Celebration of Irish culture and heritage takes centre stage
The Liverpool Irish festival is an annual celebration of Irish culture, talent, history, and people.
This year, the ten-day festival is being held until October 29, and includes events such Brave Maeve: Writer Reading for Kids from 3pm–5pm on October...
Life-saving knife kits to be rolled out to schools and bars
Kits which save lives in the event of a stabbing are to be rolled out in secondary schools and public places across Merseyside.
Knifesavers, a non-profit organisation, aims to empower and educate the public on how to treat life-threatening knife...
Local gymnastics club launches Halloween fundraising drive for new kit
Aerial Gymnastics in Croxteth have launched a fundraising drive for new equipment to provide better opportunities and programmes to the gymnastics community and beyond.
The club have been operating for eight years, and this year, Aerial Gymnastics set up a...
Liverpool’s ‘lifesaving’ organisation relying on donations to stay open
The Jade L Roberts Project is an organisation set up to help raise awareness about suicide and to support those suffering from suicidal thoughts.
Named after founder and CEO Tracey Roberts’ daughter, who died by suicide in April 2021, the...
How to beat the bed-bugs: Prevention, detection, treatment
The recent bed-bug outbreak in France has created a media frenzy which has proven hard to ignore. The French government has launched an anti-bed-bug campaign to help people cope with the epidemic and let them know what to do...
Cost-of-living crisis forces one in three students to live at home
Up to one in three students are now living at home while studying, due to rising accommodation costs.
A recent report published by HEPI (the Higher Education Policy Institute) found that students are finding it increasingly difficult to live on...
TV and film grant aims to create opportunities for young people
Liverpool city council is set to approve a £833,000 grant towards the city's TV and film scene in a welcome boost for the region.
In alliance with four northern companies - Liverpool Film Office, North East Screen, Screen Manchester, and...
Changes announced to Grand National for the first time since 2012
New safety measures will come into effect at the Grand National, after many years of protests from groups protesting over the viability of the race in its current form.
The changes will see a 15% decrease in the number of...
Bradbury Fields work hard to spread awareness for those with visual impairments
Services in Liverpool are giving people with blindness and other visual impairments their life skills back.
In the UK, employment for those who are visually impaired has dropped from 45% to 25% in the last ten years.
But in Merseyside you...
MP makes plea for more electric vehicle charging points
Bill Esterson, MP for Sefton Central, has demanded more electric vehicle charging points to be installed in the North of England through levelling up programmes.
Liverpool City Council announced at the start of the year that 300 new electric vehicle...
