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Liverpool Book Festival returning this March

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Tickets for this year's Liverpool Book Festival are close to selling out according to organisers. The event, held at BoxPark in Cain's Brewery Village, will take place on Sunday the 8th of March and will run from 11am-5pm. The festival, which returns...
Cast of Intrusive with Director Phil Halfpenny

Merseyside theatre group fundraise for Edinburgh Fringe Festival dream

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A Saint Helens-based theatre group have launched a crowdfunding campaign to take their production to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The creators of ‘Intrusive’ are fundraising to get their show to the world’s largest performing arts festival this August, after it...
Photo of Hayley Lynn Gordon the poet holding a folder of her poetry

Liverpool writer on the lookout for artist to illustrate new book

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Liverpool writer Hayley Lynn Gordon is on the lookout for artists to illustrate seven of her poems for her forthcoming book ‘Lemonade Grenade’ that will be launched in July this year. This is Gordon’s first book, consisting of fifty-four poems...

Strictly shimmies into Liverpool for the Live Tour

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Liverpool welcomes the stars of the BBC1 Show Strictly Come Dancing to the M&S bank arena this month. Hosted by Janette Manrara and judged by Merseyside’s own Shirley Ballas, alongside Anton Du Beke and Craig Revel Horwood, the tour is...
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Festive pantos receive rave reviews with over 3000 attending on Christmas Eve

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Merseyside has been treated to not one but two critically acclaimed pantomimes, with over 55,000 tickets sold over the festive season and sold out shows across Merseyside. Cinderella completed its hugely successful run at the historical Epstein Theatre this weekend,...
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Liverpool Pokémon fans hope for new boom in game

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Liverpudlian Pokémon fans are looking forward to the reopening of the only pop-up shop in the country dedicated to the Japanese gaming phenomenon and optimistic that it will herald a new boom in its popularity. It was announced this week...
photo of The Grand

Southport Jazz Festival sees all female headliners

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The Southport Jazz festival returns for the third year with only women headlining. Ten shows will be hosted in The Grand in the town's centre over the course of three days. One of this year’s headliners, Claire Martin, described the festival...
choir with no name (credits - Elizabeth Patten)

The choir creating a musical home for the marginalised

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Members of a Liverpool-based choir that welcomes people with lived experiences of homelessness and marginalisation have described the charity as their "salvation". The Choir with No Name has been bringing people together since it was founded in 2014. Since then...
Paper and Word bookshop. Copyright: Freya Leather (BA Journalism 2025)

Strong start for UK’s first fantasy-only bookshop in Wirral

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The UK's only brick-and-mortar fantasy bookshop has opened in Wirral and business so far has surpassed its owner's expectations. Paper and Word opened its doors just under two months ago. Abby Munro, who founded the small independent shop, says that custom...

Liverpool’s night clubs face ’empty’ Dry January

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Liverpool’s night clubs are facing a period of being 'empty' due partly to the number of people attempting Dry January, according to an event organiser. Almost one in three Brits were planning to give up alcohol for the month according...

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