Save our soles

Massive Liverpool news is happening almost on a daily basis at the moment. Liverpool Waters, the Sea Odyssey, Radio Merseyside, the tallest tower in the north - and let’s not forget the bacon thief - but we’ve got something else that trumps them all.

Citysafe, Liverpool’s Community safety partnership and Liverpool Trading Standards Alcohol and Tobacco Unit have stumped up a thousand quid to buy drunken women some slippers.

Yes, slippers. Here’s what the press release says:

Some women attempt to walk home from Liverpool city centre with no shoes – usually because their feet are sore from wearing high heels all night.

Inevitably some of them end up in hospital suffering from lacerations when they step on broken glass.

The slippers will be given out by Street Pastors, described as an ‘inter-denominational group who talk and listen with people on the city centre streets at night’ - they were previously buying slippers with donations from the public.

So, canny preventative action that might save the delicate feet of Liverpool’s female revellers as well as vital NHS time and money? Or a baffling waste of tight resources? We’re inclined towards the former, but were still caught off-guard by the press release.

“Flip-flops may not be fashionable but they are certainly a better look than bandaged feet!,” says Councillor Ann O’Byrne.

Something we can all agree on. SevenStreets won’t believe it until we see Harrington foot-jazzling a pair on the second series of Desperate Housewives we hope never gets commissioned.