LIVERPOOL council leader Warren Bradley last night demanded to know who ordered the blocking of a controversial internet blog set up in a war against senior council officials.
The leader's call came just hours after the council's chief executive, Colin Hilton, revealed he had asked for a police investigation into the so-called "Liverpool-evil-cabal" website.
Thousands of people are looking onto the site, but council staff, councillors and visitors to internet rooms at public libraries and one-stop shops, have found the site has been blocked.
Last night the city council denied the site had been blocked on the orders of Liverpool Direct, the company jointly owned by the council and BT, headed by former executive director David McElhinney.
A council spokesman said the order for the blocking had been made by the city council, and carried out by Liverpool Direct who run the computer website servers on behalf of the council. "The city council took the decision to block access. Liverpool Direct runs servers for the council and the libraries and an instruction was issued to them by the council to block it.
"The council has a duty of care to its staff and as a consequence took a decision to block access to this anonymous site, which makes allegations that would not be printed or broadcast by the media.
"An increasing number of council staff, some relatively junior, have been named and it has caused a considerable amount of distress and upset to them."
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