News · 18 October 2021
Liverpool launches nudge behavior road safety trial
The UK’s first nudge-behaviour trial for a new style of potentially life-saving pedestrian crossings, has been launched in Liverpool today (Monday, 18 October).
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Mayor · 18 October 2021
Mayor’s plea for staff to be treated with respect
Mayor of Liverpool Joanne Anderson has appealed for residents to treat council officers with respect as they work to clear a backlog of work created as a result of the pandemic.
News · 14 October 2021
Liverpool’s Covid Journey
A selection of people involved in Liverpool’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic were honoured at a civic thank you event at Liverpool Town Hall on Wednesday 13 October. Around 100 guests attended the ceremony, from hospital staff and care home workers, through to those who delivered food parcels and took to the streets to give
News · 14 October 2021
Lime Street roadworks – statement
Liverpool City Council has legally terminated the contract for the Lime Street development scheme, owing to the contractor, MNCN, going into administration.
News · 14 October 2021
Pokémon GO takes over Sefton Park this weekend
The UK’s biggest ever Pokémon GO event will take place in Liverpool this weekend. Pokémon GO Safari Zone will see thousands of players travel from across the UK to Sefton Park, all on the lookout for some specially released augmented Pokémon who will be hiding in the Grade 1 listed green space. The globally-successful experience
News · 13 October 2021
City’s Service of Remembrance full of hope
Liverpool will fall silent on Sunday 14 November when the annual Service of Remembrance takes place in Liverpool Cathedral. In what has become one of the largest events of its kind in the country, attracting 10,000 people in 2019, the Worshipful Lord Mayor of Liverpool Councillor Mary Rasmussen will lead the city’s tribute to the
Mayor · 12 October 2021
MAYORAL STATEMENT: Arms fair protest
Mayor Joanne Anderson's response to the dispersal zone introduced by Merseyside Police in the area where the electronic warfare event is being held on the waterfront.
Civic · 12 October 2021
Civic event to honour Liverpool’s pandemic response
People involved in Liverpool’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic will be honoured at a civic thank you event at the Town Hall on Wednesday 13 October. Around 100 guests will be at the ceremony, from hospital staff and care home workers, through to those who delivered food parcels and took to the streets to give
Blog · 12 October 2021
BLOG: Lessons from Covid
Liverpool's Director of Public Health, Matthew Ashton, says the city should be proud of the way it stepped up to deal with the pandemic.
News · 12 October 2021
River of Light artworks announced
The 12 artworks which will transform Liverpool’s waterfront this month as part of River of Light have been revealed. For 17 nights, from Friday 22 October until Sunday 7 November, the waterfront will be transformed into a FREE illuminated outdoor art gallery. Twelve large scale light artworks will create a 2km trail in the fourth
News · 11 October 2021
Afghan refugees receive #LettersFromLiverpool
Pupils from five Liverpool primary schools have written welcome letters to Afghan refugees who are now making the city their home. The moving letters which are part of a project with Writing on the Wall and Action Asylum, with the support of Asylum Link Merseyside, reassure the newcomers “you will have an amazing life here”,
News · 11 October 2021
Have your say on the future of the city’s markets
Liverpool residents, businesses and organisations are being urged to have their say on key Liverpool issues. As part of a new Mayoral approach, a consultation programme has launched today (Monday 11 October) which urges everyone to give their views on different aspects of Liverpool life – starting with the city’s markets offer. The ambition is
News · 11 October 2021
Mayor and Chief Constable unite to tackle hate crime
The Mayor of Liverpool and the Chief Constable of Merseyside Police have come together at the start of Hate Crime Awareness Week to put tackling hate crime at the top of their agenda.
News · 8 October 2021
Mandela8 launches book scheme in schools to celebrate Black History Month
A Liverpool charity has launched a book loan scheme to increase understanding of diversity within schools, and ’empower, encourage and educate’ all children in the City Region about diversity and inclusion. Mandela8 – the organisation behind the Nelson Mandela memorial soon to be opened in Princes Park – earlier this year were gifted a collection
News · 7 October 2021
BLOG: Liverpool is launching a ‘Good Food’ strategy – what does that mean exactly?
Here to explain is Kevin Peacock, the Chief Executive of St Andrew’s Community Network (home of North Liverpool Foodbank). Kevin is also the co-Chair of the Liverpool Food Insecurity Task Group and a trustee of the ‘Feeding Liverpool’ charity. The man is clearly hungry. I watch as he unwraps six snack-size blocks of cheese and
News · 7 October 2021
Electoral review of Liverpool City Council: warding arrangements
The Local Government Boundary Commission for England has today launched a public consultation inviting proposals for a new pattern of electoral wards for Liverpool.
News · 6 October 2021
Advice to residents following welfare changes
Liverpool City Council is reminding residents that support is available to people affected by the removal of the Universal Credit uplift and increasing energy prices.
Community Safety · 5 October 2021
Funding to improve women’s feeling of safety on transport network
Nearly £270,000 of new funding has been secured by Merseyside’s Police Commissioner to invest in making women feel safer on the Liverpool City Region transport network. Emily Spurrell has been awarded the money from the Government’s Safer Streets Fund after working with Liverpool City Council and the TravelSafe Partnership on a joint bid focused on
Health · 4 October 2021
Liverpool launches ‘Good Food Plan’
Liverpool is to launch its Good Food Plan on Thursday 7 October – a strategy to create a city where everyone can eat good food and address key issues related to the food we eat. Phase One of the Good Food Plan is about tackling the immediate and urgent challenges that the city is facing
Liverpool · 4 October 2021
Last chance to have your say in survey on how to make Liverpool “a fairer city for all”
Residents, businesses and organisations are being urged to make sure they have their say on how to make Liverpool a fairer city for all.
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