Changing Mersey: 125 years of The Liverpool Echo: Why we've always loved the ECHO; Famous Merseysiders tell Paddy Shennan why the paper is so important to our city.(News) From: Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England) | Date: October 26, 2004 | COPYRIGHT 2004 MGN Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Paddy Shennan

Rex Makin

THE veteran Liverpool solicitor and ECHO columnist: ``When I was a student I was a supernumerary for the Daily Post and ECHO.

I remember covering the crowning of the Rose Queen in Speke and the annual meetings of the Literary and Philosophical Society and the Band of Hope.

``I was privileged to know the former editor Ernest Hope Prince, who gave me a number of assignments. And I met a series of news editor...