Be Free awards set to celebrate community innovators
The Be Free Campaign will host The Community Award Show to recognise change-makers and innovators in the community.
The event will take place at the Isla Gladstone on Friday March 10, with eight different awards up for grabs.
Shantanu Kundu, the...
Residents’ concern over plans for landmark Hollywood Bowl complex
Developers have put in a planning application to Liverpool City Council to reconfigure the landmark Hollywood Bowl complex in Liverpool Shopping Park.
But residents fear that a newly-updated Hollywood Bowl will not be built due to the previous "failed promises"...
Tim Hetherington Fellowship offers unique opportunity for LJMU students
In a unique partnership with Index on Censorship and the Tim Hetherington Trust, Liverpool John Moores University is offering one journalism student the opportunity to join the Index on Censorship editorial team for a year.
The Tim Hetherington Fellowship...
Merseyside MP demands safer car parks in wake of tragedy
Merseyside MP Maria Eagle has called for an increase in the minimum height of car park barriers in a Bill being referred to as 'Gabe's Law'.
The Bill is named after Gabriel Santer, who died after falling from Q-Park Hanover...
Widnes bus driver to be honoured for charity efforts during pandemic
Fundraiser Neil Atherton is to receive an British Empire Medal (BEM) award for his services to public transport and the community in Liverpool and Widnes during Covid-19.
The 43-year-old Arriva bus instructor has walked over 250 miles in recent years...
Liverpool group saves more than two million meals from food waste
The Liverpool Zero Waste Community are feeding people across the city by saving food waste from supermarkets.
Kathryn Bowman and her husband Dave originally set up the group from their Woolton home in 2021, along with their friend Pam Constance,...
Merseyside Police and Crime Commissioner’s plan for increased safety for women around Liverpool
The government has backed Merseyside's Safer Streets campaign with a cash boost of more than half a million pounds.
It means Merseyside's Police and Crime Commissioner, Emily Spurrell, can extend the project, throughout the region, in response to womens' concerns...
‘Shockingly low’ levels of awareness about condition that blights lives
It was when Rebecca Green couldn't stand up when she was on her period that she realised her painful condition wasn't normal.
In fact, she had endometriosis, a long-term condition that sees tissue - similar to the lining of the...
Plans for Kirkby border medical waste facility stalled by local resistance
Knowsley Council is fighting an application to build a medical waste disposal facility in Simonswood.
The facility proposal was given an intend-to-approve status in December by Lancashire County Council, amid fierce resistance from local residents and surrounding councils.
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Knowsley MP Sir...
RSPCA launches Trek for Cats to raise money for rising pet returns since lockdown
The RSPCA is organising a Trek for Cats to raise money for cats in need.
Animal charities are reporting an increase in pets being abandoned since lockdown, with cats affected in the same way as dogs.
The next RSPCA trek is...