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- ↑ "Toxteth icon Wally Brown receives Freedom of Liverpool", Liverpool Echo, Trinity Mirror Merseyside, 17 August 2012, retrieved 11 July 2014
- ↑ City freedom for Toxteth riots 'mediator' Wally Brown, BBC, 16 August 2012, retrieved 11 June 2014
- ↑ Edge Hill University News "Liverpool community leader receives honorary doctorate" Retrieved 11 August 2016
- ↑ The Merseyside Lieutenancy "New Deputy Lieutenants commissioned" Retrieved 11 August 2016
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