Liverpool News
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Paul Curtis Reveals Red Rum Club Mural At New Bootle Music Venue
Paul Curtis has unveiled his latest mural ahead of his exhibition at The Royal Liver building. The mural, featuring Liverpool band Red Rum Club, is located at Salt and Tar, the new 3000 seater venue in Bootle. Paul is delighted to be a part of the Salt and Tar venture, which hopes to expand the city’s thriving and vibrant music scene. The artist commented, “Music has always been a part of my life and I’m…
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Weekly Noise: Week #51
Weekly Noise is a short and straightforward way of sharing Liverpool’s trending news and topics in the form of a weekly poem. Laura Chonzi will take the top trending hashtags or stories on social media and turn them into a ten-line poetic masterpiece for each week of the month, hence the name. An Arctic blast is said to bring us snow,This weather is more daring than we know.The Royals are on the road to recovery,Whilst…
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Weekly Noise: Week #50
Weekly Noise is a short and straightforward way of sharing Liverpool’s trending news and topics in the form of a weekly poem. Laura Chonzi will take the top trending hashtags or stories on social media and turn them into a ten-line poetic masterpiece for each week of the month, hence the name. Another week, another storm,Sounds like a very unpleasant norm.Parents are uniting against the Labour Party,Looks like that meeting isn’t going to be hearty.Sarah…
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£9 Million Project Exploring the Next Step in Liverpool High-Density Communication
Announced late last year, Liverpool is finally gearing up in tests of next-generation connectivity in high-density areas. The Liverpool City Region HDD project will explore better ways to leverage high-speed communication in places with high data demands. Utilising a technology called Open Radio Access Networks (Open RAN), the implications could be immense, reaching into health, entertainment, and communication. Why the Experiments? The idea behind the Liverpool City Region HDD project is to tackle the challenges…
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Hope Street Hotel Celebrates 20 Years
Welcoming its first guests in 2004, Hope Street Hotel marked the beginning of a new era for hotels in Liverpool – the city centre’s first independent, privately-owned, boutique hotel. Located in the Georgian Quarter, in the street famous for being bookended by the two cathedrals, Hope Street Hotel immediately established itself as the place to stay, and, 20 years on, remains very much a hotel of choice in a local and regional market that has…
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Littlewoods Camaraderie Remembered At Museum of Liverpool Exhibition
Littlewoods is being remembered through the eyes of its legions of workers in a unique showing at the Museum of Liverpool. World-famous for its football gambling and retail business, the Liverpool company employed 30,000 at its peak, known as ‘Littlewoodies’, the majority women. The exhibition, which run for three months (from 1 February – 28 April 2024), include vintage photographs, letters, coupons, promotional materials and memorabilia and has a strong focus on the social life…
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Weekly Noise: Week #49
Weekly Noise is a short and straightforward way of sharing Liverpool’s trending news and topics in the form of a weekly poem. Laura Chonzi will take the top trending hashtags or stories on social media and turn them into a ten-line poetic masterpiece for each week of the month, hence the name. Snow is falling all around us,And quite frankly, it’s causing such a fuss.Multiple schools have closed down,All because the weathers’ decided to clown.Some…
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Events Announced For Lunar New Year 2024 In Liverpool
Plans are under way to stage Liverpool’s biggest-ever Lunar New Year celebrations, not only to welcome in the Year of the Dragon, but also to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the city’s twinning with Shanghai. Taking place from Friday 9 to Sunday 11 February, for the first time the FREE activities will not only take over the Chinatown area, but they will also bring a festival of colour and sound to the Bombed Out Church (St…
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YMCA Together Supports People Experiencing Homelessness As The Temperature Drops In Merseyside
As temperatures plummet across Merseyside, YMCA Together is urging the community to support people experiencing homelessness. The freezing weather which is set to get worse towards the end of the week, brings further challenges to people sleeping rough with temperatures expected to be below zero during the night. Liverpool’s City Council’s Severe Weather Emergency Protocol (SWEP) is in operation and emergency accommodation is available. The UK Health Security Agency has also put a Cold-Health Alert…
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Local Charity Autism Initiatives Strides Into Seventh Year of Huge ‘Walk for Autism’ Challenge
Autism Initiatives hopes Walk for Autism 2024 will be another fantastic year of fundraising for autism projects across the UK and Ireland. The charity’s annual campaign invites participants from up and down the country to walk 10,000 steps a day, wherever they choose. The challenge takes place across eight days, setting off on March 26 and finishing on World Autism Awareness Day, April 2. The total raised each year helps to fund a variety of…
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Weekly Noise: Week #48
Weekly Noise is a short and straightforward way of sharing Liverpool’s trending news and topics in the form of a weekly poem. Laura Chonzi will take the top trending hashtags or stories on social media and turn them into a ten-line poetic masterpiece for each week of the month, hence the name. LFC has made us proud once again,By ensuring that our support was not in vein.Another week has come,Hopefully it doesn’t leave us feeling…
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Paul Curtis First Ever Exhibition To Take Place This February
Paul Curtis has just announced his first ever exhibition is due to take place at The Royal Liver Building next month. Paul who was born and raised in Liverpool is the most prolific street artist in the region. Since rising to fame following his now famous “Wings” mural on Jamaica Street, (officially entitled “For All Liverpool’s Liver Birds”), Paul has produced over 230 public works of art and is responsible for the largest piece of…
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Jacaranda Baltic Announces Huge Free-To-Attend Launch Party Featuring A Line-Up Of Liverpool’s Best Talent
Jacaranda Baltic have announced they are throwing a huge free-to-attend launch party on Saturday 20 January showcasing Liverpool’s best talent and the best part is… everybody is invited! On the 1 January The Jacaranda sent shockwaves through Liverpool when they announced a brand new record store and 400 capacity live space in Cain’s Brewery, Baltic Triangle would be opening on Friday 12th January – 65 years after opening their original site on Slater Street. In…
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Tradu Launch: A Simple And Intuitive Trading Platform For Investors
New trading platform, Tradu, has now launched – offering more than 10,000 tradeable assets for active investors. This is backed by Jefferies, a leading global investment firm in the worlds of equities, asset management, wealth management and investment banking. The new platform offers over 8,000 US stocks, more than 100 commodities, 106 indicators and 37 drawing tools. It offers impressive average execution speeds of 18 milliseconds thanks to its use of the latest web technologies.…
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Weekly Noise: Week #47
Weekly Noise is a short and straightforward way of sharing Liverpool’s trending news and topics in the form of a weekly poem. Laura Chonzi will take the top trending hashtags or stories on social media and turn them into a ten-line poetic masterpiece for each week of the month, hence the name. Happy New Year to you and yours,May it be full of nothing but open doors.Day two of this year and doctors are striking,All…
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How Is Bingo Still Popular In The 21st Century?
For many, the idea of bingo resonates perhaps most clearly with halls in towns across Britain, a symbol of raucous social entertainment prominent throughout the ‘60s and ‘70s. Even though the classic, in-person game has shown a steady decline in popularity since the turn of the century, bingo is still popular. In fact, bingo generates revenue worth hundreds of millions of pounds every year. Most players have turned to the online form of the game,…
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Rough Trade Announces Liverpool Store Opening
Leading independent music retailer Rough Trade has announced plans to increase its UK footprint with the opening of a large new store in Liverpool. The news comes after a period of growth for the independent, which has tripled its UK vinyl market share in the past five years. Scheduled to open in Q1 2024, the 6500 square foot store, which will open on Liverpool’s Hanover Street, will become Rough Trade’s largest location in the UK and…
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Daffodil: Former Mersey Ferry To Be Transformed Into Liverpool Waterfront Attraction
A £2.5m project to transform the former Mersey Ferry, MV Royal Daffodil into a major destination is set for completion in 2024. Liverpool City Region entrepreneurs Philip Olivier and Joshua Boyd have spent several years working on the venture. Reborn as Daffodil, the iconic vessel will find a permanent home on Liverpool’s Waterfront with planning granted for a berth at Canning Dock, next to Royal Albert Dock. Daffodil is set to become a valuable addition to…
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Weekly Noise: Week #46
Weekly Noise is a short and straightforward way of sharing Liverpool’s trending news and topics in the form of a weekly poem. Laura Chonzi will take the top trending hashtags or stories on social media and turn them into a ten-line poetic masterpiece for each week of the month, hence the name. What’s weirder than Christmas on a Monday?That’s right, New Year’s also being the same day.Miles of cars have been trapped in the snow,At…
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Weekly Noise: Week #45
Weekly Noise is a short and straightforward way of sharing Liverpool’s trending news and topics in the form of a weekly poem. Laura Chonzi will take the top trending hashtags or stories on social media and turn them into a ten-line poetic masterpiece for each week of the month, hence the name. Chaos ensues as more Covid Inquiry WhatsApp messages are exposed,We can only hope that the real truth is enclosed.An Iceland volcano has decided…
