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The Scouse House in Birkenhead and owner Anthony Zausmer with Blond Scouse

Why diners may prefer a Blonde Scouse...

A NEW cafe devoted to traditional Liverpudlian dishes has opened – not in the city but over the water in Birkenhead. Read

Cranes look down over the new Grosvenor Henderson Paradise Project with Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral in the background

TV team’s peek into city’s pioneer dock

LIVERPOOL is to take centre stage in the biggest archaeological dig which TV’s popular Time Team have been involved in. Read

The Saddle, Whitegate Drive, Blackpool

FOR SOME, Blackpool never loses its magic especially – and perversely – when it’s out of season. Read

Rigbys pub in Liverpool

Liverpool city centre pub closed to clear asbestos

ONE of Liverpool’s oldest pubs, Thomas Rigby’s, has been closed after the discovery it was riddled with potentially deadly asbestos. Read

Sally Hawkins and Alexis Zegerman in the Mike Leigh film, Happy Go Lucky

Film Review: Happy Go Lucky


ANOTHER slice of life from Mike Leigh, determinedly more up-beat than other recent wedges such as Vera Drake. Read

The Great Liverpool Pub Crawl by Mike Chapple

The Great Liverpool Pub Crawl

SINCE the Pub Column began in 2004, we've been banging on about how if you want to get to the real beating heart of what makes this place and its people tick you should visit its pubs. Read

James Bulger appeal launched

LJMU hails entrepreneurial pedigree of new Fellows

VETERAN TV presenter and broadcaster Esther Rantzen, songwriter Richard Stilgoe and Liverpudlian children’s author Brian Jacques are among the celebrities who will receive Honorary Fellowships in this year’s awards by Liverpool John Moores University. Read

AS YOU might expect, it being the eve of the clocks going forward and the start of British Summer Time, it was, as they say in politer terms, chucking it down.

The Pollard Inn, Willaston, Wirral

AS YOU might expect, it being the eve of the clocks going forward and the start of British Summer Time, it was, as they say in politer terms, chucking it down. Read

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Books launch new chapter in Capital of Culture year

TWO new books about Liverpool both written by acclaimed city-born writers were launched at the Everyman last nigh . Read

Brookside man

Classic soap campaigner calls for Brookside revival

A LIVERPOOL man is campaigning for the city’s ground-breaking soap opera Brookside to be released on DVD. Read

Beatles

US Beatles show comes ‘home’ to Liverpool

A SENSATIONAL photographic exhibition chronicling The Beatles taking the United States by storm is to get its British debut in Liverpool. Read

Mike Chapple at the Bar

For those not in the know, a Twerly is defined as a person who will approach a ticket collector and enquire: “Eh, mate, is it too early to use me pensioner’s travel pass?” Read

Liverpool writer, Jimmy McGovern

Writer McGovern acts as inspiration

AWARD-WINNING Liverpool writer Jimmy McGovern addressed a sell-out audience at the Fact centre, in Wood Street, last night. Read

Sons of Shankly

Sons of Shankly Liverpool fans band together in season-end fundraiser

SONS of Shankly – the union representing fans of Liverpool FC – is to hold an end-of-season party featuring the best of the city’s bands. Read

THE trouble with “some people” is they don’t understand how fundamental the application of the wisdom of Bill Shankly is to living a full and happy existence.

THE trouble with “some people” is they don’t understand how fundamental the application of the wisdom of Bill Shankly is to living a full and happy existence.

That’s in relation to the great man’s famous quote: “Some people think football is a matter of life and death – I can assure them it’s far more important than that.” Read

The feaure film, 'Salvage' being filmed on 'Brookside close' in Croxteth. Actors on Kevin Harvey, Neve Mcintosh and Shaun Dooley

Brookside Close becomes set for horror movie

FOR a fictional Liverpool estate with more than a few Houses of Horror of its own, it is somewhat appropriate that the swansong for Brookside Close should be the making of a horror movie. Read

Four pence tax hike on beer is a grievous blow to brewing industry

SING along now: “Oh my Darlin’, oh my Darlin’, oh my Darlin’ smarmy swine, You have lost the plot forever, to commit a ghastly crime.” Read

The glorious view of the Liver birds and the River Mersey from the top floor appartments of the Unity building

Training for merchant navy cadets returns to Liverpool

LIVERPOOL is once more going to be the home of the merchant seafarer. Read

Honour for survivors of Battle of the Atlantic

Honour for survivors of Battle of the Atlantic

LIVERPUDLIAN survivors of the Battle of the Atlantic, the longest and bloodiest campaign of World War II, have been honoured in a special ceremony. Read

MUSIC REVIEW: The Fall, Carling Academy

YOU can’t love The Fall. Like a feral cat it can look cute, but come too close and you’ll get badly clawed. 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

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