Wirral comes together to celebrate its local businesses
The topic of small businesses versus chain companies has been ongoing for years - but more recently people are going out of their way to support their local businesses.
Independent stores and restaurants create jobs for the community, increase product...
Happy ending for Wirral artist’s unique home thanks to mystery donor
The unique Birkenhead home of artist Ron Gittins, who died in 2019, has been saved after being put up for auction thanks to an anonymous donor.
The house was filled with unusual and highly-imaginative works of art.
Gittins lived in the...
Liverpool Cathedral lowers its precious chandeliers for annual check
Liverpool Cathedral lowered its chandeliers for their yearly maintenance checks this week.
The great cast iron light fixtures descended from the domed ceiling slowly, the process of checking all of them lasting between four and seven hours.
Lowered down by a...
Celebration as Birkenhead flat that’s a work of art is saved
The famous Birkenhead flat full of artistic wonders including a lion face fireplace has been saved.
Ron Gittins, who died in 2019 aged 80, left behind in his rented flat a unique world of art. However, since Ron’s death...
Walker Art Gallery exhibits return after more than three years
After more than three years of being closed for refurbishment, the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque exhibits at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool will return to public display this July.
'Renaissance Rediscovered' occupies the 90-year-old rooms 1-4 at the gallery,...
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...
LJMU lecturer warns World War Three could be a step closer
In the week when Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has vowed to ‘find the murderers’ of a prisoner of war, a lecturer from LJMU has warned a possible third World War is a step closer
The apparent shooting of the prisoner...
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"...
MerseyNewsLive TV news roundup March 7 2023
Watch our final MerseyNewsLive roundup of the academic year with Lucy Burns:
https://youtu.be/mSRPpMCECAI
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...
