Blog · 17 January 2020
Jennifer Bruce — video journalist, Liverpool City Council Not sending your child to school every day? Unfortunately, you’re not the only one. And it all adds up. Massively. Every year in Liverpool, more than 500,000 school days are lost to absenteeism, and almost half of those are unauthorised. Quantitatively this means we’re below the national average for school
Blog · 17 January 2020
A look at what lies ahead for Liverpool’s taxi trade in 2020 Kevin Johnson, Liverpool Council’s City Manager If 20 years ago you’d have said to your cabbie, soon you’ll be driving around in electric cars, you’d have probably have been met with a healthy degree of scepticism. You might have got the old suspicious glance
Blog · 14 January 2020
Liverpool playwright, BAFTA and International Emmy Award winning screenwriter, Helen Blakeman, shares her story from childhood dreams to international success. Liverpool is a city of writers, especially for screen. But being a writer is not what I grew up thinking that I could become. In fact, age 5, when asked what I wanted to be
Arts & Events · 9 January 2020
Liverpool will be bringing in the Year of the Rat in style with celebrations set to take place in the heart of Europe’s oldest Chinatown. On Sunday 26 January, the Chinese New Year festivities will see traditional Chinese culture blended with modern performances to create must-see street, stage and music acts, aerial demonstrations, family workshops,
Blog · 9 October 2019
A delegation from Liverpool will be in the city of London next week sharing all the latest exciting plans and developments that are taking place across the city. MIPM UK is a great example of private-public partnership. Two of the delegates representing Liverpool will be the new Liverpool MIPM chair Stephen Cowperthwaite and Liverpool City Council’s
Blog · 3 October 2019
Our communications manager, Michael Doran, shares the power of poetry… Shakespeare. Milton. Keats. Wordsworth. Coleridge. Yeats. Shelley. Byron. McGough. Henri. Patten. Carroll. Burns. Heaney. When you think of poems, it’s often one of the greats whose wordplay will most readily spring to mind. Not me. My first real brush with the power of poetry was
Blog · 2 October 2019
With a global reputation for musical excellence spanning more than a century, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra is one of the city’s most celebrated cultural institutions. But away from sell-out concerts and award-winning arrangements, the Liverpool Phil is building a reputation for harnessing the power of music for an altogether different purpose. Supported by an annual
Blog · 1 October 2019
(By John Ashton and Zara Quigg — First appeared in The BMJ) At a time of Brexit induced policy paralysis, it seems that only one matter can break through the news headlines. Daily reports of murders and injuries caused by rising knife crime in London and the other cities in the UK have galvanised a call for
Blog · 25 September 2019
Nina Lloyd-Jones, Liverpool City Council Staff Green Champion Liverpool City Council has recently launched a staff Green Champions scheme to make sure the organisation is driving the Climate Change agenda from the inside. We hear from one Green Champion, Nina Lloyd-Jones, about how recycling can become part of your every day life. As many of you will
Blog · 22 September 2019
In Britain, when we talk of female leaders and female leadership we often think of Tory politicians or our nation’s longest serving monarch. Our earliest story books often served up tales of feisty women who ruled the age or were revered in their time. But why then do so many women feel that they can’t
Blog · 20 September 2019
Just over two months ago I was asked by the Mayor of Liverpool, Joe Anderson, if I would take on the newly created ‘Environment and Sustainability’ portfolio in Liverpool City Council’s Cabinet. Liverpool was about to declare a ‘Climate Emergency’ (on 17 July) and Mayor Anderson had created the new post in the cabinet to
News · 28 August 2019
Written by Leila Jones on behalf of TransPennine Express. Liverpool is known for its culture. Whether it’s music, football or even a hybrid between a lamb and a banana sculpture, it’s all welcome. Street art is no exception, and Liverpool might just be the only place where you can see John Lennon, Mo Salah and
News · 1 August 2019
ming has commenced in the city of Liverpool this week on the third and final chapter of Sky original epic thriller, Tin Star.
Blog · 28 June 2019
Crowds flocked to Sefton Park for Africa Oye Festival 2019 ©Mark McNulty Liverpool has outdone itself again. The Saturday of this year’s Africa Oye Festival was the busiest day we’ve ever had in Sefton Park. The outpouring of love during the weekend and in these last few days from the audience and from those who performed
Business · 6 July 2018
Liverpool City Council has submitted an outline planning application to erect a new multi-storey car park on the city’s waterfront.
Arts & Events · 19 January 2017
Albert Dock Liverpool has reported a record-breaking year, with 6.3 million people visiting the iconic landmark
Community · 30 September 2016
Analysis by Liverpool City Council shows that an additional 710 families will be affected by the Government's lowering of the Benefit Cap – and there are fears some could lose their homes as a result.
Community · 19 July 2016
7F (1st City of Liverpool) Squadron Air Cadets, based at the Army Reserve Centre on Aigburth Road, is currently undertaking an extensive cadet recruitment campaign.
Business · 26 February 2016
Parents and grandparents queued up to join the National Numeracy Challenge at Liverpool Central Library as part of a city wide maths campaign.
Community · 18 March 2014
Liverpool has united with other cities, towns and boroughs across the country in a new national network to tackle issues of social inequality.
