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Liverpool
St Patrick's Day
Parade 2024!
ON 17 March 2024 the
Liverpool Irish Centre held it's annual St Patrick's Day Parade within
Liverpool City Centre. This event was very well attuned with bands
and cars decorated in St Patrick's Day adornments, and even young
Irish Dancers, along with many other Irish organisations. The Parade
route this year started at, the Old Irish Centre Great on Orford Street, before
moving onto Hope Street, then headed on to Upper Duke Street, followed by going
down:- Berry Street, Renshaw Street, Ranleagh Street...
100th Anniversary
Southport Flower Show confirms Headline Sponsor
SOUTHPORT Flower Show are pleased
to announce that the 79th Group is this year's headline sponsor. Owned and
managed by the Webster family, the 79th Group is an...
Crackdown on
anti-driver road schemes and blanket 20mph limits to put local consent 1st
MOTORISTS are set to benefit from smoother journeys
and reduced congestion, with local people getting a stronger voice on road
schemes that affect them, thanks to a crackdown...
What is the
Engine Room in Southport?
ON Thursday, 21 March 2024, the official opening of
The Engine Room took place within the historic Wayfarers Arcade. The venue is
located within a former dance studio, provides a pilot for the idea that we can
use empty spaces, especially...
Live Music on St
Patrick's Day at Southport's Purple Rain
ON St Patrick's Day, 17
March 2024, Purple Rain in Southport played host to the lively and entertaining
band, The Fuse, who played lots of fantastic 60's and 70's music as well...
Merseyside Based
Charity Unveils Report stating:- 'Social Care Set to Influence Election Year'
A ground breaking new report by local charity
Community Integrated Care; was launched in Parliament on:- Wednesday, 13 March
2024, has revealed a once in a generation...
Liverpool Airport
expected to meet delaine in lifting 100ml liquid restrictions
DESPITE the Department of Transport's deadline set for
June 2024, the anticipated lifting of the 100ml liquid rule in
UK airports faces delays as late as 2025 due to installation
issues with new security...
Green light for
3rd Phase of Mayor Steve Rotheram's Community Environment Fund
LIVERPOOL City Region Mayor Steve
Rotheram has announced a third year of funding for his Community Environment
Fund. Green projects from across the Liverpool City Region can...
Award winning
cartoon Milo back for 2nd series thanks to £350,000 loan from Liverpool City
Region Combined Authority
A £350,000 loan from the Liverpool City
Region Combined Authority enabled local animators to make a 2nd
series of award winning children's cartoon Milo, now airing on
Channel 5.
Created by Fourth Wall, the 1st 52 episode series won the...
LGA calls for
heftier fines needed for businesses who flout disposable vape ban Photo by PB Photography
(Peter Bailey)
BUSINESSES should face tougher
fines if they flout the proposed ban on disposable vapes, the Local Government
Association (LGA) has urged.
Under the Government's proposed plans, businesses...
Northern's
Regional Director for the North West urges customers to get out and explore
during English Tourism Week
NORTHERN is encouraging people to
use the train to get out and explore the fantastic visitor attractions across
the North of England during English Tourism Week, that...
Dobbies'
Merseyside stores invite nominations for national community initiative Photo by Stewart Attwood Photograph
DOBBIES,
the UK’s leading garden center, has launched Dobbies Community Gardens to
support community and charity groups across Merseyside to help transform...
Cost of living
crisis - Just days now left for North West residents to access £2million Winter Support
Fund
NORTH West families struggling
with the cost of their energy bills this winter have just a few weeks left to
apply for help from a new Winter Support Fund. The Cadent Foundation, the
charitable arm of the UK's largest Gas Distribution Network, launched its 1st
ever £2 million Winter Support...
North West
shopworkers speak out after an Usdaw survey finds that violence has more than
doubled in the 2024
RETAIL trade union Usdaw has launched shocking
statistics from their annual survey of...
The Sefton Open
2024
THE entries are now in for 1 of the North West's premier art exhibitions,
which opens in Southport at the end of the month. Each year the call out for the
Sefton Open attracts hundreds of submissions from ever hopeful local artists all
vying for the coveted space...
RSPCA responds to
two incidents of animals caught in fishing litter
THE Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals (RSPCA) has rescued a duck and a pigeon who were caught up in fishing
litter in the North West, before...
Ahoy all actor or
actress brave souls and daring spirits wanted for new plays
LIVERPOOL'S
City Theatre has put out a casting call for:- "brave souls and
daring spirits" to join the cast of a new play. called:-
"Pirates and Whips - The Cage of Men!"
Theatre Review:-
"Blackridge" at the Hope Street Theatre in Liverpool
THE
next instalment of Warnock was performed at the Hope
Street Theatre. Blackridge, like the previous play, is set in a
youth detention centre and loosely follows on from the original...
Liverpool
Philharmonic to Hold Music Industry Careers Fest
HERE’S
everything you need to know about DinoTown Southport with families
set to enjoy brand new brick built dinosaurs, giant chocolate...
Classic Car and
Motorcycle Transport Fundraiser in Southport returns for:- 'biggest and best
event' Report by Andrew Brown and
photos by Patrick Trollope
PEOPLE are invited to
enjoy the 6th Classic Car and...
Greenpeace claims
6 people died a day in North West because of cold homes due to UK Government
cuts to insulation funding
ACTIVISTS build cemetery
outside Parliament to highlight Government failure to insulate homes. A new
analysis of official data, published by Greenpeace UK, reveals that, on
average, 6 people have died every single day in the North West during winter
due to cold homes, since the Conservative.
People with learning disabilities call for urgent changes to
resuscitation decisions about their own lives
THE British Institute of Human
Rights (BIHR) releases a new report produced with people with learning
disabilities, their loved ones and supporters, detailing the need for...
The average Brit
does 5 good deeds a week
RECENT research reveals that the
average Briton will do 5.1:- 'good deeds' every week, totalling
more than 265 over the course of the year. Among the most common acts of
kindness are holding the door open for someone (67%), checking in with someone...
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