Liverpool's favourite cultural events returning in 2019 Familiar cultural favourites are returning to Liverpool in 2019, bringing another helping of exciting line-ups and unique additions. Words by Natasha YoungOyé on the way with another bumper line-up Popular summer festival Africa Oyé will fill Sefton Park with the music and culture of Africa and ... Read More...
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Belfast Travel Guide: Two days in Northern Ireland's capital Follow YM Liverpool’s Lawrence Saunders as he makes the short hop across the Irish Sea for a mini-break in Northern Ireland’s capital city. Words by Lawrence SaundersA boutique base Catching the 10am flight from Liverpool John Lennon Airport (LJLA), my travel companion and I ... Read More...
Work is underway to transform Liverpool’s former Cabin Club into a new live music venue which is expected to launch this summer.The famous old nightspot, where George Harrison is said to have written his first Beatles song, sits at the top of Bold Street facing the Bombed Out Church.The Havelock ... Read More...
A Liverpool-based housing association is extending its support of a local non-league football side as its youth team prepares to fly out to the United States for a prestigious tournament.City of Liverpool FC (COLFC) U19s will follow in the footsteps of Wayne Rooney and Michael Owen when they step onto ... Read More...
Liverpool City Region property firm The Sovini Group has launched a drive for apprentices across the area.Fifteen new opportunities are being created, bringing the total number of apprentices employed by the group up to 50 by September 2019.Roy Williams, CEO of The Sovini Group which incorporates not-for-profit organisations including One ... Read More...
The future of Mersey Ferries’ Royal Daffodil has been secured after it was sold to a Liverpool-based company.The vessel will be moved from Birkenhead's Duke Street Docks and re-homed in the Canning Dock area where it will serve as a new leisure attraction.Royal Daffodil, which gave over 50 years of ... Read More...
Kier will begin the construction of Prescot’s highly anticipated multi-million pound Shakespeare North Playhouse next month.It’s hoped the theatre and education centre, which will celebrate Knowsley’s links with Elizabethan drama and William Shakespeare himself, can attract hundreds of thousands of new visitors to the borough every year.Beginning on 8 April, the initial work ... Read More...
Liverpool’s World Museum was England’s most visited museum outside of London in 2018 thanks to the landmark Terracotta Warriors display.According to new figures the exhibition, which attracted more than 610,000 visitors, pushed the venue up 30 places in the list of the UK’s top 100 visitor attractions for the year.As ... Read More...
Popular restaurant Maray could be joining a growing list of eateries heading to Royal Albert Dock Liverpool.The small plates venue, which has locations on Bold Street and Allerton Road, has submitted a planning application to fit out space at Britannia Pavilion.FalafAle Ltd, operating as Maray, is behind proposals requesting listed building ... Read More...
Plans to demolish a TJ Hughes building on London Road and replace it with apartments and shops could be approved next week.The new mixed-use development would be built next to the discount retailer’s flagship department store on the edge of Liverpool city centre.Original proposals for Hughes House from Town Square ... Read More...
