TWIST AND SHOUT SAVES PENNY LANE

It’s named after tolls not a slaver

- ANTONY THROWER

HISTORIANS have proved Liverpool’s iconic Penny Lane has no connection to a slaver.

The street sign, made famous by the Beatles 1967 hit, was vandalised by Black Lives Matter protesters.

It was thought to have been named after James Penny, who bought and sold men and women from Africa.

But Liverpool’s International Slavery Museum has revealed new research which found “no link” between Penny Lane and the figure from the 1770s.