Pumpkin Picking or Spooky Spectaculars?
The start of October signals the beginning of Halloween festivities from pumpkin picking to scarefests, people across Merseyside are embracing the spooky season.
Halloweenville, a hugely popular event in Warrington, has become a viral sensation and is almost sold out.
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New men’s mental health charity launches in Wirral
A new charity focusing on men’s mental health has launched in Wirral.
Mersey Mind Project aims to tackle levels of loneliness, isolation and the rise of mental health crisis among local men.
The charity has gained the backing of the Mayor...
Hospital arts organisation on the up after covid ‘lull’
Hospital Arts In Liverpool (HARTS) have revealed their plans to recover from their post lockdown restrictions and get back to what they do best.
HARTS is a wide-ranging programme established in 2007 that brings professional and amateur artists and performers...
Bold Streets ‘real life’ Vinted.
A new sustainable shop has opened in Liverpool.
Fripp held an opening party on the 18th of September and in a short period of time has gained huge popularity.
The shop sells 'dead' stock from fast fashion brands including coats, shoes...
Liverpool store recognised as the oldest Independent record shop in the UK
The oldest independent record shop in the UK, once a favourite haunt of John Lennon's, has been awarded a coveted blue plaque.
Musical Box on West Derby road first opened it's doors in 1947. The family-run business is now in...
Liverpool man takes on The Explorer’s Grand Slam
A Merseyside-born army veteran is aiming to be the oldest person to complete The Explorer's Grand Slam.
Ian Hughes, who joined the Royal Green Jackets when he was just 16, is raising money for mental health charity, Always a Rifleman.
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Liverpool’s Flower Streets in full bloom as final mural completed
The award-winning Flower Streets project in Kirkdale has been completed with a final brush stroke on Crocus Street.
The community initiative consists of 12 murals inspired by the floral street names in the neighbourhood and have transformed the once-neglected area.
Local artist...
Festival uses culture to bring together an ‘unequal society’
Liverpool's Black-E hosts an event, a celebration of Black dance, reflecting on how living in an unjust nation affects our wellbeing.
The African Routes Festival: Equal Measures 2025, was showcased over the weekend exploring how African dance and music influences...
Bold Street venue LEAF shuts for good
A popular venue on Bold Street has closed its doors for good after 15 years of business.
LEAF, which was regarded as ‘one of Liverpool’s hospitality originators’, was opened by siblings Natalie and Graham Haywood in 2010.
The Bold Street venue...
UK’s first poetry expo connects communities and schools through power of spoken word
All Ears Poetry hosted the UK's first-ever poetry exhibition last Friday in Liverpool, bringing together creatives from across the country to create an inclusive space to share ideas, performances, and promote poetry events, to promote spoken word to a...
