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Sport & Active / 02 Feb 2013

Liverpool Marathon Cancelled

This year’s Run Liverpool Liverpool Marathon has been cancelled. BTR, formerly Run Liverpool have announced that this year’s event, scheduled for Sunday, 13th October has been shelved after talks with Liverpool City Council, who’ve asked….

Sport & Active / 12 Dec 2012

Upward Cycle: Help Liverpool Wheels For All

A great project in Liverpool needs your help - and all you have to do is listen to some great music and enjoy a beer.

/ 08 Aug 2012 / 6 comments

Pedalo power: boating returns to Liverpool parks

The weather’s been pretty terrible this summer, but whenever the sun does drag its lazy arse out into the open, our city parks are a pretty nice place to be. And the council are trying….

Sport & Active / 07 Jul 2012 / 2 comments

Stanley Street Sports Day

Grown men gallumping down the streets in lady frocks? Whatever next? It’s OK, it’s an Official Olympic Event, people.

/ 07 Jul 2012 / 3 comments

Better L8 than never: Toxteth Heritage Trail launches

It’s lovely to see Toxteth being given a push lately. A few weeks ago there was the excellent, grassroots-organised Toxteth Day, and now word comes to us that there’s a brand new thing to participate….

Sport & Active / 07 Jul 2012

Unaverage Batting

Taking the utilitarian ping pong bat and transforming it into a thing of beauty - it’s all in a day’s work for Liverpool’s creative community. And, with your help, it’s a way to raise much needed funds for CALM too.

Sport & Active / 03 Mar 2012 / 1 comment

Olympic Torch comes to Liverpool - details

The route for the Liverpool leg of the Olympic Torch has been revealed, with several city landmarks taken in along the way.

/ 10 Oct 2011 / 1 comment

Dead interesting: Toxteth Park Cemetery walking tour

Fancy something a bit different? This weekend take a guided tour around Liverpool’s oldest resting place and learn why it’s one of the most impressive in the region.

Sport & Active / 07 Jul 2011

Love your Liverpool parks

This week sees a series of events encouraging Liverpool to get out and love the city’s parks.

Sport & Active / 06 Jun 2011

Englishmen and the midnight sun

Cricket’s most bonkers game in the world - in Liverpool

Sport & Active / 05 May 2011 / 1 comment

Think bike

The council is helping us get fit with a series of group bike rides around the city.

Sport & Active / 02 Feb 2011 / 1 comment

On Your Marks, Get Set, Tweet…

From Twitter to roadrunner, the first international TweetRun 10k promises to show that, in the real world, our city’s tweeters make for a formidable mobile app, too…

Sport & Active / 02 Feb 2011

Run Liverpool. And Birkenhead, and Wallasey…

It’s a lovely day. Fancy a quick jog around the new Run Liverpool Marathon route, but you’ve forgotten your Asics? Why not do it from the comfort of your desk instead…