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Mike Chapple

NO POOL. NO JUKE BOX. NO FRUIT MACHINE. NO FOOD.

To put such a sign at a pub entrance could be considered the commercial equivalent of placing a shotgun under the chin and blasting your brains out. Read

City hosts celebration of ancient Japanese culture

BRITAIN’S Japanese ambassador, His Excellency Shin Ebihara, is travelling to Liverpool to launch Japan Day when a mass celebration of his country’s culture is staged at the Mountford Hall on Saturday. Read

Liverpool to launch Japan Day

BRITAIN'S Japanese ambassador His Excellency Shin Ebihara is travelling to Liverpool to launch Japan Day when a mass celebration of his country’s culture is staged at the city’s Mountford Hall on Saturday. Read

Mersey crew at the heart of Olympic jumping

MERSEYSIDE’S equine expertise will be leading the way at this year’s Olympic and Paralympic Games. Read

The Coach and Horses, Greasby, Wirral

ONCE in a while, the Pub Column stumbles on an alehouse with which it immediately falls in love, a traditional British local where good ale and conversation are the watch words. Read

Narrow escape as tornado rushes in

THE manager of the Martin Mere Wildfowl Trust Centre Andy Wooldridge has told of the close shave he had as tornadoes whipped across West Lancashire on Sunday afternoon. Read

AS THE rest of Liverpool city centre reinvents itself, on Knight Street one place is unearthing its past and keeping hold of it.

The Grapes pub has been a favourite for some time, and especially since it was taken over by husband and wife team Anna Slater and Paul Agoro, in February, 2003. Read

Sinatra set will reopen jazz club

THE Liverpool Jazz Club has been resurrected to return tomorrow, at the new Eleanor Rigby Hotel, in Stanley Street. Read

Brian of the Reds come up with a cracking Reade

FORMER Liverpool Daily Post journalist Brian Reade’s book 43 Years With The Same Bird: A Liverpudlian Love Affair is already top of the Amazon mail order bestsellers list – and it is not even published until this Friday, July 4. Read

Confronting ‘The Truth’

THE reality is that every national newspaper had that story fed to it but only MacKenzie chose to run it in the manner he did. Read

Day one covering Liverpool at the Post

THE Derby County steward approached me for the third time and, as his puce face hinted, diplomacy and manners were off the agenda. Read

Big shock for a red dad

NOTHING can prepare you for that conversation with your son about the pivotal facts of life. Read

Revealed – secret life of ex-Beatle Paul McCartney as Everton fan

ONE of the best-kept secrets in Beatles history has finally been revealed – Sir Paul McCartney is an Evertonian. Read

Teams wanted to join in Pub Treasure Hunt

LOCAL businesses are being invited to submit teams for one of the highlights of the city’s Capital of Culture year, the Liverpool Pub Treasure Hunt championship. Read

Photographer Stephanie De Lang with her People in Liverpool book

Book shows the amazing side of my adopted city

INTERNATIONAL fashion model turned renowned photographer, Stephanie de Leng, decided that her first book would not only be about her adopted city but one with a difference. Read

Story of the Eldonians praised

A BOOK about Liverpool’s ground-breaking Eldonian Village has been acclaimed by politicians at an official launch at the House of Commons, in London. Read

A magical evening

CULT Liverpool band The Wizards of Twiddly are to play a one-off charity gig at their favourite pub, The Grapes, in Knight Street, on Monday. Read

Two decades of rock and reel

THE work of a Liverpool photographer, chronicling the careers of some of the world’s top rock artists, is currently being displayed at a number of exhibitions across the city. Read

Tunnels author launches own celebration of culture

KIRKBY-BORN author Nicky Allt signed copies of his new book, The Culture of Capital, at Waterstones, in Bold Street, Liverpool. Read

Astronomy trek to the Arena for space talks

in the Road Map to the Stars symposium at the Echo Arena include proposed missions to Mars and the investigations into the likelihood of extra-terrestrial life. Other projects being considered are missions to Saturn’s satellites, Titan and Enceladus, and Jupiter’s satellite, Europa, plus ground-based projects such as Europe’s extremely large telescope and the square kilometre array radio telescope. Read

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Mike Chapple is the Liverpool Daily Post's award winning pub writer. His regular column At The Bar appears every Saturday and he is also a published author - his latest book is the enticingly-named The Great Liverpool Pub Crawl. Tel: 0151 472 2564