All-female Liverpool dance charity prepare to welcome Year of the Horse
An award-winning, female-led dance group is rehearsing hard ahead of their performance as part of Liverpool's Lunar New Year celebrations later this month.
Movema, which is based in Liverpool and Bristol, are stalwarts of the events, and this year marks...
Prom dress scheme give school pupils free evening gowns
As GCSE pupils in Liverpool start thinking ahead to celebrating at their prom after this summer's exams, one Wavertree charity shop is determined that cost should not be a barrier.
Re-Loved on Picton Road is in its fourth year of...
Grassroots music venues to get funding lifeline
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...
Protect Scouse Dolls to host alternative Valentine’s celebrations
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...
Driver arrested after Merseyside man dies in fatal road crash
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...
Merseyside theatre group fundraise for Edinburgh Fringe Festival dream
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...
Leading human rights journalist speaks on free speech in the UK at campus debate
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...
Liverpool writer on the lookout for artist to illustrate new book
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...
Controversy over Wirral solar farm as consultation launched
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...
Global mental health initiative launched in Liverpool
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...
