WHEN trendy Liverpool bar Alma De Cuba opened up in Seel Street in 2005, it wasn’t popular with everyone.

Roman Catholic campaigner Kay Kelly was outraged that a bar-restaurant should open in what was originally St Peter’s Church.

Mrs Kelly believed the transformation was “mocking the church”.

However, the Catholic Archdiocese was fairly relaxed about the whole thing, insisting that since it had ceased to be a church then the building was no longer sacred.

That’s probably just as well, given the venue’s plans for Halloween.

“All Saints and Sinners are cordially invited to witness the Battle between Good and Evil,” says an email sent out to punters.

Dress code for the evening is “adorably angelic” or “dangerously demonic”, and the host for the proceedings is none other than the Holy Ghost himself.

Cover your eyes and ears, Mrs Kelly.

YOU plug away for years in the same job without reward, and you think “what’s it all for?”

No such thoughts from Sharon Hingham, above, the operations manager of the Premier Inn Hotel in Liverpool’s Albert Dock.

Her 14 years’ service has been recognised by hotel owner Whitbread, who presented her with a brand new Mini Cooper at its annual conference.

If the boss is reading this column, I can’t drive but I’d settle for an Aston Martin and a chauffeur.

DO ANY of the local suits in Liverpool’s business community want to share anything with us?

A female impersonator who advertised for an apprentice drag queen to work at his bar in the Canary Islands was shocked when he received almost 1,000 applications.

Paul Carroll – aka Titti Trollop – has had applications from every walk of life.

“From bankers to builders,” he said.

Well, it’s a living – and there is a recession on, after all.