THE sight of the Yellow Duckmarine (aka the “wacker quacker”) WWII amphibious craft chugging around Liverpool city centre with their cheery tourists brings a smile to everybody’s faces. Or does it?
One high-profile dissident is Liverpool Boat Show boss Rob Mackenzie, below, who begged to differ at a press conference.
“Try as hard as I could, I can’t get rid of the Liverpool Ducks,” he declared, before adding menacingly, “but they have been restricted to a service via Coburg Dock.
“They won’t be allowed to go into Albert Dock,” he said and, with a flourish worthy of Noel Coward, added: “and making that dreadful noise four times an hour.
“There will no splashdown in Salthouse Dock!”
It’s just as well the yellow duck shooting season is closed. Or is it?
THERE’S no doubt when you speak to Radio City station director Richard Maddock that he is working in his dream job.
But there was an alternative path, we hear.
Richard was once offered the opportunity to work with an up-and- coming music executive and Sony BMG – one Simon Cowell, no less.
