Apparently the people who bought the old Whitehouse Pub, on the corner of Berry Street and Duke Street, are going to paint over the Banksy-painted rat that has adorned it for the best part of a decade.
Lewis’s fifth floor: a department story at the Conservation Centre
The shots of the staff, particularly, are wonderful portraits of proud employees, and the information on how long many of them spent working at the department store testament to how well Lewis’s treated its employees.
Lewis's to make way for leisure/lifestyle/retail hub/haven/destination thing
Merepark’s Central Village, which will include the Lewis’s building, is set to redress the cash drain towards Liverpool One, but it’s not clear to me whether the city can support so many different retail/leisure/lifestyle hubs – is there genuinely enough cash being spent to go around Liverpool’s various city-centre areas?
Liverpool bans more bars for Lark Lane and Allerton Road
A rare good decision from Liverpool City Council, whose licensing committee has advised that no further licenses be granted for Aigburth’s Lark Lane or Allerton Road.
Liverpool Culture Vlog – Liverpool One Wheel
There’s nothing much to say about the big wheel in Liverpool One’s Chavasse Park, so I did a little video during a ride on it.
Snow brings Liverpool to its knees
I don’t know why Liverpool seems so determined to abandon its citizens to the hazards of icy roads and footpaths.
The Best of Liverpool 2009
I’ve asked a group of people well placed in media, music, arts and other general culture vultures to venture their high- and lowlights of Liverpool in 2009.
Liverpool Santa Dash 2009
Dave Evans has sent over some images from today’s Santa Dash, which kicked off earlier today.
Up to 7,000 Santas took part in the 5km run, with hopes of reclaiming the world record for jogging Father Christmases.
Local celebs such as Craig Phillips from Big Brother and Michael Shields were joined by the ubiquitous Mike Storey. Joggers [...]
40 years of lies – don't buy the Sun
There’s a tricky duality as a journalist to slating other journalists and newspapers.
As a human being I despise The Sun for its lies, prejudice, snideness, cynical politics, nepotism and the way it glories in being a kind of dunce’s comic.
Liverpool as a muse
Here’s a couple of photos I took of a Volkswagen Tiguan in Liverpool, hopefully marrying something of the car with the character of the city.