Liverpool News
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Liverpool News
Liverpool ONE Gets Ready To Bloom As It Kick-Starts Spring In The City
Award-winning leisure and retail destination Liverpool ONE is in full bloom, as it gets set for spring and unveils a string of floral displays and plans for the season ahead. Running until 5 June, Liverpool ONE in Bloom will bring smiles to the faces of everyone this spring. Visitors can expect to be welcomed with a large array of beautiful botanical and floral arrangements created in collaboration with award winning floral design team, Poppy Belle Florals, who’s…
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Liverpool News
Steven Bartlett Shares Success Story At The Good Business Festival
Creator of chart-topping podcast The Diary of a CEO Steven Bartlett shared his business insight and tips for success at The Good Business Festival in Liverpool last week. The 29-year-old entrepreneur told an audience of aspiring entrepreneurs, small businesses and established leaders how he went from university dropout to a millionaire in less than a decade. Steven started his social media marketing agency, Social Chain, from his bedroom in Manchester after spotting an opportunity to bring…
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Liverpool News
Shakespeare North Playhouse Unveils Opening Programme For Iconic New Venue
Shakespeare North Playhouse has unveiled its spectacular opening programme, with A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Christmas Carol, Johnny Vegas, and Jimmy McGovern among the season highlights at the iconic new £30m theatre in Prescot, Liverpool. The stunning new venue, home to the only 17th-century style timber theatre outside London and anticipated to attract 140,000 visitors a year, will open its doors to the public with a joyful weekend of free festivities, from July 15-17. Kicking…
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Festivals
Liverpool’s Theatre In The Rough Launch Climate Crisis Arts Festival To Coincide With Earth Day
A free programme of short films, audio plays and podcasts by women from Liverpool and West Lancashire is launching to coincide with this year’s Earth Hour. The 400 Parts Per Million Festival, produced by Theatre in the Rough, explores young women’s experience of the Climate Crisis – as women are statistically most likely to be affected by the impacts of climate change. The participants have been working with climate activists, artists and scientists from around…
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Liverpool News
Batala Mersey Drummers Raising Money For Ukraine
A samba-reggae group of 50 drummers will take to the streets of Liverpool this weekend to raise money for the Ukraine Crisis Appeal. Batala Mersey have linked up with the Red Cross to organise the fundraising performance on Church Street in Liverpool on Sunday 20 March. The Liverpool-based drumming group will be joined by members of sister bands, Batala Lancaster, Batala Bangor and Batala Bermo, to make as much noise as possible for the people…
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Food and Drink in Liverpool
New Restaurant And Bar Nova Scotia Opening May 2022
Independent Liverpool bar operator Ma Pub Group, led by Iain Hoskins, has announced its plans for a third Liverpool site. Nova Scotia opens in May as the city’s hospitality sector continues to bounce back. Set in the stunning Mann Island building in the shadow of the Museum of Liverpool and the spectacular Three Graces on Liverpool’s iconic waterfront, the new location will capture the city’s maritime past. It’s little known that at the end of…
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Food and Drink in Liverpool
Lu Ban Liverpool Named City’s Best Restaurant Award
Lu Ban Liverpool has been crowned the city’s best restaurant after being one of the big winners at the 2021 Liverpool City Region Tourism awards. The fine dining Chinese restaurant, based in Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle, walked off with the highly prized Restaurant of the Year award and doubled up its trophy haul with the Resilience and Innovation award. The ceremony was held in Liverpool Cathedral on Thursday 10 March, with a strong team from the restaurant…
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Liverpool News
Coastal Walk For Cancer From West Kirby To New Brighton
A Wirral brain tumour and cancer charity, set up by a former world kickboxing champion and a former Premier League footballer, is organising a coastal walk to raise vital funds to support its health and wellbeing work. Ahead of the Game Foundation, based in Wallasey and established by Dave Bolton and Dominic Matteo, is asking people to walk the 10-mile route from West Kirby to New Brighton as part of March Brain Tumour Awareness month.…
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Liverpool News
Titanic Hotel Awarded Hotel of the Year at Liverpool Tourism Awards
Titanic Hotel Liverpool have been awarded Hotel of the Year at the prestigious Liverpool City Region Tourism Awards, which took place last night at the beautiful surroundings of Liverpool Cathedral, and hosted by popular BBC broadcaster, Owain Wyn Evans. Recognising excellence across the city region’s tourism and hospitality industry, the annual awards are delivered by Growth Platform – Liverpool City Region Growth Company, and received an exceptionally high number of entries this year. Amongst the…
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Editorials
Walker Art Gallery Transforms For Gotham City
National Museums Liverpool and specifically The Walker Art Gallery plays a new role in The Batman history. National Museums Liverpool (NML) has played a role in the newly launched The Batman film – providing a backdrop for the filming and also hosting a backstage film crew hub in Liverpool. Warner Bros’ The Batman, released in cinemas last Friday (4 March 2022), was shot in Liverpool during October 2020 and was the world’s first largescale production in an urban…
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Liverpool News
Actor Simon Lennon Becomes Walk For Autism’s 3,000th Walker Ahead Of This Year’s Campaign
Bridgerton and Emmerdale star Simon Lennon has become the 3,000th person to pledge their support to this year’s Walk for Autism campaign, which kicks off in just four weeks. The scouser will join participants from up and down the country to take part in the event, which is in its fifth year, with Autism Initiatives hoping it will be the biggest one yet, with more than £200,000 in sponsorship being raised so far. Those involved will…
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Liverpool News
YMCA Together Named Best Charity To Work For In The UK
YMCA Together has been named the Best Charity to work for in the UK at the inaugural Best Companies Live virtual event 2022. The prestigious accolade was awarded to the Liverpool based charity, which provides 109,500 bed spaces annually across the region, after it was recognised as an organisation that ‘truly excels, with world class levels of workplace engagement’. Broadcasted live from Media City in Salford by TV presenter Dan Walker, YMCA Together were also crowned the 8th Best…
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Liverpool News
Carringtons Secure Events Up Until 2025 As They Celebrate Record Number of Bookings
Carringtons Catering is welcoming the return of its jam-packed events diary with dates already being booked up until 2025. Hitting record numbers in their 40-year history, the team look set to cater for up to 15 events a week during this next 12 months, with some weddings and private functions requiring more than 70 members of staff to facilitate them. It’s a stark contrast to the past two years for the company’s directors Darren and…
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Liverpool Events
The Good Business Festival Kick-Starts Change For Good With 2022 Programme
Powerful ideas and practical advice to help businesses better address consumer and employee demand are central to the programme at The Good Business Festival, which has confirmed its speaker line-up today. The three-day global summit was commissioned by Liverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram and will be held in venues across Liverpool city centre from 22 to 24 March. Leaders such as Emilie Stephenson, Force for Good at Innocent Drinks and Hannah Cockcroft MBE, Paralympian…
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Activities in Liverpool
Discover Smithdown Social: A Hub of Compassion and Creativity In Supporting The Arts
Smithdown Social Club, now Smithdown Social Arts Hub, has an impressive creative arts project developing on Smithdown Road in support of local artists – and it is growing quickly. Smithdown Social Club closed in March 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, and they took the opportunity to introduce a new initiative for the Club. Having previously been a largely music industry ‘collective’ of bands, solo artists and all the supporting roles that make a performer survive and prosper, they pivoted to a…
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Music
Rare notebook featuring handwritten ‘Hey Jude’ lyrics to be displayed at The Beatles Story
The Beatles Story, Liverpool, has announced an exciting new addition to its ever-growing exhibition with the inclusion of a previously unseen notebook belonging to The Beatles’ Tour Manager Mal Evans. The rare notebook, compiled between 1967-68, features Paul McCartney’s handwritten draft lyrics for ‘Hey Jude’, a part-lyric for ‘Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band’, recording notes by George Harrison for ‘All You Need Is Love’ as well as lyrics for a number of other songs…
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Liverpool News
PINS & So Lets Talk Share Random Acts of Kindness In Liverpool
So Lets Talk, a profit for purpose platform supporting the hospitality industry, has teamed up with Liverpool’s leading experiential venue PINS Social Club for Random Acts of Kindness Day, to share some kindness across the city. Random Acts of Kindness Day takes place on February 17, a dedicated day to kindness and taking that extra, conscious step to brighten somebody’s day. PINS Social Club and So Lets Talk will mark the occasion with a series…
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Liverpool News
Plant Based Packaging Firm From Liverpool To Appear On Dragons’ Den
A Liverpool based company that creates sustainable plant based packaging and 100% biodegradable & compostable products is set to appear on Dragons’ Den this week. Set to air this Thursday (February 17), the next episode of BBC One’s popular pitching show for businesses will feature Green Bell Packaging, which runs its operations from its Albert Dock HQ and was established back in 2018. Viewers will see founder M Vahid Nagori and Associate Director Thibault Denis…
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Liverpool News
Liverpool Chef Dave Critchley Gets ‘Second Bite’ At Popular TV Cookery Show
Liverpool chef Dave Critchley will return to the heat of the Great British Menu kitchen next week. The executive chef director at Lu Ban, which creates Tianjin inspired dishes, has been invited back to compete in the new series of the popular BBC cookery show. Critchley is one of four chefs competing in the North West regional heat, which tests the chefs’ creative and culinary skills in the search for the perfect menu. The weekly…
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Liverpool News
Without Walls Announces Partnership With Disability-Led DaDa
Without Walls have announced that award-winning arts organisation DaDa will be joining its network of some of the UK’s most highly regarded outdoor arts and performance specialists – an imperative group of organisations as we move through the Covid19 pandemic. DaDa delivers a biennial international festival, providing a platform for disabled, Deaf and neurodivergent artists to develop and produce high-quality work. Founded in 1984 and based in Liverpool, the organisation was among the first disability-led…
