Win When You’re Swinging
There are around fifty swingers’ clubs in the UK offering seven days-a-week escapism. I’ve had sex in many of them. And one of the best venues, you may be surprised to learn, is somewhere in the nether regions between Birkenhead and Bromborough. A relatively new phenomenon, swinging clubs evolved during the mid 1990s from specialist [...]
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Hope Street: The Best Street in the UK!
Congratulations to Hope Street - scooping Best Street in the UK at today’s final of the Great Streets Award - in the National Urbanism Awards. We’re not lying when we tell you that, this week, has mostly been spent on or just off this great axis between our two Cathedrals. This street stands for everything [...]
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Ghost Streets 7: The Dock Road
Trying to hide my annoyance, I asked “where are you mate?” after waiting inside the pub for a friend from Leeds who was half an hour late. He was on the phone. And he was lost. I’d told him to meet me in the Coburg on the Dock Road and being a stranger to Liverpool [...]
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Liverpool’s Future: The Next 15 Years
The future starts here. Today, Joe Anderson, together with Liverpool Vision chief Max Steinberg, release the details of the city’s new Strategic Investment Framework (SIF): the big ideas set to take the city forward for the next 15 years. To cut to the chase, if the last decade-and-a-bit was all about shiny new buildings, the [...]
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Troubled Times for John Lennon Airport?
Today, The Echo breathlessly reprinted a press release… sorry, wrote a feature… celebrating the fact that Ryanair has announced two new summer routes from Liverpool. To Poland and Croatia. Airline boss Michael O’Leary said he hoped to increase the annual passenger numbers to three million in the next three years. But there is another story [...]
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Liverpool named as the second safest city to live in
It’s always nice for Liverpool to get a nod for something. Over the past year we’ve had an array of recognition thrust upon us: the UK’s friendliest city, best city for nightlife, fastest growing economy outside of London, best special effects. Oh, maybe we’re getting our awards confused there. Whatever. This one, though, feels really [...]
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Liverpool: City of Dreaming Spires
In a parallel universe, all those artists’ impressions, scale models and blueprints that never made the leap into reality rise from the streets of another Liverpool - the Liverpool where every conceivable concept and bright new town planning idea actually comes to fruition. Your guide, Paul Ashton.
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All This Useless Beauty?
Somewhere deep in New Mexico, a desert full of hollows forms the Very Large Array telescope. Acres of discrete dishes. Insignificant alone. Game changing together. Working as one, the dishes can do something exponentially massive: map out the emptiness. Make sense of it. It’s joined up thinking like this that edges us closer to the [...]
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Liverpool Pays Back Cruise Grant
Whatever complaints Southampton might have had over our cruise terminals’ uneven playing fields (curious metaphor, really), they’re going to have to change tack, as the city council has repaid the £8.8 million requested by the Government, allowing cruises to start and finish at the Pier Head. The city council agreed in May to abide by [...]
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A Sense Of Place: Another Way
Work doesn’t have to feel so much like, well, work, does it? SevenStreets has come across a Liverpool enterprise determined to beat a different path. They only do work they love, are choosy about who they’ll do it with, don’t want to grow any bigger, are gloriously opinionated, and what’s more ‘won’t work Monday mornings [...]
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Liverpool: A Top Five Tourist City
Not that we’re mad on awards, we do recognise that some are more valuable than others. And anything that gets our city the recognition and inward cash it needs is fine by us. So it’s great to see that we’ve been voted Britain’s 4th best city in the Guardian and Observer’s 2012 Travel Awards - [...]
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Radar: Liverpool Freshers’ Week Fun: A Guide
Yes, it’s that time of year again. It’s Christmas time for Smiffy’s Serious Fun - as a fresh batch of students arrive in town, to don Superhero costumes and find nirvana at the back of Bar CaVa. And we love them, even the ones who run over our cars. No, actually, we hate them. Welcome, [...]
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Virgin Trains talks to SevenStreets
Last train to London? SevenStreets talks to Virgin boss, Tony Collins, about their judicial review. But is it too late to call a halt to FirstGroup’s ambitious plans?
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When Is A Job Not A Job?
Online retailer Amazon is set to move into Croxteth with tales of hundreds of new jobs. Is this something to celebrate? Partially, we think.
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What’s going on with Liverpool’s new TV channel?
As part of the government’s new local TV initiative - which will see over 20 regional channels set up on Freeview across the UK - OFCOM have been accepting proposals from companies who want to control the handful of free spaces available on your tellybox. In the last couple of months, one name to come [...]
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