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Feature: Why Liverpool Doesn’t Deserve An Awards Show

This is not the time for awards, Liverpool. And yes, that includes Livercool. Whatever skills Downtown Liverpool possesses, it’s not names, is it? Livercool Awards and Sexy Networking are the sort of names your intern….

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Feature: Whichever Way You Slice It: Balance Liverpool City Council’s Budget

Fancy yourself as a number-cruncher? Think you got the answer to the council’s budget woes? Gauntlet thrown down - balance the council’s books yourself on the council’s website.

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SevenStreets Almanac summer edition, out now. Plus: support us!

Summer’s here, sort of, and so is our Summer Almanac: it’s the Almanac, but with a little more sunshine. Hooray. Think features on what the heck’s going on with St Johns Market (and why we….

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Column: The Social Network

Is it possible to make money and stay true to your instincts as a self-employed creative in Liverpool?

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Feature: The Liverpool Contra Affair

Someone is doing very well out of Liverpool’s New Economy. And that person is probably holding a workshop next week, in a reclaimed warehouse, teaching you how you can do well out of it too,….

A Game For Alex

Last year, Sefton Park CC lost one of its fiercest competitors. Now cricketers from all over Liverpool are turning up to pay tribute to Alex Miller and raise cash for a Liverpool charity.

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It’s Not Just Political, It’s Personal

There’s an ignored alternative narrative to Margaret Thatcher’s funeral - the quiet rejection of the communities she went to war with.

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Why Liverpool Won’t Mourn Margaret Thatcher

In Liverpool, Margaret Thatcher made an enemy for life. We shouldn’t be surprised at the response to her death.

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Targetting The Audience

Talking, texting, chomping and even snoring - is there any depth to which the modern theatre audience won’t stoop?

Scouse Impressions

It’s Global Scouse Day, apparently, so who better than a Liverpool food blogger to explore the city’s favoured dish?

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Feature: New Life For Old Buildings

A couple of months ago, we came to the somewhat alarming conclusion that the majority of Liverpool’s UNESCO protected ‘maritime mercantile maritime mercantile City’ (protected as an example of a major trading centre of the….

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Billy The Leak

A leaked series of email between Mayor Anderson and Coun Richard Kemp makes for amusing reading - but there’s nothing funny about party political squabbles in these difficult times.

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Feature: Smack City: Thirty Years of Hurt

Paul Casey was sat with a submachine gun by Liverpool docks when he realised how much crime had changed. A decade earlier he had been bobby on the beat with a wooden truncheon for protection…..