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    Local Businesses Wanted For Formby Hall’s First-Ever Christmas Market 

    Jingle all the way to Formby Hall Golf Resort & Spa this Christmas, as the resort looks for stallholders for its first-ever Christmas market event. Taking place on Sunday, 19 November, Formby Hall would like to hear from food, drink, homewares, crafts, and gift experience businesses that would like to trade at the event.  Amanda Brady, Commercial Director at Formby Hall Golf Resort & Spa says, “Our Christmas programme is absolutely jam packed with events this…

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    Everton Fans From Local Music Scene Help Launch Club's New Away Kit

    Everton Fans From Local Music Scene Help Launch Club’s New Away Kit

    Everton has given a platform to talents from Merseyside’s music scene to help launch the Club’s striking new 2023/24 away kit.   The strip – a mash-up of two popular Everton kits of the 1990s – was revealed on Friday and was introduced to fans with a video in which local acts Zuzu, Spinn, Starkey The Messenger and Megan Wyn model the nostalgic coral and navy look.   The artists – all Everton supporters – also appear…

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    Merseyside Fashion Brand To Take Over Liverpool ONE Store On Peter's Lane - Mollie-May Cartwright

    Merseyside Fashion Brand, Caramella, To Take Over Liverpool ONE Store On Peter’s Lane

    Merseyside fashion brand Caramella is taking over a pop up shop on Peter’s Lane, in the heart of Liverpool ONE, alongside some of the biggest brands worldwide including Space NK, The White Company, Reiss, Ted Baker and Nespresso. This will mark the brand’s first Liverpool-based store where visitors can shop Caramella in person. Caramella, created by Mollie-May Cartwright, 25, in 2017 from her mum’s kitchen table, is now a renowned fashion brand followed by 280,000 people on Instagram alone.…

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    Weekly Noise: Week #23

    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. July is already nearly over,Which means before we know it, it will get colder.The Barbie movie has us all in a chokehold,Cause the…

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    Poke Head of Strategy Nicola Docking

    Poke Unveils New MD And Solidifies Position As Key Player In The Creative Sector

    Poke Marketing has announced the appointment of its new Managing Director as the company looks towards its third year of operation.  The news will see the current Head of Strategy Nicola Docking lead the team of ten, marking a significant milestone for the business and strengthening its position as a serious player in the region’s creative sector. It is on track to hit a seven-figure turnover target in the next twelve months and to welcome…

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    Hollister Gilly Hicks Concept Store At Liverpool ONE

    Hollister And Gilly Hicks Open New Concept Store At Liverpool ONE

    Hollister Co., the global teen retailer division of Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (A&F Co.), has officially opened at Liverpool ONE featuring an updated store design concept. The store opening sits alongside sister brand Gilly Hicks, giving the brand an expanded footprint and first dedicated storefront at Liverpool ONE. Located on Liverpool ONE’s South John Street, the opening is one of the first new prototype stores in Europe, bringing the Abercrombie & Fitch Co. brands under…

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    Katumba at Africa Oyé 2023 Photo Credit - Colin Lane

    ‘Merseyside Women of The Year 2023’; Katumba Drumming & Movement Win Big At Liverpool Ceremony

    Katumba Drumming & Movement took home the Arts, Culture and Media Award at the Merseyside Women of the Year ceremony last weekend. The Liverpool arts organisation’s founding Managing Director Juliana Pinheiro Landim, and her senior female leadership team, received the prestigious prize at the Crowne Plaza on Friday evening, surrounded by hundreds of the city’s most inspiring and passionate women leaders. The award highlighted the community based not for profit’s impressive impact on the local, national and international arts &…

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    “More than a cultural capital” – The Drive To Prove Liverpool City Region’s Business Brilliance Through King’s Awards Recognition

    Liverpool city region businesses have been urged not to be “modest” about their achievements and shine a light on their excellence by challenging themselves to win a King’s Award for Enterprise (KAE). At a special launch event at the Royal Liver Building (12 July 2023), city region business leaders heard from the Lord Lieutenant for Merseyside, a panel of deputy lieutenants, current and past award recipients and King’s Award officers, on how winning the UK’s…

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    Disabled People And Carers Desperate For A Break While Millions of Holidaymakers Jet Off On Summer Escape

    Disabled People And Carers Desperate For A Break While Millions of Holidaymakers Jet Off On Summer Escape

    Disabled people and their carers are reaching breaking point as they are unable to afford respite care, while increasing numbers of people head off on relaxing summer holidays. Statistics show that the number of people going on foreign holidays this summer has risen compared to 2022, while in contrast, it has been more than a year since 41% of carers have had even a day off. A recent study by American Express shows that 61%…

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    Weekly Noise: Week #22

    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. Bank of England has promised to work on reducing inflation,If successful, it would uplift our spirits as a nation.Merseyrail is taking a stand…

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    The Momentum Group Launches Grant Scheme To Support Liverpool City Region's Communities

    The Momentum Group Launches Grant Scheme To Support Liverpool City Region’s Communities 

    The Momentum Group, the North West-based property services company, has opened applications for grants from its Momentum Foundation.   Administered by the Community Foundations for Lancashire and Merseyside (CFLM), the grants will cover purchasing and installation of various ecological improvements to community buildings, including double glazing, installation of energy-efficient appliances and lighting, improved insulation and alternative energy solutions, such as solar panels and ground source heat pumps.  Using The Momentum Group’s skills and expertise, the initiative…

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    Olivia Attwood Joins Rude Liverpool Owner To Learn The Ropes For IVTX's 'Getting Filthy Rich'

    Olivia Attwood Joins Rude Liverpool Owner To Learn The Ropes For IVTX’s ‘Getting Filthy Rich’

    The owner of the UK’s biggest strip club will feature in Olivia Attwood’s second series of Getting Filthy Rich. The ITVX series sees Olivia exploring different worlds within the sexual entertainment industry and how those working in the various industries can make serious money. Returning for a second series this month, Getting Filthy Rich will explore strip clubs and the money that can be made for both the dancers and business owners. Amy Gwynn, owner…

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    Steps Together & Katie Piper Foundation Launch New North West Partnership

    Steps Together & Katie Piper Foundation Launch New North West Partnership

    The Katie Piper Foundation, dedicated to supporting people with burns and scars, has launched a new North West partnership with Steps Together, a leading UK health, wellbeing and addiction organisation. The Katie Piper Foundation will now offer its rehabilitation and scar management services for survivors of burns and traumatic scarring, at Steps Together’s North West retreat, the historic Rainford Hall. The charity, along with their founder Katie Piper OBE, joined the team from Steps Together…

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    Weekly Noise: Week #21

    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. This summer’s weather is not giving,For that, we can’t blame the cost of living.Do you possess the rare 20 pence coin?When claiming your…

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    Gravity Max Opening in Liverpool ONE on 2 August

    Gravity MAX Entertainment Centre To Open At Liverpool ONE On 9 August

    The ultimate entertainment destination we’ve all been waiting for has finally announced its official opening date – Gravity MAX at Liverpool ONE will be opening its doors for the very first time at midday on Wednesday 9 August. This adrenaline-pumping venue brings a dynamic and exhilarating mix of competitive socialising, immersive entertainment, live music, live sport screenings, and properly delicious food & drink, not to mention a stunning rooftop bar; the largest in Liverpool. Plus,…

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    Hope Street Hotel Spa Wins Best City Spa at The Good Spa Guide Awards 2023

    The Good Spa Guide has unveiled the results of its 14th annual awards at Spa Life UK’s annual two-day conference in the Cotswolds, with Liverpool’s Hope Street Hotel Spa winning Best City Spa. The awards celebrate the very best in spa excellence across the UK and how they play an increasingly vital role in supporting our health and wellbeing. Winners in all 10 categories were announced by comedian and actress Jayde Adams at the host…

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    Sweaty Betty at Liverpool ONE

    Sweaty Betty And Space NK Open City Debut Stores At Liverpool ONE

    Global activewear and lifestyle brand, Sweaty Betty, and worldwide retailer for luxury cosmetics Space NK have both opened their city debuts at Liverpool ONE. The duo of openings join the impressive range of first-rate brands at Liverpool ONE’s premium lifestyle hub, Peter’s Lane, displaying a strong vote of confidence in the destination. Sweaty Betty has made its standalone city store debut in the 2,600 sq ft Peter Lane’s site, marking the brand’s largest retail store…

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    Liverpool ONE partners with Thoughtworks to create virtual gaming experience

    Liverpool ONE And Thoughtworks Create A Virtual Gaming Experience Celebrating Ukraine And Liverpool

    Liverpool ONE has teamed up with global technology experts Thoughtworks (NASDAQ: TWKS) to create a virtual gaming experience for children to mark the Eurovision Song Contest taking place in Liverpool. The new concept has been created as the city hosts the iconic event from 9-13 May on behalf of Ukraine, taking inspiration from The Soloveiko songbird trail in Liverpool and the digital model of the City of Liverpool created by the University of Liverpool. A…

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    YMCA Together Extends Domestic Abuse Service To Include Men For First Time

    YMCA Together Extends Domestic Abuse Service To Include Men For First Time

    YMCA Together is extending its domestic abuse service by almost doubling the number of refuge units and offering safe spaces for men and their children for the first time. The charity already has two refuges in the city with 28 units of accommodation for women and children but has now been awarded a Safer Accommodation Contract that will provide a further 23 units, including two for male victims/survivors and their children and is due to…

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    Tough Mudder Brings Its Magnificently Muddy Course Back To Cheshire

    Tough Mudder Brings Its Magnificently Muddy Course Back To Cheshire

    The globally recognised adventure course, Tough Mudder, returns to Malpas, Cheshire on the 9 – 10 September 2023. Up to 10,000 participants will push themselves to the limits on a course that takes no prisoners.  With multiple distances over the course of the weekend, participants will look to take on a range of classic Tough Mudder obstacles from icy plunges, huge net climbs right through to electrifying passages. Located within easy travel distances of Liverpool,…