One of Ainsdale’s best-loved restaurants is celebrating an impressive milestone as Dolce Vita marks 40 years at the heart of the village. The Italian restaurant first opened on Station Road in 1986 and has since welcomed generations of diners through its doors, becoming a familiar fixture in Ainsdale’s food and drink scene. Over the decades, Dolce Vita has built a loyal following from Ainsdale, Southport and further afield, with the restaurant regularly welcoming local footballers,…
Liverpool favourite The Bus Yard is coming to Santa’s Secret Forest this Christmas, bringing its much-loved food, drinks and atmosphere to Merrywood Market for the immersive attraction’s second year. The independent hospitality brand will join Santa’s Secret Forest at Orrell Hill Woods in Hightown when the magical Christmas experience returns from Saturday 21 November, with a huge festive food and drink offering for families to enjoy as part of their visit. Known across the city…
Liverpool cocktail bar Sister Ray has launched its first-ever dining menu, bringing a new food offering to its Wolstenholme Square home alongside a fresh selection of cocktails for autumn. Tucked away just off Wolstenholme Square, Sister Ray has established itself as an intimate spot for drinks, music and late-night catch-ups. Inspired by European café culture and the bars of New York’s Lower East Side, the venue pairs classic cocktails with a carefully curated soundtrack of…
The owners of Stanley Dock in Liverpool have revealed the name of a new restaurant set to open this winter in the historic Victorian pumphouse, following a £1.5 million transformation. The Grade II-listed Hydraulic Pumphouse and Accumulator Tower is being transformed into a stunning new 120-seat pizzeria called 1848 Stanley Dock, a nod to the opening date of Stanley Dock by Jesse Hartley. Operated by Titanic Hotel Liverpool and owned by Harcourt Developments, the 4,400 sq ft (410 sq m) restaurant will bring a new dining…
Partridge Lakes has hosted its fair share of seasonal events over the years, but Halloweenville 2026 feels like the year everything has truly come together. Set against the beautiful grounds of the Culcheth venue, the site is transformed into a glowing Halloween village filled with characters, storytelling and plenty of imaginative detail. The result is a family adventure that feels less like a conventional Halloween attraction and more like stepping into another world. At the…
The Rock Orchestra returned to Liverpool’s M&S Bank Arena on Friday 2 October 2026. Check out our photo gallery below for all the action. Credit: Bobby Hogan.
Newsham Scream Park has unveiled six new horror-themed experiences within its popular Selfie Museum, giving visitors even more terrifying photo opportunities when the Liverpool Halloween attraction returns this Saturday 3 October. Reimagined with completely new themes each year, the Selfie Museum has become part of the wider Newsham Scream Park experience, giving guests the chance to step inside a series of elaborately dressed horror settings and capture their own spine-chilling content. For 2026, visitors will…
Everton’s first 11 black male players are being celebrated with a display at Hill Dickinson Stadium throughout Black History Month. The Club has worked alongside Show Racism The Red Card as part of a pilot programme, which the organisation aims to roll out across all clubs to highlight the major contribution to the game by black players. Invited guests gathered in Trinity Place Bar at the waterfront stadium this week where Everton’s XI, researched with…
Grace Elizabeth Harvey brings intimacy, imperfection and Songs Of Devotion to Rough Trade Liverpool. Grace Elizabeth Harvey’s relationship with Liverpool seems to have deepened at much the same time as her songwriting has begun looking more closely at another kind of relationship: the difficult, imperfect business of trying to connect with other people. On 15 October, those two strands come together when the Wirral-born singer-songwriter plays her headline show to date at Rough Trade Liverpool,…
More than 6,000 miles separate Liverpool from Cape Town, but for a group of young filmmakers from Liverpool 8, a journey to South Africa offered something considerably more meaningful than distance: the opportunity to encounter the life and legacy of Nelson Mandela in the country where that extraordinary story unfolded, and to discover what it might mean to a generation born into a very different world. Their experiences have become Mandela8: Journey to South Africa, a documentary screening at…
Liverpool FC Foundation’s fourth annual Kip on the Kop event has seen record-breaking proceeds of over £120,000 so far in support of people experiencing homelessness across the Liverpool City Region. Hundreds of supporters came together at Anfield on Saturday September 26 for this year’s fundraising event, with participants spending the night sleeping under the stars in the iconic Kop stand to raise vital funds to help tackle homeless and to support vulnerable young people. Saturday’s…
For 75 years, The Archers has been a constant presence in British life. What began in 1951 as a radio programme about farming has developed into something much bigger: a fictional community whose characters, relationships and dramas have become familiar to generations of listeners. The Archers: Live at 75 brings that world out of the radio studio and onto the stage at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall for an entertaining and affectionate celebration of one of Britain’s…
There was a point in Joe Campbell’s life when the future of Culture City had to compete with the considerably more immediate demands of stacking shelves in Morrisons. University occupied the daytime, supermarket shifts took care of the evenings, and whatever remained belonged to the increasingly consuming business of filming bands, interviewing artists and discovering, largely by doing it, how to make the kind of work he wanted to make. Then The Anfield Wrap came…
Formed by musicians from a variety of different projects, Bigger Boat brings together Tom from Novelty Island, Alan Mueller from Satin Green, George (Georgie Weston) and drummer Nathan Sanderson. Bigger Boat will officially introduce themselves with a launch show on 14 November. Ahead of the show, Liverpool Noise caught up with the band to find out how Bigger Boat came together, what inspired their debut material and what they hope to do next. How did…
Now that we are officially in autumn, it doesn’t necessarily mean an emotional farewell to those lovely sunsets until next year. Who knows? Another spectacular one might fall upon us sooner than you think. It is wonderful whenever a sunset decides to descend above us, especially in Liverpool. In larger cities like London, where tall buildings dominate the skyline, the view of a sunset in all its glory can often be obstructed. Kensington. Credit: Andrew…
England and Bayern Munich midfielder Georgia Stanway has shared her top tips for taking on a hybrid fitness competition as ATHX prepares to arrive in Liverpool this October. ATHX Liverpool takes over Exhibition Centre Liverpool on 3–4 October 2026, bringing the hybrid fitness competition back to the city for a weekend of strength, endurance and high-intensity challenges. Ahead of the event, European champion and CELSIUS ambassador Georgia Stanway has offered some advice for those preparing…
Movers n Soul Shakers will bring DJs, live vocals, movement and sound to Sefton Park Palm House this November for a different kind of night out in Liverpool. Sefton Park Palm House will become a dancefloor on Wednesday 4 November as Movers n Soul Shakers returns with Remember Your Spark – an alcohol-free party built around music, movement and connection. Taking place from 6pm–9pm, the event brings together DJ sets, live singers, somatic shaking and…
A taste of New York is coming to Liverpool’s Ropewalks when Seel & Slater opens in the former Wreck Bistro building on Friday 9 October. The new venture from award-winning chef Andrew Sheridan and Open Restaurant Group will bring a 45-cover restaurant, bar and grill to the Grade II listed building. A late-night cocktail bar will open downstairs later this year. Named after the two streets it sits between, Seel & Slater takes inspiration from…
The UK’s first floating padel destination has officially been unveiled at Liverpool Waters in Princes Dock, bringing one of the world’s fastest-growing sports directly onto the water in the heart of Liverpool. With the Liver Building and Liverpool’s iconic skyline providing the backdrop, Vibora Liverpool Waters will give players the chance to step onto floating courts and play padel surrounded by the history and heritage of the city’s docklands. Launching with two purpose-built floating padel…
Long before Alex Tighe thought seriously about becoming a comedian, he discovered what it felt like to make a room laugh entirely by accident. He was around 14, sitting in a Spanish lesson, a painfully shy teenager who reckons half the class had probably never heard him speak. Somewhere next door came the sudden crash of a table. Before he had time to stop himself, Tighe announced: “Sounds like Miss next door has fallen over…