 10,000 pairs of flip flops to footsore racegoers after Ladies’ Day at Aintree.

The flip flops – branded with the Merseyrail logo – will be handed out by volunteers to women waiting to catch their trains from Aintree station on Friday, and on the day of the Grand National itself.

Either way it doesn't matter.

As the PR who placed the story tipped off the Eye, it gets in!

Good effort the PR team at Merseyrail!

Gunboat diplomacy

Disturbing news from Liverpool.

Whilst the Met are busy locking up MPs it emerges that MerseyTravel have procured a U-boat!

This presumably to encourage Network Rail to surrender control of MerseyRail infrastructure.