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Screenwriting career started with Brookside and The Street

ONE of Britain’s top screenwriting talents, Frank Cottrell Boyce, 47, was brought up in Rainhill, where his parents still live. Read

A top talent never lost for words

Prolific Liverpool writer Frank Cottrell Boyce has turned into a multi-media, one-man entertainment industry. He pauses to talk to Peter Elson Read

Field for the British Isles by Antony Gormley

Keep the kids happy on a budget

IN the second of our two-part guide to credit crunch-friendly school holidays, Laura Davis finds a host of family activities that won’t cost you a penny Read

Children’s Festival

LIVERPOOL will host 10 days of boredom-busting activities for young people and families this summer. Read

Exhibition for OAPs

AN EXHIBITION to help pensioners take up arts and crafts by showing them the work of others is being held at 1pm tomorrow at St John’s School, Liverpool Road, Ainsdale. Read

Free-wheeling fun for all the family

IN the first of our two-part guide to credit crunch-friendly school holidays, Laura Davis discovers some fun cycle routes through the region Read

Fairytales really can come true

IT'S Liverpool’s own fairytale about how a beautiful little girl from a comprehensive school became a princess in a distant land. David Charters reports Read

This used to be a place where families didn’t want to come – now local residents use it

PETER Elson takes a walk on the wildside of Liverpool Cathedral Read

Human life without language

Laura Davis meets the award-winning author exploring the lives of feral children Read

The tall ship, Training Ship Royalist, arrives at Albert Dock

Maritime history converges on city

WITH the Tall Ships gathering in Liverpool, Peter Elson has just the supplement to guide you through this momentous event Read

THE best viewing areas for Parade of Sail at 2pm on Monday are from the Britannia public house and adjacent promenade northwards. There are restricted views from Princes Parade (the Pier Head is not available as it is currently a construction site). Read

Breathing life into the cold hard clay

PASSION fills the sculptor as he considers his next job – the meeting of Ken Dodd and Bessie Braddock in Lime Street station. David Charters reports Read

Catching up on research - after 50 years

LAURA Davis meets the experts planning to save mothers and babies from the trauma of Caesareans Read

Phil McCabe and Roger Appleton with their Passport To Liverpool DVD

New documentary about Liverpool’s waterfront

WHAT makes Liverpool so special? Just ask the locals, as a new documentary film proves. Peter Elson reports. Read

Bob Bradock with the memorial to the Internatonal Brigades Association

Remembered: the 160 men from Merseyside who fought in the Spanish Civil War

THEY died young for their ideals. Now, 70 years on, the bravery of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War is to be commemorated in Liverpool. David Charters reports Read

Frank Cottrell Boyce, award winning screenwriter and novelist

Telling tales of our great city

THIS is a city of stories – of a man with fire in his eyes leaping over warehouses, of waifs barefoot on cobbled streets, of the twin boys separated at birth who died on the same day. Read

If you like it, you should fight for it

TWO new splendidly illustrated books about Liverpool alert us to the visual wealth around us, but their author worries it may all change too quickly. Peter Elson reports. Read

Museum hosts an exhibition of real note

To mark the opening of a new exhibition, Nia Gibbons takes a Magical Musical Tour through the city’s history Read

The county that fuelled the war effort

EMMA Pinch talks to the men and women who hold the key to great food – keep it local and seasonal Read

Slaves, traders and pioneers: new book on the most turbulent period of Liverpool’s history

Think we have rows today? Well, a teacher has written about the most turbulent period in Liverpool’s history. David Charters reports Read

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