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Liverpool City Council is offering a £3000 grant to grassroot venues to support up to six nights of live music programming. The grant also includes business support and advice, workshops and mentoring. Priority will be given to venues that have...

Liverpool-based community organisation Protect Scouse Dolls is hosting an alternative Valentine’s Day event this Saturday, combining live music, community care, and fundraising for the city’s Trans+ community.  The event challenges Valentines' celebrations in the traditional sense, focusing on friendship, chosen family, and...

Police are appealing for information after a man died in Maghull after being hit by a car. Emergency services were called to Eastway in Maghull around 7.20pm yesterday (Tuesday 10th February), following reports of an accident involving a black...

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...

  A leading human rights journalist described the UK as having an 'ambivalent relationship' with free speech at a campus debate  last week. The editor-at-large for magazine 'Index on Censorship' Martin Bright spoke his views at the campus event led by...

Thousands of Wirral residents have signed a petition against plans for a 27-hectare industrial solar farm on green belt near Rose Cottage in Thurstaston. A public consultation on the scheme, which is proposed by Chinese renewables firm Chint Solar, was...

By Tamsin Keeney and Elliana Hopwood A global campaign to tackle the stigma experienced by sufferers of little-known tropical diseases was launched in Liverpool today. The World Health Organisation (WHO) announced a package of new support measures at the Liverpool School...

By Lydia Potter and Lucy Ellison Bolt has arrived in Liverpool with a new contract that replaced the existing Voi e-scooters. The new service will see 2000 scooters and 100 e-bikes deployed across Liverpool. Garston and Speke will also have access...

A proposal to transfer a number of critical cases from Liverpool Women’s Hospital to the Royal Liverpool University Hospital has been agreed.  The Board of NHS Cheshire and Merseyside approved the proposal at a meeting last Thursday, arguing it will...

Three quarters of cancer patients will survive for at least five years by 2035, the Government pledged today, as it announced a new 10-year cancer strategy that will benefit people living with the disease across the UK. The plan focusses...